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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Jack Sholder (story) &
Robert Shaye (story) ...
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Release Date:
12 November 1982 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Too frightened to breathe... more
Plot:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
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When Character Actors Attack! more (57 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jack Palance ... Frank Hawkes

Donald Pleasence ... Dr. Leo Bain

Martin Landau ... Byron 'Preacher' Sutcliff
Dwight Schultz ... Dr. Dan Potter
Erland van Lidth ... Ronald 'Fatty' Elster
Deborah Hedwall ... Nell Potter
Lee Taylor-Allan ... Toni Potter
Phillip Clark ... Tom Smith / Skaggs
Elizabeth Ward ... Lyla Potter
Brent Jennings ... Ray Curtis
Gordon Watkins ... Detective Burnett
Carol Levy ... Bunky
Keith Reddin ... Billy

Annie Korzen ... Marissa Hall

Lin Shaye ... Receptionist at Haven
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Additional Details

Runtime:
92 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:(Banned) (Ontario) | Canada:R (Ontario -- Re-rated 1992) | Finland:(Banned) (1984) (heavily cut) | Finland:(Banned) (1984) (cut) | Finland:K-18 (2006) (self applied) | Italy:VM14 | Australia:M | Norway:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | Iceland:(Banned)
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Makeup effects artist Tom Savini was brought in specifically to create the horrific monster apparition that Toni has. Savini achieved the startling effect by covering an actor in a concoction of soap and rice krispies. more
Quotes:
Byron 'Preacher' Sutcliffe: I like the hat! more
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Referenced in The House That Freddy Built (2006) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Rock Or Die more

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9 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
When Character Actors Attack!, 19 February 2002
Author: zmaturin from Arkham Asylum

Hey, in this movie The A-Team's "Howlin' Mad" Murdock is the SANE one, being terrorized by crazy Oscar winners Martin Landau and Jack Palance while a trippy Donald Pleasance wanders around in an opium haze in this acceptable horror movie that features a few poorly-directed "suspence" sequences, a terrible stage show by "The Sic F*cks" complete with big cardboard axes, a hot sex scene featuring a character called "Bunky", some bad eighties fashions, a brief appearance by a Tom Savini-designed ghoul, a mailman getting run down by a stoner van, the "tongue excersizes" woman from "Kingpin", a killer in a hockey mask, a cool rioting scene, a guy broken over another guy's knee, crossbow-killings, and a lovable big fat child moleser.

So why not?

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