Exterminator 2
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Exterminator 2 is a 1984 action film written and directed by Mark Buntzman and starring Robert Ginty and Mario Van Peebles, with a cameo by Arye Gross.
Plot summary
Following somewhat incongrously from the previous film, it shows Eastland walking freely on the streets of New York, without any hint that his dual identiy was compromised. He meets up with another old army buddy, Bee Gee (Frankie Faison), who owns a garbage truck. As seen at the beginning of the film, Eastland wears a welders' mask and wields a flame thrower, while listening to a police scanner for possible crimes to stop. Slaying the brother of a gang leader named X, the Exterminator gains the gang's enimity. Coincidentally, his army buddy happens to see the gang during a robbery of an armoured car, and scares them away with his truck. However, they get the truck's plate numbers, and vow revenge. Following the truck one night when the buddy loans it to Eastland, they follow Eastland to his home, and, not having seen who the driver of the truck was the night it scared them away, they presume Eastland was the man behind the wheel that night. They attack Eastland's girlfriend in the park, crippling her. Later, they break into her apartment and kill her.Then Eastland and his buddy interrupt a drug deal between X's gang and the mob, stealing the narcotics in the process, though the army buddy dies. Having earlier captured one of the gang members, Eastland allows him to escape to draw X into a confrontation, with the drugs as bait, in a closed up industrial site. Curiously, X seems to be aware of the Exterminator's real name in this final battle. Eastland triumphs, but was shot when last seen, and is seen walking away. There were no further Exterminator movies.
Trivia
This movie cause quite a stir during the release because many people thought it was too violent.The soundtrack has never been officially released.
Irwin Keyes appeared as a member of the ghouls in part 1. Although one of the Ghouls survived the Exterminator's attack and was seen in the hospital later, it remains unclear if his character in 2 is supposed to be the same person.
Quotes
- X: [To John Eastland] You want to clean out the streets? *I am* the streets!
- [After stabbing down a woman] Turbo: I like it when their faces go crazy like that, when they think the world has gone psycho and there's no way out... [The Exterminator shows up and torches Turbo and his buddy]
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