An 80's action survival flick with obvious ties to 'Rambo', 'Deliverance' and 'The Most Dangerous Game', 'Kill Crazy' is 90 minutes of cheese. Some quite funny, some not so much in what is obviously a vanity project for actor / writer / director David Heavener. If you don't believe me you'll soon find out. Lots of closeups of his face, 3 songs sung by him within the first 10 minutes (including the rock ballad title track). Of course self serving dialog, tortured acting 101, a cliche romance and "kill crazy" revenge near the end.
Puckett (Heavener) is amongst five ex-Vietnam Vets taken from the Veterans hospital for a camping trip into the remote hills. Soon the corrupt orderlies who brought them there are dead, double-crossed by a wacky paramilitary group led by Mallerd (Bruce Glover) who wants to hunt these ex military men down in twisted war games. Puckett is forced to jump off a cliff and presumed dead, but very much alive. Physically & emotionally traumatized does he find love with two female campers (Rachelle Carson, Danielle Brisebois)? Can he save his fellow patients and end the madness?
The 80's and dtv flicks of that time loved to use the Vietnam trope and it's put to heavy use here. These guys have been hospitalized for over fifteen years if you do the math. Of course, you're not supposed to think about it too deeply. It's only meant to play up the star who gets to have awful flashbacks, act his heart out having horrible dreams and then gather his experience, courage to kill all the baddies who deserve it in the campy action finale. That's before he finds the ladies who nurse him back to health of course. They tie a headband around him and he's playing the guitar, singing once again. I kid you not.
Stupid bad guys, a ridiculous "hero", cavalcade of running thru the wilderness and more than one piece of poorly shot action. A cornball ending completes 'Kill Crazy'. Some female nudity, but also dated racism and two rapes here. The star going around bare chested as much as possible and bum one liners meant to be tough. Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Burt Ward play fellow Vets. Come for the laughs or because you appreciate low budget bad movies.