| Wired to Kill | |
| Director: | Frank Schaeffer |
| Music: | Russell Ferrante |
| Cinematography: | Tom Fraser |
| Studio: | Schaeffer-Buchfuehrer Productions |
| Runtime: | 96 min. |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $3.8 million[1] |
Wired to Kill, also known as Booby Trap, is a 1986 film written and directed by Frank Schaeffer and starring Emily Longstreth, Devin Hoelscher, Merritt Butrick[2]
In the near future, law and order breaks down, diseases, violence and immorality are rampant. However, when a violent gang attacks a family nearly killing the mother and the authorities offer no aid, Steve, the teenage son, his girlfriend Rebecca, and a robot named Winston take matters into their own hands and gets revenge on the gang amid the ruins of Los Angeles.
In May 1985, it was announced Frank Schaeffer would make his feature directorial debut with Booby Trap having previously worked as a producer on fundamentalist Christian documentaries such as How Should We Then Live? and Whatever Happened to the Human Race?.[2] [1] Much of the filming was done around an abandoned steel mill in Fontana, California that served as the gang's hideout and much of the settings deteriorating landscape.[1]