Cameron's Closet (1988)

A father who experiments with his sons psychokinetic powers, is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his sons closet, preparing to take over the young ... See full summary »

Director:

Armand Mastroianni

Writer:

Gary Brandner (screenplay)

Stars:

Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Scott Curtis

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Cotter Smith	...	Sam Talliaferro
Mel Harris	...	Nora Haley
Scott Curtis	...	Cameron
Chuck McCann	...	Ben Majors
Leigh McCloskey	...	Pete Groom
Kim Lankford	...	Dory Lansing
Gary Hudson	...	Bob Froelich
Tab Hunter	...	Owen Lansing
Dort Clark	...	Alan Wilson (as Dort Donald Clark)
David Estuardo	...	Capt. Navarro
Wilson Smith	...	Joe Crespy
Kerry Yo Nakagawa	...	Policeman (as Kerry Nakagawa)
Raymond Patterson	...	Physician
Skip E. Lowe	...	Newscaster
Bond Bradigan	...	Newswoman

Storyline

A father who experiments with his sons psychokinetic powers, is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his sons closet, preparing to take over the young boys soul.

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Plot Keywords:

demon | mayan | psychic

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Taglines:

The nightmare begins when you open the door.

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

UK USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 January 1989 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cameron

Box Office

Budget:

$7,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$136,203 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Smart Egg Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Gorgon Video Magazine (1989)

User Reviews

rubber monster in the closet; good deaths, bad demon

A boy with telekinetic powers, and perhaps other psychic abilities as well as bowl-cut hair lives with his divorced father, a psychic researcher or something. The boy plays in his closet with a He-Man-like action figure, and a odd statuette he calls "Deceptor." His father hears a strange moan, makes an odd phone call to his research partner, and goes upstairs to the boy's room with a machete. He goes into the closet, vandalizes some things, and is in search of something. The machete moves by itself, and the father falls on it, decapitating himself.

The boy goes to live with his mother and her boyfriend. Meanwhile, a police detective who has sleeping problems has a reoccurring nightmare that is bothering him on the job, and is forced to see a shrink. More closet-related bizarre deaths occur. The detective befriends the boy, and the shrink helps him on the case.

The special effects are pretty uneven. The death scenes are fairly good. A pale grinning figure in the closet is pretty spooky. Dead people who reappear as zombies or as a demon appearing like them are pretty well done. The demon exerts its power by psychically dragging someone up a wall, and across a ceiling towards an out-of-control ceiling fan. The demon itself is pretty darn lame, however.