A chance encounter. A dream come true. A man would do anything for a girl like Miranda
After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.
- 5.8
- 1988
- Released
- 1h 39m
Tim Daly
Jeff Mills
Kelly Preston
Miranda Reed
Rick Rossovich
Derek Clayton
Audra Lindley
Mrs. White
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Lt. Lee
Diana Bellamy
Grace Woods
Anthony Crivello
Aldys
Roderick Cook
Ed Kennerle
Stefan Gierasch
Edgar DeWitt
Kyle T. Heffner
Herbie Green
Julian Christopher
Tim Weatherly
M.C. Gainey
Brock
Sally Kemp
Marilyn DeWitt
Bob McCracken
Simmons
Cynthia Steele
Receptionist
Richard Fancy
Sgt. BarryPeter Schreiner
Barry
John DeMita
BradDiane Racine
Woman in Coven
Alexandra Morgan
Pamela
Christopher Lawford
Phil
Dale Cummings
FryeHarold Diamond
ManDon Woodard
Steve
Marisa Redanty
Alice
Thomas F. Maguire
PriestMelodee Spevack
Young Witch (uncredited)
Released
en
$1,938,049.00
- #nightmare
- #seduction
- #betrayal
- #lawyer
- #los angeles, california
- #witchcraft
- #dagger
- #occult
- #satanic ritual
- #coven
Reviews
"Spellbinder" draws most of its inspiration from the undisputed genre classic "The Wicker Man" (1973) and it manages to add a few extra touches of its own (the satanists making a blood sacrifice). It also draws some additional inspiration from Dennis Wheatley's classic "The Devil Rides Out" (1968) with the satanists relentlessly pursuing Miranda (Kelly Preston) after she has gone missing. However,
**_Timothy Daly and Kelly Preston enjoy a romance and grapple with cultists in SoCal_** A lawyer in Los Angeles (Daly) helps a woman (Preston) abused by a mysterious man. As they develop a relationship, he discovers that there’s a secret group of people who don’t want him to have her. “Spellbinder” (1988) is occult-oriented thriller/horror in the vein of “The City of The Dead” (1960), “The W