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Quick Info

Rating

6.0/10

Release1987

Runtime1h 54m

StatusReleased

Budget$13,000,000

Revenue$18,753,438

Production

Orion Pictures

Movie

The Believers

1987

1h 54m

6.0

Horror

Mystery

Thriller

Synopsis

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

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