lukem-52760 Enemy territory is a fantastic 80s urban Thriller i love this film, this has that exciting & creepy atmosphere & tone like Assault on precinct 13 (1976) & alot of that 80s punk gangs feel that you get in the Death wish films & many others.This little survival film is about a really bad neighbourhood somewhere in new York City that has a really run down tenement building that is the dark hunting ground of a gang of black thugs called the Vampires who have a crazy leader played by the Awesome TONY TODD!!! & on a late Friday evening i believe or Saturday evening? Anyway IT'S getting late & nearly dark & an insurance salesman played really well by GARY FRANK has to go into the building to make a quick sale-a quick signing & back out but things go very wrong & very serious & he ends up trapped in the big scary building with the Vampires gang hunting him. A great little B-movie fun & exciting Thriller with a vety gritty look & creepy high rise building & it works perfectly with tense scenes & some other cool characters who happen to be in the building or live there such as will (RAY PARKER JR ) who is a good guy & wants to help get Barry out of the building alive!!! Also small roles for other characters like JAN MICHAEL VINCENT'S ex Vietnam nut who loves guns & STACEY DASH (Clueless) who also wants to help. ENEMY TERRITORY is great exciting fun with an AWESOME cast & an AWESOME location to for an urban survival Thriller to be set in. This is my DIE HARD set in a big building & came out a year before!!! This is better & more fun.

Radish4ever Insurance salesman Barry (Gary Frank) visits an urban ghetto to sell insurance to a client and has a run in with a young member of a vicious street gang called the Vampires. This gang runs the district. Soon their leader, aptly named 'The Count' (Tony Todd) hears about this and wants Barry dead. Barry is trapped in the apartment building with no way out; we soon see the murder of an elderly cop who tries to protect Barry so we know the gang mean business. Barry teams up with Ray Parker Jnr and they also enlist the help of the only man the gang supposedly fears, the wheelchair bound Parker, a Vietnam War veteran, (played by Jan-Michael Vincent). However they are totally outnumbered. The vampires are after blood.The film is fast paced and entertaining but does has strong violence and racism in as well so be warned. Sadly this film is hard to find and seems to have disappeared since the VHS days. Ray Parker Jnr is first class and you question why he never became a mega star. Tony Todd is a great presence as always and it's sad that Candy man was the height of his career, he deserved better. He does seem to enjoy himself in the role as the count. Jan-Michael Vincent completes a great cast. Also a great music soundtrack from the Boogie boys an American hip hop band group from New York, where this film was shot. The band sadly spilt up a year after this film was made.Watch out for the clever ending; note the gang are called Vampires when you look for this. This film is worth the effort to hunt down even if it's only an old VHS you can find. Deserves a DVD release.

merklekranz A nice assortment of characters, are terrorized by a gang called the "Vampires", while desperately trying to escape from a "project" high rise. The strength of this film is having very sympathetic heroes, Gary Frank, and Ray Parker Jr., interacting with likable tenants, including Jan Michael Vincent playing a whacked Vietnam Vet. The "Vampire"gang are all generic, unmemorable, minority thugs, with the notable exception of "The Count". The movie is both claustrophobic, and a real stretch of realism, but is nevertheless entertaining. Considering the limited budget, "Enemy Territory" is a surprisingly good film..... - MERK

davethorne700 New York has never looked so good! This is a gritty thriller set in a tower block, where an unfortunate insurance salesman finds himself trapped on the top floor in a building controlled by the local gang called the Vampires. The Vampires are out for blood after the salesman unwittingly insults one of the gangs younger members on his way to sign a deal which should earn him a nice commission. Luckily he gets some help along the way by none other than Ray Parker Junior, and together with some friendlier residents of the block, they try to escape certain death. Quite a tense movie with a cool soundtrack and a nice score. But the best thing is Tony Todd (pre - Candyman) as the demented evil leader of the Vampires and his sidekick - Psycho! I own a copy of this on VHS Pal and think it,s well worth watching if this sort of thing is your cup of tea.