Kill and Kill Again

At Sun City Resort, martial arts champion Steve Chase has won a prestigious award for his martial arts titles. However, he is fighting a bunch of goons en route to the reception. When he finishes off the last of the goons, he accepts the award with a resounding "thank you" and meets Kandy Kane, who had hired the goons to test Steve's skills. Kandy wants to hire Steve to find her father, Dr. Horatio Kane. Dr. Kane had accidentally discovered a mind-controlling drug while using researching potatoes as an energy source. Marduk, a warlord, has taken Dr. Kane in hopes to use the mind-control drug to create an army of fighters with the intention of world domination. Steve is offered $2 million dollars but he lets Kandy know he will do the job for $5 million dollars and he will select his own team to help him as well as not get Kandy involved in any way.

Steve recruits the mystic known as The Fly, the former champion turned hermit Gypsy Billy, the very wild and crazy Hot Dog, and the giant known as Gorilla. Kandy insists on going and despite his reluctance, Steve finally relents and lets Kandy join in on the mission. As they head towards the base of Marduk, it is revealed that Kandy herself knows martial arts much to the surprise of Steve and his team. Meanwhile, Marduk is looking for a champion to face his ultimate fighter, the Optimus, who has yet to be defeated in competition. When Steve and the others find themselves in battle after battle, they are eventually kidnapped by Marduk. They soon find themselves forced to fight members of Marduk's army in competitions with Steve facing off against the Optimus. At first being outpowered, Steve relies on his quick wits and ample skills to take down the Optimus. Chaos erupts and Steve eventually saves Dr. Kane from Marduk's top guard when the guard shoots towards Dr. Kane. Meanwhile, Marduk and his assistant Minerva attempt to escape via helicopter but are taken down when Gorilla diverts the plane down, causing the guards to think they are shooting at Gorilla and end up shooting the helicopter until it explodes. It is revealed that Kandy was actually an undercover government operative and the real Kandy was brainwashed by Marduk. Free of the drug, Kandy reunites with Dr. Kane and the heroes head home.

• James Ryan as Steve Chase
• Anneline Kriel as Kandy Kane
• Michael Mayer as Marduk
• Stan Schmidt as The Fly
• Norman Robinson as Gypsy Billy
• Ken Gampu as Gorilla
• Bill Flynn as Hot Dog
• Marloe Scott-Wilson as Minerva
• Eddie Dorie as The Optimus
• Malcolm Dorfman as Marduk's Soldier
• John Ramsbottom as Dr. Horatio Kane
• Ivor Kissin as Marduk's Guard

In an article on February 11, 1980, The Hollywood Reporter stated that Film Ventures International would produce a sequel to the film Kill or Be Killed titled Kill or Be Killed, Part II to be scheduled to start filming in June 1980.[1] The film was being referred to Kill or Be Killed II by July 24, 1980 in the Hollywood Reporter and later referred to as Kill and Kill Again in a November 4, 1980 article of the Hollywood Reporter.[1]

The cast of the film was predominantly from South Africa.[1] Variety reported on September 24, 1980 that Diane Newman had been cast in the film, but she does not appear in the film's credits.[1] Filming ended in the United States on July 24, 1980 and was set to move to locations in Europe.[1]

Kill and Kill Again was released in New York on May 8, 1981.[1] On August 12, 1980, the Hollywood Reporter announced that a third film in the series was planned.[1] As of December 2013, no follow-up film has gone into production.[1]

From contemporary reviews, Variety's "Lor." found that the fight scenes were "unexciting", as the "choreography is too pat and lacks danger." while concluding the film to be a "good-natured karate actioner for genre fans"[2] Vincent Canby of The New York Times stated the film had a "horrible plot" that "contains a lot of action, but most of the violence is in the grunting and groaning that accompanies the various karate chops."[3]

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