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92% Rotten Tomatoes Music by Hubert Bartholomae Edited by Pia Fritsche Music director Hubert Bartholomae | 4/10 IMDb Directed by Roland Emmerich Cinematography Karl Walter Lindenlaub Director Roland Emmerich Story by Roland Emmerich | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Screenplay by Roland Emmerich
Thomas Kubisch Starring Jason Lively
Tim McDaniel
Jill Whitlow
Leonard Lansink
Paul Gleason
Ian MacNaughton Initial release 25 June 1987 (West Germany) Screenplay Roland Emmerich, Oliver Eberle, Thomas Kubisch Cast Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow, Paul Gleason, Tim McDaniel, Leonard Lansink Similar Joey, Munchie, Night of the Creeps, The Noah's Ark Principle, Moon 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hollywood-Monster (released as Ghost Chase in the United States) is a 1987 horror comedy film directed by Roland Emmerich, about a film crew working in a haunted mansion. Emmerich's third movie, it starred Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow, Paul Gleason and Tim McDaniel.
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The film was released theatrically in Germany on June 25, 1987. It would eventually be released on video cassette in the United States on February 7, 1990, by M.C.E.G. Virgin Home Entertainment. In 2001, the film was released on DVD by Image Entertainment but in full frame and without any bonus material. The DVD is now discontinued.
Plot
Two cousins, Fred and Warren, live together in Hollywood. Fred, an aspiring horror-movie director with developed skills in SFX and animatronics, desperately tries to shoot his first movie in their house, but Warren, who plays the main male protagonist, keeps on flirting with Laurie, the main actress. When she can't stand it anymore, the project is over, and the bills are pilling up.
Out of the blue, Warren is called out to the reading of his grandfather's will and testament. The boys end up with an old clock, inhabited with the spirit of Warren, Karl's grandfather's deformed butler. The benevolent spirit, having appeared to Fred in the night, inspires him a new script for which he builds an animatronic version of the butler, whose spirit inhabits.
The butler and the boys will help each other as they face another relative of Warren, Producer Stan Gordon, who wants the grandfather's heritage, and try to get Fred's new movie made. It will all end in a race against the clock in an old house basement, and a fight against a ghost armor, as the movie pays homage to the late 50-to-70's Sci Fi B movies.