Nightmare at Noon (1988)
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Directors
Nico Mastorakis
Cast
George Kennedy, Bo Hopkins, Wings Hauser, Kimberly Beck, Brion James
The story
A mad albino scientist (Brion James) injects a substance into the water supply for the fictional town of Canyonland, an isolated town in rural Utah, with the help of a shadowy, unknown agency. Anybody who drinks the water eventually turns into a rabid zombie. Some visitors who recently arrived in a recreational vehicle observe the zombies.
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Action, Horror, action film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
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