Alison’s Birthday
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1h 38m
Directed by Ian Coughlan • 1981 • Australia
Starring Joanne Samuel, Bunney Brooke, Lou Brown
Something like an Australian answer to ROSEMARY’S BABY, this satanic-panic shocker remains one of the most chilling—and criminally underseen—Ozploitation outings of the 1980s. When a Ouija board séance with her friends warns teenage orphan Alison (Joanne Samuel of MAD MAX fame) not to return home for her nineteenth birthday, it unlocks an occult conspiracy of fear, violence, and demonic deliverance—all building to a seriously creepy climax.
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