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Strange Behavior   1981         R, 98 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery aka: Dead Kids Director: Michael Laughlin   Cast: Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Arthur Dignam, Scott Brady, Charles(2) Lane, Marc McClure, Dey Young, Elizabeth Cheshire, Beryl Te Wiata, Jim Boelsen   A series of gory murders committed by a college town's teenagers seems to have a connection to the university psychology department that is run by Dr. Gwen Parkinson (Fiona Lewis). Sheriff John Brady (Michael Murphy) investigates and, through his son Pete (Dan Shor) who had participated in mind-control experiments, finds that the murders appear to have started when Dr. LeSange (Arthur Dignam) ran the mind-control experiments in Parkinson's psychology department. But, LeSange is dead—or is he?—as Brady is about to find out. Special effects are well-executed. Cast Michael Murphy Sheriff John Brady Louise Fletcher Barbara Moorhead Dan Shor Pete Brady Fiona Lewis Gwen Parkinson Arthur Dignam LeSange Scott Brady Shea Charles(2) Lane Donovan Marc McClure Oliver Dey Young Caroline Elizabeth Cheshire Lucy Beryl Te Wiata Mrs. Haskell Jim Boelsen Waldo