Billy Starkman, just an average Midwestern every-man, wakes up one morning and decides to murder his family before taking up a sniper position on a water tower.
Acting
Michael Hayden's disturbingly calm descent into annihilation.
Direction
Pace's unflinching refusal to explain or redeem.
Director
William R. Pace
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director William R. Pace never made another feature; this remains his singular, deeply unpleasant statement.
Released two months before Columbine, it now reads as eerily prophetic of the 'why?' epidemic in American mass violence.
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