Reporter Pam Weiss (Catherine Bach) and her photographer Sharon (Charlene Dallas) discover a series of hidden tunnels underneath their building. In doing so, they uncover an unscrupulous businessman named Lance Ballard (Victor Brandt) just might have a connection to the recent reports of missing bums. Together with Lance's handsomer brother Ron (Nicholas Guest), they team up to figure out just how they are making these folks disappear.
A perfect example of "great cover/bad movie" exists with this late 80s thriller. The awesome art would have you think you are getting a C.H.U.D.-level "creature roams the sewers" flick. Instead, you get a painfully bland story about a businessman wanting to get bums from out of his planned projects. Wow. You won't get any thrills here as director Mark Byers does everything flat and cheap (notice their one set for the sewers used over and over). The craziest thing about this flick is that screenwriter Daniel Yost had another film out the same year and it was the classic DRUGSTORE COWBOY. Vic Tayback has a small role at the beginning as "The Exterminator" and tiny guy Cork Hubbert, the lead from UNDER THE RAINBOW (1981), is the villain's right hand man.
A perfect example of "great cover/bad movie" exists with this late 80s thriller. The awesome art would have you think you are getting a C.H.U.D.-level "creature roams the sewers" flick. Instead, you get a painfully bland story about a businessman wanting to get bums from out of his planned projects. Wow. You won't get any thrills here as director Mark Byers does everything flat and cheap (notice their one set for the sewers used over and over). The craziest thing about this flick is that screenwriter Daniel Yost had another film out the same year and it was the classic DRUGSTORE COWBOY. Vic Tayback has a small role at the beginning as "The Exterminator" and tiny guy Cork Hubbert, the lead from UNDER THE RAINBOW (1981), is the villain's right hand man.