Rampage

Rampage (1987)

  • 38% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 52% of users liked it
    (171 ratings)

Rampage delves into the subject of legal insanity, so often the default defense in modern-time gruesome crime trials. Alex McArthur plays an outwardly normal guy who goes on incredible killing and mutilating sprees until (and even after, when he escapes for a short time) he's captured. When he comes… More

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R, 1 hr. 32 min.
Directed By
William Friedkin
Genres
Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Nov 23, 1988 Wide
On DVD
Jun 23, 1993
Paramount Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    This is not a movie about murder so much as a movie about insanity -- as it applies to murder in modern American criminal courts. Friedkin plays with two decks and is happy to stack them both.

  • Chris Hicks, Deseret News, Salt Lake City

    ...never gets under the skin of its protagonist or allows us to understand what he's supposed to be feeling.

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