Omega Syndrome (1987)Movies

After Bob Mathews, leader of the white-nationalist terrorist organization the Order, was burned alive in his hideout by federal agents in 1984 and his followers were apprehended, it was inevitable that their dramatic and violent deeds would furnish Hollywood with story ideas. The most famous movie inspired by the Order is Oliver Stone’s Talk Radio (1988), an adaptation of Eric Bogosian’s 1987 play dramatizing the group’s 1984 assassination of Alan Berg. Beating it onto screens by two years, however, was Omega Syndrome (1986), a low-budget action film produced by George Zecevic’s Smart Egg Pictures (most notable for the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise), written by the obscure John Sharkey, and directed by Joseph Manduke, whose credits primarily consist of work...