Marked for Death is a 1990 action film directed by Dwight H. Little. It stars Steven Seagal as John Hatcher, a former law enforcement agent. Upon moving back to his home town, Hatcher finds it taken over by a gang of vicious Jamaican drug dealers, led by the horrifying Screwface (played by Basil Wallace).

The fight scenes in the film are arguably Seagal's best, integrating heavy elements of aikido, as well as use of weapons and arm dislocations. Seagal supposedly studied Jamaican voodoo rituals in depth to make the film.

Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher (Steven Seagal) has just returned from Colombia, where his partner Chico (Richard Delmonte) was killed in a confrontation with drug dealers, and John killed the dealers who killed Chico. As a result of Chico's death, John has decided to retire.

One night, John and his friend Max (Keith David), a local high school football team's head coach, go to a bar. A gun fight breaks out between local drug dealers and a Jamaican gang called the Jamaican Posse, whose leader is a drug kingpin known as Screwface (Basil Wallace). Hatcher battles a few from both sides, killing some of Screwface's henchmen, before the gunfight ends.

The next day, Screwface and some of his henchmen get revenge by shooting up the house that John, his sister Melissa (Elizabeth Gracen), and Melissa's 12-year-old daughter Tracy (Danielle Harris) live in, and Tracy gets shot. Tracy is hospitalized in critical condition.

Hatcher comes out of retirement to join Max in a battle against Screwface, who later breaks into the Hatcher home and is about to kill Melissa, but Screwface leaves upon Hatcher's arrival. Hatcher now realizes that the only way to stop the Jamaican Posse is to bring down Screwface.

Teaming up with a Jamaican cop named Charles (Tom Wright), who has been trailing Screwface for years, Hatcher and Max head for Jamaica to find Screwface, and in a swordfight, Hatcher kills Screwface by decapitating him.

Back in Chicago, after Charles is killed, with Max holding off the henchmen in a gunfight, Hatcher gets into a fight with Screwface's twin brother, and he kills Screwface by breaking his back followed bydropping him down an elevator shaft. Shortly after the battle, Hatcher leaves carrying Charles's body, with Max limping beside him.