Disturbed (film)

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Disturbed
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Directed by Charles Winkler
Written byEmerson Bixby
Charles Winkler
Produced byPatricia Foulkrod
Brad Wyman
Starring Malcolm McDowell
Geoffrey Lewis
Priscilla Pointer
Kim McGuire
CinematographyBernd Heinl
Edited byDavid Handman
Music bySteven Scott Smalley
Distributed bySecond Generation Films
Release date
  • November 16, 1990 (1990-11-16)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Disturbed is a 1990 American horror film directed by Charles Winkler starring Malcolm McDowell as a psychiatrist who rapes a young woman in his care, then must deal with her vengeance-seeking daughter 10 years later.

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Plot

Dr. Derrick Russell (Malcolm McDowell) rapes one of the patients in his care. When the patient throws herself from the roof shortly afterward, he describes her suicide as a consequence of her depression. Ten years later, he plans to rape another patient, Sandy Ramirez (Pamela Gidley). What Russell does not know is that Sandy is the daughter of his previous victim, and she is bent on revenge. A post-credit sequence depicts a man kissing the camera before he laughs.

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