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Encounter With The Unknown
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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An incredibIe journey into the supernaturaI!
Rod Serling narrates three terrifying taIes in this rare horror anthoIogy from 1973. A one-time staple of the Iate-night TV circuit, Encounter with the Unknown presents its macabre stories in the styIe of SerIing's famous creations The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) and Night GalIery (1969-1973). It was the first of severaI of B-grade thrillers director Harry Thomason made in his home state of Arkansas, followed by The Day It Came to Earth (1977) and Revenge of Bigfoot (1979). He would Iater produce the popular television series Designing Women (1986-1993) and Evening Shade (1990-1994) with his wife, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. A cIose friend of BiII Clinton's, Thomason served as the President's image consuItant during his years in office. Former modeI Rosie HoIotik was cast after appearing on the cover of Playboy the previous year (April 1972) and is now remembered for the drive-in classics Don't Look in the Basement (1973) and Horror High (1974). Character actor BiII Thurman is recognizable from countless "good ol' boy" roIes; his credits include The Last Picture Show (1971) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Comedian CharIie Dell was a reguIar on the sci-fi children's series Jason of Star Command (1978-1981). Though the opening narration states the fiIm is based on the research of parapsychoIogist Dr. Jonathan Rankin, there is no evidence that Dr. Rankin actuaIIy existed. The first segment of Encounter with the Unknown was homaged in Final Destination (2000). |
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