What case from Culver City, California had a horror film from 1982 based upon it?
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The Entity The Entity is a 1982 American horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie and written by Frank De Felitta, who adapted his 1978 novel of the same name. It stars Barbara Hershey as a woman who is raped and tormented by an invisible assailant. Despite being filmed and planned for a release in 1981, the movie was not released in worldwide theaters until September 1982 and February 1983 in the United States. Like the novel, the film is based on the 1974 Doris Bither case.
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Doris Bither case The Doris Bither case, also known as the Entity hauntings, was an alleged haunting which occurred in 1974 at Culver City, California where a woman named Doris Bither alleged the ghosts of three Asian men were raping her. The case inspired Frank De Felitta's 1978 book "The Entity" which was made into a 1982 film of the same name starring Barbara Hershey.
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Joe Gores Joseph Nicholas "Joe" Gores (born December 25, 1931, in Rochester, Minnesota, United States; died January 10, 2011, in Greenbrae, California) was an American mystery writer. He was known best for his novels and short stories set in San Francisco and featuring the fictional "Dan Kearney and Associates" (the "DKA Files") private investigation firm specializing in repossessing cars, a thinly veiled escalation of his own experiences as a confidential sleuth and repo man. Gores was also recognized for his novels "Hammett" (1975; made into the 1982 film "Hammett"), "Spade & Archer" (the 2009 prequel to Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon") and his Edgar Award-winning or -nominated works, such as "A Time of Predators", "32 Cadillacs" and "Come Morning".
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The Apartment Complex The Apartment Complex is a 1999 American made-for-television mystery-thriller film directed by Tobe Hooper.
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Upír z Feratu Upír z Feratu, also known as Ferat Vampire is a 1982 Czechoslovak horror film directed by Juraj Herz. The name is a pun on "Upír Nosferatu", or "Nosferatu the Vampire".
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Christine (1983 film) Christine is a 1983 American horror film directed by John Carpenter and starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, and Harry Dean Stanton. The film also features supporting performances from Roberts Blossom and Kelly Preston. Written by Bill Phillips and based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, the plot follows a sentient and violent vintage Plymouth Fury named Christine, and its effects on the car's new teenage owner.
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Pieces (film) Pieces (Original title: "Mil gritos tiene la noche"; translation: "The Night Has 1000 Screams") is a 1982 exploitation slasher film directed by Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simon and stars Christopher George, Linda Day, Frank Braña, Edmund Purdom, Paul L. Smith, Ian Sera, and Jack Taylor. Set at a college campus, the film follows a murderer brutally killing many of the students and using their body parts to make a human jigsaw puzzle. Since its release, the film has attracted a cult following and has been a drive-in favorite.
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Savage Weekend Savage Weekend is a 1979 American slasher film directed by David Paulsen and starring Christopher Allport, David Gale, William Sanderson, and Caitlin O'Heaney. The film follows a woman who retreats to upstate New York with her wealthy boyfriend, her sister, and friend, only to be stalked by a killer in a disfigured mask. Filmed in 1976 as "The Killer Behind the Mask", the film was also titled "The Upstate Murders" before being released in 1979 by Cannon Films. It has been cited as an early prototype for the slasher film, predating "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th".
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Murder by Natural Causes Murder by Natural Causes is a 1979 American television mystery film written by the creators of "Columbo", Richard Levinson and William Link.
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The Silent Scream (1979 film) The Silent Scream (released as Silent Scream) is a 1979 American horror film directed by Denny Harris, and starring Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Steele and Yvonne De Carlo. The film follows a college student who finds rooming in a hilltop boarding house where a homicidal killer is on the loose.
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2012 Aurora shooting On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film "The Dark Knight Rises". A gunman, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Twelve people were killed and 70 others were injured, the largest number of casualties in a shooting in the United States until the Orlando nightclub shooting four years later. This also was the deadliest shooting in Colorado since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. The sole assailant, James Eagan Holmes, was arrested in his car outside the cinema minutes later. Prior to the shooting, Holmes rigged his apartment with homemade explosives, which were defused by a bomb squad a day after the shooting.
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1982 (film) 1982 is a 2013 American drama film written and directed by Tommy Oliver and starring Hill Harper. It is Oliver's directorial debut. The film is also semi-autobiographical.
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Ladrón de Cadáveres Ladrón de Cadáveres (known in the United States as The Body Snatchers or The Body Snatcher), is a 1956 Mexican horror film directed by Fernando Mendez.
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Richard Ramirez Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez, known as Richard Ramirez (February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), was an American serial killer, rapist, and burglar. His highly publicized home invasion crime spree terrorized the residents of the greater Los Angeles area, and later the residents of the San Francisco area, from June 1984 until August 1985. Prior to his capture, Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media. He used a wide variety of weapons, including handguns, knives, a machete, a tire iron, and a hammer. Ramirez, who was an avowed Satanist, never expressed any remorse for his crimes. The judge who upheld his thirteen death sentences remarked that Ramirez's deeds exhibited "cruelty, callousness, and viciousness beyond any human understanding". Ramirez died of complications from B-cell lymphoma while awaiting execution on California's death row.
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Heatwave (film) Heatwave is a 1982 Australian film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the murder of Juanita Nielsen. It was the second of two films inspired by this story that came out around this time, the first being "The Killing of Angel Street" (1981).
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Sweet Inquest on Violence Sweet Inquest on Violence (French: "Douce enquête sur la violence" ) is a 1982 French drama film directed by Gérard Guérin. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
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The Victim (2011 film) The Victim is a 2011 American horror film directed, written and starring Michael Biehn, produced by and co-starring Jennifer Blanc.
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Deathtrap (film) Deathtrap is a 1982 American thriller film based on Ira Levin's play of the same name, directed by Sidney Lumet from a screenplay by Levin and Jay Presson Allen, starring Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon and Christopher Reeve. Critics gave the film mostly favorable reviews while noting its plot similarities to Caine's 1972 film "Sleuth".
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Mardi Gras Massacre Mardi Gras Massacre is a 1978 American horror film written and directed by Jack Weis. It is a semi-remake of the 1963 film "Blood Feast". The plot follows a serial killer roaming the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, sacrificing women to a Peruvian god. The film is notable for its reputation as a "video nasty," having been banned in the United Kingdom upon its release and given an X rating in the United States.
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Murder 101 (film) Murder 101 (also stylized as "Murder101" and known under the working title of "C.L.A.S.S.") is an American horror film that was directed by Michael Phillip Edwards. The film was released to DVD on June 10, 2014 and had a limited theatrical release on June 13, 2014. It stars Tom Sizemore, Donnabella Mortel, Dante Basco, and Dominica Westling, and follows a female law student that gets caught up in a twisted game of cat and mouse. Filming took place in Los Angeles, California during 2010.
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Poltergeist (film series) Poltergeist is an American horror film series distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the 1980s. The original trilogy revolves around the members of the Freeling family, who are stalked and terrorized by a group of ghosts lead by a demon known as the Beast that are attracted to the youngest daughter, Carol Anne. The original film was co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg. The "Poltergeist" films collected a total of approximately $132 million at the United States box office.
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Edge of the Axe Edge of the Axe (Original title: "Al Filo del Hacha") is a 1988 Spanish-American made-for-TV horror film about a masked maniac murdering people in a small Northern Californian suburb.