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Dark Heritage is a film of genre Horror released in USA on 1 january 1989
Dark Heritage (1989)
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Add to a movie listDark Heritage (UK: Dark Heritage: The Final Descendant) is a 1989 American horror film produced and directed by David McCormick. It is an unofficial adaption of H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Lurking Fear" and the first of three film adaptions of H.P Lovecraft's short story.
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Following a violent storm, a small campsite in the Southern states is found littered with mutilated bodies. Journalist Clint Harrison investigates and learns of a family called the Dansens who kept a terrible secret. Resolving to get to the bottom of things, Harrison and his buddies decide to spend the night in the abandoned Dansen home with the result that there are more deaths, and Harrison finds out a terrible truth: he is related to the Dansens.Comments
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