792 Carnosaur (1993)

 In  the  same  year as  Jurassic Park came  out  and changed the game with its CGI dinosaurs, Roger  Corman rushed out  this  old  school movie which  relied  on  rubbery  models for  its  creatures. That's  the  fatal flaw in this movie ; once  you see the  dinosaur  early on  you  assume  the  film's  a  spoof  ( the wafer thin characterisation doesn't  help ).  By  the  time you  realise there's some serious thought in the script ,it's too late and  some  blatant thievery from Aliens doesn't help.

Diane Ladd ( mother of  Laura Dern ) heads the cast as  a  geneticist  who's secretly trying to eradicate humanity  and  replace  it  with  her new  breed of  dinosaur. Raphael  Sbarge plays  the  only other  even  half-realised  caharacter as a drunken security guard trying to stop her.

Jennifer Runyon ( as Thrush)

Sex : No

Death : Machine-gunned and then incinerated

This  was  Jennifer's last  film  for  22  years.

Lisa Moncure ( as Susan )

Sex : No

Death : Dies giving birth to a dinosaur egg

This was Lisa's last horror film

Martha Hackett ( as Miss Kroghe )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Martha  is  mainly  a  TV  actress  making her biggest  impact as a Klingon woman in Star Trek. She  has had a few bit parts in films. She  was previously married to director Tim Disney and has been inactive since 2020

.Norita Golanos ( as Janie )

Sex : Janie starts making out with her boyfriend

Death : Eviscerated by a dinosaur

Norita  was a bit part actress with a brief career in the mid-nineties

791 The Dark Half ( 1993)

 This Stephen King adaptation by  George  Romero has its fans, perhaps because  it's more faithful to the book than many of the others. I can't  say it's one  of  my  favourites mainly  bacause I  was  exasperated by  its  failure  to  resolve its  narrative  confusion despite  having  two hours in which  to  do  so. Following life-saving brain surgery as a  child Thad  Beaumont (Tim Hutton) is  a  college tutor  and  writer who only has  success when he writes violent pulp fiction under the name George Stark. To pre-empt  a  blackmailer exposing this he  stages a mock  funeral of  Stark on his family burial plot. Here's where things get confusing. "Stark" ( again played by Hutton )  emerges from his "tomb",  apparently because the  remains of Thad's unformed twin  were  buried there  and  starts  murdering Thad''s associates  while  Sheriff  Alan ( Michael Rooker )  scratches his  head for  a  motive ( like the rest of us ). There  are good  things in  the  film like Hutton's  performance as  two very  different  characters  and  some  grisly  special  effects but  the  script  is  just  too  frustrating  to make  it  an  enjoyable watch.

Amy Madigan  ( as  Ruth )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Amy  was born in Chicago. In her early career ,she  juggled acting with  singing and for a time was lead singer with Big Daddy. Her life changed on the set of her fourth film Places in the Heart  where she met future husband Ed Harris. They have appeared in eleven films together though she has achieved success  in her own right with an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for the film Twice In A Lifetime. She is still active.

Chelsea Field ( as Annie Pangborne)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

This was a pretty thankless role for Chelsea with only  two inconsequential scenes. This was her last horror film.

790 The Vanishing (1993)

 This  remake of  the  fabulous Dutch film  Spoorloos  drew a  visceral revulsion from those crtics who pat themselves on the back for watching films with subtitles. They had a point though. Most  of the  original story remains ; a  girl goes missing from a bathroom break at a gas station, her  boyfriend becomes  self- destrutively obsessed with her disappearance until her abductor makes contact and offers to  explain but on his own terms. This originally led to an ultra bleak shock ending which Hollywood would not accept. This  necessitated a restructuring of the story so that a minor character in the original becomes the female lead,  the abducted girl is  relegated to the background and the film ends really lamely on a naff joke.

That said, if  you're unfamiliar with the original, this is a  watchable thriller. Jeff  Bridges got a lot of stick for  his  performance as the smiling psychopath but  he's not  atrocious and  Keifer  Sutherland  is good  as the tormented boyfriend. The main problems are his unconvincing relationship with the  new girl and  her abrupt transformation from soft-hearted waitress to quick thinking action heroine, both  of them stemming from the requirement to change the ending.

Nancy Travis ( as Rita )

Sex :  No

Death : Survives

Nancy was born in New York and  started out  as  a  stage actress in the  early eighties , moving through television to her first  film role in Three  Men And A Baby, a  stroke of luck that  would not be all that typical of her career. In  the  following  few  years she  was  very busy with roles in Air  America, Chaplin and  Internal Affairs  but  eventually  the  accumulation of bombs (such as this one ) on her c.v. took its  toll and  she  was more  often found on the small screen. In 1994 she  married a film  executive  but she is still active.

Sandra  Bullock  (as Diane ) 

Sex : No

Death : Offscreen but it's strongly intimated she  was  buried alive

A  genuine superstar , Sandra  was  born in Virginia. Her mother was German and she was partly raised there.  She  worked her way through odd jobs, student poroductions and theatre to a first film role in Hangmen in 1987. She  first attracted attention in Demolition Man in 1993  and became  a  star after Speed in 1994. Her  good  sense and nose for a good role  have  kept  her an A-lister and since 1998 she has also been a  successful film producer. She  finally snagged an Oscar for The Blind Side in 2009 and got another nomination for Gravity in  2013. She has  twice been Hollywood's best paid actress.

