800 Beyond Bedlam ( 1994)

 This deservedly-forgotten British flick  stars Keith Allen as  Gilmour an incarcerated psychopath  taking an experimental drug  pioneered by a very unlikely neurologist (Liz Hurley ) . When she  takes the drug herself to check for side effects (yeah, right) it  creates a  sort of psychic web which Gilmour is  able to control from his cell. Craig Fairbrass, is Terry,  the  cop investgating the resulting carnage  and he has history with Gilmour. At  least that's what I think's  going  on; after 30 minutes or so the  film gives up trying to explain anything and becomes a tedious incoherent mess. It's badly lit, poorly acted and completely worthless.

Elizabeth Hurley ( as Samantha )

Sex : Samantha has various erotic dreams

Death : Survives

Elizabeth was born in Hampshire  and  attended a comprehensive  school. She  dabbled in a punk band while studying theatre and dance. She made  her  first TV  appearance in Inspector Morse and her film debut in the arthouse film Aria  in  the  late eighties. She started dating Hugh Grant around the same time  and  became a tabloid sensation after attending the premiere of Four Weddings And A Funeral in a Versace dress. Her enduring  celebrity has  overshadowed her film career  ever  since  although it continues to this day.

Samantha Spiro ( as WPC Foster )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Samantha is a Jewish actress from London. She  began her acting career  on the stage which  remains her first love although she has also done a lot of TV work with film trailing a distant third. This  was her first film role. She has  won  two Olivier Awards for  her stage  acting and  a British Comedy Award for Grandma's House in 2010. She is best known for playing Barbara Windsor on both stage and screen.

Zoe  Heyes ( as Josie )

Sex : No

Death : Uncertain - Josie reads that she's been mutilated in her office then turns up in Terry's fever dream where he asks her if sahe's dead and doesn't get an answer

Zoe was born in Warrington and was seriously burned in a childhood accident. Her acting career was brief. This was her second and final film then she appeared in the TV mini-series She's Out  before landing a regular role in London's Burning. She quit after two series to pursue other opportunities but no one seems to know what they were.

Annette Badland ( as Nurse Nancy )

Sex : Nancy sexually services Gilmour

Death : Uncertain - she appears to have been shot in the fever dream

Annette was born in Edgbaston  and  has been an active character  actress since 1970  with numerous  credits on stage, radio, TV and film. In her early  career she was best known as secretary Charlotte in Bergerac.She has been in Dr Who, Casualty and all the soaps, most  substantially Eastenders and  currently has a regular role in Midsomer Murders. She appears to have lost some weight in recent years.

799 The Puppet Masters (1994)

 Despite some impressive casting, this  wa  a  notorious box office bomb and it's not difficult to see why. Robert Heinlein's objections to adaptation of his work meant that despite its three year head start over the  similarly themed The  Body Snatchers there had been three well received film versions - one  of  course very recent - of the latter before this hit the screen. Donald Sutherland plays the leader of a government agency fighting the alien menace alongside is  son Sam ( Christian Slater lookalike Eric Thal) and sexy scientist Mary.  The other big issue is how badly structured the film is , throwing  you straight into the struggle with a garbled explanation by Sutherland and  back story restricted to little snatches of dialogue in between the frantic gun battles. The film then has to slow down and can't avoid a perception of sagging; - how can Sam and Mary slope off for a bonk with human civilisation hanging by a thread ?  - and never really  recovers its momentum.

Julie Warner ( as Mary )

Sex : Mary tries to seduces Sam when under alien control

Death : Survives

Julie  is  from  New  York and made her first  screen appearance at 16 in the soap The  Guiding Light. Further roles eluded her until the end of the eighties and she worked as a a waitress . making her film debut in 1990 with a minor role in Flatliners. This film's failure and her short stature precluded any more leading roles but marriage to director Jonathan Prince stabilised her career and she  has enjoyed success in character parts such as Barbara in Little Women, Big Cars.

798 Brainscan ( 1994 )

 This teen centric movie stars Edward Furlong as Michael, a sullen horror film geek who  takes up a  video experience challenge and  then  finds - lo and behold- the murders he commits onscreen are  happening in real life.and Detective Hayden (Frank Langella ) is on his case, T Ryder Smith then pops up as his  familiar, The Trickster, to explain the plot to the pretty dense. The film is too lame to appeal to slasher afficianados and it's hard to see what other audience would be interested.

Amy Hargreaves (as Kim)

Sex : Kim  strips , knowing that Michael is watching her

Death : Survives

Amy  was born in New York and this was her first film role. Her  subsequent  career has  been mainly  on  TV and  has  picked  up  in  recent  years  with good roles in Homeland and 13 Reasons Why. 

Michele-Barbara Pelletier ( as Stacie )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Michele-Barbara  was  a  Canadian actress who mainly worked in her home country, often in French language films. She  appears to have retired in 2007.

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.