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Released
1982 · FILM

Parasite

“You will not feel the terror until you experience the movie!”

Directed by
Charles Band
Written by
Alan J Adler, Michael Shoob
Runtime
85 min
HorrorSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Kanopy

Synopsis

Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus & his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

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.

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 Brad ArensmanShot by Mac AhlbergScored by Richard Band

Box Office

1982 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.8× 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

$7.0M

Budget$800K
Worldwide gross$7.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $2K — 0% of worldwide · International: $7.0M (100%)

Re-release box office

2025193 theaters
$835K($858K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Der Killerparasitde
  • Mutantiit

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