A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
June 6, 1990
Original Title:
Street Asylum
Alternate Titles:
Ryder
Genres:
Action | Science Fiction
Production Companies:
Hit
Metropolis Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 94
In the bleak near future Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone with cops pitted against assorted law-breaking lowlifes. Sergeant Arliss Ryder (well played with customary wired intensity by the always great Wings Hauser) has an electronic device put into his back that turns him into an out-of-control psychotic killer and put on the Strike S.Q.U.A.D. (an acronym for Scum Quelling Assault Urban Devision), which is a unit of crazed cops assigned by Captain Bill Quinton (a typically gruff Alex Cord) to rid the City of Angels of criminals by using any means necessary. The only problem is that Arliss discovers what's going down and decides to put a stop to all this madness.
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Associate Producer:
Timothy O. Johnson
Linda Phillips-Palo
Dan Joelson
Casting:
Linda Phillips-Palo
Co-Producer:
Gregory Dark
Paul Desatoff
Director:
Gregory Dark
Director of Photography:
Paul Desatoff
Editor:
Kert Vandermeulen
Executive Producer:
Wolfgang von Schiber
Russell Hampshire
Line Producer:
Joseph Sassone
Makeup Artist:
Angela Levin
Original Music Composer:
Leonard Marcel
Producer:
Walter Gernert
Production Design:
Robert Fox
Stunt Coordinator:
Brian Smrz
Stunts:
Al Goto
Merritt Yohnka
Writer:
John Powers
Gregory Dark
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