This is the film that introduced to the dark, mysterious, and beautiful world of low-budget exploitation/action/horror films when I first saw a chunk of it in November 2004 on AMC. Dark, eerie, slimy, and with a fantasticly 80s soundtrack and fantasticly 80s set of thugs, this film is a classic.
It's also the film that introduced me to my cinema hero Charles Bronson. The whole series is awesome, and each film has a very distinct and different feel, from the early 70s urban jungle of DW1, the early-80s and evil-feeling DW2, the still-bleak feel of DW3, the very different feel of DW4, to the low-budget 90s mobster feel of DW5.