821 Bad Moon (1996)

 Lassie meets The  Howling  in  this  flat-footed werewolf movie. Actually there's a  striking  opening  scene  and a neat Carrie-ish jump scare at the end; it's what's in betwen that's the problem. There's a complete lack of suspense. With only half a dozen people in the cast, it's obvious from the start who the werewolf is ( Michael Pare ) and you wonder why it takes his supposedly clever lawyer sister so much longer than her dog to work it out. It's also slow moving with some of the scenes padded out to make up the running time.

Mariel Hemingway ( as Janet )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Mariel is Ernest Hemingway's grandaughter and made her film debut at  14  alongside sister Margaux in the 1976 film Lipstick. Three years later she had an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Manhattan . Her  career declined in the late eighties garnering two Razzle nominations for Superman IV and Sunset  and the nineties weren't much kinder with the failure of the TV series Central Park West.  Nevertheless she  continues to work and advocates for mental health causes. She has oftenplayed lesbian characters though she is straight herself.

Johanna Lebovitz (as Marjorie)

Sex : Marjorie is having sex with her boyfriend when a werewolf attacks

Death : Mauled to death by a werewolf

Johanna is primarily a TV actress who has only made one other film ,Rabbit (2019)  which won her a Leo Nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She has been inactive since 2020.

820 Thinner (1996)

  A  Stephen King  adaptation , this concerns Richard Halleck ( Robert John Bourke ) , an obese and amoral lawyer who attracts a gypsy's curse to grow ever thinner after crony-ism gets him off a manslaughter charge. The make-up folks  rise to the technical challenge of  depicting his physical decline but in all other  respects it's  unsatisfying mainly due  to the sheer unattractiveness of all the main characters; there is no one for whom you can root.

Lucinda Jenney ( as Heidi )

Sex : Heidi gives Richard a blow job in his car

Death :  Dies after eating a poisoned pie

Lucinda  was born  on Long Island and her long acting career beegan on TV in 1979  in The  Doctors. She  first appeared on film in 1984  and began a long  run of small roles in successful movies including Peggy Sue Got Married, Bor On The 4th of July, Rain Man, Thelma and Louise and Leaving Las Vegas. She has had meatier roles in independent films and plenty of TV work.

Kari Wuhrer ( as Gina )

Sex : Gina sexually taunts Halleck

Death : Survives

Kari  is  from  Connecticut. She  has been a model and singer as well as an actress. She made her film debut in 1996  in the teen drama  Fire With Fire.. She  found  success in  TV with regular roles in Swamp Thing, Class of 96 and Sliders later in the decade.She seems to have been retired since 2018.

Bethany Joy Lenz ( as Linda )

Sex : No

Death : Alive at the end of the film but she has eaten some of the poisoned pie

Bethany was born in Hollywood and at 15 this was her first film. Her  main success has been on TV starting  with  Guiding Light between 1998 and 2000  but  most  notably  One Tree Hill between 2003 and 2012. She was  involved in a religious  cult for many years  and now supports an anti-exploitation charity. She is a recording artist but hasn't had much success.She is currently in the TV series Hope Valley 1874.

819 The Island of Dr Moreau (1996)

 This is one of those radioactively bad films that blights the  careers of most of those involved with them. This third adaptation of HG Wells'  novel warning on messing about with human genetics, moves the story to a contemporary setting with a horribly miscast David Thewlis as a shipwreck survivor who is brought to an island where mad Dr Moreau ( Marlon Brando in his last substantial screen role) and equally unhinged sidekick Montgomery (Val Kilmer ) hold court amid a population of human/animal hybrids . 

 The only  thing that can be praised is  the make-up. The endlessly rewritten script is incoherent and illogical. The obsese Brando, far more  grotesque than any of his creations, gives  a  lazy  self-indulgent performance and Kilmer, beset by  offscreen problems, seems to begrudge every line he's been given. The film's descent into mindless violence in the last 20 minutes is  the  crowning touch.

