Death Reel

Death Reel

Death Reel

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Death Reel

1986

1h 20m

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Horror

Overview

An eccentric collector of rare movies shot on super-8 dies and his library is sold off. Film Fanatic Marty Weeks successfully bids on several reels of film and rushes home to watch them. The projector clatters to life an the light flickers on the screen as terror unspools in early short films made by the Polonia bros between 1983 and 1985, right before their switch to the new video format. Witness the celluloid horror of maniacal cults, scarecrow vengeance, and even an Aqua-Maniac! Watch as Death Reel unfolds and the fevered beginnings of the Polonia Bros gets you in its death grip!!!!!!

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14 members

Directing

Mark Polonia

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Mark Polonia

Directing

John Polonia

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John Polonia

Directing

Todd Michael Smith

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Chris Beacom

The Film Fanatic

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Matthew Satterly

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Jeff Sheldon

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William Reese

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Louis Reese

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Phil Nape

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Allen Scott

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Walt Dill

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John Bryans

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Graham David

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John Davise

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