Wired to Kill
Directed byFrank Schaeffer
Written byFrank Schaeffer
Starring
  • Devin Hoelscher
  • Emily Longstreth
  • Merritt Butrick
CinematographyTom Fraser
Music byRussell Ferrante
Production
company
Schaeffer-Buchfuehrer Productions
Release date
November 14, 1986[1]
Running time
96 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.8 million[2]

Wired to Kill, also known as Booby Trap, is a 1986 film written and directed by Frank Schaeffer and starring Emily Longstreth, Devin Hoelscher, Merritt Butrick[3]

Plot

In the near future, law and order breaks down, diseases, violence and immorality are rampant. However, when a violent gang attacks a family nearly killing the mother and the authorities offer no aid, Steve, the teenage son, his girlfriend Rebecca, and a robot named Winston take matters into their own hands and gets revenge on the gang amid the ruins of Los Angeles.

Cast

  • Emily Longstreth as Rebecca
  • Devin Hoelscher as Steve
  • Merritt Butrick as Reegus (The gang leader)
  • Frank Collison as Sly
  • Tommy Lister Jr. as Sleet
  • Kim Milford as Rooster
  • Michael Wollet as Zero
  • Garth Gardner as Loady
  • Kristina David as The mother [Sandra]
  • Don Blakely as The police sergeant

Production

In May 1985, it was announced Frank Schaeffer would make his feature directorial debut with Booby Trap having previously worked as a producer on fundamentalist Christian documentaries such as How Should We Then Live? and Whatever Happened to the Human Race?.[3] [2] Much of the filming was done around an abandoned steel mill in Fontana, California that served as the gang's hideout and much of the settings deteriorating landscape.[2]

References

  1. '"Wired to Kill (1986)". tcm.com. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  2. 1 2 3 Shapiro, Marc (October 1986). "Booby Trap". Cinemafantastique. Fourth Castle Micromedia. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Wired to Kill (1986)". AFI. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
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