A former terrorist has started a lawful career, being a truck driver. On a trip he ignores the warnings given about the mafia, which leads to them setting fire to his truck, which has his wi... Read allA former terrorist has started a lawful career, being a truck driver. On a trip he ignores the warnings given about the mafia, which leads to them setting fire to his truck, which has his wife on board. This has to be avenged.A former terrorist has started a lawful career, being a truck driver. On a trip he ignores the warnings given about the mafia, which leads to them setting fire to his truck, which has his wife on board. This has to be avenged.
Jorge Rivero
- Txema Basterreneche
- (as George Rivero)
Ana Obregón
- Elisa
- (as Ana Obregon)
Aldo Sambrell
- Picot
- (as Aldo Sanbrell)
José Cegarra
- Policía
- (as Jose Cegarra)
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What can I say? First of all no stars for this turkey. I saw Killing Machine on one of those old '80s videocassette deals hosted by Sybil Danning. She is actually the best thing about the program, because the movie stinks big time! It is billed on the video box to star Lee Van Cleef, Richard Jaeckel, Willie Aames, and Margaux Hemingway. They are more like guest stars, because the real star is some Spanish bum that I've never seen before and never want to see again. Its supposed to be about a truck driver that is attacked by French unionists: they kill his wife, and he goes after them. It is never fully explained why the unionists are angry at the truck drivers other than the fact that they carry fruit that is evil (I guess...like I said...It is never explained). Lee Van Cleef plays a lawyer (!) that covers things up for the union. There's an interesting scene that is supposed to be in a courtroom, but it looks like the scene was shot in a cheap conference room in some warehouse. Cleef was very old here, so the idea of him being some kind of tough guy is demolished by his aged appearance. Hemingway looks astonishingly bad, and her acting reflects her awful appearance. Richard Jaeckel (mispelled?) makes the worst performance by William Shatner look good, and Willie Aames is annoying as always. Aames had passed over his teenage good looks, so there isn't even anything good to look at. I heard later that he bottomed out on drugs and converted to Christianity (no small favor for movies...stay out, Willie!) PLEASE SKIP THIS TRASH! UPDATE 08/04/05: I originally voted this the worst film I saw in 2005, but then I saw High Tension and changed my mind.
- phibes012000
- Jun 8, 2005
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- TriviaReleased on video in the late 1980s as part of Sybil Danning's Adventure Videos series. Her agent got the idea for licensing the series after seeing buxom horror hostess Elvira do the same with low budget horror films for USA Home Video's sister label, Thriller Video. Like Elvira, Danning didn't appear in the actual movies. She just "presented" them. She filmed a three minute introduction and ending that was edited into the videotape, and she posed in sexy outfits for the package covers. The movies were B-grade/C-grade action movies with either no name actors or name actors in the midst of a career low point such as Lee Van Cleef or George Kennedy, and very little production quality, usually filmed somewhere in Europe or the Phillipines. Soon after the first one was released, video stores started getting complaints from angry fans who rented them thinking she was in the films. They'd return them and demand their money back.
- GoofsThe shot of Julot's Volvo driving down the mountain freezes for an instant before the explosion, which supposedly comes from beneath the car, goes off. It is obvious that the fireball is superimposed over the shot and that the car was untouched.
- Alternate versionsUK versions are cut by 91 seconds.
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