A troubled Vietnam vet snaps during a training exercise at a survivalist-type military camp and thinks he's back in Vietnam. He kills several of the staff members who he thinks are Vietcong. The other participants set out to track him down and capture him before he hurts or kills anyone else. However, the camp's owner, who knows he'll be in trouble if word of this incident gets out, has no intention of capturing the man; he plans on killing him.
Practical Effects
Exploding huts that clearly cost $12 to build
Acting
Fritz Matthews' unhinged thousand-yard stare commitment
Director
David A. Prior
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director David A. Prior and star Ted Prior are brothers who made over a dozen low-budget action films together in the 1980s-90s, essentially creating their own cinematic universe of muscular men in jungles.
This film belongs to a weird 1980s subgenre of 'Vietnam veterans as ticking time bombs' cinema that simultaneously exploited veteran trauma and repurposed it for cheap action thrills—Rambo's shadow stretched very wide and very weird.
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