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Released
1978 · FILM

Eyes of Laura Mars

A brilliant fashion photographer gains a terrifying clairvoyant link to a serial killer, seeing each murder through his eyes as she races to stop the next victim.

“She saw life through the camera’s eye. Then suddenly she saw death.”

Directed by
Irvin Kershner
Written by
John Carpenter, David Zelag Goodman
Runtime
104 min
MysteryThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A renowned fashion photographer begins to experience a troubling and unsettling ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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.

Why a floor?

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 Michael KahnShot by Victor J KemperScored by Artie KaneDesigned by Gene Callahan

Box Office

1978 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$20.0M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$20.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Augen der Laura Marsde
  • The Eyes of Laura Marsen
  • Ojoses
  • Les Yeux de Laura Marsfr
  • Gli occhi di Laura Marsit

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