A kind of creepy, slasher flick from Canada. Colt Hawker(Michael Ironside)is a psychopathic killer that seems to get off on killing women and keep photographs of their last dying gasps. This crazed hacker slasher rapes and brutalizes the opinionated journalist Deborah Ballin(Lee Grant). Just like her opinions, this gal is tough and survives the attack. When Hawker realizes she didn't die, he goes to her hospital room to finish the job. Some of the brutal scenes were controversial upon release in 1982, but are rather tame by today's standards. The story line is predictable, but watchable. Ironside seems driven and ruthless. Grant somehow seems to get these roles of the strong female and plays them with conviction...which often becomes pretty damn annoying. Others in the cast: William Shatner, Linda Purl, Michael J. Reynolds and Lenore Zann.
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