---
title: 'Death Warrant (1990)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Deran Sarafian'
released: '1990-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 86
genres:
  - 'Action'
countries:
  - 'United States'
  - 'Canada'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/death-warrant-1990'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099385/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Death Warrant (1990)

1990 · 86 min · Action · United States, Canada


## Synopsis

Death Warrant is a 1990 American prison action thriller film directed by Deran Sarafian, produced by Mark di Salle, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film was written by David S. Goyer while a student at USC, and was Goyer's first screenplay to be sold and produced commercially. In the film, police detective Louis Burke is going into a prison facility in California as an undercover cop in order to find out who was behind a mysterious series of murders, and finds himself locked up with his nemesis: Christian Naylor, a psychotic serial killer who calls himself "The Sandman," who sets out to exact revenge upon him after getting into prison.

## Credits

- **Producer:** [Mark DiSalle](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-disalle)
- **Director:** [Deran Sarafian](https://cinepixo.com/people/deran-sarafian)
- **Screenplay:** [David S. Goyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-s-goyer)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Gary Chang](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-chang)
- **Director of Photography:** [Russell Carpenter](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-carpenter)

## Cast

- [Cynthia Gibb](https://cinepixo.com/people/cynthia-gibb)
- [Mark DiSalle](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-disalle)
- [Jack Bannon](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-bannon)
- [Jean-Claude Van Damme](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-claude-van-damme)
- [Robert Guillaume](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-guillaume)
- [Armin Shimerman](https://cinepixo.com/people/armin-shimerman)
- [George Dickerson](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-dickerson)
- [Art LaFleur](https://cinepixo.com/people/art-lafleur)
- [Larry Hankin](https://cinepixo.com/people/larry-hankin)
- [Joshua John Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/joshua-john-miller)
- [Patrick Kilpatrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-kilpatrick)

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