Possessed by the Night

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Possessed by the Night
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Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Screenplay by Mark Thomas McGee
Story byFred Olen Ray
Produced byAlan Amiel
Starring Shannon Tweed [1]
Ted Prior
Sandahl Bergman
Chad McQueen
Frank Sivero
Cinematography Gary Graver
Edited bySteven Nielson
Fima Noveck
Music byChuck Cirino
Distributed byMDP Worldwide [2]
Release date
  • 1994 (1994)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Possessed by the Night is a 1994 erotic thriller directed by Fred Olen Ray, [3] who also co-wrote and had a brief appearance in the film. It also stars Shannon Tweed. [4] [5]

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Synopsis

When a horror writer named Howard Hansen buys an oversized jar containing a strange-looking pickled monster from a tiny shop in Chinatown, he quickly falls under its supernatural influence. Not only can he churn out manuscript pages like never before, he also becomes more sexually aggressive. His unusual change begins to trouble his wife, Peggy, particularly after the arrival of his new sexy blonde live-in secretary, Carol McKay.

What Howard and Peggy don't know is that Carol is conspiring with her partner Murray Dunlap, Howard's greedy agent, to steal his manuscript. Carol soon becomes possessed by the thing in the jar as well, playing sexual violent games with Howard and Peggy, terrorizing Peggy at every turn, and ultimately turning on Murray, leading to a hyper-violent climax which has nearly everyone blasting away at their co-conspirator with automatic weaponry. [6]

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