Brainstorm 1983 PG, 106 min. Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Douglas Trumbull Cast: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, Alan Fudge, Georgianne Walken, Bill Morey, Joe Dorsey, Jason Lively, Jordan Christopher, Donald Hotton, Darrell Larson, Lou Walker, John Hugh, Stacey Kuhne-Adams
Special effects are outstanding in this sci-fi story about what happens when an invention that sends sensory inputs into the brain ends up in the wrong hands. Scientists Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace (Louise Fletcher and Christopher Walken) have been experimenting with their invention that can record sights, sounds, and feelings after the brain receives sensory messages. Michael uses the invention to get closer to his estranged wife Karen (Natalie Wood), and others begin to abuse it. Representing the government, Alex Terson (Cliff Robertson) steps in to take over the project. Problems ensue, and, after one worker tapes the experience of his own death, Michael is determined to play back the tape to honor his memory.
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Buried Alive 1990 TV, 93 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Frank Darabont Cast: Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Hoyt Axton, Jay Gerber, Wayne Grace, Donald Hotton, Brian Libby, Peg Shirley, David Youse, Jan Merlin, Dale Swann, James Scally, Milt Hamerman, Michael Keep
Joanna (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is running around on her husband Clint (Tim Matheson). She decides to kill him for the insurance. The deed is done, but the poison didn't work, and Clint wakes up in, luckily, a cheap coffin. After freeing himself, he, of course, seeks revenge. Made for cable TV.
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The Hearse 1980 PG, 100 min. Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
Director: George Bowers Cast: Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Donald Hotton, Med Flory, Donald Petrie, Perry Lang, Nicholas Shields, Christopher McDonald, Allison Balson, Fred Franklyn, Olive Dunbar, Al Hansen, Dominic Barto, Chuck Mitchell
Jane (Trish Van Devere) is a young teacher who inherits a mansion from her aunt. She moves in and doesn't understand why her neighbors do not like her until she learns that they believe her aunt was possessed by the devil, and she looks like her aunt. Jane is frightened–especially when she becomes the potential object of destruction by a hearse and its eerie driver that keep appearing at her door.
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One Dark Night 1983 PG, 89 min. Genre: Horror
Director: Tom McLoughlin Cast: Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans, Leslie Speights, Donald Hotton, Elizabeth Daily, David Mason Daniels, Adam West, Leo Gorcy, Jr., Kevin Peter Hall
As part of her initiation challenge, Julie (Meg Tilly) must spend the night in a mausoleum. On this particular night, the ghost of a dead man with telekinetic powers releases a show of horrors involving coffins and decaying bodies to scare Julie.
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| 1. Brainstorm (1983)
2. Buried Alive (1990)
3. The Hearse (1980)
4. One Dark Night (1983)
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