A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.
Practical Effects
That rubber muscle suit is unhinged cinema history.
Acting
John Wesley Shipp commits harder than the script deserves.
Director
Robert Iscove
John Wesley Shipp
Barry Allen / The Flash
Amanda Pays
Christina 'Tina' McGee
Alex Désert
Julio Mendez
Paula Marshall
Iris West
Michael Nader
Pike
Tim Thomerson
Jay Allen
Priscilla Pointer
Nora Allen
Lycia Naff
Lila
Richard Belzer
Joe Kline
Robert Hooks
Chief Arthur Cooper
M. Emmet Walsh
Henry Allen
Vito D'Ambrosio
Officer Tony Bellows
Wayne Péré
Rick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
John Wesley Shipp later played Henry Allen on the CW Flash series, completing a 25-year circle. The 1990 suit reportedly weighed 40 pounds and took 25 minutes to put on.
This was DC's first serious live-action superhero film attempt since the 80s Superman collapse, and its TV-pilot-turned-movie fate killed Flash on screen for two decades.
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