Not your typical "Chuck-Norris-beats-up-everyone" picture.
Silent Rage is a science fiction/horror thriller from 1982, directed by Michael Miller and starring Chuck Norris and Ron Silver.
After helping to stop a murderous madman John Kirby (Ron Libby), Sheriff Dan Stevensnote (Norris) is forced to stop him again after he is accidentally turned into an unstoppable killer by experimental science.
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This film has the examples of:
- All Bikers are Hells Angels: Stevens must deal with a gang of rowdy bikers before Kirby is revived completely.
- And Call Him "George": Charlie tells Stevens about the time when he was little and he had a puppy that got dirty; he gave it a bath in the toilet and put it in the freezer to dry but he accidentally forgot about it and it froze to death.
- Axe Before Entering: Kirby kills his landlady with an axe.
- Bar Slide: Stevens does this to one of the bikers.
- Big Bad: John Kirby.
- Breaking the Bonds: Kirby frees himself from his handcuffs after he is captured by the deputies.
- Chain Pain: Used by one of the bikers.
- Chairman of the Brawl: An attempt to stop Kirby's initial rampage is done by breaking a chair on his back. He kills the guy who tried to stop him.
- Clueless Deputy: Charlie. He probably has a grand total of three brain cells and is supposed to be the Plucky Comic Relief.
- Damsel in Distress: Like any dick flick, the women in the film are only there to be terrorized and have little to no characterization. Kirby fixates on Alison and is either trying to sexually assault or just kill her the whole movie through, forcing Stevens to have to rescue her constantly. The most egregious scene is the final fight where she does a rather wimpy jump on his back to distract him and Stevens has to rescue her yet again even though she did that to help him somehow.
- Deadly Hug: Kirby kills Charlie with this.
- Destination Defenestration:
- One deputy is thrown through a car window.
- Kirby falls through a window when Stevens puts few bullets into him.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Charlie dies in Stevens' arms after he finds him.
- Diner Brawl: Stevens must teach a biker gang some manners in a diner.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: Stevens' truck after it crashes before the climax.
- Falling-in-Love Montage: Stevens and Alison. In this case a "Falling back in love in between lovemaking sessions" montage.
- Fanservice: Probably contains the highest concentration of bare breasts in Norris' filmography.
- Flatline: Used when Kirby is killed by Dr. Vaughn with a lethal overdose of drugs, only for him shrug it off and kill Vaughn.
- For Science!: An experimental regenerative formula is used on a dying Kirby for this reason.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: No backstory is given to Kirby; he just snaps after he tells his doctor on the phone that he "can't take it anymore" and is portrayed as a crazy person who Stevens must stop for the rest of the film.
- Gilligan Cut: After Alison tells Stevens that nothing will happen between them ever again, the next cut shows them in bed making love.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: A beer jug is broken on Stevens' head during the Diner Brawl, and two other attempts of attacking him with bottles happen.
- Healing Factor: The experimental formula that is used on Kirby gives him the power of regeneration.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Dr. Vaughn is impaled by Kirby with his own syringe.
- Improvised Weapon: Kirby attacks Stevens with a two-by-four during their initial meeting.
- Mad Scientist: Dr. Spires. He decides to test his methods on someone who was just gunned down for murder. Naturally, it bites him in the ass later.
- Neck Snap: Kirby kills Dr. Spires with this.
- Only Sane Man: Halman is the only one who objects to Dr. Spires' plan to use the formula on Kirby on the grounds that Kirby is batshit crazy.
- Peek-a-Boo Corpse: After finding Nancy's corpse, Alison backs away from it to be further frightened by her brother's corpse.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Stevens' partner Charlie. Though the laughs are...rather subjective, we'll say.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: One biker tries to leave the Diner Brawl on his bike, but only his bike leaves.
- The End... Or Is It?: The final scene of the movie is of Kirby bursting out of the well water.
- You Talkin' to Me?: Charlie is shown quoting this on front of a mirror.
