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Seizure
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Oliver Stone
Written by	Oliver Stone Edward Mann
Produced by	Garrard Glenn
Starring	Jonathan Frid Martine Beswick Hervé Villechaize
Cinematography	Roger Racine
Edited by	Nobuko Oganesoff Oliver Stone
Music by	Lee Gagnon
Release date	1974
Running time	98 min.
Country	Canada / U.S.A.
Language	English

Seizure is a 1974 surreal horror-thriller film. It is the directorial debut of Oliver Stone, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

Plot

Horror writer Edmund Blackstone (Jonathan Frid) sees his recurring nightmare come to chilling life one weekend as one by one, his friends and family are killed by three villains, led by Martine Beswick as the Queen of Evil, and Hervé Villechaize as Spider.

Cast

Production

Star Mary Woronov would later claim that one of the film's producers was gangster Michael Thevis, who partially bankrolled the film in an attempt to launder money, as he was under investigation by the FBI.

Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States by Cinerama Releasing Corporation.

The film was released on VHS by various video companies in the 1980s including Prism Entertainment. As of 2011, it has never been officially released on DVD.

External links

Seizure at IMDb
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Oliver Stone

Directed

Feature

Seizure (1974)
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Written

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