Midnight Thud

'Midnight Thud'

from Penitentiary III (1987)

Penitentiary III, released in 1987, featured one of the more unusual characters in the series.

 

'Midnight Thud' was a ferocious dwarf, used by prison boss 'Mr. Serengeti' (Anthony Geary, of 'Luke and Laura' / General Hospital renown) to attack any inmate who crossed Serengeti's ambitions. 

photo courtesy of Brady Carlson

  

At night, Thud would crawl through the ventilation ducts, and, snarling and growling, drop into a cell and gnaw off a particularly vulnerable portion of the victim's anatomy.......

 

Thud goes into action at the 14:00 mark in this YouTube posting of Penitentiary III.  

 

At the 20:00 mark, our hero Too Sweet (Leon Isaac Kennedy), has his own reckoning with Midnight Thud...... 

 

Midnight Thud was played by wrestler the 'Haiti Kid' (aka Raymond Kessler) of World Wrestling Federation fame.

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Does it get any better than that, for 80s pop culture ?!