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Released
1983 · FILM

The Deadly Spawn

They came to Earth to feed on human flesh!

Directed by
Runtime
81 min
HorrorSci-Fi

Synopsis

When a meteorite crashes in the New Jersey woods carrying a monstrous alien slug, four teenagers must find a way to stop it before its terrifying brood consumes all life on Earth.

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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 Marc HarwoodShot by Harvey M BirnbaumScored by Paul Cornell

Also known as

  • Kosmokiller - Sie fressen allesde
  • Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawnen

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