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Impulse (1984)

Impulse poster
Directed by
Graham Baker
Genre
science fiction film, disaster film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
R
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 54 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A small rural town is disrupted when an earthquake breaks open a toxic waste site. The residents begin to act in strange and violent ways.

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What happens

Impulse is a 1984 American science fiction thriller film directed by Graham Baker and starring Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly and Hume Cronyn. The film's plot is about the residents of a small rural town who start to exhibit strange and violent behavior after a small earthquake ruptures the seal on a toxic waste burial site. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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