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Don’t Open Till Christmas released December 19, 1984

Posted by GoreMaster Special Effects on December 19, 2009

Don’t Open Till Christmas is a 1984 British horror film starring Edmund Purdom, Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne and Mark Jones.  Directed by Edmund Purdom.

Trivia

  • The film took almost two years to complete after original director Edmund Purdom quit the job and Derek Ford took over but was fired after two days. The distributors then hired Ray Selfe to complete the direction and Al McGoohan to rewrite parts of the script, including the original ending and the London Dungeon sequence, and much of the footage was completely re-filmed.
  • Although the character of Dr Bridle (played by Nicholas Donnelly) is referred to in the script he has never appeared in any print of the movie. Due to the films many production difficulties his scenes were probably filmed but deleted.
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