Cameron's Closet

Cameron's Closet (1988)

A new place to look for terror.

A father who experiments with his son's psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments have released a demon from hell which lives in his son's closet, preparing to take over the young boy's soul.

Date of release
1988-12-02
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (31)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Horror
Director
Armand Mastroianni

Casting

Interesting facts

Cameron's Closet, also known as Cameron's Terror, is a 1988 American supernatural horror film. The film was directed by Armand Mastroianni and stars Scott Curtis, Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Tab Hunter, Kim Lankford, Gary Hudson and William Lustig.

Production

The screenplay of Cameron's Closet was written by Gary Brandner, who had previously written both the trilogy of novels and the film adaptations of the acclaimed The Howling. Brandner significantly rewrote the story when adapting it for film with the most notable difference being that in the novel Cameron was five years old and his older brother, Timothy, was their father's first choice for the experiments with Brandner merging the two into one ch…

The special effects of Cameron's Closet were done by Carlo Rambaldi, who had previously designed the eponymous character in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the mechanical-head effects for the creature in Alien (1979), for both of which had earned Rambaldi an Oscar. Rambaldi also worked on Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) (1975), King Kong (1976), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Dune (1984) and King Kong Lives (1986).

Cult horror film director William Lustig has a cameo in the film as a pornographic film director being booked by the police.

Production on the film took place between May and June 1987 in Los Angeles, California over a ten-week shooting schedule.

Cotter Smith and Mel Harris later married after meeting each other on set.

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