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The Deadly Spawn
Why this pick
A proudly scrappy, slime-soaked creature feature with a small community under siege, practical monster effects, and the same drive-in-era blend of gore, weird science and local panic.
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MOVIE1983 1h 21m USA
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Without Warning
Why this pick
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The Curse
Why this pick
Poisoned land, alarming mutations and a family caught in rural paranoia give it the same mutant-ecology flavor and earnest small-town horror atmosphere.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the fictional town of Pottsville, Idaho citizens begin disappearing. Young Michael Smith, son of Marge Smith (Dorothy Malone) is the first to vanish. A young man is decapitated while fleeing from an unseen assailant, and patrons in a drive-in theater are brutally murdered inside their vehicles. At each scene a pile of green slime is found. Wanting to get to the bottom of the disappearances but afraid that the publicity might damage the town's potato business, Mayor Gordon Lane (José Ferrer) hires Chemical engineer Garcon Jones (Martin Landau) to investigate. Also investigating the disappearances is Detective Mortimer Lutz (Bill Osco), who senses that something terrible has befallen the town.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kinky Friedman
Willis
Johnny Dark
John
Kent Perkins
Officer Dudley
Jerry Maren
Monster
Richard Marcus
Joe the Lab Assistant
Ruth Buzzi
Virginia Lane
Martin Landau
Garson Jones
Marianne Gordon
Laurie