Fight for Your Life
Fight for Your Life ★ Getting Even; Held Hostage; Staying Alive 1977 (R)
Three escaped convicts—a white bigot, an Asian, and a Chicano—take a black minister's family hostage. After suffering all manner of vicious torture, the family exacts an equally brutal revenge. Shades of “The Desperate Hours” and “Extremities,” but with much more graphic violence and a racial twist. 89m/C VHS, DVD . CA William Sanderson, Robert Judd, Lela Small, Reggie Rock Bythewood; D: Robert A. Endelson; W: Straw Weisman; C: Lloyd Freidus; M: Jeff Slevin.
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