Underplayed Gems

Deadly Messages (1985)

Deadly Messages poster
Directed by
Jack Bender
Genre
thriller
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 34m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman uses a Ouija board in her New York apartment and contacts the spirit of a previous tenant who was murdered. When her roommate seemingly witnesses the woman's murder but no body or evidence is found, the surviving roommate begins to question her own sanity. She is stalked by an unknown attacker and discovers her memories and identity might not be real.

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What happens

Deadly Messages is a 1985 made-for-TV horror mystery thriller film directed by Jack Bender. Kathleen Beller stars. The film is initially set in an apartment in New York City. A woman decides to use her absent roommate's Ouija board to communicate with spirits, and she contacts the spirit of the apartment's previous occupant who was supposedly murdered in 1978. When the roommate returns from a date, she thinks that she witnesses the murder of the original woman. The police can not find any corpse of evidence of murder, and the dead woman is thought to have simply disappeared. The surviving woman's life starts falling apart while she is stalked by an unnamed attacker. While searching for the truth, she discovers that her own identity and memories may be false, and that she may be a known mental patient who disappeared after surviving a failed murder attempt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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