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A director from this family made a film which ends with a character played by Emma Roberts breaking down and crying after being unable to contact the demon that had possessed her as a teenager. One actor from this family holds a salt shaker like a gun and mimes pulling the trigger while watching his girlfriend Poppy dance with another man in that actor’s role as mob boss Johnny Lovo in (*) Howard Hawks’ Scarface. An actor from this family played a character who becomes increasingly disoriented while touring the Law Court Offices and dies from a dynamite explosion in a quarry. In a scene from another film, a large taxidermied owl sits in the top left of the frame as an actor from this family claims that “we all go a little mad sometimes.” For 10 points, name this family of Hollywood actors that includes Osgood and his son Anthony, star of The Trial and (10[1])Psycho. ■END■

ANSWER: Perkins family [accept Oz Perkins; accept Osgood Perkins; accept Anthony Perkins] (The first line refers to The Blackcoat’s Daughter, which is directed by Oz Perkins, the son of Anthony Perkins)
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PlayerTeamOpponentPositionValue
Tim MorrisonStanford Team 1Stanford Team 215410

Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
2025 SEANCE - Online2025-02-224100%25%114.00
2025 SEANCE - Stanford2025-02-221100%0%154.00