The Philadelphia Experiment

Dockside Pennsylvania, 1943. A warship hums under strange violet arcs. Two sailors vanish mid-flux then wake inside Philadelphia 1984, hunted by a Navy that erased the experiment. A forgotten pulp thriller reviving Cold War anxieties and shoestring FX cheer.

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Stewart Raffill directed The Philadelphia Experiment in 1984. See Stewart Raffill's full filmography, where to start with Stewart Raffill, or where to go after you've seen everything by Stewart Raffill.

The Philadelphia Experiment was released in 1984 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 102 minutes.