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Adrenalin: Fear The Rush (1996)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1996
Running Times: 77 mins(USA) 88 mins(Germany)
Length: 2,142 metres
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Dolby

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Filmwerks/Largo Entertainment / Toga Productions
Executive Producer: Barr B. Potter, Paul Rosenblum
Producer: Tom Karnowski, Gary Schmoeller
Co-Producer: Mark Scoon
Line Producer: Jessica G. Budin, Dragan Josipovic
Production Coordinator (Los Angeles): Nikki Kessler
Production Coordinator (Slovakia): Nada Pinter
Re-Shoot Coordinator: Christopher Bates (uncredited)

SCRIPT
Script: Albert Pyun

DIRECTION
Director: Albert Pyun
1st Assistant Director: Sazzy Lee Calhoun
Assistant Director: Dodo Banyak

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: George Mooradian
Steadicam Operator: Glenn DiVincenzo
2nd Assistant Camera: Paul Prince
Focus Puller: Brad Edmiston
Gaffer: Denny Mooradian
Best Boy: Dean Radinovic
Key Grip: Don Mosley
Stills: Karen L. Ogle
Colour Timer: Bill Pine
Colour: DeLuxe
Video to Film Transfer: Image Transform
Cameras: Clairmont

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Ken Morrisey
Additional Editor: Larry Madaras
Assistant Editor: Monica Anderson
Negative Cutters: Bonnie J. Young, Vivian Hengsteler

MUSIC
Music: Tony Riparetti
Additional Music: Paul Edwards

SOUND
Production Sound Mixer: Lee Howell
Boom Operator: Juraj Oravec
Re-Recording Mixer: Mike Draghi
Supervising Sound Editor: Patrick M. Griffith
ADR Supervisor: Jeff Mar
ADR Editor: Steve Robinson
Dialogue Supervisor: Greg Schorer
Dialogue Editor: Richard S. Steele
Foley Mixer: David 'Hot Man' Alstedder
Foley Artists: Claudette Cucci, John T. Cucci
Sound Effects Editors: Steve Robinson, Greg Schorer, Jeff King, Kirk Hunter, Wayne Joness, Lisa Hannan, Loren Chun, Mark Allen, Roland N. Thai
Post-Production Sound Services: Of Sound Mind Inc
Dolby Stereo Consultant: Douglas Greenfield

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Didier Lavergne, Jackie Dobbie
Costume Designer: Shelly Boies

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Designer: Maurine Schlenz
Special Make Up Effects: Kevin Marks

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Coordinator: John McLeod

VISUAL EFFECTS
Optical Effects: Title House Inc
Wire Removal: Pacific Title Digital
Matte Paintings: Ivo Horvat
Main Titles: Cinema Research Corporation

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Nenad Pecur

OTHER CREW
Script Supervisor: Teri Blythe
Payroll Services: Media Services Inc
Transportation Coordinator: Martin Stubniak
Publicist: Steven Belgard
Insurance: Near North Insurance Brokerage of California

LOCATIONS
Locations: Slovakia
Location Manager: Vladimir Magal

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Kenny Bates
Stunts: Nick Brett

CASTING
Casting: Teri Blythe
Casting (Slovakia): Eva Stefankovicova

CAST
Christopher Lambert (Lemieux)
Natasha Henstridge (Delon)
Norbert Weisser (Cuzo)
Elizabeth Barondes (Wocek)
Xavier Declie (Volker)
Craig Davis (suspect)
Nicholas Guest (Rennard)
Andrew Divoff (Sterns)
Jon Epstein (General Waxman)
Miriam Zezulkova, Blanka Copikova, Martin Hindy (additional cops)
Jana Lonckova, Zdenka Gasparovicova, Maria Mickovicova (nurses)
Anna Juraranova (dead woman in car)

PLOT SUMMARY

2017: a top-secret and highly contagious Soviet germ warfare weapon has been accidentally released in the wake of the collapse of the USSR. Hundreds of thousand of people across the world have been killed. In Boston, a known serial killer has been infected and is loose somewhere in a refugee camp. A team of elite officers is sent in to find him before he becomes contagious.

AVAILABILITY

Japan
Video Distributor: SPO Inc

Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Sogepaq Distribución S.A.

UK
Video Distributor: Columbia Tristar

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Dimension Films; Legacy Releasing Corporation

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Australia
Rating: MA

Finland
Rating: K-16

Germany
Rating: 18

Spain
Rating: 18

UK
Rating: 18

USA
Rating: R (for gruesome violence and gore, and for strong language)

TIMELINE

1996
October

30: Portugal - video release

November
29: Spain, USA - theatrical release

1997
May

Day Unknown: Germany - video release

1998
June

26: Italy - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

If he's not dead by dawn...we are.

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Adrenalin
Ultimate Chase - Die letzte Jagd
- German title
Adrenalina - Italian/Portugese title

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Empire November 1997 p.139 (UK)
review

SFX no.10 p.10 (UK)
note

BOOKS

The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film p.4
credits

KEYWORDS

viruses; laboratories; the future; helicopters; refugees; concentration camps; serial killers


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