The Vindicator (also known as Frankenstein '88 and known in Brazil as Roboman) is a 1986 Canadian science fiction film directed by Jean-Claude Lord.

[2] Its plot involves a man who was killed in an accident in a laboratory, but revived as part of an experiment as a cyborg.

[1][3] Carl Lehman is a scientist working on a next-generation space suit for the ARC corporation in a high-tech secret lab, run by the sinister Alex Whyte.

After the remote control unit is removed, a short circuit causes Carl to suddenly come back to life.

Realizing that the rage program forbids close contact with people, Carl talks to his wife from outside their house using radio signals and a faulty synthesizer in their living room.

Whyte, fearing a police investigation of Project Frankenstein, hires the elite assassin Hunter to track down and eliminate Carl.

Carl learns that Massey signed his autopsy report and death certificate, and sets out to confront him.

At his home, secured by Hunter's forces, Massey is snorting cocaine and evicting his girlfriend Lisa when Carl appears to interrogate him.

Carl defends himself by ripping open a gas line and manages to incinerate Hunter's men as well as Kessler, then escapes.

Whyte sends the block of resin to ARC, but Carl's strength prevails and he breaks out during transport.

At ARC, Carl manages to evade the security cameras for some time, so Hunter goes on the intercom and threatens to kill Lauren unless he comes to the laboratory to bargain for her.

There, Hunter throws Lauren onto Carl to provoke him, but he does not go into a rage, since he reprogrammed himself in the computer room while the cameras were not monitoring him.

Carl and Lauren get to Whyte, who has continued his experiment by turning the corpses of Gail and Kessler into cyborgs and has programmed them to protect him.

[1] Janis L. Pallister in her survey of Quebecker cinema calls The Vindicator "tedious", noting a strong influence from the earlier films of David Cronenberg.