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Ghost Story (1981) [R]

Release Date:
December 18, 1981

Original Title:
Ghost Story

Alternate Titles:
Cuento de fantasmas
Fantasma do Passado
Gengångare
Ghost Story - UR
Gjenferdet
Historias de fantasmas
Kummitusjuttu
Le fantome de Milburn
Le fantôme de Milburn
Szellemjárás
Upiorna opowieść
Vild opstandelse
Zurück bleibt die Angst
История с приведениями
ゴースト・ストーリー

Genres:
Drama | Horror | Thriller

Production Companies:
Universal Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: MA15+  DE: 16  ES: 18|16  FI: K-16  FR: 16  GB: 15  IE: 18  NO: 15  SE: 15  US: R 

Runtime: 110

The Time Has Come to Tell the Tale

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Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.

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Production

Art Direction:
Norman Newberry

Assistant Camera:
Bobby Brown

Assistant Decorator:
James Allen

Assistant Editor:
Michael Ripps

Assistant Sound Editor:
Allan Bromberg

Associate Producer:
Ronald G. Smith

Boom Operator:
Mark Server

Camera Operator:
Dick Mingalone
Lou Barlia

Casting:
Mike Fenton

Co-Producer:
Douglas Green

Conductor:
John Caper Jr.
Peter Knight

Construction Foreman:
William Apperson

Costume Design:
May Routh

Director:
John Irvin

Director of Photography:
Jack Cardiff

Editor:
Tom Rolf

Electrician:
Ted Varnadoe

First Assistant Camera:
Reggie Newkirk

First Assistant Director:
Dan Kolsrud

Foley Artist:
John Roesch

Hairstylist:
Philip Leto

Makeup Artist:
Albert Jeyte
Irving Buchman
Rick Sharp
Robert Jiras
Dick Smith
Rick Baker

Matte Painter:
Syd Dutton

Music Coordinator:
John Caper Jr.

Novel:
Peter Straub

Orchestrator:
Michel Mention
Peter Knight
Peter T. Myers
Harry Betts

Original Music Composer:
Philippe Sarde

Producer:
Burt Weissbourd

Production Assistant:
Suzanne E. Petersen
Mike Henry

Production Design:
Norman Newberry

Production Driver:
Patrick A. DiCocco

Production Manager:
Ronald G. Smith
Robert Latham Brown

Property Master:
John Zemansky

Screenplay:
Lawrence D. Cohen

Script Supervisor:
Sonny P. Filippini

Second Assistant Director:
Dean Lyras

Set Decoration:
Mary Ann Biddle

Sound:
James R. Alexander

Sound Effects Editor:
Richard C. Franklin
Samuel C. Crutcher
David Pettijohn
Larry Carow

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Stanley H. Polinsky
John J. Stephens

Sound Recordist:
Robert L. Hoyt

Special Effects:
Henry Millar Jr.

Special Effects Makeup Artist:
Rick Baker
Carl Fullerton

Supervising Sound Editor:
Charles L. Campbell

Title Designer:
Phill Norman

Visual Effects:
Albert Whitlock
Susan Turner

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