Tower of Terror (film)
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| Directed by | D. J. MacHale |
| Produced by | Iain Paterson |
| Written by | D. J. MacHale |
| Based on | Disney's The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror |
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Steve Guttenberg Kirsten Dunst Alastair Duncan Melora Hardin John Franklin Wendy Worthington Amzie Strickland Lindsay Ridgeway Nia Peeples Michael McShane |
| Music by | Louis Febre |
| Cinematography | Stephen McNutt |
| Edited by | Barry Zetlin |
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Zaloom/Mayfield Productions
Walt Disney Television |
| Distributed by | ABC |
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Running time
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89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tower of Terror is a 1997 made-for-TV supernatural thriller directed by D. J. MacHale. It is based on the theme park attraction, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, at Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida and was originally a presentation of The Wonderful World of Disney. It is also Disney's first film based on an attraction at one of its theme parks, and the only adaptation to be made for television.
Unlike the theme park ride, the film has no connection to any incarnation of The Twilight Zone.
Much of the film was shot at the actual attraction at Disney-MGM Studios. The rest was filmed on a closed stage in Hollywood, California.
Buzzy Crocker is a journalist who was fired from the Los Angeles Banner (where his then girlfriend Jill worked) for publishing a news story which turned out to be fake. He now writes for a supermarket tabloid, "The National Inquisitor". Buzzy is close friends with his young niece Anna.
An elderly woman named Abigail Gregory comes to visit Buzzy, and explains that on Halloween in 1939, she was witness to an amazing incident in the Hollywood Tower Hotel, when five hotel guests, singer Carolyn Crosson, her boyfriend Gilbert London, much-loved child actress Sally Shine, her nanny Emeline Partridge, and bellhop Dewey Todd, mysteriously disappeared when they were in an elevator on their way up to a party at the Tip Top Club.
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