| Evil Town | |
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| Directed by | Edward Collins Larry Spiegel Peter S. Traynor Mardi Rustam |
| Produced by | Joan Kasha William D. Sklar Peter S. Traynor |
| Written by | Royce D. Applegate Richard Benson Larry Spiegel |
| Starring | James Keach Dean Jagger Robert Walker, Jr. Doria Cook-Nelson Michele Marsh Christie Houser Hope Summers Lynda Wiesmeier |
| Music by | Michael Linn |
| Cinematography | Bob Ioniccio Bill Mann |
| Editing by | David Blangsted Jess Mancilla Peter Parasheles |
| Studio | Production Company: Mars Productions[1] |
| Distributed by | New World
Pictures Starmaker Video Trans World Entertainment (TWE) |
| Release date(s) | June 2, 1987 |
| Running time | 88 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Evil Town is a 1987 American zombie horror film directed by Edward Collins, Mardi Rustam, Larry Spiegel, and Peter S. Traynor.[2][1][3][4]. Evil Town was the last film with the actor Dean Jagger, after more than 50 years of being active as an actor[5].
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The film went into production in 1984 and went through numerous re-writes and re-edits before release in 1987.[3] It is made up of footage of several older films, with major footage coming from the unfinished Dean Jagger film God Bless Doctor Shagetz. When the pieces of the various older films were patched together, there was inclusion of some new footage, including some with Jillian Kesner and nude scenes with Playboy Playmate Lynda Wiesmeier.[6]
When beginning work Evil Town in 1984, director Mardi Rustam liked the story enough to make his own version which he released as Evils in the Night in 1985,[6][7] two years before the release of Evil Town.
The film depicts an evil scientist's (Dean Jagger) campaign to achieve eternal youth, through synthesizing a drug derived from human pituitary fluid. In extracting the fluid, he creates mindless zombies from the donors. Because the local town residents are in on the plot, to achieve immortality, they help the scientist, by abducting visitors who come through town.[8]
Cavett Binion of All Movie Guide called it a "silly horror film" and noted that it was an assemblage of parts of earlier films, including an unfinished one from the 70s, and that it was "spiced up with some gratuitous nudity courtesy of former Playboy playmate Lynda Wiesmeier." While remarking that the editor's efforts to maintain continuity were comendable, he concluded that "the end result seems hardly worth the effort".[9]
The film was scheduled for release on June 3, 1987, but due to the high level of anticipation for the movie, many theaters began showing it on the evening of June 2, 1987. It was released in USA on VHS in November 1987[10].
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