The Evictors (1979)

Director
Charles B. Pierce

Main cast
Vic Morrow; Michael Parks; Jessica Harper; Sue Ane Langdon; Dennis Fimple

Genres
Drama, Horror, Thriller, Crime

Description
In the 1940s, a young couple moves into a remote house near a small town in Louisiana. The house has a history of violence that seems to be repeating itself…


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