Dark Horse

This obscure American television pilot movie, which was primarily produced to solicit a potential spin-off series that never happened, was fronted by veteran filmmaker Robert Collins. Despite a career that currently spans four decades, encompassing some twenty-one films as director, Collins rarely ventured outside that of television production – the only notable exception being Savage Harvest from 1981. Sadly, Collins’ direction here is pedestrian at best, failing to inject his feature with that little spark needed to maintain viewer interest…

Nick Fox (Nicholas Campbell, July Group, The; Trapped; Virus) is an ambitious and fearless investigative journalist, working for ‘Newspoint’ magazine — a news exposé periodical based in Los Angeles. He's also a master of disguise – a man who's not afraid to take huge risks in order to be first to net that earth-shattering scoop, much to the chagrin of his long suffering photographer colleague Mac (Randy Brooks).

Fox and Mac attend a recruitment drive for a survival camp, hosted by the tough-talking and self-confident J. C. Patrick (Bo Hopkins, Wild Bunch, The) and discreetly learn that people are being held captive there. Using his trusty disguise kit, Fox decides to go undercover and transform himself into former paratrooper and missing person, Rick Burns, enrolling himself in the camp to investigate further. Once there however, he quickly falls foul of the arrogant camp patrol Corps leader, Captain Brand (Wings Hauser)…