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Release Date • USA: Jan 19, 1990 DVD Release Date • R1: Mar 8, 2004 • R2: 14 Apr 2003
MPAA Rating R
Running Time 1 hour, 25 minutes
Country USA
Studio Concorde Pictures
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Other Titles • Paranoia (1990)
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Genre: Thriller, Horror, Suspense, Cult Classic, Doctor, Mental Illness, Psychos
Tagline: From the writer of the original "Twilight Zone" comes the most terrifying film of the decade.
Plot: The Eunice Corporation is on the ground floor of an exciting industry--memory resculpting. It envisions nationwide clinics where anyone can lose the hang-ups of an unhappy childhood, a failed romance, or a botched career. Dr. Rex Martin (Bill Pullman) is employed there as a neurologist who is trying to find the part of the brain that causes paranoia. He performs an experimental operation on John Halsey (Bud Cort)--a mathematician who went crazy and murdered his family--which eliminates Halsey's paranoia, but once the operation is compete, it appears that the madness has taken over Martin's psyche. Martin then finds himself in an asylum experiencing hallucinations from Halsey's point of
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Way too talky horror film with good actors, no story and lame special effects. Most of the scares early in the film basically involve people accidentally dropping jars of brains.-- (eSplatter.com)
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| Directed by |
Adam Simon
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| Written by |
Charles Beaumont
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 | Bud Cort
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 | George Kennedy
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