Renegade L.A. detective Sam (Williams) takes a role as a cast member in a reality TV show where he leads a quartet trying to find ten million dollars in buried cash. But Jared (Dudikoff) secretly lands his violent militia on the island in an effort to slay the cast and steal the money. And Jared is successful: Thanks to a corrupt producer, the renegade mercenaries find the cache of cash and start off with it, but Sam and his intrepid, unarmed teammates interrupt them before they can depart. An explosion-filled chase across the island winds up with the good guys trapped by the heavily armed bad guys, and it looks like the game is over for the TV show survivors. However, Mother Nature, in the guises of a hurricane and tidal wave, has other ideas.
Practical Effects
Real explosions, real wind machines, real commitment to chaos.
Stunts
Treat Williams doing his own running-through-debris nonsense.
Director
Jim Wynorski
Treat Williams
Sam Garrett
Susan Walters
Susan Billings
Cliff DeYoung
Stuart McMahon
Tim Thomerson
Philip Edwards
Michael Dudikoff
Jared
Curtis Armstrong
Steve Chaney
Marcia Strassman
Kim Nelson
Dave Hager
Whitney
Gretchen Palmer
Tina Mason
William Zabka
Rance
Bruce Nozick
Jack MacRae
Tamara Davies
Mindi Rain
Robert Clotworthy
Bill Cassidy
Beau Billingslea
John Turner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jim Wynorski shot this in under two weeks on reused sets from his own film Lost Colony. The hurricane footage was recycled from other productions.
This arrived at peak reality TV paranoia—Survivor was dominating ratings, and Hollywood scrambled to satirize/exploit it with cheap action knockoffs.
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