Year: 1987
Runtime: 84 mins
Language: English
Director: Allen Plone
On the night a football star throws a party for his friends, the celebration turns deadly when two deranged inmates escape from a nearby asylum. Desperate to evade the police, they stumble into the same gathering, turning the night into a terrifying hunt.
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Somewhere in Wichita, Kansas, David is a potential college football star who has just earned a four-year scholarship to a college in Oklahoma. His friends throw him a serious farewell party while his parents are out for the night, including D.B., Russell, Joni, Lisa, Frannie, Doug, Chris, Brenda, Mason, and Chuck. Unfortunately, three uninvited guests secretly gatecrash these nightly celebrations. Two are convicts named Runner and Snake who’ve fled from prison, now hiding out in the home’s cellar, while the third interloper is a former mental patient with a connection to David himself.
The party escalates into chaos. Mason, sitting alone in a rocking chair, is impaled with a fireplace poker. Brenda, who feels rejected by Mason, leaves the party. While driving, someone in the back of the car grabs her, and she climbs out and hides under an abandoned car. The killer destroys the car lifter, which crushes Brenda to death. Chris and Doug continue to watch pornography. Lisa, Russell, and D.B drink while Joni, a new classmate, feels insulted by them and runs upstairs while Lisa confronts Russell about his jokes. Soon after, Chris and Doug find another place to have sex. Joni talks to David about his friends. After making out, Chris goes to swim in the pool. Doug, resting in the sauna room, is killed by a light-bulb cable tossed into the hot stones, releasing poison gas. Soon after, Chris is killed by an axe to the head in the pool.
David is losing his temper, which causes Joni to worry. Frannie and Chuck make out in the Jacuzzi. Chuck goes to the kitchen to cook when the killer forces his face into the grilling pan and stabs his neck. Lisa goes down to the cellar to get more wine when Snake strangles her to death. Runner is upset by all the killings, and Snake suffocates him with cling film. Russell is choked to death with a pool cue, and Frannie is electrocuted in the Jacuzzi. David’s parents hurry home to deliver his prescription when a cop pulls them over for speeding. D.B finds the dead bodies of Russell, Runner, and Lisa. As he attempts to search for others, he is stabbed in the gut. Snake attacks David and is about to kill him when the dying D.B arrives and fatally stabs Snake. David reunites with Joni and learns she is insane and killed the others except for Lisa. Joni then tries to stab David as his parents and the cop arrive and open fire. It is revealed that David had a hyperactivity disorder since he was a kid that causes him to lose his temper. David is blamed for the murders while a still-insane Joni recovers in the hospital.
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