Dead Connection

This nasty, gratuitously violent crime picture boasts some welcome visual panache in service of a familiar plot. Although its villain has preternatural durability on a par with Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and the resurrected fiend in SILENT RAGE, DEAD CONNECTION is realistically grounded in Michael Madsen's beefy, anti-hero appeal.

Richard Welton (Gary Stretch), a boxing fanatic, gallantly rescues two gullible rock fans from mashers, then lures the groupie-wannabes to a motel, where he beats them to death and then rapes them. Detective Matt Dixon (Michael Madsen) questions Ike (Clarence Landry), the motel clerk, who reveals that the perpetrator made phone...