The spirit of Hollywood's old 'Poverty Row' studios lives in this B-movie plot about a Miami reporter (Kurt Russell) finding that his particular vice is getting hooked into a psycho-murderer (a weighty Richard Jordan) who sees the scribe as his private video screen to public exposure. Yes, you've guessed the plot: the police can't catch the killer as the body count mounts and the reporter's personal involvement increases. You won't be surprised either when the bad guy kidnaps the hero's girl (Mariel Hemingway) - not if you've seen those old movie thrillers on late-night TV. Russell is rather good as the reporter, but Hemingway proves ineffectually wimpish in a Grace Kelly kind of part of which she might have been expected to make more. Andy Garcia crops up in a small role. Technical credits are wobbly, with continuity slips, and newspapers having no date. But then what do you expect from a B-movie?

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