Rampage
Director: William Friedkin
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Crime Fiction, Drama
Year: 1988
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Nicholas Campbell, Michael Biehn
For the 1963 adventure film starring Robert Mitchum, see Rampage.
Rampage is a 1987 movie directed by William Friedkin. It was filmed in Stockton, California in 1986 and received nationwide American release in 1992.
Charles Reece (Alex McArthur) is a serial killer who commits a number of brutal mutilation-slayings in order to drink blood as a result of paranoid delusions.
Reece is soon captured. Most of the movie revolves around the trial and the prosecutor's attempts to have Reece found sane and given the death penalty. Defense lawyers, meanwhile, argue that the defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity.
The prosecutor, Anthony Fraser (Michael Biehn), was previously against capital punishment, but he seeks such a penalty in the face of Reece's brutal crimes after meeting one victim's grieving family.
In the end, Reece is found sane and given the death penalty, but Fraser's internal debate about capital punishment is rendered academic when Reece is found to be insane by a scanning of his brain for mental illness. Shortly after this discovery, Reese is found dead in his cell, having overdosed himself on antipsychotics he had been stockpiling.
Charles Reece is loosely based on
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