This article is about the 1981 horror film. For the Animotion album, see Strange Behavior (album).
Strange Behavior
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Michael Laughlin
Written by
Bill Condon
Michael Laughlin
Produced by
Antony I. Ginnane
John Barnett
Starring
Michael Murphy
Louise Fletcher
Dan Shor
Fiona Lewis
Arthur Dignam
Cinematography
Louis Horvath
Edited by
Petra von Oelffen
Music by
Tangerine Dream
Production companies
Hemdale
Fay Richwhite
South Street Films
Gupta Film Services
Flavius Films
Endeavour Productions
Bannon Glen
Distributed by
GUO Film Distributors (Australia)
Endeavour Productions (New Zealand)
World Northal (US)
Release dates
16 October 1981 (1981-10-16) (U.S.)
17 June 1982 (1982-06-17) (Australia)
Running time
94 minutes
Countries
Australia
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$1 million[1]
Strange Behavior (also known as Dead Kids, Small Town Massacre, Shadowlands, Human Experiments) is a 1981 slasher film written, directed and co-produced by Michael Laughlin, co-written with Bill Condon, and starring Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher and Dan Shor. Its plot follows a series of bizarre murders being perpetrated against teenagers in a small Midwestern town, at the same time that the local university is engaging in covert mind control experiments on the youth.
An international co-production between United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, the film was intended as the first instalment of the Strange Trilogy which was cancelled after the second instalment, Strange Invaders, failed to attract a large enough audience. It is a homage to the pulp horror films of the 1950s. The film is considered a seminal work of New Zealand cinema, being the first horror film produced in the country. It has since attracted a large cult following.
While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic.
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