Summer of Fear
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| Directed by | Wes Craven |
| Produced by | Bill Finnegan Patricia Finnegan |
| Written by | Glenn M. Benest Lois Duncan |
| Starring | Linda Blair Lee Purcell Jeremy Slate |
| Distributed by | Keller Entertainment Group |
| Release date(s) | 31 October 1978 (USA) |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Language | English |
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"Stranger In Our House" is a 1978 television movie, directed by Wes Craven and starring Linda Blair. The movie was filmed in Hidden Hills, California in a gated community. It was first aired on television on NBC on Halloween night 1978. After having great success, it was then sold to CBS, and ultimately was re-titled "Summer of Fear" and given a theatrical release in Europe. It is based on the book called Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan.
[edit] Plot Outline
The story is about a teenage girl, Rachel (Linda Blair), who lives with her wealthy family in a nice house in the hills of Northern California. After her mother's sister, brother-in-law, and housekeeper die in a horrible car crash, the couple's daughter, Julia (Lee Purcell) comes to live with them. Julia seems a little shy if anything, but as time goes on, she begins to put an alluring spell over everyone she meets, pulling all of Rachel's family and friends away from her. After finding some odd things that belong to Julia (including a human tooth and burnt hair from Rachel's dog Trickle (for the movie the dog was changed to a horse due to Blair's love of horses and the name of the horse was Sundance instead of Trickle)), Rachel begins to suspect that her cousin may be a practitioner of witchcraft, and she's hell-bent on turning Rachel's life upside down. Now it's up to Rachel to stop Julia and reveal what she really is to everyone, before it's too late.
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Linda Blair as Rachel Bryant
Lee Purcell as Julia Grant
Jeremy Slate as Tom Bryant
Jeff McCracken as Mike Gallagher
Jeff East as Peter Bryant
Carol Lawrence as Leslie Bryant
Macdonald Carey as Professor Jarvis
James Jarnigan as Bobby Bryant
Fran Drescher as Carolyn Baker
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