Fight For Your Life is an in-your-face home invasion movie, but instead of the villains being the stereotypical coloured low-lives, the story focuses on a well-to-do African-American family being taunted by a white trash gang. Judging from William Sandersons performance in Blade Runner, you wouldnt expect him to play the gang leader, 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. On the run from the cops, the group take refuge in the home of an African-American Minister Sanderson calls Martin Luther Coon and proceeds to belittle for the rest of the picture. He also assaults the Ministers friends and family, setting in motion a chain of events that leads to an outrageously violent climax.
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.'
