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The Unseen (1980)

The Unseen poster
Directed by
Danny Steinmann
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
R
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 63 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three female reporters go to a small California town to cover a festival and stay at a Victorian house. The middle-aged couple who own the house are hiding something terrible in the basement.

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What happens

The Unseen is a 1980 American slasher film directed and written by Danny Steinmann (credited as "Peter Foleg’), and starring Stephen Furst, Barbara Bach, Sydney Lassick, and Lelia Goldoni. Its plot follows three female news reporters who arrive in Solvang, California, to cover the town's annual Danish festival, and end up staying in the Victorian home of a middle-aged couple harboring a dark secret in their basement. The film originally began with a screenplay by Michael Viner and Kim Henkel, which was significantly altered and rewritten by Steinmann and Michael L. Grace. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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