Despite an intriguing premise there isn't much in the way of terror as the title suggests or entertainment value in this rather tame TV slasher movie. Hell having a fantastic location like Alcatraz should have been at least watchable, but the sluggish pace, horrible grainy photography & cheap electronic keyboard score drags everything down with some very clumsy production.
The plot follows Aldo Ray who plays real life Alcatraz escapee Frank Morris intent on retrieving a map to a safe deposit key he left on the island when he escaped. But his plans are interrupted when a group of tourists decides to stray away from the tour and stay there themselves, so Frank decides to kill them off one by one.
Like I said the narrative had potential and some of the murders are surprisingly quite good, but everything just takes way too long to get going and we don't even get to know the cast during that time, they were simply fodder and nothing else. Although Aldo Ray does give a respectable performance as Frank, even if he does come across more as a mindless psychopathic thug than a calculated genius, but that could be down to the lack of enthusiastic script he had to work with, but does carry most of the runtime on his shoulders.
The only somewhat positive note is the curve ball ending, which was bizarre and totally unexpected, other than that there's not really much to recommend here, just a basic run of mill tedious slasher movie.
The plot follows Aldo Ray who plays real life Alcatraz escapee Frank Morris intent on retrieving a map to a safe deposit key he left on the island when he escaped. But his plans are interrupted when a group of tourists decides to stray away from the tour and stay there themselves, so Frank decides to kill them off one by one.
Like I said the narrative had potential and some of the murders are surprisingly quite good, but everything just takes way too long to get going and we don't even get to know the cast during that time, they were simply fodder and nothing else. Although Aldo Ray does give a respectable performance as Frank, even if he does come across more as a mindless psychopathic thug than a calculated genius, but that could be down to the lack of enthusiastic script he had to work with, but does carry most of the runtime on his shoulders.
The only somewhat positive note is the curve ball ending, which was bizarre and totally unexpected, other than that there's not really much to recommend here, just a basic run of mill tedious slasher movie.