Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action film, for which he proceeds to steal the reels, and leaves the cast and crew in a frenzy.

A lawyer's family is murdered by drug smugglers, and he is beaten and left for dead, but survives although in a coma. When he awakes he only has a partial memory of what happened. In order to find out the real story, he trains with a karate master and becomes a mysterious avenger known as "The Karate Man".

Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.

A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.