Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
- garbage
- psychopath
- paranoia
- dark comedy
- vacation
- suburbia
- neighbor
- serial killer
- slasher
- chainsaw
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tom Hanks
Ray Peterson
Bruce Dern
Lt. Mark Rumsfield
Carrie Fisher
Carol Peterson
Rick Ducommun
Art Weingartner
- Wendy Schaal — Bonnie Rumsfield
- Corey Feldman — Ricky Butler
- Courtney Gains — Hans Klopek
- Henry Gibson — Dr. Werner Klopek
- Gale Gordon — Walter Seznick
- Dick Miller — Vic, Garbageman #1
- Robert Picardo — Joe, Garbageman #2
- Theodore Gottlieb — Uncle Reuben Klopek
- Franklyn Ajaye — Detective #1
- Cory Danziger — Dave Peterson
- Rance Howard — Detective #2
- Directed
- Joe Dante
- Written
- Dana Olsen
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 1,419 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Rollins-Morra-Brezner Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
