dectective lucas mccarthy ( lance henriksen ) be still haunt by the night he capture the notorious serial killer max jenke ( brion james ) who have murder over 110 people and most of them with a meat cleaver . he constantly wake up in the middle of the night because of the nightmare he have of that fateful night . the night he and his partner casey ( terry alexander ) track jenke down to a diner . they both split up . mccarthy find what leave of two cop and hodges and osborn in little piece splatter all over the diner kitchen . casey investigate the nearby electricity plant . after realise jenke isn not in the diner mccarthy head to the power plant and find casey die with both of his arm cut off . eventually he manage to capture jenke and his bos lt. hank miller ( lewis arquette ) stop mccarthy from shoot him . mccarthy have be on a leave of absence ever since that night . he regularly see a psychiatrist name dr. tower ( matt clark ) . it the day of jenkes execution by electric chair and mccarthy have a front row seat . jenke be execute but before he die he say he will be back . afterwards in the prison morgue a professor peter campbell ( thom bray ) be conduct state fund research on various crackpot theory he have regard electromagnetic evil . he believe evil in it simple form be electricity and that jenke be pure evil and so he think jenke can move from the material plane and become pure concentrated electric evil who will be able to manipulate reality . hey and i do not understand this rubbish either and i mean i do not write this stuff . he witness jenkes transformation into electricity . he try to talk with mccarthy and who campbell think jenke will go after . will campbell be able to convince a disbelieving mccarthy in time . will mcarthy family and his wife donna ( rita taggart ) plus their two child scott ( aron eisenberg ) and bonnie ( dedee pfeiffer ) become victim of jenke and his meat cleaver . and can jenke finally be put to rest and his reign of terror be end . watch it to find out . apparently there be some behind the scene production problem on this film . the original writer or director david blythe be fire after a few day and special effect man jam isaac be bring in to replace him . the uk dvd i have on the hollywood dvd label have isaac list a director on the film itself but have blythe list a director on the dvd cover artwork and very strange that . anyway i be really rather disappointed with this . the script by leslie boham and alan smithee or blythe be far too dull and plod . long stretch of absolutely nothing happen far too often . too much padding and wander around . it also extremely stupid and whoever thought of the term electromagnetic evil . it have a few decent sequence and but nowhere near enough to justify 90 minute of our time spend watch it . another problem this film have be with censorship and there be virtually no gore in it whatsoever and i have get the 18 rat british dvd which be slightly long than the american r rat cut . jenke execution scene be quite cool with lot of expand skin plus bulging and popping vein . there be a couple of severed head and a guy with no arm and blood and gore wise thats it . nowhere near enough of the red stuff in it . generally the film be quite well make and but nothing spectacular . this film also commit the crime of waste two great lead men and the always watchable lance henriksen and the delightfully over the top villain brion james and who barely in it to be honest . extremely disappointing film with the most horrible happy end i have see since the kindred ( 1987 ) in which even the family pet cat come back to life and survives . avoid and unless you can see it on t. v. for free because of henriksen and james and and for the one or two decent sequence in it .