Your fake name just walked into the room. And he wants royalties.
A down-on-his-luck writer publishes a best-selling, but lurid novel under a pseudonym and discovers that his fictional personae has suddenly appeared and taken on a life of his own.
Acting
George C. Scott playing himself playing his nightmare alter ego.
Direction
Fielder Cook's claustrophobic TV staging builds unbearable tension.
Director
Fielder Cook
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This forgotten TV movie aired on ABC's 'Wednesday Movie of the Week' slot, a breeding ground for experimental horror that networks would never greenlight today.
Scott reportedly demanded to play both roles uncredited as 'N.Y. Rome' in promotional materials to preserve the film's disorienting reality-warp.
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