38 Especial w/SLIP

On the gritty streets of Mexico City, Commander Quiroga (Fernando Almada, Grave Robbers) and his partner Miranda (Julio Rasec, Mark of the Killer) more than have their hands full. Between firefights with drug traffickers and the chronic minibus stickups that the public is usually too afraid to report, there’s now a demented rapist/murderer, Ral (ngel Sancho), who uses an unusual jeweler’s tool to stab his random victims. A local radio show host (Nora Terrero, Dont Panic) is eager to criticize the police’s ineffective actions against crime and coaxes Quiroga onto her show for a chance to defend the police. As the police and other criminals close in on Ral, he begins to unravel and turn his focus onto the people who are hunting him down.

Mexsploitation stalwart Fernando Almada stars in this harsh urban cop action/slasher, shot on film and finished on videotape, an early entry in the incredibly prolific Mexican “videohome” phenomenon. With a bleak