American Gothic

American Gothic

Director

John Hough

Cast

Rod Steiger, Yvonne De Carlo, Michael J. Pollard

Running Time

89 minutes

Year of Production

1986

Genre(s)

Thriller

Six young friends are stranded on a remote island where they find a strange house occupied by an even stranger family. One by one the friends die macabre and horrible deaths until only Cynthia is left alive. When the secret of the island is revealed Cynthia’s tenuous grasp of reality snaps. Exacting her own form of revenge on the deranged family Cynthia becomes the sole survivor on the island of death awaiting the next innocent victim.


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