Destroyer (1988 film)

Destroyer
Directed by Robert Kirk
Produced by Peter Garrity
Rex Hauck
Written by Peter Garrity, Rex Hauck, Mark W. Rosenbaum
Starring Lyle Alzado
Clayton Rohner
Deborah Foreman
Anthony Perkins
Music by Patrick O'Hearn
Cinematography Chuy Elizondo
Edited by Mark W. Rosenbaum
Distributed by The Movie Store (TMS Pictures)
Release dates
  • September 28, 1988 (1988-09-28)
Running time
 94 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Destroyer, also known as Shadow of Death, is a 1988 horror film starring retired football lineman Lyle Alzado, Deborah Foreman, and Anthony Perkins.

Plot

Ivan Mozer (Lyle Alzado) is a serial killer who has been convicted of the rape, torture, and murder of 23 people. Mozer is given the death penalty by electrocution. At his execution, he boasts of having killed 24 people. A power outage caused by a riot prevents the execution, but Mozer receives a jolt of electricity before the power fails. The prison staff assumes that Mozer is killed during the riot, but he manages to escape. The prison subsequently is abandoned. Mozer lives within the abandoned prison with the assistance of his father, who had been employed as a guard. Eighteen months later, a film crew arrives at the prison to shoot an exploitation film entitled Death House Dollies. They discover that Mozer survived his electrocution due to an unusual genetic gift. The jolt of electrical energy made him "half-alive", leaving him in a feral state and granting him spontaneous regeneration.

Cast

Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States by The Movie Store on September 28, 1988. It was also released on VHS by Virgin Vision the same year.

Scream Factory has announced an eventual Blu-ray release of the film in 2016 as a double feature film with Edge of Sanity.

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