Appointment with Fear (1985)
Trapped in a world where death is not the end!
Género : Terror
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 36M
Director : Ramsey Thomas, Alan Smithee
Sinopsis
An Egyptian god figures into a bizarre murder investigation where the suspect uses astral projection to murder at will.
It's 1981 and the girls of Alpha Gamma Theta sorority are having a party. As the new pledges arrive, so does an uninvited guest. Little do the sisters know someone is watching them in the shadows. As the girls shower, study, eat and sleep the stalker studies the girls. One by one he finds the girls at their most vulnerable and murders them. The police hunt for the missing girls and their killer, but will they find them in time? Or will the girls be forced to fight for their lives..
Una corporación malvada intenta presionar a un grupo de granjeros y rancheros de Arkansas para que vendan sus tierras y asi puedan desmantelarlas para obtener carbón. La ferozmente orgullosa y obstinada familia Hunter se niega a ceder. Esto lleva a un amargo conflicto en el que resultan varias bajas. Con el tiempo, Tom Hunter, sin sentido, toma una dura venganza contra los villanos con la ayuda de su arco y flecha.
Clive, un humilde trabajador, está a punto de conquistar a una rica heredera, cuando Roberta, su antigua novia, le comunica que está embarazada; Roberta se ahoga en circunstancias extrañas y él es acusado de asesinato.
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
El psiquiatra Ed Altman ha de mudarse a otra ciudad para escapar de una acusación de acoso sexual. Una vez en Palm Springs, el doctor tiene una aventura con una mujer adinerada llamada Ally que está planeando involucrar a Ed en el asesinato de su esposo. Ally tiene un amante, Nick, y hace tiempo que quiere deshacerse de su marido. Es por esto que ve en el psiquiatra una oportunidad inigualable para acabar con él y que ella y su novio salgan impunes. Ally llama a Ed en mitad de la noche y le dice que su marido le está pegando. Cuando este se presenta en casa, descubre que el hombre está muerto y se da cuenta entonces del plan urdido por la mujer. Ella y su novio han huido y al psiquiatra, dados sus antecedentes, le va a costar mucho demostrar su inocencia.
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer. Written by Tony Fontana
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