A Killing Affair (1986)

Regisseur:

David Saperstein

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Robert Houston (novel)
David Saperstein (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

9. Februar 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Krimi | Drama

Werbezeile:

The dogs of hell walk the earth and the Devil strides beside [video cover]

Plot:

The story of a widow (in West Virginia) who takes in a drifter who she believes killed her husband....

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film | Based On Novel

Nutzerkommentare:

The Devil in the Woods

Besetzung

Peter Weller	...	Baston Morris
Kathy Baker	...	Maggie Gresham
John Glover	...	Sheb Sheppard
Bill Smitrovich	...	Pink Gresham
Rhetta Hughes	...	Vinia
Amy Fields	...	Bessie Gresham
Richard Westrick	...	Warren Gresham
Trevor Jackson	...	Eldridge
Susie Hall	...	Blanche
Sandi Brannon	...	Sara
Bob Hannah	...	Stillwell
Joel Simon	...	First Man at Mill
Edward Potter Haggard	...	Second Man at Mill
Curt Walters	...	Sherrif of Parrish
Mert Hatfield	...	Sheriff of Oakman
Stuart Culpepper	...	Mr. Sheppard
Nicole Anderson-Ellis	...	Young Maggie
George H. Hammett Jr.	...	Young Sheb
Victoria Loving	...	Morris' Wife
Danny Nelson	...	Sarah's Father
Lana Sloniger	...	Anna Sheppard
Wallace Wilkinson	...	1929 Judge
Bill Fleet	...	1929 Sheriff
John Bradley	...	1929 Deputy

Regie
David Saperstein

Buch (WGA)
Robert Houston		(novel "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday")
David Saperstein		(screenplay)

Produktion
John D. Backe	....	executive producer
Myron A. Hyman	....	executive producer
Peter R. McIntosh	....	producer
Michael Rauch	....	producer

Originalmusik
John Barry

Kamera
Dominique Chapuis

Schnitt
Patrick McMahon

Casting
Pat McCorkle

Szenenbild
John Jay Moore

Bühnenbildner/Ausstatter (set decorators)
Lynn Wolverton-Parker		(as Lynn Wolverton)

Kostüme
Elisabeth Seley

Maske/Frisuren
Lynn Barber	....	makeup artist
Lynda Gurasich	....	hair stylist (as Linda Gurasich)
Philip Ivey	....	hair stylist (as Phillip Ivey)

Produktionsleiter (production managers)
Joan Haley	....	unit production manager

Regieassistenten
Alex Hapsas	....	first assistant director
Candace Suerstedt	....	second assistant director

Ausstattung (Stab)
Dwight Benjamin-Creel	....	assistant property master (as Dwight Benjamin Creel)
James Jones Jr.	....	set dresser
Alba Leone	....	on-set dresser
Frank O'Shea	....	property master
L.B. Owen	....	carpenter
Julie Plakanis	....	set dresser
Brad Smith	....	set dresser
Paul Stanwyck	....	scenic artist
Brian Stultz	....	scenic artist
Robert Warren	....	carpenter

Ton Stab
Thomas Brandau	....	production sound mixer (as Tom Brandau)
Jack Cooley	....	re-recording engineer
Steve Day	....	boom operator
Lindsey Hicks	....	assistant sound editor
Jack Higgins	....	re-recording engineer
Bitty O'Sullivan-Smith	....	supervising sound editor (as Bitty O'Sullivan Smith)
Mark Rathaus	....	assistant sound editor
Ann Stein	....	adr editor (as Anne Stein)
Paul J. Zydel	....	adr recordist (as Paul Zydel)

Spezialeffekte
Vern Hyde	....	special effects

Stunts
Tom Harper	....	stunts

Kamera und Elektrik (Stab)
Richard Allen Anderson	....	grip (as Rick Anderson)
James H. Armfield	....	still photographer
Eddie Evans	....	key grip
Gershon Ginsburg	....	camera trainer
Davis James	....	electrician
Carl Johnson	....	best boy
Tully McCulloch	....	dolly grip
Edwin Myers	....	assistant camera (as Ed Myers)
Marty Newbron	....	gaffer
Guillaume Schiffman	....	second assistant camera
Roger Sherer	....	grip
Mike West	....	first assistant camera

Casting (Stab)
Saul Butcher-Thomas	....	extras casting (as Saul Burcher-Thomas)
Annette Stillwell	....	casting: Atlanta

