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

  1. Cast 1

    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

  5. Tony DiBenedetto

    Chicken Pimp

  6. Dick Boccelli

    Gino Pontivini

  7. Patrick Farrelly

    CIA Agent Shaw

  8. Michele Harrell

    Maria Jefferson

  9. Cast 1

    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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