The Exterminator (1980)
Are you up for some sleazy grindhouse stuff? Are you not fooled by the poster that seems like it's a bit more action packed than it actually is? Then you've come to the right place. 'The Exterminator' is a fairly cheap vigilante/revenge film, that manages to make New York look like the grimiest place on Earth. Maybe it was at one point (see also 'Taxi Driver'), but I digress. The film starts with an extended sequence (supposedly) in Vietnam, where two soldiers are sent through the wringer before heading to New York. Now both guys are working hard in the industrial district, but things aren't peachy: many honest workfolk are pressed for protection money by gangsters and hoodlums as the Ghetto Ghouls run havoc, stealing and fighting and so on and so forth. You get the picture insanely fast. Things go south quickly as our protagonist's friend gets attacked, which leaves him paralysed and unable to provide for his family. So our antihero decides to do som...
