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Director: Simon Hunter
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From Time Out Film Guide
If this cleaves to slasher movie conventions, you still have to credit Hunter for thinking big. Not many no-budget movies stretch to a prison ship, or would then have the nerve to scupper it. The survivors (a handful of convicts, guards, and a token female doctor) wash up on a rocky outcrop and take refuge in a lighthouse. They have more than the elements to worry about. Leo Rook is on the loose, a headcase with a machete. With a rudimentary story and performances to match, it's nevertheless quite tense with half a dozen impressively staged set pieces.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Simon Hunter
Producer: Mark Leake, Tim Dennison
Cast: James Purefoy, Rachel Shelley, Chris Adamson, Paul Brooke, Don Warrington, Chris Dunne, Bob Goody, Pat Kelman, Peter McCabe full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 95 mins
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