A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Acting
Landau's bible-thumping menace vs. Pleasence's fey chaos—chewing scenery for sport
Direction
Sholder's debut squeezes genuine tension from threadbare premise
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI meat cleaver mayhem hits different
Director
Jack Sholder
Jack Palance
Frank Hawkes
Donald Pleasence
Leo Bain
Martin Landau
Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff
Dwight Schultz
Dan Potter
Erland van Lidth
Ronald "Fatty" Elster
Deborah Hedwall
Nell Potter
Phillip Clark
Tom Smith / Skaggs
Brent Jennings
Ray Curtis
Carol Levy
Bunky
Keith Reddin
Billy
Annie Korzen
Marissa Hall
Lin Shaye
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