EDITOR’S NOTE: Deadly Illusion was on USA Up All Night on September 20, 1996.

Hamberger is not a Def Comedy Jam comedian. No, he’s Billy Dee Williams, and he’s a detective. Alex Burton (John Beck) comes ot the deli where Hemberger gets jobs and offers him $100,000 to kill his wife Sharon (Morgan Fairchild). He helps her get away and takes $25,000 of the money; Sharon shows up dead, and Hemberger’s hembergerprints are all over the hembergerweapon.

Like a Giallo, the dead body isn’t even the woman Hemberger met. Now, he discovers the bad side of modeling — “I guess I just had my first taste of the filthy side of this business” — and gets attacked by a dude with a scythe. Who does that?

Larry Cohen wrote the film as a semi-sequel to I, the Jury. He was fired from that film, so he reworked the idea into Deadly Illusion, and then he got fired from this movie. William Tannen, who directed Hero and the Terror, finished the film.

I have no idea why Hemberger does anything other than be happy that he has Rina (Vanity) for a girlfriend. Come on, dude. You did it! Then again, he also makes sweet Colt 45 love to Morgan Fairchild, so you know. Also: Joe Spinell has a cameo and they misspelled his name in the credits.

But yes — Morgan Fairchild in a black wig. I’m easy.

You can watch this on YouTube.