Wow, what a horrible cover. Anyway, originally titled "Mamba" (named after the board game our leads play) the pic was completed back in 2007 and once had a release date for sometime in '08. Of course it never got proper distribution until September of '09 when it premiered on the dreaded SyFy channel. Naturally if a movie makes its debut on that channel it pretty much means only one thing -- it sucks. That's not always the case, but for Open Graves, that's exactly the reason.

The story is your standard clichéd and easily predicted tale of a group of friends who somehow get their hands on an old board game called "Mamba" that will supposedly grant the winner a wish, while the losers would suffer fates at the hands of the cards they dealt, which give a generalized idea as to how they will die. As expected from a film in this sub-genre it offers nothing we haven't already seen before.