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The Ghost Dance | |
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Directed by | Peter F. Buffa |
Screenplay by |
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Produced by | Robert Sutton |
Starring |
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Cinematography | Fred Murphy |
Music by | Joseph Byrd |
Production company | Ahrememess [1] |
Distributed by | Trans World Entertainment [2] |
Running time | 96 minutes [3] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,000,000 (estimated) |
The Ghost Dance is a 1982 American Western slasher film directed and co-written by Peter F. Buffa, and starring Julie Amato, Victor Mohica, Henry Bal, and Frank Salsedo. Its plot follows a Native American shaman who becomes possessed by an evil spirit that drives him to kill. [2] It was the first slasher film to be based around and feature Native American characters. [4]
The spirit of a long-dead warrior, Nahalla, possesses Aranjo, a local Native American man, after an archaeologist, Dr. Kay Foster, unearths Nahalla's remains during an exploratory excavation. Through Aranjo, Nahalla exacts a murderous rampage.
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