Often sited as one of the key films in the evolution of the slasher film and directed by genre veteran Bob Clark. This horror is not for the faint of heart.
Gibson plays Nick Marshall, a high-flying chauvinistic Chicago advertising executive who, like his musical idol, Frank Sinatra, calls women baby and believes he has the world on a string.
A young man with two bullet wounds in his back is pulled from the Mediterranean Sea by a group of Italian fishermen, barely alive, he is nursed back to health.