Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1982
Running Times: 90 mins91 mins92 mins93 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Masada Productions/New Line Productions
Executive Producer: Benni Korzen
Producer: Robert Shaye
Associate Producer: Sara Risher
Production Manager: Robert Maier
Production Co-Ordinator: Linda Laius

SCRIPT
Screenplay: Jack Sholder
Story: Jack Sholder, Robert Shaye, Michael Harpster

DIRECTION
Director: Jack Sholder
1st Assistant Director: James Bigham
2nd Assistant Director: Matthew Malach

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Joseph Mangine
Assistant Camera: Robert Zimmerman
Loaders: Richard Elliano, Alex Livesey
Gaffer: John Foster
Best Boy: William Klayer
2nd Electrician: David Beckerman
3rd Electrician: Gilles Arnaud
Key Grip: Tom Anderson
2nd Grip: Peter Spera
Stills: Barry Wetcher
Camera Equipment: Pro Camera
Colour: Cineffects

EDITING
Editor: Arline Garson
Assistant Editor: Carole Penner
App Editor: Neil Wenger
Negative Conforming: Match Cut Film Services

MUSIC
Music Supervisor: David Franco
Music: Renato Serio
Assistant Music Editor: Jean Standish
Music Recording Engineer: Pino Bernardini
Songs/Performed By: The Sic F*cks (Chop Up Your Mother; Rock Or Die; Take Me To The Bridge; Insects Rule My World)
Songs Produced By: Adny Shernoff
Soundtrack Published By: Usignolo Music

SOUND
Post Production/Sound Recording: Sound One Corporation, New York
Supervising Sound Editor: Joe Masefield
Assistant Sound Editor: Steven Visscher
Dialogue Editor: Lou Kleinman
Boom: Richard Williams
Re-Recording: Mel Zelnicker
Foleys: Elisha Birnbaum
Location Mixer: Allan Byer

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up/Hair: Lyzanne Goodson
Assistant Make Up: Anthony Hughes
Costume Designer: Alexandra de Marande
Assistant Costumes: Wendy Hubschman, Star Gabrielle
Wardrobe: Suzanne O'Sullivan

SPECIAL MAKE UP
Special Make Up Effects: Thomas Brumberger, Don Lumpkin
Additional Make Up Effects: Tom Savini

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Pyrotechnic Effects: Matt Vogel
Titles and Optical Effects: Cinopticals Inc

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Peter Monroe
Art Department Staff: Amy Diaz, Joan Brockschmidt
Carpenter: William Neumann
Stand-by Props: Jill Frank
Outside Props: David Reale, Josh Harrison

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Gale Goldberg

OTHER CREW
Script Supervisor: Adrienne Hamalian
Script Intern: Nera Bendor
Unit Manager: Stephen Marrlo (?)
Prod Assistant: William Bellettiere, Conrad Fink, David Goodman, Bill Hale, Scott McQueen, Marjorie Phillips, Todd Rankin
Production Comptroller: Stephen Abramson
Accountant: Rachel Talalay
Worldwide Sales: Stanley Dudelson, New Line International
Sporting Goods: Amf Voit Inc; Kings Department Stores; Penn Athletic Prods
Cars Supplied By: Cooper Classics, Cars of Yesterday
Archery Supplies: Butts and Bows
Appliances and Electronics: Sajra Distributors/Tapex

STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Cliff Cudney

CASTING
Casting: Deedee Wehle
Extra Casting: Michael Kara Associates

CAST
Jack Palance (Frank Hawkes)
Donald Pleasence (Dr Leo Bain)
Martin Landau (Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff)
Dwight Schultz (Dan Potter)
Erland Van Lindth (Ronald "Fatty" Elster)
Deborah Hedwall (Nell Potter)
Lee Taylor-Allan (Toni Potter)
Phillip Clark (Tom Smith/Skaggs)
Elizabeth Ward (Lyla Potter)
Brent Jennings (Ray Curtis)
Carol Levy (Bunky)
Keith Reddin (Billy)
Annie Korzen (Marissa Hall)
Lin Shaye (receptionist at Haven)
Dorothy Dorian James (mom)
John Weissman (bicycle messenger)
Jana Schneider (spaced-out girl at club)
Robert Pastner (customer in diner)
Larry Pine (Dr Harry Merton)
Frederick Coffin (Jim Gable)
Mallory Jones (anchorwoman)
Laura Esterman (woman voyager)
Michael Earl Reid (cursing voyager)
Paula Raflo (voyager)
Steve Daskawisz (doctor)
Michael Medeiros (club manager)
E.D. Phillips (jailer)
Norman Beim (cop at Haven)
Ken Burns (cop at house)
Ralph Corrado Jr (looter)

During a power cut, a gang of psychotics escape from the Haven maximum security psychiatric hospital and begin to stalk the psychiatrists who they believe have tormented them with their experimental theories.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Rank
Video Distributor: Rank

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Asso Film/New Line Cinema
Video Distributor: RCA/Columbia

Australia
Rating: M

UK
Rating: 18 (cut by 15 sec)

USA
Rating: R

1982
October
1: USA - theatrical release

1983
May
6: UK - theatrical release

Too frightened to breathe...

Soli nel buio - Italian title
Zwei Stunden vor Mitternacht - German title

SEE ALSO
Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (1982)
Friday the 13th (1980)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Terror in the Aisles (1984)

MAGAZINES

Cinefantastique vol.13 no.4 (April-May 1983) p.61
review

L'Ecran Fantastique no.15 (1980) p.53 (France)
review

Fangoria 25 pp.34-37, 62
illustrated article

Is It Uncut? 3 p.31
illustrated review

Kerrang! 44 p.13
illustrated review

Melody Maker 7 May 1983
review

New Musical Express 21 May 1983
review

Photoplay January 1984 p.52
review

Video World February 1984 p.24
review

NEWSPAPERS

Daily Mail 6 May 1983
review

Mail on Sunday 8 May 1983
review

BOOKS

Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror (2nd Edition) p.373
credits, review

Elliot's Guide to Films on Video (4th Edition) p.19
credits, short review, UK video data

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.20
credits, review

Horror and Science Fiction Films III p.10
credits

Virgin Film Yearbook 2 p.7
credits, review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

blackouts, mental institutions, psychiatric patients, psychiatrists, revenge, sieges, bars, postmen