Seizure (film)

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Seizure
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Oliver Stone
Produced by	Garrard Glenn
Written by	Oliver Stone Edward Mann
Starring	Jonathan Frid Martine Beswick Hervé Villechaize
Music by	Lee Gagnon
Cinematography	Roger Racine
Editing by	Nobuko Oganesoff Oliver Stone
Release dates	1974
Running time	98 min.
Country	Canada / U.S.A.
Language	English

Seizure is a 1974 horror-thriller film. It is the directorial debut of Oliver Stone, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

Plot

Horror writer Edmund Blackstone (Jonathan Frid) sees his recurring nightmare come to chilling life one weekend as one by one, his friends and family are killed by three villains, including Martine Beswick as the Queen of Evil, Hervé Villechaize as the dwarf Spider, and a giant scarfaced strongman called Jackal (Henry Judd Baker).

Cast

Jonathan Frid as Edmund Blackstone
Martine Beswick as Queen of Evil
Joseph Sirola as Charlie
Hervé Villechaize as Spider
Christina Pickles as Nicole Blackstone
Troy Donahue as Mark Frost
Mary Woronov as Mikki Hughes
Henry Judd Baker as Jackal
Alexis Kirk as Arris

Production

Star Mary Woronov would later claim that one of the film's producers was gangster Michael Thevis, who partially bankrolled the film in an attempt to launder money, as he was under investigation by the FBI.

Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States by Cinerama Releasing Corporation.

The film was released on VHS by various video companies in the 1980s including Prism Entertainment. As of 2011, it has never been officially released on DVD.

External links

Seizure at the Internet Movie Database
Seizure at allmovie

Films by Oliver Stone

Films directed

Seizure (1974) The Hand (1981) Salvador (1986) Platoon (1986) Wall Street (1987) Talk Radio (1988) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) The Doors (1991) JFK (1991) Heaven & Earth (1993) Natural Born Killers (1994) Nixon (1995) U Turn (1997) Any Given Sunday (1999) Alexander (2004) World Trade Center (2006) W. (2008) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) Savages (2012)

Documentaries	Persona Non Grata (2003) Comandante (2003) Looking for Fidel (2004) South of the Border (2009) Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (2012)

Screenwriter only

Midnight Express (1978)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Scarface (1983)
Year of the Dragon (1985)
8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
Evita (1996)

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