Dark Tower
1987
91 Min
Synopsis
Prominent architect Carolyn Page (Jenny Agutter) is erecting a skyscraper of unparalleled dimension, but when a window washer falls to his death and a string of other grisly accidents follow, coincidence can’t explain the tower’s evil atmosphere. Fearing the spirit of Carolyn’s dead husband is responsible, security consultant Dennis Randall (Michael Moriarty) calls in parapsychologist Max Gold (Theodore Bikel) to corner the vicious aura.
Director
Freddie Francis
A clapper boy in British films while a teenager, Freddie Francis became a camera assistant and in the mid-1950s was an operator for Oswald Morris, the director of photography on John Huston’s Moulin Rouge (1953) and Beat the Devil (1954); he also directed second-unit footage for Huston’s Moby Dick (1956). As a director of photography himself, Francis worked for directors Karel Reisz (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1961, Night Must Fall (1964), Jack Cardiff (Sons and Lovers), and fellow Huston-alumnus Jack Clayton (Room at the Top (1959), The Innocents).
In the early 1960s he began directing but still occasionally shot films for such directors as Reisz and David Lynch. As a director, Francis has specialized in horror films, notably at Hammer, but also for producers Max J. Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky and the anthology films Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), Torture Garden, and Tales from the Crypt (1972). —allmovie guide
Ken Wiederhorn
Writer/director/producer Ken Wiederhorn was born in the Rego Park section of Queens, New York. Wiederhorn attended Kenyon College in Ohio for two years, but dropped out during his sophomore year. Ken returned to New York and got a job as a mail boy at the CBS television network. He worked his way up from gofer to editor and eventually became a news producer. Wiederhorn studied film at Columbia University, where one of his professors was noted movie critic Andrew Sarris. Ken made his promising feature debut as director and co-writer of the supremely eerie and effective Nazi zombie horror winner “Shock Waves.” Wiederhorn’s subsequent pictures have been a decidedly mixed bag: the uproariously raunchy “Animal House” cash-in “King Frat,” the nifty slasher item “Eyes of a Stranger,” the dopey “Meatballs Part II,” the disappointing “Return of the Living Dead, Part II,” and the excellent thriller sleeper “A House in the Hills.” Moreover, Ken has also directed episodes of the TV shows “Dark… read more
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