Tuesday, October 3, 2023: Don’t Look Away Premieres Today on VOD

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It doesn’t move, it doesn’t think, it just kills. For one young woman, a chance encounter with this supernatural entity proves devastating. Frankie learns that once you see the mannequin, there may be no end in sight, except for your own.

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023: Talk to Me Premieres Today on VOD

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When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

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#Captured (2017) Available October 17

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A group of privileged high school kids run an illicit chat room where they livestream their drug fueled sex parties to paying viewers on the internet. Little do they know there’s a murderous zealot on a mission to rid the internet of sin.

STARRING: Lizze Gordon, Gabrielle Romanello, Megan Medellin

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It Came From Outer Space (1953) (Steelbook) (Import) Available October 13

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Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) raced to the Arizona desert site of the meteor strike that he witnessed… and was stunned to discover a crashed UFO. Unfortunately, a subsequent landslide buried the evidence, and everyone he tried to warn dismissed him as a crackpot. Will they listen when locals start being replaced by shape-shifting extraterrestrials? Fifties sci-fi classic adapted from the Ray Bradbury story co-stars Barbara Rush, Russell Johnson, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer. Not in 3D. 80 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Limited edition includes film cell replica and artcards. Region Free

STARRING: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson

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Terrifier 2 (2022) Available October 10

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After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to the timid town of Miles County where he targets a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night.

STARRING: Lauren LaVera, David Howard Thornton, Elliott Fullam

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Identikit (1974) Available October 10

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In what remains the most obscure, bizarre and wildly misunderstood film of her entire career – and perhaps even ’70s Italian cinema – Elizabeth Taylor stars as a disturbed woman who arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.

Academy Award nominee Ian Bannen (The Offence), Mona Washbourne (The Collector) and Andy Warhol co-star in this “unique, hallucinatory neo noir” (Cult Film Freaks) – barely released in America as The Driver’s Seat – directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore), adapted from the unnerving novella by Muriel Spark (The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie) and featuring cinematography by three-time Oscar winner Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor), now restored in 4K by Cinematheque of Bologna and Severin Films.

STARRING: Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Mona Washbourne, Andy Warhol

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Zombie Holocaust (1980) (4K Ultra HD) (Import) Available October 6

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Released in a re-edited form in the U.S. as “Doctor Butcher, M.D.,” Marino Girolami’s infamous cannibal shocker is set on a remote Pacific island. A team of Americans investigating sacrificial rites is attacked by flesh-eating natives and a mad scientist conducting transplant experiments to build an army of the living dead. Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli, and Donald O’Brien star. AKA: “Island of the Last Zombies,” “Queen of the Cannibals.” 90 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Italian; Subtitles: English. In Italian with English subtitles. Region Free

STARRING: Sherry Buchanan, Peter O’Neal, Donald O’Brien, Alexandra Cole, Ian McCullough

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The Wicker Man (1973) (50th Anniversary All-Region 4K Ultra HD) (Import) Available October 6

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A puritan Police Sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the Pagan locals claim never existed.

STARRING: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento

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Eden Log (2007) (Import) Available October 6

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A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other option to reach the surface than to use REZO ZERO, secret observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine. He embarks upon this journey guided by the roots of a plant, leading the way and the main subject of attention of the REZO.

STARRING: Clovis Cornillac, Vimala Pons, Zohar Wexler

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Psycho (1960) (Collection Includes Poster, Postcards, and Book) (Import) Available October 6

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Three-disc set includes: Psycho (1960) Arguably Alfred Hitchcock’s most popular film, this classic chiller, based on Robert Bloch’s novel, is still making people terrified of showers. On the run after stealing $40,000 from her boss, secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) has a fateful encounter with creepy mama’s-boy hotel clerk Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). Just what is Norman’s sinister secret? And whatever happened to Mrs. Bates? With Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam; score by Bernard Herrmann. 109 min. BW/Rtg: NR Psycho II (1983) Norman Bates is back in the shocking follow-up to Hitchcock’s classic thriller. Released from a mental hospital after 22 years, Norman (Anthony Perkins) returns to the Bates family mansion where he’s tormented by memories of his “mother.” And when the murders start up again, Norman is the obvious suspect. But is he really to blame? Co-stars Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, and Dennis Franz star. 113 min. C/Rtg: R Psycho III (1986) Anthony Perkins directed and stars in this second sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s chiller. After re-opening the Bates Motel and hiring a brutally misogynistic assistant, Norman befriends a former nun (who eerily resembles shower victim Marion Crane) while dodging a journalist seeking to report on his past murders. But when he begins hearing his mother’s voice, his delicate grip on reality once again starts slipping away. With Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey, Roberta Maxwell. 93 min. C/Rtg: R Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) A supposedly cured Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is married and expecting a baby, but still worries that he’ll pass his mental illness on to his unborn child. Seeking closure, Bates calls a radio talk show and relates the story of his troubled childhood. Henry Thomas stars as teenaged Norman, and Olivia Hussey is his mother Norma, whose strange behavior bizarre relationship with her son drove the young man to murder. With CCH Pounder, Warren Frost, Donna Mitchell, and John Landis. 96 min. C/Rtg: R Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English. Limited edition includes a poster, postcards, and a book. Region Free

