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  • Actors: John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Tom Savini, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe
  • Directors: Bob Clark, David Gregory
  • Writers: Alan Ormsby
  • Producers: Bob Clark, Geoffrey Nethercott, Gerald Flint-Shipman, John Trent, Peter James
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Blue Underground
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Jun 2004
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00026PA70
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19,740 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A low-budget horror classic, 29 Oct 2009
By Big Mike (Bradford, West Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I first saw "Deathdream" as part of an all-night horror film show at a Georgia (U.S.A.) drive-in. It had already been around for many years, including on t.v. But it was especially good on a big screen on a warm Georgia night. This DVD contains numerous extras, some which were pretty rare finds. The director, the late Bob Clark, went on to make the first two "Porky's" films and the modern American holiday classic, "A Christmas Story". "Deathdream" is based on the classic horror short story, "The Monkey's Paw". It was filmed on location in the west coast Florida town, Brooksville. It features some excellent and early make-up effects by the then (1972) unknown Tom Savini. Richard Backus is chilling as "Andy Brooks" and John Marley is also excellent as his father "Charlie". Although there are moments of graphic violence, it is not as explicit as many films being made today. If you are a fan of good horror films, I simply cannot recommend this low-budget gem to you highly enough.
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4.0 out of 5 stars "I died for you, Doc. Now why shouldn't you return the favour?", 31 Jul 2009
By Doc Benway (Interzone) - See all my reviews
Deathdream (AKA Dead Of Night, The Night Andy Came Home) is a great little intelligent horror film.
Whilst George Romero was scrabbling around for another good idea to follow on from his seminal, brutal and scathing Night Of The Living Dead, Bob Clark seized the opportunity to amplify the sense of disillusionment and nihilism of Romero's masterpiece with this tale of an ordinary boy who comes back from Vietnam to his family profoundly altered. You see, Andy's dead and has become a murderous ghoul who needs to inject human blood to stave off the inevitable necrosis and preserve his boyish good looks.
His arrival as a monosyllabic shadow of his former self perplexes his family (who had been told he was dead), then leads to a total disintegration of their relationships with each other.
Deathdream plays with themes of the effect of Vietnam on combatants, the generational strife their trauma created with older Americans who didn't distinguish Nam from WW2 and Korea, the drug addiction some returning GI's succumbed to and a ghastly Oedipal power struggle between Andy's overprotective mother and more distant father.
A great cast plays out this melodrama with conviction, and it's all wrapped in a delicious horror coating with Andy slowly becoming more menacing (at one point he strangles the family dog in front of some neighborhood kids) homicidal and zombielike (great make up effects by Tom Savini in his first film outing.)
A real gem, it feels harsh to only give 4 stars, but I'm doing so in recognition of the fact that grainy low budget early 70's Nam allegories aren't going to appeal to everyone.
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