never balked about anything. I put him in a silver suit, and put him through a lot. A lot of other actors would have thought that was beneath them, but he wasn’t like that." Miller said Stephen Furst's character was like Andy Devine. The story that Furst's character tells Norris about the dog came from Furst. Filming began on July 30, 1981 in Dallas. It took 30 days. Director Michael Miller called the film "kung fu meets Frankenstein." Miller says Norris was most comfortable fighting. The actor improvised a love scene with Toni Kalem, "and that was a big deal for him," said Miller. "I said, “Just talk and have fun,” I told him. He did, and it’s a nice little scene." Release Home media The film was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 2001. Streaming RiffTrax released Silent Rage on demand on September 6, 2013. Reception Box office The film was released theatrically in the United States by Columbia Pictures in April 1982. It grossed $10,490,791 at the box office. Critical response On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 80% based on 5 reviews, with an average rating of 5.06/10. On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 31 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Variety wrote that the film "seems as if it were made with a demographics sampler entitled '10 Sleazy Ways To Cash In On The Exploitation Market.' The only trouble is the filmmakers have employed all ten techniques in one picture. The result is a combination horror-kung-fu-oater-woman-in-peril-mad-scientist film with more unintentional laughs than probably appear possible in the space of 100 minutes." John Corry of The New York Times thought that the only interesting scenes are those with the mad scientists, as Norris has "no screen presence to speak of." Rita Kempley of The Washington Post called Norris' martial arts "a curious footnote in a formula horror film". Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times praised the "shrewd, witty script." Richard Christiansen of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "As in 'Jackson County Jail,' his 1976 sleeper hit, Miller has given some inventive, energetic touches to a crude formula film. He doesn't deal in sophisticated material, but he's surprisingly sophisticated in the way he handles his raw material." Jimmy Summers wrote in BoxOffice magazine, "How