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Cries in the Night is a canadien film of genre Thriller directed by William Fruet released in USA on 12 august 1982 with Lesleh Donaldson
Cries in the Night (1981)
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Add to a movie listFuneral Home (also known as Cries in the Night) is a 1980 Canadian horror/thriller directed by William Fruet starring Lesleh Donaldson, Kay Hawtrey, Jack Van Evera, Alf Humphreys, and Harvey Atkin. Both Donaldson and Humphreys would later become cult favorites of the horror genre for the film, and also Donaldson's roles in Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and Curtains (1983), and Humphreys in Death Weekend (1976) and My Bloody Valentine (1981). Fruet would later direct the 1986 slasher film Killer Party.
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A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her grandmother turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. But soon after they open, guests begin to either disappear and/or turn up dead.Actors
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