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The Carpenter (film) (1988)

The Carpenter (film) poster
Original title
The Carpenter
Directed by
David Wellington
Genre
drama film, horror film, slasher film, romance film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman gets out of a psychiatric hospital and moves into a house she is fixing up with her husband. She starts to encounter the ghost of a carpenter who was a murderer.

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What happens

The Carpenter is a 1988 Canadian supernatural horror film directed by David Wellington, written by Doug Taylor, and starring Pierre Lenoir, Lynne Adams, and Wings Hauser. Its plot follows a woman recently released from a psychiatric hospital who finds herself haunted by the ghost of a murderous carpenter in the home she and her husband are renovating. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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