

Cast a Deadly Spell
Bullets! Demons! The end of the world! Can’t hold a man like this!
In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
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6.1/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $6M
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- Language
- English
- gangster
- nightclub
- gremlin
- gargoyle
- zombie
- private detective
- occult
- astrology
- necronomicon
- nightclub owner
- nightclub singer
- 1940s
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalRSource: IMDb7 Sept 1991
CzechiaCZ
- Digital / OTT18+29 Jan 2004
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-167 Sept 1991
GermanyDE
- Theatrical167 Sept 1991
HungaryHU
- Theatrical167 Sept 1991
RomaniaRO
- Theatrical18+7 Sept 1991
SwedenSE
- Physical157 Sept 1991
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Cast a Deadly Spell was released on 7 September 1991.
Audience reviews
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Matt Golden
7/21/2013
The year: 1948. Magic is everywhere, the hallmark of progress. Hardboiled gumshoe Philip Lovecraft is a PI for hire, but his latest case, a search for a missing book called “The Necronomicon,” leads him down darker alleys than he’s ever traversed before, filled with black magic and hideous creatures intent on doing him harm. Charged with protecting a virtuous dame, finding a magical tome, and unravelling a murderous …
- G10/10
GenerationofSwine
1/11/2023
I guess the sequel to this is Witch Hunt, which I loved, and saw BEFORE Cast a Deadly Spell. It doesn't much matter only instead of the guy Dennis Hopper, you got Fred Ward, who is probably known to everyone as either "That guy from the Right Stuff" or "Remo Williams." And I grew up in a life surrounded by pulp trash novels. Westerns, mysteries, just dime novels that most people don't proudly display on a book …
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