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Scarab
Release Date: Jun 22, 1984
60%

Genres: Horror, Adventure

Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few drops of blood fall onto the scarab. His laboratory is rocked by an explosion, the god Khepera appears and Manz is transformed into a demi-god magician. Thirty years later, Manz has assumed the name Khepera and lives in mysterious castle. Using his magical powers, he is killing heads of government and causing the collapse of major financial institutions. Jack Murphy, an American correspondent, witnesses the pandemonium following the suicide of the Spanish prime minister and notices an attractive nurse, Elena, take a small scarab which has fallen from the prime minister's lapel. Later, he visits an occult shop where the scarab is identified as being associated with the Egyptian god, Khepera. Murphy is captured and Elena — who was tricked into sacrificing her brother when they were children — once more takes up the sacrificial dagger...

Featured Cast: click image to view more
Rip Torn | Khepera
Robert Ginty | Murphy
Cristina Sánchez Pascual | Elena
Isabel García Lorca | Shelley
Mayrata O'Wisiedo | Saturna
Donald Pickering | Harrington
Featured Crew
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Steven-Charles Jaffe | Director
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Robert Jaffe | Screenplay
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Steven-Charles Jaffe | Screenplay
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Jim Block | Screenplay
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José María Tapiador | Art Direction
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Yvonne Blake | Costume Design