Night of the Demon (1980)

Director
James C. Wasson

Main cast
Michael Cutt; Paul Kelleher; Melanie Graham; Lynn Eastman-Rossi; Eugene Dow

Genres
Horror

Description
A professor and his students have a grisly encounter with a sasquatchlike creature that prowls the backwoods.


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