STARRING: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

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Rabid Grannies (1988) [Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray Promo Trailer]

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Elizabeth and Victoria Remington are two sweet, elderly ladies who are looking forward to celebrating their shared birthday with their family at their enormous country mansion. Little do they realize that their obnoxious relatives – which include a freeloading playboy, an unscrupulous arms dealer, a brash condom manufacturer and a terse lesbian magazine editor – are only interested in keeping in their aunts’ good graces in the hopes of inheriting their vast wealth. The festivities are not long underway when a strange and sinister woman appears at the gates to deliver an unexpected gift from an estranged member of the family – a mysterious, engraved wooden box, which, when opened, instantly transforms the two old dears into ravenous, flesh-hungry hags! The terrified partygoers scatter throughout the mansion as, one by one, they meet a fittingly gruesome end at the clawed hands of the ghoulish geriatrics.

One of the few feature-length horror movies to emerge from Belgium in the 1980s, Emmanuel Kervyn’s Rabid Grannies was a passion project for producer Johan Vandewoestijne (who had previously helmed the corpse-loving serial killer shocker Lucker the Necrophagus), and serves as the Flemish answer to the early splatter films of Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Dead Alive). Packed with histrionic performances, gloriously atrocious dubbing and wall-to-wall gore gags – including head chomping, bodies slammed into railings, copious limbs being lopped off and even a spot of child mutilation, all served up via ultra stylized photography and with a deliciously black comedic streak. Most often seen in a heinously edited version which removed much of its over-the-top gore, the black sheep of boutique film distribution, Vinegar Syndrome, have seen fit to resurrect RABID GRANNIES for its uncut Blu-ray premiere, now newly restored in 4K from original 35mm film elements – and appearing in its longest version ever released in the US – complete with a wealth of both new and archival extras, including a feature-length documentary about the history of Flemish horror.

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Born to Raise Hell Trailer

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Based on true, cold-blooded crimes of thrill killer Richard Speck.

1966 Chicago, a fiendish criminal on a bender makes his way into a female dormitory, where a group of unsuspecting nursing students come face to face with pure evil. Based on the true crimes of cold-blooded thrill killer Richard Speck.

What to Watch | October #FearFest | Stream on Shudder

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Check out what’s in store during this year’s #FearFest and prepare to be Shocked by Shudder.

We’ve got lots of thrills on the way, including all-new seasons of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula and Creepshow.

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Blood Sucking Freaks (1976) [Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Promo Trailer]

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Sardu, with the help of his dwarf servant Ralphus, operates New York’s most controversial theatre, Sardu’s Theatre of the Macabre, where each performance is an expertly staged display of gruesome acts of torture. Divisive as his take on “entertainment” might be, arrogant theatre critic, Creasy Silo, is having none of it and makes it his mission to put an end to Sardu’s grisly “dramas.” However, what audiences and critics alike do not realize is that each of these shocking shows is completely real; with innocent nude women being maimed and murdered live on stage! When Sardu sets his eyes on beautiful ballerina Natasha, he’s immediately smitten and determines that she must “star” in his next production, whether she wants to or not, and that her stage partner will be none other than Creasy Silo…

A foundational film in establishing legendary genre cinema distributor, Troma Entertainment, Joel M. Reed’s masterpiece of gore-fueled debauchery, Blood Sucking Freaks (aka Sardu, Master of the Screaming Virgins), remains one of the most notorious, disgusting, shocking, perverse, and outrageously funny cult horror films to emerge from the sick and twisted 1970s. Starring acclaimed Shakespearian actor, Seamus O’Brien as the fiendish Sardu and Luis De Jesus (Let My Puppets Come) as the equally deranged Ralphus, and featuring a host of New York’s top sex starlets as the demented duo’s assorted victims, Vinegar Syndrome is thrilled to present the world 4K UHD debut of the fully uncut version of Blood Sucking Freaks, exclusively restored from the best surviving film elements and presented with a consummate selection of extras.

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The Day of the Locust Original Trailer (John Schlesinger, 1975)

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Academy Award-winner John Schlesinger (Marathon Man) reunites with Midnight Cowboy screenwriter Waldo Salt (Coming Home), a victim of the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, to adapt Nathanael West’s acid satire of Hollywood decadence and broken dreams.

