Deathdream

Deathdream also known as Dead of Night is a 1974 Canadian horror film, Filmed in Brooksville, Fl. directed by Bob Clark and written by Alan Ormsby. It was inspired by the W.W. Jacobs short story The Monkeys Paw.

Back home, Andys father, Charles, and sister, Cathy, begin to grieve, but his mother, Christine, becomes irate and refuses to believe that Andy has died. Hours later, in the middle of the night, Andy arrives at the front door in full uniform and apparently unharmed the family accepts the notice of his death as a clerical error and welcomes him back with joy.Over the next few days, Andy displays strange and erratic behavior, dressing in an unusually concealing manner and spending his days sitting around the house listless and anemic. Meanwhile, local police investigate the murder of a local trucker, who was found with his throat slashed and his body drained of blood after telling diner patrons that hed picked up a hitchhiking soldier. ........

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