Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate, who is accidentally shot and killed. His vengeful mother ...
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| Rod Serling | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
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Robert Ginnaven | ... | Father Duane (as Bob Ginnaven) |
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Gary Brockette | ... | Frank Cameron |
| John Leslie | ... | Randy Powell | |
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Tom Haywood | ... | Dave Terrell |
| Fran Franklin | ... | Mrs. Davis | |
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James N. Harrell | ... | Brother Taylor (as Jim Harrell) |
| John Cissne | ... | Johnny Davis | |
| Mary Jane Wilson | ... | Mrs. Wilson | |
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Lyle Armstrong | ... | Second Priest |
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Charles Rumph | ... | Student |
| Kevin Bieberly | ... | Jess | |
| Annabelle Weenick | ... | Mother | |
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Robert Holton | ... | Joe |
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Frank Schaefer | ... | Barber |
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Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate, who is accidentally shot and killed. His vengeful mother forecasts the deaths of the three young men she holds responsible, on 7, 14, and 21 days hence. And, one by one, her grim predictions come true. Next, a ghoulish sound emanates from a mist-shrouded hole in the Earth near where a Missouri boy has lost his dog. The boy's father is lowered into the hole and lets out an agonizing scream! Finally, a senator returning home from a party finds a lost girl on a bridge and learns from her father that she died years earlier! Written by Kevin McCorry <mmccorry@nb.sympatico.ca>
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An incredible journey into the supernatural.Certificate:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
1 November 1975 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Encontros com o Desconhecido See more »Company Credits
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The graveyard scenes were shot on location at the Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas. See more »Goofs
The opening of the film has a roll up of text on screen, like Star Wars and many films do. A narrator, not Rod Serling, is reading the words you see on screen, but about halfway through the roll what the narrator is reading and what is on screen are totally different. One or the other must be from a wrong draft of the script. See more »Quotes
Mrs. Davis: Listen you well to my word. One by land, two by sky. Look to the heptagon for it is there. Seven times around go the three of you and may your reward be just and true.See more »
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Encounter with the Unknown is an anthology of supernatural stories revolving around events which are purported to have actually happened. We have Rod Serling's testimony to that fact, which in the mid-1970's was good enough.
It's Night Gallery meets Legend of Boggy Creek. When Encounter with the Unknown really ramps-up it isn't half bad. But when it's bad, it's really frickin' awful. You fans of bad cinema will eat it up. All of your favorite low-budget elements are here; terrible acting, abysmal dialog, amateurish sound and dubbing, grubby set design and costuming, and best of all, the master of ceremonies, Serling, "phoning it in" as only he could do at the very end of his tenure.
The stories are not really bad at all. This film, had it had the budget it needed would be have been a classic. But it wasn't and so now it struggles to keep the chills coming and laughs to a minimum.