Seizure is a 1974

1974 in film

The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...

 surreal

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....

 horror

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...

-thriller film. It is the directorial debut of Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...

, 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

Martine Beswick

Martine Beswick is an English actress and model, best known for her roles in two James Bond films.-Biography:Beswick was born on 26 September 1941 in Port Antonio, Jamaica to English parents....

 as the Queen of Evil, and Hervé Villechaize

Hervé Villechaize

Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French actor who achieved worldwide recognition for his role as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, in the television series Fantasy Island...

 as Spider.

Cast

• Jonathan Frid
  Jonathan Frid
  John Herbert Frid is a theater, television, and film actor, best known for playing the role of vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows.-Early Life:...
  
  
• Martine Beswick
  Martine Beswick
  Martine Beswick is an English actress and model, best known for her roles in two James Bond films.-Biography:Beswick was born on 26 September 1941 in Port Antonio, Jamaica to English parents....
  
  
• Hervé Villechaize
  Hervé Villechaize
  Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French actor who achieved worldwide recognition for his role as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, in the television series Fantasy Island...
  
  
• Troy Donahue
  Troy Donahue
  Troy Donahue was an American actor, who was active between the late 1950s and late 1990s.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Christina Pickles
  Christina Pickles
  Christina Pickles is an English actress, best known for her long-running role of Nurse Helen Rosenthal in the hospital drama St. Elsewhere, for which she was nominated for four Emmys.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Alexis Kirk
  Alexis Kirk
  Alexis Kirk is an American business owner and designer of costume jewelry, fine jewelry, and fashion accessories. He is the owner of a retail organization called Dream Diamonds Online. His work is sold in several countries at retail and at auction. He received a Coty American Fashion Critics' Award...
  
  
• Mary Woronov
  Mary Woronov
  Mary Woronov is an American actress and writer. She is primarily known for her roles in independent and cult films. Woronov has appeared in over 80 movies, as well as numerous appearances in mainstream television series, such as Charlie's Angels and Knight Rider.-Early life:Woronov was born in the...
  
  

Production

Star Mary Woronov

Mary Woronov

Mary Woronov is an American actress and writer. She is primarily known for her roles in independent and cult films. Woronov has appeared in over 80 movies, as well as numerous appearances in mainstream television series, such as Charlie's Angels and Knight Rider.-Early life:Woronov was born in the...

 would later claim that one of the film's producers was gangster

Gangster

A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Some gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from mob and the suffix -ster....

 Michael Thevis, who partially bankrolled the film in an attempt to launder

Money laundering

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 money, as he was under investigation by the FBI.

Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States

United States

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 by Cinerama Releasing Corporation

Cinerama Releasing Corporation

Cinerama Releasing Corporation, or CRC, is a defunct motion picture company established in 1952 that originally released films produced by its namesake parent company for major Hollywood studios Cinerama Releasing Corporation, or CRC, is a defunct motion picture company established in 1952 that...

.

The film was released on VHS

VHS

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

DVD

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