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Complete, Cast awaiting verification
Ayn Ruymen | ... |
Cheryl Stratton
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Lucille Benson | ... |
Aunt Martha Atwood
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John Ventantonio | ... |
George Atwood
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Laurie Main | ... |
Reverend Moon
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Stanley Livingston | ... |
Jeff
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Charles Woolf | ... |
Jeff's Dad
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Ann Gibbs | ... |
Judy Adams
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Len Travis | ... |
Mike
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Dorothy Neumann | ... |
Mrs. Quigley
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Gene Simms | ... |
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John Lupton | ... |
Second Policeman
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Patrick Strong | ... |
Artie
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Paul Bartel | ... |
Man in Park (uncredited)
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John Dennis | ... |
Man talking to George in park (uncredited)
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Directed by
Paul Bartel |
Written by
Philip Kearney | ... | (original screenplay) and |
Les Rendelstein | ... | (original screenplay) |
Paul Bartel | ... | () (uncredited) |
Produced by
John B. Bennett | ... | associate producer |
Gene Corman | ... | producer |
Music by
Hugo Friedhofer |
Cinematography by
Andrew Davis |
Editing by
Morton Tubor |
Production Design by
John Retsek |
Costume Design by
Liz Manny |
Production Management
Donald Heitzer | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Arne Schmidt | ... | assistant director |
Sound Department
Jeff Wexler | ... | sound |
Morton Tubor | ... | sound editor (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
Tak Fujimoto | ... | first assistant camera (uncredited) |
Fred Goodich | ... | still photographer (uncredited) |
Skip Karnas | ... | best boy (uncredited) |
Melton Maxwell | ... | gaffer (uncredited) |
Jim Morris | ... | dolly grip (uncredited) |
Jor Van Kline | ... | grip (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Premier Productions (1972) (United States) (theatrical)
- MGM-EMI (1973) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- MGM Home Entertainment (1985) (West Germany) (VHS)
- MGM Home Entertainment (1987) (Israel) (VHS)
- Audio Visual Enterprises (1989) (Greece) (VHS)
- MGM Home Entertainment (1991) (United States) (VHS)
- Turner Entertainment Group (1991) (United States) (tv) (syndication)
- Warner Home Video (2005) (United States) (DVD)
- Scream Factory (2023) (United States) (Blu-ray)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Modern Film Effects (opticals)
- Modern Film Effects (titles)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
After a falling out with her roommate Judy Adams, a friend from home and her only real friend in Los Angeles, Cheryl Stratton, a teenaged runaway from Cleveland, searches out the Kingston Hotel, operated by her maternal Uncle Orville and Aunt Martha Atwood neither who she's ever met but of who she's only heard stories, for a place to stay temporarily instead of going home. In Cheryl finding the rundown hotel and her uncle long deceased, seemingly puritanical Aunt Martha reluctantly allows Cheryl to stay for a few days. Cheryl, who tries to be more grown up emotionally than she actually is, is ill-prepared for living at the Kingston, being scared not only of the things that go bump in the night, but those that go bump in the day as well. After meeting a few of the rather odd cast of long term residents of the hotel, Cheryl discovers that one of them anonymously has an interest in her and is thus watching her. In Cheryl secretly going on a search for her admirer, one-by-one she discovers some of the many secrets of the hotel, but not the full meaning behind those secrets. As she befriends fifteen year old Jeff from the neighborhood, he who has some history with former resident Alice Rogers, Cheryl, growing up quicker than Aunt Martha would like, may stumble onto the meaning of those secrets, but perhaps after it's too late. Written by Huggo |
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Taglines | A most bizarre voyage into the psycho sexual! See more » |
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Parents Guide | View content advisory » |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | Cheryl (Ayn Ruymen) yells "Alice doesn't live here anymore!," two years before, when the completely unrelated movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) was released. See more » |
Goofs | Immediately after Whitey the rat dies, its dead body is totally stiff. It would take a few hours for rigor mortis to set in for a rat, not immediately as is shown. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Celluloid Bloodbath: More Prevues from Hell (2012). See more » |
Quotes |
Cheryl Stratton:
Alice doesn't live here anymore! See more » |