MARGIN FOR TERROR
A quiet Independence Day is shattered when six vicious bank robbers armed with automatic weapons, crash the gates at the Bayview Luxury Condominiums.
As the police surround the complex, the robbers round up the few dozen residents not on summer holiday, and hold them hostage in the Recreation Room. A room filled with pool tables and weight benches becomes a concentration camp of spoiled yuppy prisoners.
Ted Burns, head of the Tenants Association, advises them to stay calm, cooperate fully, and let the police take care of the problem.
But when a crack SWAT Team is lured into the maze-like condo complex by the robbers, then ambushed; two of the tenants, Don Lawrence and Tom Braden decide the only way to survive is to take charge of their own lives. Become inter-dependent.
Escaping from the robbers, they begin a deadly game of hide-and-seek, turning Bayview into a war zone. Armed only with kitchen knives and Don's Desert Storm training, they begin to kill the robbers one by one in the dark and empty pathways between buildings.
The robbers retaliate. Killing a hostage every half hour until the police grant them safe passage and a helicopter. As the battle between Don, Tom, and the robbers escalates outside, a different sort of battle begins in the Recreation Room. Linda Braden uses psychological warfare against the lead robber, Richard Stark, to try and stop the slaughter. It's a battle of wits which could end in Linda's death if she's not careful.
"MARGIN FOR TERROR" is the story in the tradition of "Die Hard", "Desperate Hours" (1955) and the North Hollywood bank robbers about average, middle class suburbanites, forced to fight for their independence.... And their lives.
"MARGIN FOR TERROR" a screenplay by William C. Martell
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