Fairuza Balk ( as Aissa )

Sex : No

Death : Hung by one of her brothers

Fairuza  gives one of the film's better performances but  it's still hard to care what happens to her.

818 Darkman III : Die Darkman Die (1996)

 Quickly following  Darkman II  , this one retains Arnold Vosloo but  loses  Larry Drake which should have been the kiss of  death. Well actually it was commercially speaking but this is actually a much better film. Jeff Fahey comes on board as ,the new supervillain Rooker who's interested in replicating Darkman's strength for his own purposes. It  begins unpromisingly but  some unexpected plot  twists  in a  well strucured narrative  make  it more engrossing than its predecessors. Vosloo's  wooden delivery ensures the emotional scenes don't work but its a decent film.

Darlanne Fluegel (as Bridget)

Sex : Bridget initiates sex with Rooker but they are interrupted

Death : Shot by Rooker's hitman

This  was  Darlanne's final film role.

Roxann Dawson ( as  Angela)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Roxann is from Los Angeles and made her film debut  in 1985  as  a  dancer in A Chorus Line. Her  acting career was  spent  mainly on TV and in 1995 she landed the role of Lt Torey in Star Trek:Voyager. That led to her econd career as a  TV  director which is ongoing. Her last acting role was in 2011.

Alicia Panetta  (as Jenny )

Sex : n/a

Death : Survives

Alicia was a child actress from Canada. This was her only film role and she left acting in 1998. She  is now a risk manager for a construction company and a charity fundraiser. 

817 The Craft (1996)

This  was  a  successful teen horror about  four  girls who  dabble in the supernatural to achieve,. in three cases at least , fairly normal teenage ends. Of  course there's a  price to pay for  the  witchcraft. It's not very scary and there's no gore at all bar a few scratches bu  it's  moderately thrilling teen  entertainment.

Robin Tunney ( as Sarah )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Robin  is  from Chicago and of Irish heritage. This was her third film and first starring role. She had a strong  run in lead female roles  in the following  decade probably peaking with End  of  Days in 1999. As she started slipping down the cast lists in the late noughties she went into TV with a long run in The Mentalist. She is still active in both media.

Fairuza Balk ( as Nancy )

Sex : Nancy has sex with Sarah's boyfriend in her guise

Death : Survives but her mind has gone

Fairuza was born in California but  moved to Canada at a young age. She made her film debut at 11 as Dorothy in Return To Oz and kept things bubbling until this role brought her stardom. She has  worked steadily since but is somewhat typecast in darker roles. She  also  dabbles in music and art.

Neve Campbell ( as  Bonnie )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Neve  was born in Canada  but moved to America after her success in the TV series Party Of Five. Her  success in this role was immediately dwarfed by  the  impact of Scream where she played teen heroine Sydney Prescott, a role she has returned to in all but one of the sequels..Away from Scream , her star has dwindled on film but she has found plenty of TV work. She has been married twice.

Rachel True ( as   Rochelle )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

The  least well -known of the quartet , Rochelle is from New York and found her feet in TV roles on The Cosby Show, Beverley Hills 90210 and  The Freah Prince of Bel Air  before making her film debut in CB 4 in 1994..She  had a couple of good roles following  this  one but  has more  often  been  seen on TV. She  has a  genuine  interest in Tarot  cards  and  has moonlighted as a reader and  published a book on the subject.

Christine Taylor ( as Laura )

Sex :  No

Death : Survives

Christine is from Allentown,Pennsylvania. Her acting career began on TV with a two year run in the comedy western series Hey Dude . Her  film career took off  by landing the role of  Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie and its sequel. In 1999, she was working on a failed pilot with Bem Stiller and married him the following year. They have appeared in four  films together including Zoolander. They have two children.

