David Seltzer

David Seltzer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Seltzer (born 1940) is an American screenwriter, producer and director, perhaps best known for writing The Omen (1976), and Bird on a Wire (1990), starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn. As writer/director, Seltzer's credits include the 1986 teen tragi-comedy Lucas starring Corey Haim, Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder, the 1988 comedy Punchline starring Sally Field and Tom Hanks, and 1992's Shining Through starring Melanie Griffith and Michael Douglas. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Seltzer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

  • Title: David Seltzer
  • Popularity: 0.5382
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1940-02-12
  • Place of Birth: Highland Park, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As: デヴィッド・セルツァー
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David Seltzer Movies

  • 2022
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    Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called

    Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called

    7.654 2022 HD

    A portrait of the actress Winona Ryder, the great muse of nineties cinema, who, although she has had an atypical and somewhat erratic career, has always offered performances as sensitive as they are honest.

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  • 2000
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    666: The Omen Revealed

    666: The Omen Revealed

    5.3 2000 HD

    Documentary about the making of The Omen, featuring interviews with Richard Donner, Harvey Bernhard, David Seltzer and others.

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  • 2001
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    Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'

    Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'

    6.7 2001 HD

    Retrospective documentary on the making of the cult classic "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."

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  • 2007
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    The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter David Seltzer

    The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter David Seltzer

    1 2007 HD

    David Seltzer knows Hollywood. He knows the business, the tricks of the trade and all the hidden truths. He's got the stories from working with Jacques Cousteau, penning the horror classic The Omen and adapting Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. He can tell you why writing is like love-making and why there is no such thing as fiction. His advice about directing? Wear comfortable shoes. In this interview, you'll learn that and more, including what recent screenplay is the most elegant he has ever heard spoken on-screen and why you don't win arguments with movie stars.

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  • 2001
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    The Omen Legacy

    The Omen Legacy

    7 2001 HD

    The true stories that spawned the serie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very name still conjures up thoughts of Satan. This documentary shares spine-tingling information about the the all-too-memorable flick that has terrorized film audiences since 1976.

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  • 1990
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    Bird on a Wire

    Bird on a Wire

    6.224 1990 HD

    An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.

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  • 2002
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    Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    6.5 2002 HD

    A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

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  • 1978
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    Damien - Omen II

    Damien - Omen II

    6.42 1978 HD

    Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.

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  • 1992
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    Shining Through

    Shining Through

    6.477 1992 HD

    Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to uncover information about a German bomb, Linda also has personal motives to fulfill: discovering the fate of her Jewish family members in Berlin.

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  • 1992
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    Shining Through

    Shining Through

    6.477 1992 HD

    Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to uncover information about a German bomb, Linda also has personal motives to fulfill: discovering the fate of her Jewish family members in Berlin.

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  • 1986
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    Lucas

    Lucas

    6.7 1986 HD

    A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends – Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love – fall for each other.

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  • 1986
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    Lucas

    Lucas

    6.7 1986 HD

    A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends – Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love – fall for each other.

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  • 1988
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    Punchline

    Punchline

    5.476 1988 HD

    Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries to help the untried Lilah develop her stage act. Despite the objections of her family and some very wobbly beginnings, Lilah improves, and soon she finds herself competing with Steven for a coveted television spot.

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  • 1988
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    Punchline

    Punchline

    5.476 1988 HD

    Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries to help the untried Lilah develop her stage act. Despite the objections of her family and some very wobbly beginnings, Lilah improves, and soon she finds herself competing with Steven for a coveted television spot.

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  • 2011
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    Cinema Verite

    Cinema Verite

    5.652 2011 HD

    In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. CINEMA VERITE tells the behind-the-scenes story of the groundbreaking documentary "An American Family," which chronicled the lives of the Louds in the early 1970s and catapulted the Santa Barbara family to notoriety while creating a new television genre: the reality TV series.

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  • 1998
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    My Giant

    My Giant

    5.3 1998 HD

    Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a tall talent for friendship named Max.

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  • 1998
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    My Giant

    My Giant

    5.3 1998 HD

    Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a tall talent for friendship named Max.

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  • 2001
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    Nobody's Baby

    Nobody's Baby

    5.096 2001 HD

    Two not so bright small time crooks end up with a baby girl by "accident" and find a change in their lives. Billy (Ulrich) becomes the guy to take care of the child and look after it. Buford (Oldman) wants to get rid of it, but the others they knit with are for doing the best they can. They conspire to rob a pawn shop to get the necessary money, only to end up heroes for stopping a heist already in play.

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  • 2001
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    Nobody's Baby

    Nobody's Baby

    5.096 2001 HD

    Two not so bright small time crooks end up with a baby girl by "accident" and find a change in their lives. Billy (Ulrich) becomes the guy to take care of the child and look after it. Buford (Oldman) wants to get rid of it, but the others they knit with are for doing the best they can. They conspire to rob a pawn shop to get the necessary money, only to end up heroes for stopping a heist already in play.

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  • 1972
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    One Is a Lonely Number

    One Is a Lonely Number

    4.571 1972 HD

    A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her.

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  • 2024
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    The First Omen

    The First Omen

    6.83 2024 HD

    When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.

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  • 2001
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    Nobody's Baby

    Nobody's Baby

    5.096 2001 HD

    Two not so bright small time crooks end up with a baby girl by "accident" and find a change in their lives. Billy (Ulrich) becomes the guy to take care of the child and look after it. Buford (Oldman) wants to get rid of it, but the others they knit with are for doing the best they can. They conspire to rob a pawn shop to get the necessary money, only to end up heroes for stopping a heist already in play.

