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

Plot

Horror writer Edmund Blackstone (

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) sees his recurring nightmare come to chilling life one weekend as one by one, his friends and family are killed by three villains: the Queen of Evil (

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), a dwarf named Spider (

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), and a giant scar-faced strongman called Jackal (

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Cast

as Edmund Blackstone *

as Queen of Evil *

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as Charlie *

as Spider *

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as Nicole Blackstone *

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as Mark Frost *

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as Mikki Hughes * Richard Cox as Gerald *

as Jackal *

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as Arris

Production

''Seizure'' is the directorial debut of Oliver Stone, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Star

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

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, who partially bankrolled the film in an attempt to launder money, as he was under investigation by the

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Release

The film had a very limited release theatrically in the United States by

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, playing on New York's 42nd street in 1974. The film was released on VHS by various video companies in the 1980s including Prism Entertainment. A transfer to DVD and Blu-ray was released on September 9, 2014 by Scorpion Releasing.

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