The Exterminator (1980)

R09/10/1980Action1h 38m
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In war, you have to kill to stay alive... On the streets of New York, it's often the same.

Overview

When a man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York, he transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone.

Top Billed Cast

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    Robert Ginty

    John Eastland

  2. Cast 1

    Christopher George

    Detective James Dalton

  3. Cast 1

    Samantha Eggar

    Dr. Megan Stewart

  4. Cast 1

    Steve James

    Michael Jefferson

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    Tony DiBenedetto

    Chicken Pimp

  6. Dick Boccelli

    Gino Pontivini

  7. Patrick Farrelly

    CIA Agent Shaw

  8. Michele Harrell

    Maria Jefferson

  9. David Lipman

    The State Senator from New Jersey

Exterminate, Exterminate! How wonderfully tacky and exploitive, The Exterminator rides in on the coat tails of films like Death Wish and has a bloody good time doing so. Plot sees Vietnam veteran John Eastland (Robert Ginty) embark on a crusade of vigilantism when his best buddy is left paralysed by scumbags. Pic is relentlessly bleak, as Eastland goes about his business, offing serious low-life's in a number of gruesome ways, director and writer James Glickenhaus revels in saying that all around us is a rotten apple. Of course vigilantism is wrong, but Glickenhaus makes it virtually im...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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