The Seduction

The Seduction (1982)

Alone... Terrified... Trapped like an animal. Now she's fighting back with the only weapon she has... Herself.

A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.

Date of release
1982-01-22
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (45)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Thriller
Director
David Schmoeller

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 3

The Seduction is a 1982 American thriller film written and directed by David Schmoeller, and starring Morgan Fairchild, Michael Sarrazin, Vince Edwards, and Andrew Stevens. Its plot follows Los Angeles news anchor Jamie Douglas who is aggressively pursued by obsessive male stalker Derek Sanford. The original music score was composed by Lalo Schifrin. Reviews for the film have mainly been negative which resulted in three Golden Raspberry Award nominations, including two for Fairchild.

Production

The Seduction was written and directed by David Schmoeller, who had previously directed the slasher film Tourist Trap (1979). Irwin Yablans served as a co-producer alongside Bruce Cohn Curtis, marking their third producing collaboration after Roller Boogie (1979) and Hell Night (1981).

Filming took place in Los Angeles over a period of seven weeks in the spring of 1981. Producer Irwin Yablans had hoped to complete production before the June 30 expiry of the Directors Guild of America contract. The shoot was met by several protests when Yablans hired an exclusively non-union crew. Frank Capra Jr. served as an executive producer on the film.

Dionne Warwick sings the theme song over the opening titles.

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