World’s Most Dangerous Factories – Vol. 1
Factories are inherently dangerous. With their heavy equipment, high voltage and volatile chemicals, factories are an accident waiting to happen. And when you throw in some movie heroes and villains, OSHA’s collective butthole puckers, because you’ve just created some of the World’s Most Dangerous Factories…
10. Cyborg (1989)
A factory doesn’t even have to be operational to be dangerous, just ask Gibson Rickenbacker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) who finds himself at odds with the misfits who call Fendor Tremolo (Vincent Klyn) their leader.
It starts off one on one, blade against blade before Gibson kicks his foe into a piece of machinery, he then pins his opponent in place with his foot, but before Gibson can go in for the kill, another thug shows up and saves his buddy. Gibson goes through a loose gate and takes a fall, catching himself on a pipe on his way down. Now hanging precariously several feet above ground, Gibson is a sitting duck with danger above and below. Gibson starts frantically shaking the pipe… it comes loose on one end, and Gibson is able to swing to the ground.
Once on terra firma, Gibson takes out four more ferocious fiends with his gun, all while the menacing Fendor Tremolo looks on!
9. Child’s Play 2 (1990)
A toy factory may seem like a fun place to visit if you’re a kid, but not if you are Andy Barclay. Andy was taken to the Play Pals factory against his will by his arch nemesis, the killer doll known as Chucky! But once they are at the factory, all doesn’t go according to Chucky’s demented plan… so he pivots to Plan B, Kill Andy! Fortunately, Andy has fellow foster kid, Kyle, to help him, and the two are on the run from Chucky inside the factory. The knife wielding, bastard spewing Chucky is hot on their trail, when Kyle manages to trap Chucky under a gate, causing the demonic doll to lose a hand.
Kyle and Andy get some distance between themselves and Chucky, as they make their way through the active machinery and to the exit door… a door they can’t get out of. Meanwhile, a handless Chucky improvises and inserts his knife where his right hand once was! This is about the time a factory technician gets a machine malfunction message in the control room, and he goes out to investigate… little does he know it will be the last thing he ever does! Moments later, Chucky catches up with the foster kids, but they use the assembly line equipment to their advantage, mutilating Chucky’s body.
But Chucky’s not done yet, he uses the swinging corpse of the factory technician to knock Kyle out… then the now legless Chucky goes after Andy! Chucky takes a stab at Andy and misses, getting his knife hand stuck in some of the equipment… with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, Andy opens a nearby emergency release valve and Chucky is soon showered in molten plastic! While Andy returns the favor and rescues Kyle. Surely, this has to be it, right?
Think again… this melted Chucky isn’t done yet! He lunges at Kyle from the puddle of molten plastic, but Kyle manages to shove a high-pressure air hose in Chucky’s mouth. His head inflates until it can inflate no more and then POP!
8. Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
As part of his one man war on drugs, Paul Kersey poses as a day laborer to gain access to a fish cannery that is used to process drugs for the Ed Zacharias crime family. Kersey shows up during the lunch break and blends in with the other workers. Once inside, Kersey quickly bypasses the legitimate portion of the factory that processes fish for the pet food industry.
A supervisor notices Kersey wandering around where he shouldn’t be and questions him. Kersey, using the alias of Kimble, feigns ignorance before knocking the supervisor out. Kersey then removes the Micro Uzi from his lunch pail and stashes it under his apron for easy access. Kersey then comes upon a restricted area guarded by none other than “Judo” Gene LeBell.
Kersey strolls up to LeBell and knocks him out with his lunch pail. Then Kersey cracks open the doors and discovers something fishy… Zacharias is smuggling cocaine INSIDE the fish! Just then, another guard comes up from behind Kersey, Kersey blasts him with his Micro Uzi before turning his attention back to the restricted area. Kersey opens the doors wide this time and obliterates everyone inside with Uzi fire!
An alarm sounds and a voice over the PA is offering $1,000 for anyone who can catch the “crazy son of a bitch”. Meanwhile Kersey throws a bomb inside the coke lab and is looking to make a hasty exit when he quickly finds that he is outmanned and outgunned… but the bomb goes off, sparking explosion after explosion. Kersey uses the chaos to his advantage and makes a run for it, first on foot, then by pickup truck!