Painter Tod Hackett (William Atherton, Looking For Mr. Goodbar), working in the art department of a movie studio during the 1930s ‘golden age’ of Hollywood, falls in unrequited love with aspiring starlet Faye Greener (Karen Black, Five Easy Pieces). He competes for her affections against other men: a pair of cowboys (Bo Hopkins, American Graffiti and Pepe Serna, Scarface), and a forlorn accountant (Donald Sutherland, Invasion of the Body Snatchers). As Faye’s career fails to take her beyond roles as an extra, her life becomes increasingly desperate and her relationships with men take a darker turn, reaching fever pitch at a red-carpet movie premiere that explodes into barbaric chaos.

A bitter critique of tinsel-town’s empty promises and the lost souls cheated by them, featuring lush, dreamlike cinematography by Conrad Hall (In Cold Blood), and stunning performances by its talented cast, The Day of the Locust remains a relevant and shattering experience.

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Mother’s Day (1980) [Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Promo Trailer]

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Every year, former college roommates Jackie, Abbey and Trina take turns organizing a mystery getaway for the three of them. This year it’s Jackie’s turn, and she’s chosen a weekend of camping in New Jersey’s Deep Barons. Despite ominous warnings from a local shopkeeper, the young women set off into the wilderness with high spirits, and it’s not long before they’re skinny dipping in the nearby lake and generally making the most of the great outdoors – blissfully unaware that they’re being watched. As the friends settle in for the night, they’re suddenly attacked by a pair of sadistic brothers, Ike and Addley, who drag them in their sleeping bags back to their dilapidated house in the middle of the woods to meet Mother… who turns out to be even more sick and twisted than they are. Subjected to violence, torture and assault beyond their worst nightmares, the women are forced to channel their inner savages in a desperate bid to fight back against these backwoods degenerates.

One of the earliest and best films to come from the then-burgeoning slasher wave, Charles Kaufman’s Mother’s Day pre-empted (and arguably transcended) the Friday the 13th-era bodycount craze of the early 1980s with this smart and perversely humorous subversion of the slasher template, which is as intent on unsettling the viewer with its scenes of bloody carnage (which led to the film becoming banned in the United Kingdom) as it is with delivering a biting satire of consumerism and pop culture. Now restored in 4K from its original 35mm camera negative by the backwoods dwellers at Vinegar Syndrome, fans can celebrate Mother’s Day all over again with this UHD world premiere, packed with archival material and a shockingly extensive array of brand new bonus features sure to make any mother proud!

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Mark of the Devil (1970) [Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Promo Trailer]

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In the midst of the European witch trials, a small Austrian town is subject to the sadistic whims of self-appointed witchfinder Albino, who inflicts torture and agonizing death on those he accuses of conspiracy with the Devil. But when the zealous Lord Cumberland arrives, along with his executioner and aristocratic young attendant Christian, to take over the responsibility of local witch-hunting, the town is plunged into even greater depths of terror and depravity as he metes out ever more brutal tortures on the populace, all in the name of God. As Lord Cumberland’s maniacal practices reach a fever pitch, and Christian’s would-be love interest, Vanessa, ends up as his latest target, Christian is thrown into a crisis of faith, as the perilous edge of violence draws ever closer.

The result of an intensely troubled production which saw British writer/director Michael Armstrong (House of the Long Shadows) virtually at war with producer, famed Austrian actor Adrian Hoven (Kiss Me Monster), MARK OF THE DEVIL became an immediate international hit, generating equal parts acclaim and condemnation, with the film being banned in the United Kingdom and promoted in the U.S. by infamous distributor Hallmark Releasing with vomit bags and the slogan “Rated V for Violence!” Featuring the first starring role for future genre icon Udo Kier (Flesh for Frankenstein), the film set a new benchmark for onscreen bloodshed with its graphic and unflinching portrayal of torture and dismemberment, culminating in the much-talked about tongue-ripping scene. Vinegar Syndrome is delighted to present the UHD world premiere of MARK OF THE DEVIL, restored in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative, in this extras-packed edition that’s sure to shock and appall moral crusaders everywhere!

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Scream (3-Movie 4K Ultra HD Collection) Available October 3

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Director Wes Craven’s original trilogy of terror—the blockbuster Scream franchise—comes to 4K Ultra HD in this must-have collection featuring two full-length documentaries and packed with special features. The shocks start with the original Scream, in which dedicated scary movie fanatics become the target of a masked killer soon to be known throughout their town as “Ghostface.” In the even bloodier Scream 2, Sidney Prescott thought she’d finally put the terror behind her… until a copycat killer begins acting out a real-life sequel in which no one is safe, or beyond suspicion. In Scream 3, forget the rules—all bets are off. The insidious game of horror movie mayhem relocates from Woodsboro to Hollywood with surprising twists and turns.

