Shadow Play

Shadow Play (1986)

Frightened by the future, haunted by the past...The two worlds of Morgan Hanna are about to shatter.

A playwright, who lost her fiance to suicide, is haunted by his spirit while staying on a remote island with his mother.

Date of release
1986-09-20
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Mystery, Horror
Director
Susan Shadburne

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $2M

Shadow Play is a 1986 American supernatural horror film directed by Susan Shadburne and starring Dee Wallace and Cloris Leachman. It follows a playwright who lost her fiancé seven years prior. She begins having reoccurring dreams about his death and suffers from writer's block. The film centers around the lighthouse where the tragedy took place. Throughout the film there are many subtle lighthouse effects and references. The Shadow Play within the story itself is literally a timing of each beat after another on the spinning of the beacon light of the lantern room.

Production

Shadow Play was directed by Susan Shadburne, a frequently collaborator and then spouse of Will Vinton who served as a producer on the film. Shadburne wrote the film under the initial title of Ghostwriter after having got the idea for the film after a visit to Orcas Island, and was inspired by a stone tower on the island to write a film with such a tower as a focal point.

Principal photography for Shadow Play began in October 1984 and continued for six weeks. Filming took place in Portland, Oregon and the San Juan Islands in Washington. Despite sometimes having to deal with 80 mph winds on the lighthouse catwalk or a viral outbreak amongst the crew from working 18-20 hour days, the movie was completed on schedule.

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