Seizure

1974Movie⏱️ 1h 34mPG

Horror

⭐ 4.6

IMDB Rating

1,251 votes

A horror story writer, Edmond Blackstone, suffers from a recurring nightmare in which three bizarre figures terrorize him and his family. When Blackstone begins to write, the three figures appear at his home and the dream becomes ...

Director

Oliver Stone

Writers

Edward Mann, Oliver Stone

Stars

Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola

Release Date

November 15, 1974

Language

English

Country

Canada, United States

💬 32

Reviews

📋 2.2K

Watchlists

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🎭 Top Cast

Jonathan Frid

as Edmund Blackstone

Martine Beswick

as The Queen

Joseph Sirola

as Charlie Hughes

Christina Pickles

as Nicole Blackstone

Hervé Villechaize

as The Spider

Anne Meacham

as Eunice Kahn

Roger De Koven

as Serge Kahn

Troy Donahue

as Mark Frost

Mary Woronov

as Mikki Hughes

Richard Cox

as Gerald

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.85 : 1

Sound

Mono

Color

Filming Location

Val-Morin, Québec, Canada

Production

Astral Bellevue Pathé, Cine Films Inc., Cinerama Productions Corp.

🏷️ Keywords

husband wife relationshippants ripped offblack pantiespantiesindependent film

🎯 Categories

Horror

⭐ Featured Review

"Ah, The First Of The Victims Has Arrived!"...

by Dethcharm • 2021-07-22

"Horror writer Edmund Blackstone and his wife Nicole (Jonathon Frid and Christina Pickles) are hosting a little gathering at their country estate. Both Edmund and Nicole have been plagued by the same nightmares featuring a woman known as "The Queen" and her creepy cohorts, "The Spider" (Herve Villechaize) and "Jackal" (Henry Baker). Unbeknownst to either the Blackstones or their guests, nightmare is about to bleed into reality. SEIZURE is an odd, macabre film directed by Oliver Stone, who proves that he has an eye for the grim, ghoulish, and grotesque! Frid and ..."

💡 Did You Know?

In a 2007 interview with Maitland McDonagh, actress Martine Beswick related that Seizure (1974) was filmed within a lakeside house in Quebec, which also served as housing for the cast and crew to save on hotel costs, as well as to intensify the feeling of claustrophobia sought by director Oliver Stone. The house's plumbing noise would frequently ruin takes, so no one was allowed to use sinks, showers or toilets during shooting. "It was a little hairy, to say the least... everybody was a little crazed. I mean, the moods! The things that happened! And then the drinking. Everybody took to drinking. We'd have gallons of wine. I started making sangria. I became truly the Queen, I really did. I took over; the crew would eat stuff and leave dirty plates all around everywhere. I'm going, 'This cannot work! So I started leaving notes everywhere: 'If you do not clean that I will kill.'