SELF DEFENSE (SIEGE) (1983)

Directed by: Paul Donovan, Maura O'Connell

Starring: Tom Nardini, Brenda Bazinet, Darel Haney, Terry-David Despres, Jack Blum, Keith Knight, Doug Lennox, Jeff Pustil, Fred Wadden, Gary Dempster, Dennis O'Connor, Richard Collins

84 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

A fascist group who calls themselves New Order want to set some "new rules" in town while the police in Halifax, Nova Scotia are on strike. They try to scare the patrons of a gay bar, but by accident the owner of the establishment is killed, and the leader of the bullies then decides to execute all witnesses. One man escapes and takes refuge in an isolated block of flats. The young tenants in the house refuse to hand over the survivor, and the bullies then decide to kill all the residents in the house. This turns out to be not so easy when the young people in the house barricade their apartments and set up traps and arm themselves in order to fight back.

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