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Horror fans--Please help me figure out the name of a movie!


I'm trying to figure out the name of a movie I saw as a child. I'm pretty sure this is a movie that came out in the early to mid 80s, and that it would almost certainly be in the horror movie section of your local video movie club. Not certain of the country of origin, but most likely it is American. There are two scenes I remember: 1) Opening scene/credits: a small, rainy harbor. Workers doing boat stuff, wearing yellow raincoats. A demonically-possessed, grimy, possibly rotting humanoid being leaps from the harbor, pulling one of the boat workers down under the water. 2) At various points in the movie: a door opens in a public place (party, bar, restaurant, etc) to reveal a blue glowing void. The doorway wants to possess a certain person in the room. No one else in the room is aware of this door despite it filling the room with light (dramatic irony!). The targeted person desperately tries to resist the lure of the room and implores others to help, but they all just snicker and eventually the person is compelled to enter the room (or is possibly pulled in by some sort of energy field). Once they come out, you know they are now possessed because their eyes are filled with a blue glow. It's possible that I'm conflating two movies, but I don't think so. PLEASE HELP! WHAT IS THIS MOVIE?!?

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Sounds like The Fog (1980)

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No one gets possessed in The Fog they just get killed

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Boy, this is a tough one. There is SLITHIS, but even having not watched it all the way through, I do not think there are any scenes with the "blue glow possessing people" bits.

You can watch SLITHIS here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52tbuV4m0jg

Do you remember if it looked like something from the 1970s, 80s or 90s? Any actors or actresses that looked familiar?

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By chance is it The Sentinel? I vaguely remember possessed people having blueish eyes in that one.

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It sounds like you've conflated several movies. I used to watch tons of 70's and 80's horror movies back in the day and I have conflated many of them in my mind.
The boat thing sounds like "The Fog (1980)"
The blue light thing sounds like "The Keep (1983)"
The party thing, maybe "Night of the Creeps (1988)"? That one I'm not sure of but it matches the era.

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