Sam Groom

Steve Railsback (famed for his unhinged performance as Charles Manson in 1976's TV mini-series Helter Skelter) is at his sinister best as a troubled Vietnam Vet in 1982's Deadly Games - a tale of madness, murder and adultery from writer/director Scott Mansfied. A masked maniac with a penchant for a horror-themed board game is playing his own twisted game with the women of a small American town.

Barbara Hershey plays a free spirit who agrees to bear a child for a childless couple in this early look at the phenomenon of surrogate motherhood, co-starring Scott Glenn.