Phobia (1980 film)

Phobia
Theatrical poster
Directed byJohn Huston
Written byPeter Bellwood
Lew Lehman
Jimmy Sangster
Story byRonald Shusett
Gary Sherman
Produced byZale Magder
StarringPaul Michael Glaser
Susan Hogan
John Colicos
CinematographyReginald H. Morris
Edited byStan Cole
Music byAndré Gagnon
Production
company
Borough Park Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • September 9, 1980 (1980-09-09)
Running time
94 min. (approx.)
CountryCanada[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5,100,000
Box office$59,167

Phobia is a 1980 Canadian psychological thriller film directed by John Huston, with a screenplay written by Peter Bellwood, Lew Lehman and Jimmy Sangster; from a story by Ronald Shusett and Gary Sherman. It stars Paul Michael Glaser as an experimental psychotherapist, whose patients are targeted by a killer whose methods prey on their phobias.[2]

The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, before being released in Canada by Paramount Pictures on September 26, 1980, to a lukewarm critical reception.

  1. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 169-170.
  2. ^ "Film Review: Phobia (1980)". horrornews.net. Retrieved 2017-01-18.

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