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THE HORROR SHOW

1989 US HMDB
April 28, 1989

Vowing revenge on the detective who apprehended him, serial killer "Meat Cleaver" Max Jenke returns from beyond the grave to launch a whole new reign of terror.

Directors

James Isaac

Cast

Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, Dedee Pfeiffer, Aron Eisenberg, Thom Bray, Matt Clark, David Oliver, Terry Alexander, Lewis Arquette
Fantasy Horror Thriller

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

A psychopathic killer is executed in the electric chair, but instead of dying, he receives new energy from the electric shock and escapes from prison. He immediately goes to the house of the policeman who had arrested him to take revenge on him and his family. The film, produced by Sean Cunnigam (the one from "Friday the 13th" and "The House of Helen"), has had a troubled existence, halfway through filming the Australian director David Blythe abandoned the project and thus the production replaced him with James Isaac, with rather poor results; the protagonist of the film is the star of the TV series "Millennium" Larce Henriksen. Apart from a few good semi-splatter sequences and the decent cast, the film is very little, especially because of a rather unoriginal screenplay.