Escape
Horror
USA 1996 - 24 min.

Starring: Martin Kemp (Luger) - Nickolas Grace - Nick Redding

Director: Peter MacDonald

Script: A.L. Katz - Gil Adler

Production: HBO

Music: Nicholas Pike

Rating:

German POW Luger (Mart) betrays some of his comrads when they try to escape from the English POW camp. All soldiers are supposedly killed, only Luger survives. He is transfered to a different camp but instead of getting the privileges he had hoped for the head of the camp only shows despise. To make things worse the sole surviver of the ill fated flight is brought to the camp. He is still badly wounded but it can be only a matter of time till he reveals Luger's crimes to the other soldiers. Luger kills this only witness and then tries to escape. He gets some help from another inmate who seems just as egomanic as Luger himself. Only too late Luger realizes that all of this was just a well prepared trap ... and as usual in the series, the end is not nice.

Martin himself is terribly proud of this, and not only because of his German accent. We had to miss out on this special treat as we only saw the German dubbed version, but still it's very good. Mart is ever so convincing as slimy useless bastard, he might get a bit typecasted with roles like this, but actually he is brilliant whenever he plays the really bad guys. Spot on performance, good story ... thumbs up!