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The Believers

1987 114 min ★ 5.9 Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

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Cast

Martin Sheen

Cal Jamison

Helen Shaver

Jessica Halliday

Harley Cross

Chris Jamison

Robert Loggia

Lt. Sean McTaggert

Elizabeth Wilson

Kate Maslow

Harris Yulin

Robert Calder

Lee Richardson

Dennis Maslow

Richard Masur

Marty Wertheimer

Carla Pinza

Carmen Ruiz

Jimmy Smits

Tom Lopez

Details

Director

John Schlesinger

Screenplay

Mark Frost

Tagline

"Nothing can stop them, no one can help you. They know who you are."

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$13,000,000

Revenue

$18,753,438

Production

Orion Pictures

Reviews

Wuchak

August 9, 2019

★ 6/10

***Unpleasant big city crime drama with Martin Sheen that morphs into sorcery-oriented horror*** A widowed therapist (Martin Sheen) moves back to New York City to find himself assisting the NYPD in a series of slayings linked to a Caribbean Voodoo-like cult. Things get worse when he discovers they want his son for a human sacrifice. Helen Shaver plays his landlord and possible romantic interes...