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Deathdream (originally released as Dead of Night) is a 1974 horror film directed and produced by Bob Clark, written by Alan Ormsby, and starring Richard Backus, John Marley, and Lynn Carlin. Inspired by the W. W. Jacobs short story "The Monkey's Paw", the film is about young American soldier Andy Brooks (Backus) who returns home after seemingly being killed in Vietnam, only now as an undead, vampiric creature.
In 1972 Vietnam, American soldier Andy Brooks is shot by a sniper and falls to the ground. As he dies, he hears his mother Christine's voice calling out, "Andy, you'll come back. You've got to. You promised."
Sometime later, Andy's family receives notice of his death in combat. His father, Charles, and sister, Cathy, begin to grieve, but Christine, becomes irate and refuses to believe that Andy has died. Meanwhile, a trucker stops at a diner and says that he has picked up a hitchhiker who is a soldier. Hours later, in the middle of the night, Andy arrives at his family's front door in full uniform, apparently unharmed; the family welcomes him back with joy, concluding the notice of his death was a clerical error. When Charles says the military told them Andy was dead, he replies "I was." The family laughs, thinking this a joke.
In the next few days, Andy displays strange, withdrawn behavior, speaking only rarely, dressing in a concealing manner, and spending his days sitting around the house, listless and anemic. At night, however, he becomes inexplicably animated, wandering the town and spending time in the local cemetery. Meanwhile, local police investigate the murder of the trucker, who was found with his throat slashed and his body drained of blood.
Charles attempts to confront Christine about Andy's erratic behavior. Christine insists that Charles was too withdrawn and authoritarian toward Andy; Charles counters that Christine made Andy too sensitive by smothering him. Andy's behavior escalates: he attacks a neighbor boy who attempts to demonstrate his karate skills, then kills the family dog Butch when it tries to protect the child. Charles witnesses the killing, tells his wife that their son is crazy, and then goes to a bar, where he tells his friend, physician Doc Philip Allman, what Andy did.
Charles brings Doc home, and he offers Andy a free checkup. Doc asks questions related to the trucker, suspecting Andy of being the one who killed him. Doc later tells Charles about the trucker and says he needs to inform the police about the suspicious coincidence of Andy's return. Andy visits Doc at his office in the middle of the night, angrily demanding a checkup, but Doc can't detect a pulse or heartbeat. Andy tells him, "I died for you, Doc. Why shouldn't you return the favor?" He attacks and kills Doc with a syringe, then uses it to inject the doctor's blood into his arm to reinvigorate his decaying body.
The next day, Charles learns of Doc's death and realizes his son is responsible. When Christine tells him that Andy is on a double date with Cathy, his high school sweetheart Joanne, and his best friend Bob, Charles gets his gun and goes looking for them. At a drive-in cinema, Andy visibly decays due to lack of blood. After Cathy and Bob leave the car to get more popcorn, Joanne attempts to strike up a conversation with Andy. When Andy's decay becomes more visible, he attacks and kills Joanne. Cathy and Bob return to find Andy in a raged frenzy and he attacks the two. Andy strangles Bob and attempts to run over Cathy. A samaritan shoves Cathy to the side and is fatally hit by Andy. Andy flees in the car before he can inject his victims' blood.
Andy returns home, where his mother protects him from his father. Charles, stricken with grief, commits suicide when he sees the monster his son has become. As Christine is driving Andy away, he is shot twice by police, and their gunfire sets the car on fire. The police pursuit ends at the cemetery, where Andy's decayed corpse is discovered writhing in a shallow grave beneath a tombstone on which he had scrawled his own name and the dates of his birth and death. Christine sobs as she tries to cover the corpse with dirt. Her car explodes, and she tells officers, "Andy's home. Some boys never come home."
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Deathdream (originally released as Dead of Night) is a 1974 horror film directed and produced by Bob Clark, written by Alan Ormsby, and starring Richard Backus, John Marley, and Lynn Carlin. Inspired by the W. W. Jacobs short story "The Monkey's Paw", the film is about young American soldier Andy Brooks (Backus) who returns home after seemingly being killed in Vietnam, only now as an undead, vampiric creature.
In 1972 Vietnam, American soldier Andy Brooks is shot by a sniper and falls to the ground. As he dies, he hears his mother Christine's voice calling out, "Andy, you'll come back. You've got to. You promised."
Sometime later, Andy's family receives notice of his death in combat. His father, Charles, and sister, Cathy, begin to grieve, but Christine, becomes irate and refuses to believe that Andy has died. Meanwhile, a trucker stops at a diner and says that he has picked up a hitchhiker who is a soldier. Hours later, in the middle of the night, Andy arrives at his family's front door in full uniform, apparently unharmed; the family welcomes him back with joy, concluding the notice of his death was a clerical error. When Charles says the military told them Andy was dead, he replies "I was." The family laughs, thinking this a joke.
In the next few days, Andy displays strange, withdrawn behavior, speaking only rarely, dressing in a concealing manner, and spending his days sitting around the house, listless and anemic. At night, however, he becomes inexplicably animated, wandering the town and spending time in the local cemetery. Meanwhile, local police investigate the murder of the trucker, who was found with his throat slashed and his body drained of blood.
Charles attempts to confront Christine about Andy's erratic behavior. Christine insists that Charles was too withdrawn and authoritarian toward Andy; Charles counters that Christine made Andy too sensitive by smothering him. Andy's behavior escalates: he attacks a neighbor boy who attempts to demonstrate his karate skills, then kills the family dog Butch when it tries to protect the child. Charles witnesses the killing, tells his wife that their son is crazy, and then goes to a bar, where he tells his friend, physician Doc Philip Allman, what Andy did.
Charles brings Doc home, and he offers Andy a free checkup. Doc asks questions related to the trucker, suspecting Andy of being the one who killed him. Doc later tells Charles about the trucker and says he needs to inform the police about the suspicious coincidence of Andy's return. Andy visits Doc at his office in the middle of the night, angrily demanding a checkup, but Doc can't detect a pulse or heartbeat. Andy tells him, "I died for you, Doc. Why shouldn't you return the favor?" He attacks and kills Doc with a syringe, then uses it to inject the doctor's blood into his arm to reinvigorate his decaying body.
The next day, Charles learns of Doc's death and realizes his son is responsible. When Christine tells him that Andy is on a double date with Cathy, his high school sweetheart Joanne, and his best friend Bob, Charles gets his gun and goes looking for them. At a drive-in cinema, Andy visibly decays due to lack of blood. After Cathy and Bob leave the car to get more popcorn, Joanne attempts to strike up a conversation with Andy. When Andy's decay becomes more visible, he attacks and kills Joanne. Cathy and Bob return to find Andy in a raged frenzy and he attacks the two. Andy strangles Bob and attempts to run over Cathy. A samaritan shoves Cathy to the side and is fatally hit by Andy. Andy flees in the car before he can inject his victims' blood.
Andy returns home, where his mother protects him from his father. Charles, stricken with grief, commits suicide when he sees the monster his son has become. As Christine is driving Andy away, he is shot twice by police, and their gunfire sets the car on fire. The police pursuit ends at the cemetery, where Andy's decayed corpse is discovered writhing in a shallow grave beneath a tombstone on which he had scrawled his own name and the dates of his birth and death. Christine sobs as she tries to cover the corpse with dirt. Her car explodes, and she tells officers, "Andy's home. Some boys never come home."