Joseph Merhi

Total Credits at Criticker: 27 (Director), 11 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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A stunt driver (Michael Madsen) heading for prison on a minor charge is freed against his will by a terrorist gang. Then by kidnapping his wife, he is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade. (imdb)
A corrupt right-wing militia group chooses a California teacher as the ideal specimen to clone for its army. (imdb)
Magic Kid (1993) - Direct-to-Video
Karate action and laughs never cease when a brother and sister go to California to visit their uncle. They soon discover that he's an alcoholic on the run from the Mob who want him to pay up or else (imdb)
Blood Money (1991) - Direct-to-Video
A cop teams up with an FBI agent to track down a counterfeiter. (imdb)
A CIA operative kills a terrorist during a prison break. When a group of terrorists attempts to recover a microchip implanted in the man's body, one of them is captured and convinced by the CIA to work for them as an informer. (imdb)
Direct Hit (1994) - Direct-to-Video
Veteran hit-man Hatch wants to retire, but they have one, final, important job for him. Even though he's cold-blooded, he realizes he feels compassion for Savannah and tries to figure out a way to mislead his boss James Tronson into believing he has fulfilled the contract. (imdb)
Nick, former world champ in kick boxing, discovers Danny, who just became light heavy-weight champion of Ohio. Danny is very ambitious to become world champ, so Nick offers to train him. After a tense training they set out to the the kick-boxing world championships in Las Vegas, where Danny will meet the brutal champion Joe, who once dethroned Nick. The awakened memories of their confrontation and his defeat prey on Nick's mind, he becomes an alcoholic and looses not only his girlfriend Maggie. (imdb)
Jeff is an FBI agent sent to pick up Ray Manta, a member of the White Hand drug cartel, from a Mexican jail. Manta escapes, and gets revenge by killing Jeff's family. Kowalski, another member of the White Hand, is sympathetic to Jeff as he hunts down the other members of the Hand one by one, getting vengeance for his family, eventually leading to a battle with Manta. (imdb)
A family must keep moving from town to town because the mother is a psychotic axe murderer who keeps flipping out and murdering people. (imdb)
Last Man Standing (1996) - Direct-to-Video
Cop finds himself caught between an organzed crime gang and a ring of crooked cops. (imdb)
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man. (imdb)
The owner of a lakeside resort murders a transvestite. Fifteen years later, the drag queen's spirit comes back and starts killing honeymoon couples. (imdb)
When actor Alan Chester left Chicago for Hollywood, city of dreams, he had no idea of the nightmare his life would become! Fresh Kill is a suspense film of a different caliber! Will he break a leg? Or lose his head? (Troma.com)
The Sweeper (1996) - Direct-to-Video
A young renegade undercover cop (C. Thomas Howell) with a propensity for violence and a past history involving the murder of his cop father (Jeff Fahey) and the remainder of his family is recruited by a vigilante group with a leader (Ed Lauter) who wants only to kill all criminals and those associated with them. (imdb)
Heat Street (1987) - Direct-to-Video
A black boxer whose daughter was murdered by bikers joins up with a white repo man to battle street gangs. (imdb)
Night of the Wilding (1990) - Direct-to-Video
Joseph Gainer (Estrada) is a high-powered Beverly Hills defense attorney who has never lost a case.
A suave hit man becomes paranoid when he discovers blackmailers have photographed his latest murders. (imdb)
A policewoman tries to help two teenage crack addicts. When she doesn't succeed, and the girls die, she goes after the crack dealers. (imdb)
Vice detective Jon Chance (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) is in search of a millionaire's daughter and her boyfriend...kidnapped for an unreasonable ransom. With his trustworthy captain (William Smith) as backup, Chance must shoot his way through the enemy and rescue the hostages... (imdb)
The bloody saga of two strangers brought together by a common need - to find the women they've lost. Rachel ran away, Misty was kidnapped; but nothing will stop Dino and Ziggy in their pursuit of the women they love. They turn Hollywood into a War Zone! On one side: pimps, drug pushers and the police. The other side - a sawn off shotgun and a 357 magnum. (imdb)
Jake Baxter takes a job as a repoman with hopes of living the quiet life. Plans go sour when he's whipped into supersonic action, involving a vicious crime lord, a mob of angry car owners, a sadistic porno ring and lastly a brutal, illegal and very lethal car race known throughout L.A.'s underworld as the "Slam Track." (imdb)
A TV news cameraman, hailed as a hero for pulling a woman from a burning car, finds that his ratings-hungry boss is deliberately placing him in dangerous situations in a quest for even more ratings. (imdb)
A children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. It examines the complexities of racial and class divisions, and reveals that despite the fragile volatility of human relationships, family is what holds us together and unites us all.
To Be the Best (1993) - Direct-to-Video
A member of the U.S. kickboxing team recruits his father and his fellow teammates to help stop a ruthless gambler from rigging the World Kickboxing Championship in Las Vegas. (imdb)