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Stars: Gary Frank, Tony Todd, Ray Parker Jr., Jan-Michael Vincent, Stacey Dash, Deon Richmond, Frances Foster, Tiger Haynes, Charles Randall | Written by Stuart Kaminsky | Directed by Peter Manoogian

As cult cinema continues to enjoy a well-deserved reappraisal in the high-definition era, Enemy Territory arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Arrow Video with the fanfare of a long-lost treasure finally uncovered. A lean, adrenaline-charged thriller that once slipped through the cracks of mainstream attention, Enemy Territory stands tall today as a pulpy, hard-edged time capsule – part siege thriller, part urban horror story, and entirely of its era.

Directed by Peter Manoogian and written by Stuart Kaminsky, the film follows Barry (Gary Frank), a mild-mannered insurance salesman whose bad day turns apocalyptic after he’s sent to a decaying high-rise in New York’s Alphabet City to close a routine deal. Trapped inside the building after dark, Barry becomes the target of a...

When movie lovers think of a lone hero trapped in a high-rise controlled by bad guys, the classic Bruce Willis actioner Die Hard comes to mind. Released in 1988, the film made Willis more than just that guy from Moonlighting and started a new genre, the contained space action movie. Soon other films were copying Die Hard's spatial premise with thrillers of their own that became “Die Hard on a _____”. Die Hard wasn't the first film to have this premise – The Big Clock (1948) later remade as No Way Out (1987) comes to mind – just the first to do it really well. About a year prior, Charlie Band, who would strike gold with the Dtv Puppet Master horror films, produced a small action movie set in New York about an insurance salesman who finds himself in a Die Hard situation with a local gang. Garry Frank plays Barry, an insurance salesman who's...