Russian-style 'Hunger Games' allows 'rape and murder'

  • 16/12/2016
Games 2 winter Russian Hunger Games show (Facebook)
If you survive, or make it out of the zone, it's a 100 million roubles (NZ$2.3 million) prize (Game 2: Winter / Facebook)

Sign-ups are open for the Hunger Games, Russian-style - murder and rape is allowed, and it's completed with video streaming 24/7.

Unlike the movie, new Russian reality show Game 2: Winter is for keeps, with 30 men and women dropped into the Siberian wilderness, according to its website.

"Everything is allowed - fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything," organisers warned, according to the Siberian Times.

But that doesn't mean they can get off completely scot-free.

"You must understand that the police will come and take you away. We are on the territory of Russia, and obey the laws of the Russian Federation."

Just like the in Hunger Games, the bizarre programme is filmed without a camera crew. Instead, cameras will be littered through the environment and each participant will also be carrying their own portable one, the show's website promises.

According to organisers, it will be streamed online, 24/7, for the nine-month survival test.

As well as other competitors, participants will be stranded with bears, wolves, and battling harsh winter weather conditions.

"Probably all of you have watched the Lost TV series, but surviving in a tropical climate is quite different from trying to stay alive in the Siberian taiga - boreal forest - at minus 40degC," entrepreneur and organiser Yevgeny Pyatkovsky told the Siberian Times.

A number of participants have been posted online for people to vote for, providing a glimpse at possible people you could watch brutalise each other.

Included are 63-year-old Nailya Gabdullahatova, an "active pensioner" who says she's a "cheerful and sociable person", and 21-year-old Elena Grishchenko, who enjoys computer games as well as "knitting crochet".

Among the men are 31-year-old Alexander Ostroverkhov, who has two children and is "fond of survival issues", and 21-year-old Vyacheslav Markov, who loves "eating home-cooked [meals] with love!".

The only requirement is that the contestants are at least 18 years old and "mentally sane", and they have to sign liability releases for death and injury.

If you survive, or make it out of the zone, it's a 100 million roubles (NZ$2.3 million) prize, which will be split in the case of multiple victors.

"There will be no doctors with the participants. If someone gets sick, wounded and realise that he/she cannot pass the test, the helicopter will take him/her away to the doctors," Mr Pyatkovsky said.

"Then the participant will quit the game forever."

While it may seem absurd to some, Mr Pyatkovsky promises the show will be a "very entertaining and educational" project.

Newshub.