Kostüm und Garderobe (Stab)
Marciann Shapiro	....	wardrobe assistant

Schnitt (Stab)
Chip Cronkite	....	assistant editor
Scott Hyman	....	post-production assistant
Christopher Weir	....	assistant editor

Musik (Stab)
John Barry	....	conductor
George Craig	....	music editor
Jonathan Elias	....	musician: synthesizer

Restlicher Stab
Daniel Aguar	....	location manager
Daniel Aguar	....	production assistant (as Dan Aguar)
Beth Gittleman	....	production assistant
Lynn Goldman	....	assistant to producer
Jimmy Hapsas	....	production assistant
Annette Haywood-Carter	....	script supervisor (as Annette Haywood)
Graig Hutchison	....	production accountant (as Craig Hutchinson)
Tina M. James	....	assistant to producers
Ingrid Johanson	....	production office coordinator
Jeff Johnson	....	location assistant
Z.B. Lancaster	....	animal trainer
David Meeks	....	animal trainer
Brian O'Kelly	....	location assistant
Mike Riley	....	liaison: film commission
Brent Schwartz	....	production assistant
Ray Suttles	....	period car coordinator
Chikita Wallace	....	production assistant
Teresa M. Yarbrough	....	production office assistant (as Theresa Yarbrough)
Wally Young	....	assistant to producers

Produktionsfirmen

• Tomorrow Entertainment

Verleihfirmen

• Hemdale Film
• Payless Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2004) (worldwide) (video)
• Reel Media International (2005) (worldwide) (TV)
• Reel Media International (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
• Zircon Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)

Weitere Firmen

• ATP Casting  Atlanta Principal Casting

Alternativ:

My Sister's Keeper (UK)
Allein mit dem Mörder (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

USA:100 Min | Brazil:100 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:M | UK:15 | USA:R

Drehorte:

Juliette, Georgia, USA

Firma:

Tomorrow Entertainment

The Devil in the Woods

***SPOILERS*** Pink Gresham, Bill Smitrovich, wasn't exactly a model citizen or loving husband he was a down-right lowlife scoundrel.

Abusing and flaunting his infidelities in front of his long-suffering wife Maggie, Kathy Baker, and his two children as well as ripping off those who worked at the Parrish Mill, where Pink was the manager, of their hard-earned pay the fact that he ended up hacked to death hanging upside down at the smoke-shed on his property was no surprise to anyone. The surprise was how under the circumstances and who committed it, Pink's murder! even more sinister the real reason behind it.

A movie that takes you to places thats, as far as I know, never gone before in a horror movie and ends up with the unleashing of the dogs of hell that put a gory end to the devil incarnate who was responsible of the murderous acts in the film.

Maggie finding her husband Pink murdered is in a panic as she runs to her only neighbor Vinia, Rhetta Hughes, on the almost deserted island in W. Virginia that she lives on for help. Only to be told that there's nothing she, Vinia, could do with a pack of vicious dogs running loose on the island that already killed one of her children. Back at the house Maggie is startled to find a stranger knocking on her door looking for her husband to get work at the Parrish Mill.

The stranger Baston Morris, Peter Weller, comes across as a strange and somewhat innocent person at first. But before Maggie can compose herself from the shock of Pinks death he, Baston, lets out the fact that he indeed murdered her husband. Terrified of the creepy Baston and what he can do to her Maggie is trapped with nowhere to go for help and a prisoner in her own home. Then something happens that is so startling, by what Baston told her about Pink that it turns Maggie's fear and panic of him into sympathy and even has her falling in love with him! To where when her Brother Sheb, John Glover, a local preacher came with the sheriff, to see if everything was all right with her and Pink She hides Baston in her bedroom. Protecting him for being arrested by the local police for her husbands murder! little did Maggie know what the truth was about Baston and that truth instead of setting Maggie free was going to free her of her life and the lives of her two children in what Baston's sick mind had in store for her and them.

Very good debut by director David Saperstein who gives the movie a very professional look. But it's the eerie and rural Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde performance of actor Peter Weller as Baston Morris that really pushes the movie "A Killing Affair" to the front of the line. Makng it one of the most scary and effective, as well as unknown, horror films of the 1980's. Weller in his portrayal of the dangerous as well as at the same time almost likable Baston shows that evil can come to us in almost any kind of package or appearance.