Killer Image
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Directed by	David Winning
Written by	David Winning Stan Edmonds
Produced by	David Winning Bruce Harvey Rudy Barichello
Starring	Michael Ironside John Pyper-Ferguson M. Emmet Walsh Krista Errickson
Cinematography	Dean Bennett
Edited by	David Winning Ron Sanders Alan Collins Anne Ditchburn
Music by	Stephen Foster
Distributed by	Groundstar Entertainment Malofilm Seville Pictures (video release)
Release date	1992 (1992)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English
Budget	C$750,000 (estimated)

Killer Image is a 1992 independent Canadian suspense film directed by David Winning. It stars Michael Ironside and John Pyper-Ferguson. The story centers on two brothers, one a powerful senator, one a ruthless killer. A photographer captures images of the politician in a compromising position and is murdered. Now his brother has discovered the film and wants vengeance.

Plot synopsis

When Max Oliver (John Pyper-Ferguson) learns his photographer brother has been killed, he suspects it was no random murder. And when he finds his brothers' last photos of a powerful senator (M. Emmet Walsh) and a prostitute, Max gets a clear picture of a deadly political cover-up. Seeking to expose his brother's killer, Max enters a murderous game of cat and mouse, stalked by a cold-blooded assassin (Michael Ironside) who has Max dead in his sights.

Cast

• Michael Ironside as Luther Kane
• John Pyper-Ferguson as Max Oliver
• Krista Errickson as Shelley
• M. Emmet Walsh as Senator John Kane
• Paul Austin as Ric Oliver
• Chantelle Jenkins as Lori

Production

The film was shot in the September and October 1990 in locations in and around Calgary, Alberta. Production took 20 days. Malofilm, a distributor from Montreal, and Pierre David, in Los Angeles, were partially funding the project, along with seed-money from the Alberta government.^[1][2] The film was released in Canada and the United States in 1992, being distributed by Malofilm, but did not receive a home video release until the early 1993 thru Paramount Home Video and received its US premiere as a finalist at the 1992 Houston Film Festival.

Reception

The Calgary Herald published a review in March 1992 that said David Winning’s sharp stylish exploitation movie, is a triumph of first-rate technique over less than first-rate content.^[3] Chuck O’Leary on Rotten Tomatoes called it an implausible B thriller made watchable by Michael Ironside's portrayal of another clenched-jawed psycho.^[4]