Death Weekend (1976)
- Directed by
- William Fruet
- Genre
- horror film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 46 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A model and her boyfriend go to a lakeside house for a weekend. After a road rage incident, three violent criminals follow them and begin terrorizing them.
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What happens
Death Weekend is a 1976 horror film written and directed by William Fruet, and starring Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, and Chuck Shamata. Set in rural Ontario, the film follows a model and her boyfriend who are terrorized by three violent criminals at a remote lakeside home following a road rage incident. Loosely inspired by a real home invasion case in Canada, Death Weekend was filmed on location in the fall of 1975 in Maple, Ontario. It was an international co-production between Canada, Italy, and Panama, with half of its $500,000 budget origination from the Canadian Film Development Corporation. It was produced by Ivan Reitman, marking his second film production credit after David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975). Death Weekend premiered in Ontario on September 17, 1976, before opening in Quebec on October 8, 1976. In the United States, the film was distributed in 1977 by American International Pictures under the alternate title The House by the Lake. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Breaking Point (1976)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.