Directed by Jack Sholder
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Image Entertainment)
A group of mental patients escape from their ward during a power blackout. They loot a store for weapons then head over to the new doctor's house, who they mistakenly believe killed their last doctor. A long standoff takes up much of the film, between the patients outside and the doctor and his family inside. One by one they break in, but the family manages to hold their own. Their ringleader, Jack Palance in a relatively subdued role for Palance, is the last to confront them, but they are saved at the last second by a contrived coincidence that nearly ruins the film. Nonetheless, there are some genuinely tense moments, and a dry wit that runs through it all which provides a good counterbalance to all of the violence on display.
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