My review was written in March 1989 after watching the movie on Republic Pictures video cassette.
Gotham-lensed thriller is an okay low-budget entry dealing with a contemporary fear similar to the Tylenol scare a while back. Item from South Africa-based Indian producer Anant Singh went direct to video Stateside.
Nonactress Darnell Martin is the pretty heroine in jeopardy, barely saved from death when she ingests some ice cream dosed with rat poison. Baddie Joe Paradise is poisoning the dessert on store shelves to protest a company's mistreating of animals.
Hungarian-born debuting helmer Jeno Hodi keeps the pic suspenseful, though a sci-fi premise (e.g., involving experimental drugs) would have been more interesting than a kook with rat poison. Martin is a winning presence; ditto her protector/leading man Jeffrey R. Iorio.
Pic makes good use of its locale. Shot on the campus of Columbia University (called "Gotham College" in the story), pic's best scene is an extended homage to Val Lewton set after hours at the school's indoor pool.