Park Overall ( as Lynn)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Christened Parker, she presumably chose to sound more like an item in  the wardrobe  than an actress. She  made  her  film  debut  in Tainted in 1987 but became  famous on TV the  following  year with Empty Nest. Her  strong  accent  led to  typecasting in white trash supporting  roles  and  her  increasing environmental activism and pro-abortion statements  didn't help her career either. Her  last film was in 2011 and in her bid to become Democratic nominee for  Tennessee in 2012 she  came a distant third.

Maggie Linderman ( as Denise )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

With only  two other mid-nineties credits to her name, Maggie  has done an effective vanishing act of her own.

 

789 Children Of The Corn II (1993)

 Stephen King had nothing  to  do  with this less than hotly anticipated sequel nor did any of the original cast though it did OK at the box office. The film begins where the  first film left off with reporter John Garrett (Terence Knox)  and  his estranged son Danny (Paul Scherrer) coming to Gatlin to investigate the massacre of the adults there. In  the meantime, the murderous kids find a new leader Micah (Ryan Bollman) and continue their rampage in a new town with apparent impunity. The more Garrett  investigates , the more the script muddies the waters with themes of small town corruption  pollution and religious mania , a Native American sage and love interest for Danny who appear from nowhere and a feebly predictable  ending.

Christie Clark ( as Lacey )

Sex : Lacey starts to have sex with Danny but it's interrupted

Death : Survives

This is Christie's final film to date.

Rosalind Allen ( as Angela )

Sex : Angela has sex with John

Death :  Survives

Rosalind was born in New Zealand . Her acting career began in the early eighties. She is mainly a TV actress who makes the occasional film starting with Perfect in 1986..She had a near twenty year career break from 2002  but has reappeared in supporting roles since 2021.

Kellie Bennett ( as  Mary )

Sex : No

Death : Perishes in a fire

This was Kellie's only film role after a couple of TV appearances.

Kristy Angell ( as Ruth )

Sex : No

Death : Uncertain but probably survives

This was Kristy's only screen role.

 

788 Bloodlust (1988)

 This  campy Aussie  vampire  film  struggles with a low budget and amateur cast and loses badly. The very loose plot  involves three modern day vampires who prefer money and guns to blood and fangs ; after the first half hour the vampire trappings are pretty much abandoned. They are chased by corrupt cops , religious maniacs and  gangsters none of whom can act. It's nearly unwatchable.

Jane Stuart Wallace ( as Lear )

Sex : Lear seduces both men and women but kills them before they get too close, She also gives oral sex to a man before  cutting off his penis

Death : Survives

Jane had a minor part in a 1999 independent film; otherwise this is her only role.

Kelly Chapman ( as Frank)

Sex : Frank does have sex with her marks

Death : Survives

Kelly too had  just one other role, a  supporting part in the 2010 comedy Jucy which she produced.

Rosie D'Urso ( as Tad's pickup)

Sex :  She has sex with Tad, the male vampire

Death : Tad bites her throat

This was Rosie's only screen role.

Paloma Gower ( as Lear's pick up )

Sex : She is picked up by Lear and they kiss

Death : Lear cuts her throat with a knife

This was Paloma's only screen role.

787 Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993)

 Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Dracula ( no more faithful to Stoker than any other version )  divided the critics  and I'm in the hater's camp. It  looks good in  the  main  and won some technical Oscars but  it's let down by  an  overblown and pretentious script and some  abominable acting whether hammy ( Gary Oldman ) or  terminally wooden ( Keanu Reeves ).

Winona Ryder ( as Mina /Elisabeta )

Sex : Mina has an intimte encounter with Dracula but it's not sexual in the conventional sense,

Death : Mina survives, Elisabeta throws herself off a  castle wall

Winona  was raised on a commune  in  her early years and made her initial impact as  a  quirky teenager  in the late eighties most  notably in Beetlejuice . She became a big star in the nineties with two Oscar nominations and  a  high profile liaison with Johnny Depp. Her  career hit the rocks in 2001  when she  was  arrested  and  subsequently convicted for  shoplifting. She took a four  year break from  acting and  returned  to  smaller films  in  the  late  noughties. She  has  repaired  the  damage  to  some  extent  with  a  starring  role  in  the  TV  series Stranger Things.

Sadie Frost ( as Lucy )

Sex : Lucy has sex with Dracula in bestial form

Death : Staked through the heart as a vampire

Sadie is an English actress from Islington who first appeared on screen as a toddler in a Jelly Tots advert. In the early eighties she started appearing in music videos where she met first husband Gary Kemp. She made her film debut in Empire State in 1987. This  is  probably  her  biggest film role. In 1995 she and Kemp divorced and two years later she married Jude Law. Through him she  got  involved in film production and eventually directing though she still acts. In 2024 she directed a feature-length documentary about Twiggy.

Monica Bellucci ( as Dracula Bride)

Sex : She seduces Jonathan Harker

Death : Beheaded by Van Helsing

Monica  was  born in Italy. Originally she set out to be a lawyer but  modelling  on the side during  her  studies led her to the film world. Her Italian film debut was just before this. She  declined to move  to  Hollywood and has mainly worked in French cinema including the highly  controversial Irreversible in 2004.. Her career is ongoing

Michaela Bercu ( as Dracula Bride )

Sex : She seduces Jonathan Harker

Death : Beheaded by Van Helsing

Michaela was a Rumanian supermodel born in Tel Aviv. This was her only film.

Florina Kendrick ( as Dracula Bride )

Sex : She seduces Jonathan Harker

Death : Beheaded by Van Helsing

Lorina made one other film in 1995.

786 Hellraiser III ( 1992 )

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