Assumpta Serna ( as Lirino )

Sex: No

Death : Survives

Assumpta is  from  Barcelona  and her career began in Spanish language film in  the  late  seventies. She  appeared in Crime  Story and  Falcon  Crest and then  the British  series  Sharpe  where she met  her husband Scott Cleverdon.She has worked exclusively in Spanish cinema and TV for the past decade.

Jennifer Greenhut ( as Laura's friend 1)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Jennifer  was  a  former gymnast  and  worked on three films as a production assistant before her film debut in 1994. She was never more than a bit part actress and  her last role was in 2000.

Elizabeth  Guber (as Laura's friend 2)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Elisabeth made her screen debut as a baby in the 1973 TV movie Go Ask Alice .She  too was  a  bit part actress whose career ended in 2000.

816 Hellraiser IV : Boloodlines (1996)

 Doug  Bradley  returns as Pinhead once more in the fourth instalment of the Hellraiser franchise but  can't lift it out of the doldrums. The narrative shifts between the eighteenth century, 1996 and the 22nd century as  Bruce Ramsay plays three members of the Merchant dynasty facing off against Pinhead and  female demon. It's a neat device but you soon realise there's nothing new in the story as various characters you couldn't give a stuff about  get skewered and torn apart and it just becomes a tedious retread.

Valentina Vargas ( as Angelique )

Sex : Angelique has sex with her master Jacques and attempts to seduce the first  two Merchants

Death : As a human she is fayed alive, as a cenobite she is destroyed by perpetual light

Valentina is  a Chilean actress who  trained in France and made her debut in a French  film. She made an impact in her second film as The Girl in The Name Of The Rose. She  is  still active.

Kim Myers  (as Bobbi)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

This  is  Kim's last horror film to date.

Christine Harnos ( as Rimmer )

Sex : No

Death : No 

Christine is a Canadian actress who made her film debut in teen thriller The Rescue in 1988. After half a dozen  more films , she made her name on  TV as Sarah Greene in E.R. In 2003 she  gave up acting to  study child development, In 2006 she  started the charity Circus Remedy with friends.

Charlotte Chatton ( as Genevieve )

Sex : Genevieve is pregnant

Death : Survives

Charlotte  is  an  English actress who  made  her screen debut as a child in Dramarama in 1988. She had a very minor role in Titanic  and  a  recurring role in Dr Quinn Medicine Woman  but  gave  up  acting in 2001  to pursue a career in screenwriting. She co-wrote the  film Women Of The White  Buffalo.

815 Screamers (1996)

 This  Canadian sci-fi/horror  film  based on a Philip K Dick story was a box office bomb and, though it's not  entirely without merit, it's easy to see why. On a grim radiation-poisoned  planet, there's a civil war  dragging on between a heartless mining company and an Alliance made up of former employees and scientists. The latter have held their own by developing an autonomous killer weapon, the Screamer but  these have started to reproduce by  themselves - how exactly is only one of many plotholes which plague the narrative - and now pose a huge threat to both sides. Peter Weller plays the  Alliance commander  Henricksen who occasionally finds time to be a hero when he's not explaining the plot to the other characters. It looks very good and is intermittently exciting but it makes no sense whatsoever.

Jennifer Rubin ( as Jessica )

Sex : No

Death : Fatally wounded by a lookalike screamer

Jennifer  is the love interest in the film but  there's no instory explanation for why she's there.

Liliana Komorowska (as Landowska)

Sex : No

Death : Presumed killed when the Screamers overrun the alliance base

Liliana was born In Poland  and started acting there in the late seventies. She came to America to feature in the film War And Love , decided to stay there  and  found plenty of work on Tv  and in films such as Her Alibi. In 1991 , she starred in Scanners III : The Takeover  and subsequently married  its director Christian Duguy  who also directed this film.

Leni Parker (as McDonald)

Sex : No

Death : Presumed killed when the Screamers overrun the alliance base

Leni  is  a  Canadian actress whose screen career began in 1990, She is best known  for  her  TV work and in particular the role of Da'An in Earth : Final Conflict. She is still active.