STARRING: Courteney Cox, David Arquette

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It Came From Outer Space (1953) (4K Ultra HD) Available October 3

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Based on a story by acclaimed writer Ray Bradbury, It Came from Outer Space starring Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush is a science fiction classic that is as thought-provoking and tantalizing today as it was when it first “landed” on the silver screen. When amateur astronomer John Putnam (Carlson) and his fiancée Ellen Fields (Rush) are stargazing in the desert, a spaceship bursts from the sky and crashes to the ground. Just before a landslide buries the ship, a mysterious creature emerges and disappears into the darkness. Of course, when he tells his story to the sheriff (Charles Drake), John is branded a crackpot. Before long, strange things begin to happen, but will the tide of disbelief turn in time?

STARRING: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson

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The Slaughter (2022) Available October 3

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A group of friends stumble across an old film featuring a masked murder. But the horror becomes real when they find themselves pursued by the same killer in real life.

STARRING: Tashi Higgins, Janice Quinol, Samuel Kay

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Vile (2011) Available October 24

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NO PAIN, NO GAIN.

A group of strangers find themselves imprisoned in a house. Unsure of why they are there or who is behind it, they are soon enlightened by a video advising them there is a way out. But the threshold they must cross in order to escape is one of excruciating pain and – in the face of torture – not everyone is willing to play by the newly created rules, as they are soon ripped apart by infighting, secret alliances, double-crosses and shattering outbursts of violence, and with the clock ticking down, the “one for all” mentality devolves. Just how far will each of them go to survive?

In the tradition of “Saw”, “Hostel” and “The Collector”, VILE marks the directorial debut of Taylor Sheridan (“Yellowstone”, Sicario, Wind River, Hell or High Water, “Tulsa King”), the feature writing debut of Eric Beck (“Yellowstone”) and stars April Matson (“Kyle XY”), Greg Cipes (“Teen Titans”), Ian Bohen (“Teen Wolf”, “Yellowstone”) and Heidi Mueller & McKenzie Westmore (from the NBC soap opera “Passions”), in this “tense, emotional, and gut wrenching” (HorrorNews.net) independent horror that’s destined to become a cult classic!

STARRING: April Matson, Akeem Smith, Greg Cipes, Eric Beck, Elisha Skorman

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Caddy Hack (2023) Available October 24

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A struggling golf course suffers a string of caddy murders at the paws of pesticide-mutated gofers, while the greedy owner of the facility tries to cover up the carnage and an unhinged groundkeeper wages all out war on the vicious vermin.

STARRING: Ilene Sullivan, Jim Gordon, Jake Foy, Chrissy Cavallo, Nick Twist

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The Others (2001) (The Criterion Collection) Available October 24

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A remote manor; hushed, candlelit atmosphere; and shivery, supernatural menace. With his first English-language feature, Chilean Spanish writer-director-composer Alejandro Amenábar resurrected the classic gothic chiller to create a ghost story of uncommon emotional resonance. Nicole Kidman stars as a World War II–era mother whose imperiousness masks a terrifying pain, as she keeps her light-sensitive children enshrouded in darkness on her country estate. The arrival of three new servants punctures her insular world—and seems to disturb the balance between the living and the dead. With each stunning twist and turn, Amenábar immerses us more deeply in a realm haunted not only by spirits but also by guilt, trauma, and repression.

STARRING: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann, James Bentley

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Belle (2023) Available October 3

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Belle works on the family farm and cares for her father after he falls severely ill. Desperate to save him, she journeys in search of a mythical rose believed to be a cure. She must surrender herself as a prisoner to a vicious beast as payment for the rose. Battling the beast’s spell and the two toxic relationships in her life, Belle’s true journey is only just beginning.

STARRING: Andrea Snædal, Ingi Hrafn Hilmarsson, Hana Vagnerová

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Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) (4K Ultra HD) Available October 3

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Perfectly blending Universal’s classic monster heritage with the science-fiction explosion of the 1950s, Creature from the Black Lagoon tells the mythical story of a dangerous half-human, half-fish creature lurking in the depths of the Amazon. After discovering a unique prehistoric claw fossil on an expedition deep in the jungle, scientists investigate its origins which lead them directly to a mysterious creature. Led by ichthyologist David Reed (Richard Carlson), the men try to capture the monster who has become obsessed with David’s assistant, Kay (Julia Adams). Originally released in 3D, this thrilling adventure inspired sequels, TV series and more that continue to strengthen the monster’s legacy to this day.

STARRING: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva

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