Exterminator 2
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| Directed by | Mark Buntzman |
| Produced by | Mark Buntzman William Sachs |
| Written by | Mark Buntzman William Sachs |
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| Music by | David Spear |
| Cinematography | Robert M. Baldwin Joseph Mangine |
| Edited by | Marcus Manton George T. Norris Florent Retz |
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Production
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The Cannon Group
Golan-Globus Productions |
| Distributed by | Cannon Film Distributors |
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Release date
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September 14, 1984 |
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Running time
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89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million |
| Box office | $3.7 million |
Exterminator 2 is a 1984 action film written and directed by Mark Buntzman (with additional scenes directed by William Sachs), starring Robert Ginty and Mario Van Peebles, with cameos by Arye Gross in his debut role, and John Turturro in his second role. It is the sequel to the 1980 film The Exterminator.
Following from the previous film, it shows Eastland walking freely on the streets of New York, without any hint that his dual identity was compromised. He meets up with another old army buddy, Be Gee (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 (Van Peebles), the Exterminator gains the gang's enmity. 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.
Exterminator 2 had a very troubled production which included budget problems, heavy re-editing and re-shoots, and censorship issues. The Cannon Group studio wasn't pleased with director Mark Buntzman's original rough cut of the film, so they hired film doctor William Sachs to do extensive re-shoots in Los Angeles to make the movie better.
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