Marked for Death is a 1990 American action film directed by Dwight H. Little. The film stars Steven Seagal as John Hatcher, a former DEA troubleshooter who returns to his Illinois hometown to find it taken over by a posse of vicious Jamaican drug dealers led by Screwface. Using a combination of fear and Obeah, a Jamaican syncretic religion of West African and Caribbean origin similar to Haitian vodou and Santería, Screwface attempts to control the drug trade in Lincoln Heights.

Plot

DEA Agents John Hatcher and his partner Chico, pursue a drug dealer called Hector on foot, who later it is revealed, has blown John's cover. John and Chico manage to fight their way out of an ambush set up by Hector, but during their escape, Chico is shot and mortally wounded by a woman. In response, Hatcher shoots several rounds through the wall where she is hiding, hitting and killing her. As they flee, Chico dies of his injuries. John retires from the DEA and returns home to Chicago, where he is reunited with his former US Army colleague Max Keller, now a football coach for the local school, who is disturbed by the presence of Jamaican drug dealers, known as Posse. Later at a bar, a gunfight breaks out between the same dealers and local gangsters. John manages to assist in arresting one of the Jamaicans and a responding FBI agent asks him to join the case, but he refuses. At the scene, a detective finds a symbol which an expert named Leslie Davalos reveals to be a religious icon to mark the crimes of a man called Screwface.