Terror Squad (1988)

A squad of Libyan terrorists infiltrate the city of Kokomo, Indiana, and take over a nuclear power plant. A counter-terrorist expert must stop them before they blow it up.

Director:

Peter Maris

Writer:

Mark Verheiden (story)

Stars:

Chuck Connors, Brodie Greer, Bill Calvert

Cast

Credited cast:
Chuck Connors	...	Chief Rawlings
Brodie Greer	...	Capt. Steiner
Bill Calvert	...	Johnny
Kerry Wall	...	Jennifer (as Kerry Brennan)
Kavi Raz	...	Yassir
Joseph Nasser	...	Gamal
Budge Threlkeld	...	Mr. Nero
Dennis Moynahan	...	Norman
Ken Foree	...	Deputy Brown
Nathan Dyer
Lisa Beth Ross	...	Larissa
Baggie Hardiman
Jill Sanders
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jeff Yesko	...	SWAT Officer

Storyline

Libyan terrorists attack a nuclear power plant. Pursued by police the terrorists flee in an exciting chase sequence and end up taking a high school class as hostage. The lead terrorists then have to negotiate with a tough as nails police chief.

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Plot Keywords:

murder | child murder | terrorism | bloody body of child | school bus | 

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Genres:

Action

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

April 1988 (USA)

Also Known As:

Apodrasi tromokraton

Filming Locations:

Istanbul, Turkey

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

When the guard shack explodes at the nuclear power plant, the device that projects the security guards into the air is visible, as are the mats when they hit the ground.

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Connections

References Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

User Reviews

really bad action movie with bad scripting, bad acting, and huge obvious goofs

Four Arab terrorists, probably Libyans, sneak into the US through the Canadian border. They badly botch an attempt to blow up a nuclear power plant in Indiana. The four that survive are badly pursued by the police, who mostly crash their cars. The terrorists shoot up a town's main street and run down an old man with their car. The pursuing police chief then runs over the old man (a bad dummy).

Meanwhile, a bunch of actors apparently in their twenties are portraying high school students. One of them plays guitar with the janitor, except that on the soundtrack is bad synthesizer music, the same kind of bad synthesizer music that is on the soundtrack. Later, a bunch of the students are in detention. The guitarist plays some more synthesizer music in detention, even though he doesn't have an amp. A jock makes farting sounds with his armpit, except that it sounds more like a synthesizer playing fart sounds.

The now two surviving terrorists, apparently having evaded the police, burst into the detention room. Thus the stereotypical Arabs meet the stereotypical high school students. The police and SWAT surround the school, and miss dozens of opportunities to get into the school and/or shoot the terrorists. The students and their teacher frequently do things to make the terrorists nervous and angry (and one of them is quick to anger anyway), which only results in getting themselves injured or killed.

As others have noted, when the terrorists leave the school in a bus, they are very clearly in a full-length bus. At some point while the police are following them to the airport, it clearly turns into a short half-length bus. I'm at a loss to explain how the filmmakers thought they could get away with that, especially since there are lengthy shots of the bus both when it is long and when it is short.