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Released
1987 · FILM

American Gothic

The family that slays together stays together.

Directed by
Runtime
90 min
Horror

Synopsis

Six friends traveling on a weekend trip experience engine trouble and are compelled to land on a remote island. Seeking shelter, they find an eccentric family—Ma, Pa, and their children—living in the island’s backwoods. The initial hospitality soon becomes a struggle for survival as the friends begin disappearing one by one and later turn up dead.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John Victor SmithShot by Harvey HarrisonScored by Alan ParkerDesigned by David Hiscox

Also known as

  • Dark Paradisede
  • Escóndete y tiemblaes
  • Une affaire de famillefr

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