Torment (1986)

Directed by

John Hopkins, Samson Aslanian

Genre

horror film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

16

Rating

3.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman visits her future mother-in-law's estate in San Francisco. She is followed and threatened by a brutal killer.

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What happens

Torment is a 1986 American psychological horror film directed by Samson Aslanian and John Hopkins, and starring Taylor Gilbert, William Witt, and Eve Brenner. Its plot follows a young woman in San Francisco who is stalked by a sadistic killer while visiting the estate of her future mother-in-law. Released in the spring of 1986 by New World Pictures, the film received moderate critical praise, with numerous critics esteeming the intelligence of its screenplay, and several comparing it positively to Halloween (1978). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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