It's set up like a post-apocalyptic Middle Ages, with drawbridges, suits of armor, torches, subterranean hideouts, giant blades, etc. Dudes on roller skates abduct women just so they can get them hooked on smack. Old people are shot indiscriminately by cackling ex-dancers, police helicopters are blown up, and women are stabbed (and their attackers then brag 'I like it when their faces go crazy like that, when they think the world has gone psycho and there's no way out!'). Now clearly, they wanted to create an ominous, crime-addled dystopian world on the brink of ruin. But I think it also has much to teach all of us. And it's not perfect- they learned a lot. Now I have never seen the Cannon logo do THAT.Īnd basically, this is Cannon's precursor to DEATH WISH 3. We're talkin' DEATH WISH- but with a flamethrower. We later see the exact same shot in the context of the film, but it doesn't really diminish it's 'FOOOOOSH in the face' impact. The film starts right off with a bang, or rather a FOOOOOSH, with the Exterminator (Robert Ginty) pointing his flamethrower at the camera and letting it rip. Tag-line: 'John Eastland is back - He Knew You Were Lying - The Frightmare Continues!'īest one-liner: 'You want to clean out the streets? I AM the streets!'

Produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.

Scott Caldwell (Rose on TV's LOST)- he's 'man shouting in vacant lot, but I never found her, even though I was looking pretty hard. Notable Cast or Crew: Mario van Peebles (HEARTBREAK RIDGE, RAPPIN'), Robert Ginty (THE EXTERMINATOR), Frankie Faison (all the Hannibal Lector movies, C.H.U.D., CAT PEOPLE), Arye Gross (HOUSE II: THE SECOND STORY, SOUL MAN), supposed bit parts by John Turturro and L.

Imdb 1984 john hurt