A native America named Thunder returns home only to find that his ancestral burial ground is being destroyed by construction workers. He tries to put a stop to it, but the law is not only not on his side, but he is banished from town, beaten up, and left for dead. Now he wants his revenge...
Practical Effects
Gloriously unhinged stunts that definitely violated safety regulations.
Acting
Mark Gregory's smoldering silence versus Bo Svenson's mustache-twirling villainy.
Direction
De Angelis shamelessly chasing that Rambo money with Italian exploitation energy.
Director
Fabrizio De Angelis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first of three Thunder films; Mark Gregory allegedly disappeared from public life entirely after the 1980s, becoming a genuine mystery.
Part of a bizarre 1980s trend where Italian filmmakers cranked out Rambo knockoffs with increasingly unhinged premises—this one at least had the decency to add spiritual desecration to the cocktail.
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