Spontaneous Combustion

Spontaneous Combustion (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Fantasporto Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Tobe Hooper

Written By:
Tobe Hooper

Actors:
Brad Dourif ..... Sam
Cynthia Bain ..... Lisa Wilcox
Jon Cypher ..... Dr. Marsh
William Prince ..... Lew Orlander
Melinda Dillon ..... Nina
Dey Young ..... Rachel
Tegan West ..... Springer
Michael Keys Hall ..... Dr. Cagney
Dale Dye ..... General
Dick Butkus ..... Lt. General
Joe Mays ..... Dr. Persons
Stacy Edwards ..... Peggy Bell
Brian Bremer ..... Brian Bell
Frank Whiteman ..... Young Orlander
Judy Prescott ..... Student Director

Synopsis:

Spontaneous Combustion is a 1990 American science fiction horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper. It was written by Tobe Hooper and Howard Goldberg, based on a story by Hooper, and is a co-production between Henry Bushkin, Sanford Hampton, Jerrold W. Lambert, Jim Rogers and Arthur M. Sarkissian. Brad Dourif plays the role of Sam, who learns that his parents were part of an atomic bomb experiment. As an adult, Sam discovers he has the power of pyrokinesis. He is able to control fire and electricity but with terrible consequences to his body afterwards. The cast also includes actors Melinda Dillon and Cynthia Bain.

Throughout the 1940s-50s, the barrage of nuclear testing carried out in the United States was something both publicised and hidden at the same time. Most of these experiments and testing sites were kept isolated from the general populous and (for the most part) conducted without the inclusion of human subjects. However, history has revealed this to be a very different story as more and more information about the military's activities during that time has come to light that would have them subjecting men, women and children to irreversible health damage as a result of radioactive playschool. In Tobe Hooper's somewhat ill-fated horror schlock Spontaneous Combustion, the horrors of the atomic age are fused with the supernatural when an adult offspring whose parents were willing guinea pigs in a top secret nuclear project shows his captors what the gods of wrath would do if man were to ever inherit forces of fire.

A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

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