# Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)

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**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: TV Movie, Mystery, Comedy, Horror, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Martin Campbell
**Written by**: Joseph Dougherty
**Starring**: Fred Ward, David Warner, Julianne Moore, Clancy Brown, Alexandra Powers, Charles Hallahan

> *Bullets! Demons! The end of the world! Can’t hold a man like this!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

New Orleans 1947. The humid air smells of absinthe and old grimoires.

A detective who talks out of both sides of his hat gets hired to find a missing spellbook.

Martin Campbell’s noir-lite TV movie where H.P. Lavcraft meets Chandler.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, neon-soaked, playful

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