A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of guilty due to insanity, he does not plan to let his sister and her husband forget that they were responsible for the murder of a farmhand and for his cruel imprisonment in the asylum.《夜缉者》是拉斯洛·拜奈代克于1971 年在美国 导演，由马克斯·冯·叙多夫,丽芙·乌曼,特瑞沃·霍华德,帕尔·奥斯卡森等出演,剧中使用英语对白,是一部恐怖片电影。