Simeon is intent on playing a sadistic game with his family's emotions.

Is this some kind of sadistic or masochistic game?

That is a sadistic game and nothing more.

The plot of the film involves two young men who hold a family hostage and torture them with sadistic games.

As if she were somehow implicated in Polyon's sadistic games.

He repeated his short explanation concerning Quorin's sadistic little game.

Whatever his sadistic game, she was going to beat him at it.

Like she just figured we'd played enough sadistic games for one night, at her expense, and it was time to toss me a bone.

Or was Como merely another victim in a sadistic game?

The family is forced to participate in a number of sadistic games in order to stay alive.