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  • 1979
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    Prophecy

    Prophecy

    5.427 1979 HD

    When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks insists the loggers are poisoning the water supply, and, though company man Isley denies it, the Vernes can't ignore the strangely mutated wildlife roaming the woods. Robert captures a bear cub for testing and soon finds himself the target of an angry mutant grizzly.

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  • 1987
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    Someone to Watch Over Me

    Someone to Watch Over Me

    5.8 1987 HD

    Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigned to protect her.

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  • 1985
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    Private Sessions

    Private Sessions

    2 1985 HD

    A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently there is nothing wrong with him psychologically. And a woman who despite being in a healthy relationship goes around picking up guys and having sex with them. She decides to seek help and what the doctor learns is that the problem goes back to her childhood and her family.

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  • 1983
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    Table for Five

    Table for Five

    5.5 1983 HD

    J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie Perkins) and her new husband (Richard Crenna) to take the kids on a Mediterranean cruise. On the journey he comes to realise it's not that easy and, feeling overwhelmed, begins to doubt his abilities until a tragedy back home forces him to become the father he always hoped to be.

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  • 1977
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    Green Eyes

    Green Eyes

    1 1977 HD

    Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.

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  • 1977
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    Green Eyes

    Green Eyes

    1 1977 HD

    Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.

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  • 1992
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    Shining Through

    Shining Through

    6.477 1992 HD

    Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to uncover information about a German bomb, Linda also has personal motives to fulfill: discovering the fate of her Jewish family members in Berlin.

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  • 1968
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    The Lonely Dorymen

    The Lonely Dorymen

    7 1968 HD

    For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenland’s banks to fish the cold waters for cod. Intrepid men, set off for the Banks on schooners under full sail, then adrift in a flat-bottomed dory, they bait the hundred of hooks of their long-line, oblivious to fog, rain and Arctic wind, they labour 18 hours a day and haul up cod by the score.

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  • 1975
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    My Father's House

    My Father's House

    1 1975 HD

    Recovering from a heart attack, a workaholic editor recalls the simple days of his youth. Robertson adds an emotional center to this messy, flashback-filled 'heavy' dramatic piece. Plenty of co-star talent.

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  • 1974
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    Larry

    Larry

    5.5 1974 HD

    A man who has been confined from early childhood to a dubiously run home for the mentally challenged is transferred to a state mental hospital when the home is shut down. Staff discover that, despite outward appearances, the man was wrongly confined and is of average intelligence.

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  • 1975
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    The Other Side of the Mountain

    The Other Side of the Mountain

    6.3 1975 HD

    One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.

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  • 1995
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    The Omen

    The Omen

    4 1995 HD

    Jack Mann is a writer reporter for the Associated Press. Annalisse Summer is an ER nurse dedicated to help people: Dr Linus is a doctor who has seen what Jack and Analisse have: an evil entity that seeks to destroy and has joined them to help stop it (the entity posses people and controls them to do its bidding).

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  • 1982
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    Six Weeks

    Six Weeks

    5.932 1982 HD

    A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter, who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the daughter skates the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, assumes the lead in The Nutcracker ballet, and sightsees most of the city.

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  • 1981
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    The Final Conflict

    The Final Conflict

    5.83 1981 HD

    Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ.

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  • 1991
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    Omen IV: The Awakening

    Omen IV: The Awakening

    4.994 1991 HD

    Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys.

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  • 2006
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    The Omen

    The Omen

    5.651 2006 HD

    A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.

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  • 1997
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    The Eighteenth Angel

    The Eighteenth Angel

    5.015 1997 HD

    Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld of priests that are not Christian but rather want to resurrect Satan by collecting the souls of 18 beautiful children.

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  • 1971
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    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

    7.482 1971 HD

    When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.

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  • 1972
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    King, Queen, Knave

    King, Queen, Knave

    4.1 1972 HD

    Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who finds himself deep in the romantic clutches of his uncle's sensual wife. After Frank's parents die, he goes to live with his aunt Martha (Gina Lollabrigida) and uncle Charles (David Niven). Sexy Martha entices Frank into her embrace then wants him to kill her husband so that they can live off of his money. Frank wouldn't mind so much, but he really likes his uncle.

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  • 1976
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    The Omen

    The Omen

    7.408 1976 HD

    Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

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  • 1971
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    The Hellstrom Chronicle

    The Hellstrom Chronicle

    6.4 1971 HD

    A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

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  • 2010
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    A History of Horror

    A History of Horror

    7.1 2010 HD

    Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's glory days and beyond.

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  • 1970
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    A History of Horror

    A History of Horror

    5.771 1970 HD

    Set just before the start of Armageddon, the series will follow two central characters, a physicist and a nun, who are racing against the clock to see if the end of the world apocalypse can be averted. Bill Pullman plays Dr. Richard Massey, a Harvard professor whose daughter is murdered by satanists while McElhone stars as a nun who recruits Massey to help investigate whether what's told in the Book of Revelations is starting to come true. Seltzer and Polone with executive produce the project along with Pariah Television's Vivian Cannon and Jessika Borsiczky.

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  • 1970
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    A History of Horror

    A History of Horror

    6.257 1970 HD

    After discovering his origins, Damien Thorn must cope with life as the Anti-Christ.

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  • 1970
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    A History of Horror

    A History of Horror

    5.771 1970 HD

    Set just before the start of Armageddon, the series will follow two central characters, a physicist and a nun, who are racing against the clock to see if the end of the world apocalypse can be averted. Bill Pullman plays Dr. Richard Massey, a Harvard professor whose daughter is murdered by satanists while McElhone stars as a nun who recruits Massey to help investigate whether what's told in the Book of Revelations is starting to come true. Seltzer and Polone with executive produce the project along with Pariah Television's Vivian Cannon and Jessika Borsiczky.

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