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Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy(1994)
Status: Released
Date: 1994-03-09
75%
1321 Votes
Time: 1h 40m
Overview:
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Languages: French, Swedish, English.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Top 10 Billed Cast
Chantal Lauby
Odile Deray / Louise, TV journalist
Alain Chabat
Serge Karamazov / Youri / Jacques, TV journalist
Dominique Farrugia
Simon Jérémi / Benjamin / Michel, TV journalist
Gérard Darmon
Commissioner Patrick Bialès / Maurice Bialès / Alicia Lampéro
Sam Karmann
Disturbing man / Youri / Émile Gravier
Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Jean-Paul Martoni
Eric Prat
Philippe Garcia
Marc de Jonge
Serge Karamazov's boss
Valérie Lemercier
M. Jacques' widow
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Overview
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Release Date
1994-03-09
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