Marked for Death
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 pursue drug dealer Hector on foot. Later, at a drug deal, Hector is revealed to have blown John's cover and his partner is killed. He returns home and he retires from working from the DEA. He visits his friend Max Keller, who is disturbed to see Jamaican drug dealers, known as Posse, hanging around the school where Max works. Later at a bar, they see the dealers again, and a gunfight breaks out. John manages to assist in arresting one of the Jamaicans and a responding FBI agent asks him to join the case; he refuses. At the scene, a detective finds a symbol which an expert named Leslie reveals to be a religious icon to mark the crimes of a man called Screwface.
More details
| author | Mark Victor Michael Grais |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago Colombia |
| director | Dwight H. Little |
| editor | O. Nicholas Brown |
| events | Drug Enforcement Administration revenge |
| genre | action |
| keywords | attack burn capture crime scene dea agent disturb drug dealer elevator shaft even fbi agent forced to kill gang member hang kill molotov cocktail religious icon ritual sacrifice twin brother |
| musicBy | James Newton Howard |
| producer | Mark Victor Michael Grais Steven Seagal |
| productionCompany | Steamroller Productions |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| recordedAt | Chicago Los Angeles |
| theme | buddy cop martial arts |