Special Effects

Name: Special Effects
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Released: 1984-11-16
Duration: 106 min
Cast: John Woehrle, Zoë Lund, Kris Evans, H. Richard Greene, Larry Cohen

Mary Jean is just dying to get in the movies… She's about to get her wish.

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Release Date

11/16/1984

Runtime

106 mins

Genres

Horror Thriller Drama

Overview

Reality and illusion collide as megalomaniacal filmmaker Chris Neville murders a young would-be actress, then sets about making a feature about the deed, casting the deceased's clueless husband as the patsy, and finding a dead ringer to play the late actress.

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Released

Original Language

English

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A cold-eyed meditation on the corrosive power of artistic obsession, where a filmmaker's appetite for authenticity metastasizes into sociopathy. It's a razor-sharp critique of cinema itself wrapped in a darkly comic thriller about murder and the performative nature of guilt.