a dark night somewhere in st. louis and susan narcross ( debi chaney ) arrive home to find her roommate jenny thompson ( pat knapko ) murder and impale on a door with a spear . detective sergeant paul dollinger ( nick panouzis ) and his partner detective larry mead ( terry ten broeck ) be put on the case . they interview susan who tell them of a date jenny have be on that night with a man name charlie ( turk chekovsky ) who have be in the office where they work earlier in the day look for a job and and that they should question her bos donald andrew ( bob winter ) . the following day the two detective visit andrew but he be unhelpful and evasive and seem to be hide something . meanwhile and charlie steal a car and pick a hitchhiker ( letty garris ) up . he drive her to a beach and she decide to take all her clothes off and have a swim in the sea . charlie follow her in and strangle her . charlie real name be charles gunther an ex vietnam vet who recently escape from the illinois state mental hospital . the guy have go psycho because of the violence he witness in vietnam and and the fact that a vietnamese prostitute ( charlotte littrel ) taunt and laugh at him when he couldn not get an erection . charlie have be hire by stern ( barron winchester ) who run a kangaroo court to correct injustice by the legal system and real court and but charlie have flip his lid and be kill everyone he run into and most of them be attractive young girl . after listen in on one of her boss conversation and become suspicious and susan herself become a target . dollinger and mead be baffle and all of their lead produce nothing but dead end . their captain ( harry gorsuch ) be pile on the pressure and and they also have to deal with a sudden spate of suicide among criminal . will they be able to save susan and put an end to stern self righteous campaign of murder . direct by peter marri this be a bit of an odd film . it unsuccessfully blend various genre and little bit of horror with charlie stick pitchfork through girl throat and kill people with meat cleaver . war and there be various incredibly poorly do flashback of charlie and stern plus their fellow soldier have gun fight in what look like a football field and some local wood . action and there a small car chase with a few explosion and a shootout at the end . romance a mead and susan become involve with each other and and crime with stern try to sort out st. louis injustice . it doesn not quite work and though . it certainly different but just not very exciting or interesting . the script by richard yalem and who have a cameo a peter sykes who be throw into the mississippi in the opening sequence and be a little talky and reveal too much too soon and it might have help if all these sub plot remain mystery and be tie up at the end but instead the script reveal all very early on . technically the film be poor and special effect and photography and acting and editing and music be all well below par . talk of the music this film either borrow or more likely steal the theme tune to the british quiz show mastermind and a someone who live in the uk and have hear this music several time on mastermind it sound ridiculous to hear it on the soundtrack to this . i would probably describe this film a an interesting misfire . at least the maker try to do something a little different and it just a shame it doesn not quite work and the film lack any kind of polish .