Exterminator 2

Exterminator 2 (1984)

Noch aufwendiger, noch härter, noch konsequenter, noch spannender

Während die New Yorker Polizei der stetig ansteigenden Gewalt auf den Straßen machtlos gegenüber steht, greift der Vietnam-Veteran Johnny Long zum Flammenwerfer und sorgt eigenständig für Gerechtigkeit. Doch im Bandenanführer X findet er einen übermächtigen Gegner, der auch vor Attacken auf Johnnys Freunde nicht zurückschreckt – hier sind härtere Geschütze erforderlich, die der Exterminator aber auch aufzufahren bereit ist. Ein Rachemassaker sondergleichen mündet in einen ultimativen Showdown zwischen Gut und Böse…

Erscheinungsdatum
1984-09-14
TMDB
4.1 / 10 (51)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 28 Min.
Genres
Action, Krimi, Drama, Thriller
Regie
Mark Buntzman
Filmreihe
Exterminator Filmreihe

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Exterminator 2 is a 1984 American vigilante action film written and directed by Mark Buntzman, starring Robert Ginty, Mario Van Peebles, and Deborah Geffner, with cameos by Arye Gross in his debut role, and John Turturro in his second role. It is the sequel to the 1980 film The Exterminator.

Production

Exterminator 2 had a very troubled production which included budget problems, heavy re-editing and reshoots, and censorship issues. The Cannon Group studio was not pleased with director Mark Buntzman's original rough cut of the film, so they hired film doctor William Sachs to do extensive reshoots in Los Angeles to improve it.

In a 2012 interview about his work, Sachs talked about the reshoots on Exterminator 2. He was the one who came up with idea of the Exterminator wearing the flame proof mask throughout the movie:

Bob Ginty was supposed to be doing another movie and they wouldn't release him. I said, 'I'll fix it so you don't need him.' I couldn't get any other stars, so that's where I came up with the idea. There's one shot of Ginty with the welding mask working on the garbage truck, and he lifts his mask and has a little torch. So I just used that shot at the end. I turned him into a vigilante with a welding mask for the whole rest of the movie.

Because of the budget problems, the movie had to be reshot in Los Angeles:

They started shooting in New York, and they went so far over budget that they moved it to LA. They spent double their budget, it was supposed to be $1.5 million and they got to $3 million and they'd shot like 40 minutes. I had been working on the movie in New York as a co-producer.

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