# Nightmare at Shadow Woods (1987)

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**Runtime**: 79 min
**Genres**: Horror, Thriller
**Directed by**: John Grissmer
**Written by**: Bruce Rubin
**Starring**: Louise Lasser, Mark Soper, Marianne Kanter, Julie Gordon, Jayne Bentzen, William Fuller

> *Not all the evil is on Elm Street ...*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Midnight at the Shadow Woods Drive-In. A single flickering projector hums.

Twin boys’ smiling faces split into something else after a joke turns into a hatchet buried in a stranger’s skull.

A slasher made while slasher rules were still wet behind the ears.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, gut-punch

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