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3.9/10   26 votes
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Writer:
Joyce Eliason (writer)
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Release Date:
8 September 1991 (USA) more
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Plot:
A doctor and his pregnant young wife move into a small New Mexico town. At first the locals are friendly and pleased to see them, but soon the wife begins to suspect that their new neighbors' motives are more than just hospitality. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Marita Geraghty ... Isabella Larson
Shirley Knight ... Rinda Larson
Peter Kowanko ... Garth Larson
Joseph Runningfox ... Toby Coldcreek

Spalding Gray ... Hobart
Anthony Zerbe ... Lewis Larson
Phil Mead ... Dr. Bob

Janel Moloney ... Janelle Lowry
Sarah Jane Jackson ... Taryn Hatch
James Tarwater ... Dean Hatch
Steven Gregory Tyler ... Det. Wetzel
Elena Parres ... Beautician
Robert Reilly ... Wells
Mary Margaret Lewis ... Helen
Kip Allen ... Anesthesiologist
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Child for Satan (UK)
The Craft (USA) (alternative title)
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96 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Fresh approach for TV horror genre, 12 September 2008
7/10
Author: Linda_S from United States

While, by necessity, made for TV movies tend to formulaic, this entry in the horror genre was remarkably fresh in many ways.

Set in the gorgeous New Mexican rural areas it is a film that touches all the usual buttons but does so in a way that enables lead Anthony Zerbe to showcase something of his prodigious talent.

There is some attention paid to local custom that helps to allow the viewer to forget for a time that he or she is watching a television show and to get some of that ambiance one usually only finds in a theater.

I haven't seen it since it debuted in 1991 and so would like to allow someone who is able to view it to also have the opportunity to do as I did and savor the film's twists and turns without any other description.

Are there better thrillers out there? Of course but this is a little gem from television that we are unlikely to see the likes of again any time soon.

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