Seizure is a 1974 horror film. It is the feature film directorial debut of Oliver Stone, who also co-wrote the screenplay.
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Plot
Horror writer Edmund Blackstone sees his recurring nightmare come to chilling life one weekend as one by one, his friends and family are killed by three villains: the Queen of Evil, a dwarf named Spider, and a giant scar-faced strongman called Jackal.
Cast
Jonathan Frid as Edmund Blackstone
Martine Beswick as Queen of Evil
Joseph Sirola as Charlie
Hervé Villechaize as Spider
Anne Meacham as Eunice Kahn
Roger De Koven as Serge Kahn
Christina Pickles as Nicole Blackstone
Troy Donahue as Mark Frost
Mary Woronov as Mikki Hughes
Richard Cox as Gerald
Henry Judd Baker as Jackal
Alexis Kirk as Arris
Production
Seizure is the directorial debut of Oliver Stone, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Star Mary Woronov would later claim that gangster Michael Thevis was one of the film's producers. He apparently partially bankrolled the film in an attempt to launder money, as he was under investigation by the FBI.
Release
The film had a limited release theatrically in the United States by Cinerama Releasing Corporation, playing on New York's 42nd street in 1974.
The film was released on VHS by various video companies in the 1980s including Prism Entertainment. A transfer to DVD and Blu-ray was released on September 9, 2014, by Scorpion Releasing.