- A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution.
- A mental-patient, who is troubled with horrible nightmares, has escaped from his hospital. Now on the streets he can't help killing innocent people. But there is one family he is more than interested in and when he tries to kill them, he finds that it's not that easy.—Tobias Broljung <larry@algonet.se>
- In New York, in a mental institution, George Tatum is a psychotic, schizophrenic and amnestic patient that had murdered a family in Brooklyn. He has dreadful nightmares and has been under an experimental treatment for many years by his psychiatrist. One day, he is considered under control and he is released. He goes to a peep show and immediately he loses control again despite the use of his medication. He drives a car to Florida in the beginning of a crime spree and heads to the house of Susan Temper, a nervous woman left by her husband with three kids. Among them, is the mischievous boy C.J. Temper that likes to play pranks in his family, babysitter and friends.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Release prematurely from a New York mental institution, George Tatum (Baird Stafford) journeys back down to his home in Florida. Along the way, he has recurring nightmares of a violent incident from his childhood, which forces him to kill again.
George's ex-wife, Susan Temper (Sharon Smith), young mischievous son C.J. (C.J. Cooke), and the family babysitter begin to receive "hang-up" calls, which none of them realize is George making sure his family is home. The closer George gets to his destination, the more gruesome his murders become and the memories of his first childhood-murder intensify.
Wearing an old-man mask (that belonged to C.J.) to conceal his identity, George makes his way into his old house with an ice-pick, kills the babysitter and her boyfriend, and goes after his son and two daughters (Kim Patterson & Tammy Patterson), who have taken refuge in their mother's bedroom on the second floor. Young C.J. manages to shoot the masked-maniac through a hole hacked into the door, causing George to fall back down the staircase. As he lies dying, George has a full recall of his childhood, where upon catching his father (William Kirksey) cheating on his mother with a mistress and having sadomasochistic sex with said mistress (Christina Keefe), he brutally murders both of them with an axe.
As George is carried off in a stretcher, his wife comes home, identifies her husband, and goes into a screaming fit. Young C.J. is taken for questioning by the police, and winks into the camera as the final image of the film.
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