Vicious and deranged psycho Lawrence Aston (a creepy and convincing portrayal by R. Eric Husley) stalks nurses and removes their spines after killing them. Ashton breaks into a house where two women reside while the police try to find and stop him.
Writers/directors John Howard and Justin Simmonds relate the absorbing story at a steady pace, ground the premise in a believable workaday reality (for example, we see the cops on the case using a primitive 80's computer to search for Ashton), maintain a grimly serious tone throughout, take time to develop the two nurse characters as people the viewer can really care about, deliver a decent amount of gore (although this film could have gone much farther in this particular department), and generate a good deal of tension that reaches a nerve-rattling fever pitch in the harrowing last third. Moreover, Janus Blythe of The Hills Have Eyes fame and Lise Romanoff both do solid and credible work as the hapless lasses Ashton singles out as deserving of his lethal wrath. The rough shot-on-video cinematography provides a suitably scroungy look. Don Chilcott's flesh-crawling score does the shuddery ooga-booga trick. Alas, the filmmakers punk out on the gratuitous nudity angle even though one gal does take a shower. No lost classic, but enjoyable enough for fans of obscure micro-budget fright fare.