Battle Royale
and the Long Walk.

Running Man almost qualifies but that's one guy, rather than 20-40 or so terrified children.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 14:41, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

psssst, he said 'books'

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 14:52, Reply)

Psst
All of them are books.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 14:53, Reply)

pssst, yeah but they're films

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 14:57, Reply)

Battle Royale, written 1996, published 1999, film made 2000.
The Running Man, written 1982, film made 1987.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:01, Reply)

yeah but he was asking about books

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:03, Reply)

+1 to both of those

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:01, Reply)

I enjoyed the Long Walk though it got a bit much after a while
How are you bbz?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:02, Reply)

I am good thanks, yourself?
The Long Walk was pretty good, but the ending was a bit meh.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:04, Reply)

It apparently ties in to the Dark Tower series
The shadowy figure can be interpreted to be the villain in those books. But I've not read them so yeah.

Dissertation bluez :( It's just not working. Apparently I just need to cite more people's arguments and theories so that's ok, at least.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:15, Reply)