797 Body Snatchers ( 1994 )

 This second remake of  Invasion of the Body Snatchers would  have been hard-pressed to top the terrifying 1979 version starring Donald  Sutherland and  sure  enough  it  fails  in  that  respect  but that  doesn't mean it isn't  a  watchable  film  in  its own right. Director  Abel Ferrara makes a more teen-centric film with a teenage girl Marty as the main character who accompanies her scientist father to a military base with his  second  family and falls in love with a hunky pilot Tim ( Billy Wirth ). The  camp turns out to be infested with the human replicating  alien pods  bent on  eradicating the  human race.The  film  has  some good shocks even  when  you're  familiart with the premise but  is  a bit  let down by  the  messy overlong  climax.

Gabrielle Anwar (as Marty/replicant)

Sex : Marty's  replicant  tries to distract Tim with her nudity.

Death : Survives

Gabrielle is a British born actress who  moved to America  in  the early  nineties following  her  boyfriend  Craig Sheffer. In  film  she  is  probably best remembered for  her  role in Scent  Of  A Woman. Her film  roles dwindled in  the  noughties  though she  had  TV  success  particularly  in  the  US  series Burn Notice. She seems to  be  on  hiatus  at the moment with no appearances  since 2019.

Meg  Tilly ( as Carol / replicant)

Sex : Carol initiates sex with her husband but they are interrupted

Death : Carol is replaced by a pod and crumbles away. It's implied her replicant dies when the army base is destroyed

Meg  used a  body  double - pretty obviously- for her brief nude appearance. As  a  relicant she's the scariest character in the film.

Christine Elise ( as Jen /replicant )

Sex : No

Death : Jen  is  replaced (offscreen) It's implied her  replicant dies when the base is destroyed

Christine plays  pretty much the same  character she did in Child's Play 2

796 Bedevil (1993 )

 This  odd  low budget ( Ed Wood would be proud of the backdrops ) barely  qualifies as horror with its zero kill count and meagre special effects. The film is a portmanteau of  three ghost stories heard as a child by the part-Aborigine writer-director Tracey Moffatt who also stars in the second segment. Although there's the germ of a good idea in all  three, they're all  let  down by indifferent acting, bafflingly  irrelevant scenes and  characters and an inconsistent narrative style. Interesting  but  not  very good,  

Tracey Moffatt ( as Ruby )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Tracey  was born to a white  father  and  aboriginal mother in Brisbane. She  is  primarily  a  photographer and documentary-maker, this  being  to date her only feature  film. Much of her work concerns the  role of Aboriginal women in Australian society.

Dina Panozzo ( as Youla )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Dina is an Australian actress of Italian extraction. This  was  her  first  film  after TV  work  in  the  eighties including  a  regular role in Richmond Hill. She  is  still  active in Australian TV and cinema.

Patricia Handy (as Minnie )

Sex : Minnie has loud sex with her boyfriend (offscreen )

Death : Killed alongside her boyfriend but the circumstances are never explained

This  was Patricia's only film role.

795 Ghost In The Machine (1993 )

 This computerhorror  film falls somewhere between Shocker and  The  Lawnmower Man  as  a  dying  serial killer's  brain  scan  goes viral and he uses the net ( this must be one of  the  earliest films where the word "internet" features) to carry on his  killing spree. One  of  my favourite  actresses, Karen Allen plays  his  prime  target along  with  her  teenage  son  and  an amiable hacker ( Chris Mulkey ). There  are  one  or  two  decent  shocks  but  overall it's  pretty  average  and  of  course  the  VR  graphics  look horribly  dated.

Karen Allen ( as Terry )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Karen was born in Illinois  and was 27 when she made her screen debut in National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978. She  made her  name as  Marion Ravenwood in  Raiders Of The Lost Ark and has reprised her role in the last two sequels. She  also made an impact in Starman  but  her  first love has always been stage  acting and the leading  roles dried up as she was often unavailable. Her  film career since then  has largely  comprised meaty roles in  independent  films  and  small ones in Hollywood pics. She  also runs her own textiles business.

Shevonne Durkin ( as Carol )

Sex: Carol partially reveals her breasts to TErry's son and his friend

Death : Electrocuted when the ghost causes a washing machine to explode.

Shevoone  is  from  California  and had  a  number of glamour  parts on film and TV in  the  nineties. Her  career petered outafter  that, her  last  appearance  coming  in  the film Spermicide in 2014.