7. Cyborg Cop II (1994)
Word to the wise, if you ever go on a cyborg hunt, you want to go in heavy and that is exactly what Jack Ryan (David Bradley) and Liz McDowell (Jill Pierce) do when they set out to stop the evil cyborg Spartacus (Morgan Hunter) and his plan to convert all human beings to cyborgs!
Jack and Liz make their way to Spartacus’ power plant base of operations. Their presence is almost immediately detected, and Spartacus sends a “welcoming party” to greet them. Jack and Liz blow cyborg after cyborg away with grenades and even a rocket launcher. That’s about the time Spartacus appears on the video screen and reveals he has Jack’s son, Frankie!
Jack and Liz are forced to surrender and are taken to Spartacus. But their captivity is short lived. After Spartacus threatens to kill Frankie, Jack leaps into action and it is man vs. machine! Jack inflicts some minor damage to Spartacus, but it’s young Frankie that comes up with the bright idea of using a giant magnet to disable Spartacus. Stuck on the magnet, Spartacus continues to shoot wildly before Jack hits the release mechanism, and Spartacus is dropped on some high voltage wires where he fries! Jack, Liz, and Frankie manage to escape from the plant before it explodes!
6. The Big Boss (1971)
We now travel to Thailand, where employees at a local ice factory keep disappearing. It seems that if you get sideways with management, they’ll freeze your wages, they’ll freeze your benefits, and they’ll even freeze you! That’s because this ice factory is no ordinary ice factory, it is a front for “The Big Boss” Hsiao Mi’s drug smuggling operation.
Cheng Chao-on (Bruce Lee) finds the cold hard facts about the company he works for when he does some late night investigating. It is during his investigation, that Cheng sees his missing friend, Hsu Chien, in a block of ice! That’s about the time Hsiao Chiun (aka Son of the Big Boss) shows up with a group of toughs and catch Cheng Chao-on snooping around.
When Hsiao Chiun tells Cheng Chao-on he’s headed for the freezer, Cheng Chao-on melts down, picking thugs off one by one with an ice pick and some powerful Kung Fu kicks, even sending one guy through the wall! The fight then spills outside the icehouse, where there are some bad guy reinforcements waiting, and Cheng Chao-on is completely surrounded.
Cheng Chao-on leaps his way out of that predicament, dodges knives and throws them right back at their owners, before sending another guy through a wall, Looney Tunes style! With all the thugs vanquished, Hsiao Chiun now has to take on Cheng Chao-on himself… and he’s stopped cold!
5. Exterminator 2 (1984)
After a bloody and violent war on the streets of New York between vigilante, John Eastland (Robert Ginty), and a gang led by the charismatic X (Marion Van Peebles), an old factory serves as the setting for the final battle. Both Eastland and X have suffered huge personal losses as a result of this war. X lost his brother, while Eastland lost his girlfriend, Caroline (Bum Bum Bum), and his best bud, Be Gee (Frankie Faison)
Eastland has made the factory his base of operations, and he is more than ready when X and what’s left of his gang arrives. Eastland has turned Be Gee’s old garbage truck/snow plow into a fortress on wheels, complete with armored plating, machine guns, and rockets! From inside the truck, Eastland manages to take out the human garbage that is X’s minions! Those few minions who were lucky enough to survive the truck attack found that their luck went up in smoke thanks to Eastland and his trusty flamethrower!
Now it’s finally down to just Eastland and X. The tension builds as X hunts Eastland throughout the factory, with X talking smack the whole time. Eastland doesn’t say a word because Eastland knows that actions speak louder than words… When X spots the bag he believes contains the drugs that Eastland stole from him, he takes the bait and opens the bag. There was an explosive device inside, sending a now charred X off the catwalk and on to a spike below, turning X into a well-done, human shish kabob!
4. Nobody (2021)
Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) has really pissed off Russian crime lord, Yulian Kuznetsov (Aleksey Serebryakov). Yulian and his mobsters track Hutch down to a metal fabrication factory… a factory they don’t know Hutch has already booby trapped.
But before they figure that out, there’s one more surprise for both Yulian and Hutch… Hutch’s brother, Harry (RZA) and father, David (Christopher Lloyd) are there to back Hutch up in his war with the Russian mob! The mobsters who aren’t killed by the booby traps are killed by Harry and his sniper rifle. or David and his his shotgun. Meanwhile, it’s a break room battle for Hutch as he eliminates more mobsters!
