A serial killer Warren Stacy (Davis) stalks women, mostly ones he knows and murders them while he's butt naked. Warren is a the typical lonely weird guy who keeps to himself while working as a typewriter repair man at the same time getting the cold shoulder from the women who work there. So he starts to kill them. He stalks one of them and using a knife he strips down nude and then guts them. Leo Kessler (Bronson) and his much younger partner Paul McAnn (Steven's) get on the case to track the killer down. With a little snooping it's not hard to find the creep who acted a like a weirdo around her. But Bronson had trouble getting hard evidence against him comes up short. So Bronson plants blood from his first victim on his clothes in a attempt to nail the killer. Warren and his lawyer (Lewis) know its bs because he is always naked when he kills. McAnn gets pressured by the defense to look into what really happened and finds out that Bronson planted the evidence. They are forced to let the pervert out and Bronson gets fired. The cat and mouse game begins between Warren and Bronson, before he manages to go after Bronson's daughter and kill more women. Just before Warren is about to kill her Bronson confronts him. Warren says he'll plead insanity and that he couldn't help it. Bronson being a logical guy is not going to let him get out again and blows him away. Thank God.
This another great roll for Charles Bronson. It's basically the same role he came to play many times as the no nonsense cop who is fed up with the system and takes law into his own hands. Though he doesn't go to the levels of the Death Wish series, he stays more grounded in reality in this one sticking to just planting evidence and only blowing away one guy at the end. So the body count fans may be disappointed. This does not take away from the movie and probably improves it in many ways and not becoming one big shoot out. Not that it's bad mind you. You shouldn't expect the greatest of acting here and no one will care, its overall a good 80's watch who like to see justice done. Bronson is basically the same as always and the other actors look like their collecting a pay check. I would say that the best actor would be Davis playing the role of the weird killer. He really looked creepy in this. One other thing to mention in this is there is a lot of nudity in this film, far more than I saw in most of the big horror films of the 80's. Not only are the women naked a bunch of times, but the killer himself kills in the nude. Interesting the TV version has him in tight under where. Fair amount of blood gushes too when he stabs at them. Apparently the nut was based on a guy Richard speck who murdered a bunch. Overall I would probably give about eight out of ten stars. Don't listen to the critics, who cares what they say? This is a good Bronson outing and should not be missed.
This another great roll for Charles Bronson. It's basically the same role he came to play many times as the no nonsense cop who is fed up with the system and takes law into his own hands. Though he doesn't go to the levels of the Death Wish series, he stays more grounded in reality in this one sticking to just planting evidence and only blowing away one guy at the end. So the body count fans may be disappointed. This does not take away from the movie and probably improves it in many ways and not becoming one big shoot out. Not that it's bad mind you. You shouldn't expect the greatest of acting here and no one will care, its overall a good 80's watch who like to see justice done. Bronson is basically the same as always and the other actors look like their collecting a pay check. I would say that the best actor would be Davis playing the role of the weird killer. He really looked creepy in this. One other thing to mention in this is there is a lot of nudity in this film, far more than I saw in most of the big horror films of the 80's. Not only are the women naked a bunch of times, but the killer himself kills in the nude. Interesting the TV version has him in tight under where. Fair amount of blood gushes too when he stabs at them. Apparently the nut was based on a guy Richard speck who murdered a bunch. Overall I would probably give about eight out of ten stars. Don't listen to the critics, who cares what they say? This is a good Bronson outing and should not be missed.
