A man is executed in the electric chair for having killed several women, but due to lightning striking a transformer at the moment of execution, he survives. As soon as he's well, however, they plan to electrocute him again, but now he has become a changed man and the female criminal psychiatrist attributes it to the electrocution wiping out certain brain cells.
Acting
Randy Quaid's unhinged performance as condemned killer Jeremy Dillon.
Production
TV movie budget stretched thin with maximum earnest melodrama.
Director
Kevin Dowling
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Embeth Davidtz filmed this between Schindler's List and Army of Darkness, making this her accidental 'resurrection trilogy' era.
The 'electricity changes personality' premise mirrors debunked 20th-century lobotomy theories—this movie treats pseudoscience like cutting-edge drama.
US
