Deadly Blessing

Deadly Blessing (1981)

Timing: 1:44 (104 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1981-08-14

Country

United States

Production

United Artists, Polygram Pictures, Interplanetary Pictures Productions

Genre

Horror, Thriller, Fantasy

Budget

$2 500 000

Revenue

$8 279 042

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Director

Wes Craven

Actors

Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Susan Buckner, Jeff East, Colleen Riley, Douglas Barr, Lisa Hartman, Lois Nettleton, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Berryman
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Patricia Herskovic, Max A. Keller, Micheline H. Keller, William S. Gilmore

Operator

Robert C. Jessup

Composer

James Horner

Artist

Audition

Shari Rhodes, Liz Keigley

Editing

Richard Bracken
All team (55)

• After an accident involving a horse and carriage, Ernest Borgnine was taken to the hospital with a head injury. He resumed filming three days later.
• The film is famous for the scene where a spider falls into a girl's mouth (Lana). Sharon Stone, who was then unknown to the general public, played her and, incidentally, starred in many of the film's posters. Director and screenwriter Wes Craven began trying to convince Stone to hold the spider herself. She demanded that the spider's chelicerae (its fangs) be removed first. They tried to dissuade her with the argument that it would be extremely difficult for the spider to feed afterwards, but she insisted.
• The scene with the creature emerging from the floor was imposed on Wes Craven by the film's producers (Max A. Keller, Matthew Barr, Glenn M. Benest, William S. Gilmore, Patricia Herskovitz).