794 Warlock 2 : The Armageddon (1993)

 It's not  often you get to say Julian Sands is the best thing in a film but he has all the best lines here and at least a modicum of screen presence. Despite his reappearance, this has no narrative continuity with the first film , instead deciding to filch its plot from The Omen II. A group of latter day Druids plot to prevent the coming of Satan with the help of a cople of teenagers who have to be killed and then resurrected  in order to fight the warlock who goes round killing people to maintain interest before the final confrontation. It's  as dull as ditchwater with really cheesy special effects.

Paula Marshall ( as Sam )

Sex: Sam has sex with her boyfriend

Death : Survives

This  was Paula's last  horror  film for  three decades.

Joanna Pacula ( as Paula Clare )

Sex : No

Death : Dropped from a great height

Joanna  has just a couple of scenes in this one and she's not at her best

Dawn Ann Billings ( as Amanda ) 

Sex : Amanda undresses before going out

Death : The Warlock kills her (offscreen)

Dawn  was born in Montana  and  started  out  as  a  model. This  was  her  second  film. Her  appearances after  2000 have  been sporadic  but  she  won  2 awards for  her work on Intersection in 2015. She  hasn't appeared since then.

Rachel Street ( as Kate )

Sex : No

Death : The Warlock crucifies her upside down

Rachel was born iun L.A. but  now lives in Manhattan. This  was  her  second  film  after a career in TV most  notable  for a long run in  The  Young And The Restless. She  is  noted for  her  activism  in  working  with  the  homeless. Though never a leading  actress her  career is  ongoing.

Michelle Moffett ( as Celine )

Sex :  Celine is a prostitute

Death : The Warlock throws her out of his  car  after scalping her

Michelle had  a  short career in B-movies which  was over by 2002.

793 Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993 )

 This ninth instalment in the franchise scores ptretty highly on the gore factor  but in all other respects it's a muddled mess partly caused by the  trimming of the first time director' Adam Marcus'stwo hour script. Eschewing any  continuity from the previous film, this time round Jason  is a parasite passed from one victim to another who becomes a psychopath before giving someone else a turn. Liberal borrowings from David Cronenberg and  Halloween II are used to patch the story together but  it's a pretty weak effort.

Kari  Keegan ( as Jessica )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Kari was born in Pittsburgh and had a minor role in one previous  film before this. She fell out with Marcus over refusing to do a nude scene which seems to have stymied her career, She has  only  appeared in one film since gettig married in 1998.

Erin Gray ( as Diana )

Sex : No

Death : A lawman possesed by Jason throws a knife sharpener in her back

Erin  was born in Honolulu  and became a top model in her teens. She broke into acting on  TV in  the late seventies and  achieved  lasting fame as tightly clad Wilma Deering on Buck Rogers In The 25th Century at the dawn of the eighties. This  was a rare film  role  but  she  has  worked  solidly  on  TV ever since.

Allison Smith ( as Vicki )

Sex : No

Death : Impaled on a metal rod

Allison was  boen in New  York  and  was  a  child  star  in  musical theatre  before  turning to the screen. This was  her first  film after a  number of TV roles  including a starring  role in the  series Kate and Allie. She  has  worked  mainly  in  TV since, her most  prominent  work  being  The  West Wing.

Julie Michaels ( as Elizabeth Marcus )

Sex : Elizabeth showers  as  a lure  to Jason

Death : Survives

Julie was  born in Washington and  is  a  skilled stuntwoman often cast  for  her  action skills more than her acting ability, She  made  her  film debut  in  Road House in 1989. She works more  as  a  stunt co-ordinator than a performer now.

Michelle Clunie ( as Deborah )

Sex : Deborah has vigorous sex with her boyfriend (played by her real-life ex)

Death : Deborah is impaled through the back with a signpost which is then yanked upwards slicing her apart

Michelle is  from Portland, Oregon  and  started out  as  a  ballet  dancer  before moving into acting. At  first she was just  a  bit  part  actress but has worked her way up into more substantial roles  eventually  achieving recognition in Queer As Folk. She  has a child with director Bryan Singer.

Kathryn Attwood ( as Alexis )

Sex : Alexis offers sex to the driver who picked her up but is turned down. She goes skinny-dipping with her friends

Death : Hacked with a scalpel (offscreen)

Kathryn was from Tulsa  and  never  graduated from bit parts, She was last heard of in 2003 voicing a video  game, She is married to fellow actor Shaun Duke.

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.