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Released
1986 · FILM

Primal Scream

An Extra-Terrestrial Energy Source... A Deadly Cover-Up... The Future of Mankind Hangs in the Balance.

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Runtime
89 min
HorrorSci-FiThriller

Synopsis

In the future, a private detective tries to stop a large corporation from mining an element whose side effects include igniting human flesh and destroying internal body parts.

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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.

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 Keith ReamerShot by Dan KarlokScored by Mark Knox

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