Cast a Deadly Spell
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| Genre | Comedy Fantasy Horror Mystery |
| Written by | Joseph Dougherty |
| Directed by | Martin Campbell |
| Starring |
Fred Ward Julianne Moore Clancy Brown David Warner Charles Hallahan Alexandra Powers |
| Music by | Curt Sobel |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) |
Gale Anne Hurd Ginny Nugent (line producer) |
| Cinematography | Alexander Gruszynski |
| Editor(s) | Dan Rae |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Production company(s) |
HBO Pacific Western |
| Distributor | HBO |
| Budget | $6,000,000 |
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| Original network | HBO |
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Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) is a horror, detective HBO film with Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, David Warner and Clancy Brown. It was directed by Martin Campbell, produced by Gale Anne Hurd, and written by Joseph Dougherty. The original music score was composed by Curt Sobel.
Ward stars as 1948 hardboiled private detective H. Philip Lovecraft, in a fictional universe where magic is real, monsters and mythical beasts stalk the back alleys, zombies are used as cheap labor, and everyone—except Lovecraft—uses magic every day. Yet, cars, telephones and other modern technology also exist in this world.
HBO produced a sequel, Witch Hunt. Witch Hunt takes place in the 1950s during the red scare, in which magic is substituted for communism. Dennis Hopper played Lovecraft in place of Fred Ward. Additionally, many characters have different background stories than in Cast a Deadly Spell. For example, Lovecraft refuses to use magic in Cast a Deadly Spell on principle, and because of a bad experience in Witch Hunt.
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