Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind(1980)
It started as a joyride; the terror never ended...
Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.
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