Cue “You’ll Never Walk Alone” by Gerry & The Peacemakers and a beautiful montage of the Mansell Boys dismantling what’s left of the Russian mob while they run out of bullets. The last man standing for the Russians is Yulian himself, and Hutch is forced to improvise to take him out in explosive fashion!
3. Cobra (1986)
An extraordinary criminal like Night Slasher (Brian Thompson) requires an extraordinary cop to take him down… and that’s where Marion Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone) comes in. The final battle between the two extraordinary individuals is like hell on earth as the two men square off in a red hot and very active steel mill!
While Night Slasher is preaching his twisted view of the “New World”, Cobretti is lurking around the mill and getting himself into position to take Night Slasher out… not to be outdone in the soliloquy department, Cobretti delivers his own message to Night Slasher, but before he can deliver the death blow, Cobretti is attacked by the traitorous police woman, Nancy Stalk (Lee Garlington). Stalk jumps on Cobretti’s back, Cobretti’s gun goes off, and so does Night Slasher’s, but instead of hitting Cobretti, he hits Stalk.
Cobretti, now gunless, picks up a chain and uses it to fend off Night Slasher’s knife attack. The two men battle near a vat of molten steel where Cobretti narrowly avoids disaster. When both men get back on their feet, Cobretti notices another steel mill hazard that could work in his favor… a giant hook is coming their way and Night Slasher is completely unaware… that is until Cobretti hoists him up and hooks him!
Night Slasher screams in agony as the hook transports him right into the steel mill furnace, where he goes from the leader of the New World Order to Out of Order… permanently!
2. The Terminator (1984)
Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) believe they have finally destroyed the killer cyborg from the future sent back to 1984 to kill Sarah… after all, they just blew up the tank truck that The Terminator was driving. But wait, he’s not dead yet! The Terminator, now reduced to his robotic endoskeleton comes out of the fiery wreckage looking to complete his mission.
Sarah and Reese break into the nearby Cyberdyne factory to seek refuge… they manage to shut The Terminator out temporarily with a big steel door. The temporary reprieve allows Reese a chance to turn on the machinery, hoping it will interfere with The Terminator’s tracking ability. It didn’t work.
The Terminator finds Reese and Sarah as they are going up some stairs. Reese tells Sarah to run, while he goes into martyr mode, slipping a pipe bomb in The Terminator’s midsection. After the explosion, Sarah digs some shrapnel out of her leg, then goes to check on Reese… he’s dead, BUT The Terminator isn’t! Now just a torso, The Terminator drags himself across the ground, towards his target, coming dangerously close to snatching Sara’s ankle, who is also reduced to crawling at this point. Sarah then lures The Terminator into the hydraulic press, when she gets out on the other side, she slams the gate shut, and activates the machinery… thus terminating The Terminator.
1. RoboCop (1987)
New partners, Officers Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) and Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) are hot on the trail of the Clarence Boddicker gang. The pursuit leads them to an old steel mill, where they make the risky decision to not wait for backup and the even riskier decision to split up once they get inside.
Lewis ends up incapacitated after doing some pecker checking on the aptly named baddie, Joe Cox (Jesse Goins). Meanwhile, another member of Boddicker’s crew, Emil Antonowsky (Paul McCrane), finds himself staring down the barrel of Murphy’s gun… Murphy radios Lewis and proceeds to search Emil and is about ready to cuff him when two more of Boddicker’s boys show up, Steve Minh (Calvin Jung) and Leon Nash (Ray Wise) interrupting the police proceedings.
But before Emil can take out Murphy, Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) shows up and starts talking trash to Murphy. Joe then shows up, bragging that he took out Murphy’s partne.. After an unpleasant exchange of words between Murphy and Boddicker, Boddicker blows Murphy’s right hand off with a shotgun before ordering his crew to become a firing squad. Lewis hears the shots and the screams, as Boddicker’s boys unload their weapons into Murphy, as she desperately tries to make he way to her partner.
Clarence Boddicker then steps back in, shoots Murphy in the head and he and his men make their exit… not knowing that they would eventually have to pay for what they did to Alex Murphy in the steel mill that day.
