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13 October 1989 (USA) morePlot:
A group hires a guide to take them whitewater rafting down the Zambezi River in Africa, but what they don't know is that the guide is actually a deranged psychotic killer. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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A "Deliverance" that doesn't deliver. moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Stephen Shellen | ... | Ray |
 | Lisa Aliff | ... | Anne |
| John Terlesky | ... | Carl |
| Marc Poppel | ... | Luke |
| Bradford Bancroft | ... | Jerry |
| Louis Van Niekerk | ... | Von Hoenigen |
| Leslie Mongezi | ... | Mavuso |
| Moses Ncube | ... | Young Boy |
| Mtcheso Ncube | ... | Witchdoctor |
| Todd Brownell | ... | Von Hoenigen's Man |
| Joe Siabe | ... | Von Hoenigen's Man |
| Tetrex Tshuma | ... | Von Hoenigen's Man |
| Boniface Chivuvenga | ... | Von Hoenigen's Man |
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Iceland:16 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Norway:18 (video premiere) | Germany:BPjM RestrictedFilming Locations:
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Stephen Shellen plays an African river guide with a serious screw loose who takes three young men and a woman on a white water boating experience down the Zambezi river in Zimbabwe. What his new boat-mates think is just Shellen's bad temper becomes their undoing when he loses his mind and takes them all on the ride of their lives. This little mediocrity does have the advantage of being shot all on-location in Zimbabwe, but as a story it's mostly a rehash of 'Deliverance', with the main variation of having the Burt Reynolds character from that classic film become the bad guy as he does here. There are no hillbillies, but there is a clueless chubby guy (a la Ned Beatty) as one of the riders (and he gets razzed continuously by Shellen over both issues, but strangely the guy's cluelessness was explained early on to Shellen (the poor guy is an admitted amateur at this water rapids stuff) and the actor cast is hardly chubby (in fact you'd need a pinch test to find much fat on him). This is called bad writing and miscasting. But the acting is bad all around and the storyline has far too many scenes of Shellen losing track of, or getting attacked by, his charges and overcoming both problems with the greatest of ease. Flat music score doesn't help.