After a not bad set-up/capture scene where the police bring serial killer "The Trasher" (Larry "Dr. Giggles" Drake who's given the unfortunate task of playing a killer who just squints, yells and groans without any menace whatsoever) this has the authorities stupidily carting him off to a soon to be shutdown asylum where psychatrist Pauline Porizkova and the last remaining paitent/janitor Judd Nelson have to try and stop "The Trasher" who's escaped from his retraints and is killing everyone in his quest for "The key!" (as he likes to keep muttering at everyone before killing them) that will open the lockdown doors and let him escape.

Even though the dialogue is weak and acting wooden that's far from this films worst sins. This is one pathetic and badly acted time that's filled with endless stupidity and has absolutely no suspense.

The worst offender here is the the script which has a heroine (Porizkova) who just crawls around sobbing and hiding, a mental paitent (Nelson) who's brighter than everyone else (Porizkova's character can't figure out how to use the PA though the killer easily does) and plenty of lapses in logic and sense - such as how Porizkova doesn't pay any attention when her college is in a room alone with the killer and when they all jump off the roof (which is perfect for the killer since all he wanted to do was to escape) only to go BACK into the building.

I feel the most for Drake who's stuck playing a bald, heavyset and mostly silent killer and can't do a thing with it thanks to the awful script.

One character says, "an hour left, it's all downhill from here" about a third in - irony? I think not.

Directed By: Gregory Gieras.
Written By: Gregory Gieras, D.B. Smith.

Starring: Pauline Porizkova, Judd Nelson, Larry Drake, Jurgen Prochnow.