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September 1981 (USA) more
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The unknown brings terror. The UNSEEN ... DEATH more
Plot:
A trio of Female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile 'being' known only The Unseen. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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Kinda creepy, kinda eerie -- I liked it. So sue me. more (24 total)

Cast

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Stephen Furst ... 'Junior' Keller (The Unseen)

Barbara Bach ... Jennifer Fast
Sydney Lassick ... Ernest Keller
Lelia Goldoni ... Virginia Keller
Karen Lamm ... Karen Fast
Douglas Barr ... Tony Ross
Lois Young ... Vicki Thompson
Maida Severn ... Solvang Lady
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Spain:90 min | UK:83 min | USA:89 min
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Director 'Danny Stienmann' was upset with the final cut of the film because it missed most of the major scares. This is why he had his name removed from the credits. more
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Ernest Keller: I wonder what junior's fate would be... I wonder... Seems obvious to me my dear they would not treat him so kindly. He would suffer greatly more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Lo squartatore di New York (1982) more

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5 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
Kinda creepy, kinda eerie -- I liked it. So sue me., 18 May 2003
Author: BillyBC from Vancouver

(*** out of *****)

Barbara Bach plays a TV reporter who goes to the quaint, seaside town of Soveg, California with two of her female newscaster friends to cover an annual Danish festival. Unfortunately, the three attractive ladies choose to spend the night in an old house outside of town inhabited by a seemingly kind man (character actor Sydney Lassick -- the constantly agitated `Charlie Cheswick' from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), his nervous sister (Lelia Goldoni), and the product of their incestuous affair -- a disfigured, murderous man-child they keep locked in the cellar. This is actually an interesting and creepy little thriller with decent writing, beautiful on-location scenery, and a few scary sequences that'll get under your skin. It's kind of similar in tone and plot to Denny Harris's "The Silent Scream" from the same year. Karen Lamm and Lois Young play Bach's unlucky friends and Stephen Furst plays the adorable, slobbering lady-killer, Junior.

HIGHLIGHT: That irrepressible little stinker Junior, God love ‘im, gets a hold of poor, pretty Karen's (or is it Vicki's?) -- played by Lamm (or Young -- hell, one or the other) -- necklace and pulls her right through the floor vent.

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