Martin Landau, Jack Palance and Donald Pleasence star in this film about several homicidal maniacs who escape from an asylum during a blackout and terrorize their doctor and his family.
Pleasence runs the institution and Dwight Schultz is the doctor the inmates terrorize. Landau is "Preacher", a killer who quotes bible verses as he kills people. Palance is Frank Hawkes, a maniac who enjoys using a crossbow. Erland Van Lidth is a four hundred pound killer of children, and then there is one whose face is never seen until much later and he is called The Bleeder because when he strangles people he begins bleeding from his nose.
Director Jack Shoulder makes this a very intense white knuckle thriller with some pretty cool twists and turns. I am not so sure why this movie has been forgotten, but if you like horror, then by all means see this film.
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