Boardinghouse is a 1982

1982 in film

-Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...

 horror film

Horror film

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 written, directed and starring John Wintergate.

Plot

On September 18, 1972, the Hoffman house was closed due to several mysterious deaths. Ten years later, the house is reopened as a boarding house by a man with telekinetic powers who inherited it. A group of nubile young women quickly move in and the killings begin all over again.

Cast

• John Wintergate as Jim Royce/Gardner (as Hawk Adly)
• Kalassu as Victoria
• Alexandra Day as Debbie Hoffman
• Joel Riordan as Joel Weintraub
• Brian Bruderlin as Richard
• Selma Kora as Sandy
• Tracy O'Brian as Suzie
• Mary McKinley as Cindy
• Rosane Woods as Gloria
• Cindy Williamson as Pam
• Christopher Conlan as Christopher
• Elizabeth Hall as Terri
• Tom Mones as The Agent
• Dean Dissico as Harris
• Elliot Van Koghbe as Officer Weston

Production

Boardinghouse is notable for being the first horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 to be shot on video.

The film also used a movie gimmick

Movie gimmick

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 titled Horror Vision, wherein a warning would pop up on the screen to let audiences know that a violent scene was happening soon.

Release

Despite being a shot-on-video project, the movie was transferred to film and given a limited release

Limited release

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 theatrically in the United States

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 by Coast Films in 1983. It was later released on VHS

VHS

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 by Paragon Video Productions.

The film was officially released on special edition

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 DVD

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 by Code Red DVD in 2008. This version is currently out of print

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