 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (May 2018) |
| Death Weekend | |
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 1977 USA film poster (AIP) | |
| Directed by | William Fruet |
| Written by | William Fruet |
| Produced by | Ivan Reitman |
| Starring | Brenda Vaccaro Don Stroud Chuck Shamata |
| Cinematography | Robert Saad |
| Edited by | Debra Karen Jean LaFleur |
| Distributed by | Cinépix Film Properties (CFP)(Canada) American International Pictures(United States) |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 |
| Box office | $550,000 (Canada)[1] |
Death Weekend (released in the US under the title The House by the Lake) is a 1976 Canadian horror/thriller film. It stars Brenda Vaccaro and Don Stroud and was one of the first films from Canadian director William Fruet. The low-budget production was shot in rural Canada and at a studio in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada.
In 2019, the film got a Blu-ray release from Germany. The VHS was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic.