A
charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a
cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban
empire starts to crack at the foundations in director Chris Sivertson's
adaptation of author Jack Ketchum's chilling take on the 1960s-era
Charles Schmid murders. Ray Pye (Chris Senter) may be well out of high
school, but the kids in his sleepy town are strangely drawn to the
drug-dealing outsider who stuffs cans in his boots to boost his stature
and sports pancake make-up to cast a rock-star aura. But Ray Pye isn't
just eccentric, he's downright dangerous. It was during a weekend
camping excursion with his sometime-girlfriend Jennifer Fitch (Shay
Astar) and best pal Tim Best (Alex Frost) that Ray shot a pair of pretty
campers simply to satisfy his own morbid curiosity, and after bullying
his friends into silence, the case would go strangely unsolved. Despite
the fact that one of the girls eventually managed to escape, she lay
comatose in the hospital 
for months on end before eventually succumbing
to her wounds. Local detective Charlie Schilling (Michael Bowen)
suspected Ray of the crime from the very beginning, and now that the
girl has died without being able to identify her killer, Schilling is
determined to ensure that justice is served. These days the womanizing
Pye has turned his attentions away from Jennifer and toward newly
arrived rich girl Katherine Wallace (Robin Sydney) and innocent Sally
Richmond (Megan Henning) -- a recent high-school graduate who,
unbeknownst to Ray, is involved in a tender May-December romance with
retired cop Ed Anderson (Ed Lauter). Now, as Katherine and Sally reject
Ray's advances, and Tim and Jennifer's once undying loyalty begins to
slip, the increasingly unstable pied piper's fragile ego spirals into an
explosive tailspin. With the rage that's bubbling up in Ray threatening
to send him on a murderous rampage, Detective Schilling and Ed Anderson
desperately attempt to gather the evidence needed to arrest the
swaggering psychopath before more lives are lost.
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