Not for nothing but there isn't really much to recommend this, rather than asking why is this forgotten? The 80's I always felt wasn't really a good time for movies, I mean you do have classics that were made in the decade but overall movies from this time period don't hold up that well. One can always tell an 80's type of flick, it has that certain dated, cheesy feel to it. 70's movies seem to hold up a lot better by comparison but still as far as "Slayground" goes, I mean it was not even a "B" movie, I'd call it a "C-" and that's being very nice.
When I was watching this for the first time, two out of the 3 guys involved in the robbery and the accident who killed the little girl,got killed in the first 20 minutes, and I was like "well that's the whole movie almost done right there" what else are they going to fill the rest of the plot up with? It's not the worst film I saw but c'mon it's kinda cliche, even by todays standards.
You have the rich ruthless money/power mogul who want's his daughter avenged at any cost,even if it is wrong to do which it was & you have the not shown, shadowy super killer from hell who bests everyone of course and you have the not that bad of a guy main character who you can still root for. This movie came and went, I guess among a certain niche of people it has cult film status but truly it's not a movie that deserves to be remembered for any good reason.
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