Slater is one of those rent-a-psychos who dials 911 and rants about streets red with blood, a world of pandemonium blah blah blah before signing off with, There will be another body found tonight. Thank you for your time. When FBI Special Agent Jake Molloy (Sylvester Stallone) enters the picture, Slater devises filmdoms most over-elaborate cat and mouse game to mess with him. Knowing that murdering Molloys fiancé will drive him to drink, Slater then books himself into rehab, figuring its only a matter of time before his nemesis follows suit. Sure enough, when Molloy appears, Slater starts killing the other patients one by one, writing ICU under their eyelids to taunt his opponent. Why dont they just leave, you ask? Because the rehab facility is an isolated as hell former military bunker prone to storms that cut off the roads and communications. In choosing the place, Slater clearly had more than a little help from something known as screenwriters contrivance.
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.'
