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Evil Town is a american film of genre Horror directed by Curtis Hanson released in USA on 2 june 1987 with James Keach
Evil Town (1987)
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Add to a movie listEvil Town is a 1987 American zombie horror film directed by Edward Collins, Mardi Rustam, Larry Spiegel, and Peter S. Traynor. Evil Town was the last film with the actor Dean Jagger.
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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.Actors
James Keach
(Christopher Fuller)
Dean Jagger
(Doctor Schaeffer)
Robert Walker Jr.
(Mike Segal)
Hope Summers
(Alice Wylie (as Hope Summer))
Doria Cook-Nelson
(Julie)
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