Possessed by the Night

Possessed by the Night (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1994 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Fred Olen Ray

Written By:
Fred Olen Ray
Mark Thomas McGee

Actors:
Shannon Tweed ..... Carol McKay
Ted Prior ..... Howard Hansen
Sandahl Bergman ..... Peggy Hansen
Chad McQueen ..... Gus
Frank Sivero ..... Murray Dunlap
Turhan Bey ..... Calvin
Henry Silva ..... Scott Lindsey
Sigal Diamant ..... Receptionist
Joe Kuroda ..... Mr. Wong
Byron Mann ..... Fok Ping Wong
Melissa Brasselle ..... Trina
Fred Olen Ray ..... Waiter
Amy Rochelle ..... Bikini Woman
Alan Amiel ..... Detective
Elana Shoshan ..... Sheila

Synopsis:

Howard Hansen is a famous novelist who is struggling with his latest book. For inspirations he brings home a bizarre artefact which strangely draws his inner most thoughts and desires to the surface. But while his writing improves his behaviour takes a menancing turn exposing a dark side never known, not even to his wife...until that night's lovemaking turns into a terrifying struggle for sexual dominance.

Exploitation king Fred Olen Ray was well entrenched in his "Erotic Thriller" phase (typified by films like Inner Sanctum) when he turned out this oddball mix of salacious schemes and demonic possession. When creatively blocked horror writer Howard (Ted Prior) buys an oversized jar containing a silly-looking pickled monster from a tiny shop in Chinatown, he quickly falls under the thing's supernatural influence. Not only can he churn out reams of manuscript pages like never before, he also becomes more sexually aggressive -- a change which troubles his reserved wife Peggy (statuesque Sandahl Bergman), particularly after the arrival of sexy blonde live-in secretary Carol (Shannon Tweed, whose presence had become ubiquitous in films of this kind). The plot thickens when we learn that Carol is also conspiring with her partner Murray (Frank Sivero), Howard's greedy agent, to steal his manuscript. Carol soon becomes the puppet of the thing in the jar as well, playing violent sexual games with the couple, terrorizing Peggy at every turn, and ultimately turning on Murray -- leading to a hyper-violent climax which has nearly every character blasting away at his/her co-conspirator with automatic weaponry. Despite the heftier financial backing of Columbia Home Video, this is still exploitation in the classic Ray tradition, filled with the usual bucketloads of nudity and kinky sex, and featuring cameos from such familiar B-movie faces as Ray Silva and Turhan Bey, as well as Kato Kaelin as a busboy in the restaurant scene with Bey.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 14 November, 2006.

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