Seizure

Name: Seizure
Genre: Horror
Released: 1974-11-15
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 4.7
Cast: Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola

1974
PG
1h 38m

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4.7/10

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Jonathan Frid portrays a horror novelist who has a recurring nightmare about three figures out of his book who terrorize him and his family and friends during a weekend of fun. Then the dream becomes reality and it never ends.

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Jonathan Frid portrays a horror novelist who has a recurring nightmare about three figures out of his book who terrorize him and his family and friends during a weekend of fun. Then the drea... Read allJonathan Frid portrays a horror novelist who has a recurring nightmare about three figures out of his book who terrorize him and his family and friends during a weekend of fun. Then the dream becomes reality and it never ends...Jonathan Frid portrays a horror novelist who has a recurring nightmare about three figures out of his book who terrorize him and his family and friends during a weekend of fun. Then the dream becomes reality and it never ends...

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Emil Meola and Joseph Sirola in Seizure (1974)

Mary Woronov and Hervé Villechaize in Seizure (1974)

Roger De Koven and Joseph Sirola in Seizure (1974)

Henry Judd Baker and Jonathan Frid in Seizure (1974)

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Trivia
In a 2007 interview with Maitland McDonagh, actress Martine Beswick related that Seizure (1974) was filmed within a lakeside house in Quebec, which also served as housing for the cast and crew to save on hotel costs, as well as to intensify the feeling of claustrophobia sought by director Oliver Stone. The house's plumbing noise would frequently ruin takes, so no one was allowed to use sinks, showers or toilets during shooting. "It was a little hairy, to say the least... everybody was a little crazed. I mean, the moods! The things that happened! And then the drinking. Everybody took to drinking. We'd have gallons of wine. I started making sangria. I became truly the Queen, I really did. I took over; the crew would eat stuff and leave dirty plates all around everywhere. I'm going, 'This cannot work! So I started leaving notes everywhere: 'If you do not clean that I will kill.'

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Gas Station Attendant: I can't take a credit card.
Charlie Hughes: Why?
Gas Station Attendant: They have a counterfeit investigation.
Charlie Hughes: Listen idiot, this is a VIP card.
Gas Station Attendant: Look Jack, I...
Charlie Hughes: No wait a minute, Charles Hughes, not Jack. Did I say my name was Jack?
Gas Station Attendant: Jack, I don't particularly like being called an idiot.
Charlie Hughes: Wait a minute, wait a minute, my name is not Jack. It's Charles Hughes!
Gas Station Attendant: I don't care if your name is Rockefeller; nine dollars and twenty three cents.
Charlie Hughes: No no, not Rockefeller. Hughes, Charles Hughes, do you know what that means? You see that sign up there? I own two percent of that sign. That sign licenses you to sell gasoline. On Monday morning, that sign no longer licenses you to sell gasoline, because I own two percent of that sign, which means I own two percent of you. I don't want my two percent of you, so I'm going to get rid of it now! You understand what I mean? I hope you do, because there's a grade 'B' gasoline station down the road, selling grade 'B' gas to grade 'B' people, maybe you can get a job there fixing flats understand?
Gas Station Attendant: Nine dollars and twenty three cents, cash!
Charlie Hughes: Aha. Here's ten, Big Shot. Keep the change, because you're gonna need it! Remember the name? Hughes!
Gas Station Attendant: Hughes. Charles Hughes. Mr. Hughes? Screw you!

Alternate versions
The UK video, released in 1989, included almost 4 minutes of extra footage

Connections
Featured in Seizure: An Interview with Richard Cox (2014)

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A great debut, not a laughable debut

I don't think any of the people who have commented on this film have seen it. I have the pleasure of buying the original video for this film at $5 (Amazon sell its for a laughable $20), and I wasn't disappointed.

Oliver Stone, the legend, the man, Vietnam Viet, makes his directing debut with this great horror flick about a writer (Jonathan Frid from Dark Shadows), who keeps having his nightmares that he is about to die, along with the rest of his family. This is a great flick, lots of suspense, some gore, and a twist at the end.

I have no doubt this flick inspired movies like "Nightmare On Elm Street" with it's emphasis on evil, illusions and nightmares that come to life.

Very hard to find, but it's well worth.

Oliver Stone can do it all.

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