A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick, but find that a certain somebody is disrupting their shooting schedule...
Practical Effects
Janky electrocution effects that look like someone plugged a toaster into a mannequin.
Acting
Anthony Perkins collecting a paycheck with visible embarrassment.
Writing
Script-within-a-script structure that accidentally becomes commentary.
Director
Robert Kirk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Lyle Alzado's final film role before his death in 1992; he was already showing signs of the brain cancer he believed was caused by steroid abuse.
The women-in-prison film-within-a-film directly references the exploitation boom that was dying by 1988, making Destroyer accidentally elegiac for a sleazier era.
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