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Movie poster: They're Playing with Fire (1984)
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They're Playing with Fire

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1984 · 96 min Crime Horror Thriller
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

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Year 1984
Country United States of America
Genre Crime, Horror, Thriller
Director Howard Avedis
Runtime 96 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (49 votes)

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Fear lives in the details here — in the frame, in the silence, in the pauses between lines. The director knows how to keep the viewer in a state of readiness, muscles tensing on their own.

Worth watching for the atmosphere and the use of space. The ending may disappoint — genre is genre. But the journey there is well-crafted.

For fans of atmospheric horror where dread matters more than fright.

Director: Howard Avedis

— MovieFinder Editorial

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Viewing atmosphere: At night when it's dark outside. Better with someone — not because it's scary, but because there's something to discuss after.

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