Dark Tower (1987) on Netflix
R19871h 31mHorrorMysteryThriller
Security consultant Dennis Randall comes to a Barcelona office tower to investigate a window washer's fatal fall. He can find no fault in the building, yet the deaths continue.
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Plot summary
A window washer falls to his death from an office high-rise in Barcelona. Dennis Randall, a security consultant, is brought in to examine the tower, and he cannot locate a problem in the building. He keeps looking anyway. More deaths follow, gruesome ones, inside the offices and on the ground around them. A parapsychologist, an exorcist and an architect take an interest in the same address. What meets them there is not a structural fault but a malicious presence that has settled into the high-rise.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dark Tower (1987)
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- Director Freddie Francis was so unhappy with the finished Dark Tower that he insisted his name be removed from it, and Sandy Howard replaced it with the pseudonym Ken Barnett.
- Original stars Roger Daltrey and Lucy Gutteridge dropped out of Dark Tower; Freddie Francis said Daltrey could not give a good performance and Gutteridge was struggling with the material, and hired Michael Moriarty and Jenny Agutter instead.
- Sandy Howard sued three film companies that failed to provide financing for Dark Tower, which forced director Freddie Francis to cut corners further than he expected.
- Ken Wiederhorn was set to direct Dark Tower but lost the job when financing dragged on and personal issues forced him to withdraw; he was then offered Return of the Living Dead Part II to write and direct.
- After shooting wrapped on Dark Tower, the producer added new scenes and special effects and altered plot points such as Dennis Randall's recurring nightmares and a rooftop climax with Carolyn Page; Howard edited the film without Freddie Francis.
- Francis's frustration with Dark Tower drove him back to cinematography full-time and he never directed another feature; two years after its premiere he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Glory.
