Sandor Stern

Writing

Sandor Stern

Born July 13, 1936 · Timmins, Ontario, Canada (age 90)

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Born in the northern Canadian town of Timmins, Ontario; raised in the small town of Prescott, Ontario, on the St. Lawrence River; Sandor Stern was drawn to short story writing while in high school and began writing stage plays while attending the University of Toronto. Though he planned to obtain a degree in teaching, a physician-uncle suggested that medi…

Known For

The Amityville HorrorThe Amityville Horror · 2005
The Amityville Horror
★ 6.12005
MovieHorror
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
The Amityville HorrorThe Amityville Horror · 1979
The Amityville Horror
★ 6.31979
MovieHorror
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
Amityville: The Evil EscapesAmityville: The Evil Escapes · 1989
Amityville: The Evil Escapes
★ 4.61989
MovieHorrorTV Movie
After moving into their matriarch's gothic seaside mansion, the Evans family soon becomes host to an uninvited demonic force in the form of a mysterious lamp that once resided in the Amityville house.
Secret WeaponsSecret Weapons · 1985
Secret Weapons
★ 6.41985
MovieDramaTV Movie
Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.
The Strange and Deadly OccurrenceThe Strange and Deadly Occurrence · 1974
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
★ 5.91974
MovieHorrorMystery
A family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.
You Belong to MeYou Belong to Me · 2008
You Belong to Me
★ 2.62008
MovieThrillerCrime
After a messy divorce, Alex Wilson isn't interested in the advances of her colleague, Michael. But when Michael's interest takes a morbid turn and someone ends up dead, Alex becomes trapped in a supernatural struggle to save her son from a scorned (and deceased) suitor.
PassionsPassions · 1984
Passions
★ 6.81984
MovieDramaTV Movie
A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.
PinPin · 1988
Pin
★ 6.71988
MovieHorrorThriller
Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with him and his sister Ursula, much to her reluctance. Soon, however, Leon's fixation on Pin spirals out of control, and Ursula must face the devastating consequences.

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A Child's Cry for HelpA Child's Cry for Help · 1994
A Child's Cry for Help
★ 7.51994
MovieDramaTV Movie
A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?

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ProbeProbe · 1988
Probe
★ 7.61988
SeriesDrama
Probe is a 1988 American television pilot and subsequent TV series, created by television mystery writer William Link and noted science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It aired on ABC. Michael B. Wagner, a veteran television writer, wrote the two-hour pilot, and became Executive Producer for the series. The pilot and series starred Parker Stevenson as Austin James, a misanthropic genius who solved high tech crimes, and Ashley Crow as James' new secretary Mickey Castle. The show began as a mid-season replacement and was canceled after a two-month run of the pilot and six episodes. Entire episodes have made their way on the internet through video-sharing sites such as YouTube. Some episodes of the show revolved around Serendip, a company founded by Austin that he has no interest in running. Mickey, his Serendip-appointed secretary, plays Watson to Austin's Holmes.

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