Fight For Your Life is an in-your-face home invasion movie, but with the typical racial roles reversed, with a well-to-do African-American family being taunted by a white trash gang leader. Judging from William Sandersons performance in Blade Runner, you wouldnt expect him to play the racist villain, but hes plenty unhinged in the role, sweating and leering and even placing his gun to a babys head when people dont take him seriously. If anything, his performance is probably too convincing the movie was rejected for a UK theatrical release in 1981, more for the racial abuse on display than the explicit violence (though theres still plenty of that). It later appeared uncut on VHS, and was subsequently banned. If you have a copy in your attic, hold on to it not only was the film never cleared by the UK censors, but the original negative was destroyed in 2012.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
