MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Irvin
Genres: Horror, Thriller
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This 1981 John_Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot -- shared by both book and film -- revolves around the four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred_Astaire, Melvyn_Douglas, Douglas_Fairbanks,_Jr. and John_Houseman), who gather in each other's drawing rooms each winter to sip cognac and spin elaborate ghost stories. The four men also share a dark secret far more unsettling than fiction -- a secret which has literally come back to haunt them, as well as their own adult offspring. Each man is visited by a hideous specter bearing the likeness of a young woman (Alice_Krige) they accidentally killed 50 years ago when spurning her mischievous sexual advances. Cavett Binion, Rovi


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