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The Black Room (1983)

R | | Horror, Thriller | March 1984 (USA)
A room gets put up for rent following the mysterious murder of its previous tenant. When an apartment-hunting man sees the deal the brother and sister landlords are offering, he immediately... See full summary »
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Stephen Knight ...
Jason
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Bridget (as Cassandra Gaviola)
Jimmy Stathis ...
Larry
Clara Perryman ...
Robin
Charlie Young ...
Lisa
Geanne Frank ...
Sandy
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Milly
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Terry
Allisun Kale ...
Jenny
Edwin Avedissian ...
Davie
Sheila Reid ...
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A room gets put up for rent following the mysterious murder of its previous tenant. When an apartment-hunting man sees the deal the brother and sister landlords are offering, he immediately puts down the first month's rent and starts spending his days there, even though he has a home to spend his nights at with his wife. When he comes home, he tells his wife about the fantasies he has of having sex with various women each day in his new apartment. His wife goes along with it for a while, but when she discovers that her husband's stories are much more than just fantasies, she starts to do some investigating. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>

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There is a room for rent in the Hollywood Hills... and the tenants are paying in blood.

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Horror | Thriller

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March 1984 (USA)  »

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Black Room  »

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$250,000 (estimated)
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Made in 1981, but not released until 1983. See more »

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Referenced in Ban the Sadist Videos! Part 2 (2006) See more »

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Dancin To the Music
Written and Sung by Chris Mancini
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weird movie
2 September 2010 | by (Midian) – See all my reviews

Damn, those good old days. This movie is something weird. It is made in 84, full slasher period. But this isn't a slasher, I even don't know were to place it. Face it, the first minutes all you see is nudity. Due the fact that it is an OOP it is even harder to see it unless you live over here in Europe were it became available as an freebee on the Bloodstained Romance DVD, but even that one is a hard to get already. So I thought, is this a soft erotic flick or what, because the cover is a nude girl looking towards a camera. After a while when a person hire a room, the black one, to cheat on his wife it becomes clear what it's all about, but again, first you will have to watch a nude girl dancing and doing weird stuff. It's when the tenant brings his first hooker with him that the film changes into a horror flick. Once his wife gets to know what the black room is it changes a bit into a revenge (sexual) movie. Again, weird scene's are shown, the score is creepy too and more and more you will get to know the why and who about the brother and sister hiring the black room. At the end you will be surprised again about the brother and sister...weird story, strange editing, creepy score ( a lot of delay on voices...). but the other reason why people want to see it is because Linnea Quigley is in it, but she's only 5 minutes in it and stays dressed. Still, worth watching.


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