Underplayed Gems

Death Warrant (1990)

Death Warrant poster
Directed by
Deran Sarafian
Genre
action film, prison film, martial arts film
Country
United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 628 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A police detective goes undercover in a prison to investigate a series of murders. He faces a psychotic serial killer who wants revenge on him.

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What happens

Death Warrant is a 1990 American prison action thriller film directed by Deran Sarafian, produced by Mark di Salle, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film was written by David S. Goyer while a student at USC, and was Goyer's first screenplay to be sold and produced commercially. In the film, police detective Louis Burke is going into a prison facility in California as an undercover cop in order to find out who was behind a mysterious series of murders, and finds himself locked up with his nemesis: Christian Naylor, a psychotic serial killer who calls himself "The Sandman," who sets out to exact revenge upon him after getting into prison. Death Warrant was released on September 14, 1990. Upon its release, the film grossed $46 million against a production budget of only $6 million. The film received general mixed critical reaction from critics who found the direction, its storyline, villain, and the plot poor, but highly praised the acting as well as the action scenes and the thrilling atmosphere. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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