814 Night Terrors (1995)

 This  is a really terrible Canadian shocker which sees an innocent-ish young  girl fall into the clutches of a sado-masochist cult in Egypt presided over by  Chevalier a descendant of Sade himself (Robert Englund ). Ihe  acting is woeful, the script a mess of half-baked ideasnicked from somewhere else, the  climax  dreadfully drawn-out and disappointing, all in all a complete waste of time.

Zoe Trilling ( as Genie )

Sex : Genie is sexually assaulted, has sex wthan Egyptian man  then is drugged for lesbian sex

Death : Survives

Zoe was born in Wisconsin as Geri Betlzler and worked as a juice distributor before breaking into acting. She first appeared as a dancer in Girls Just Want To Have Fun in 1985  but  rarely broke out of bit parts. Her acting career had stalled by 1977 and she became a choreographer and dance teacher. She died in 2023.

Alona Kimhi ( as Sabina )

Sex : Sabina has lesbian sex with Genie

Death : Stabbed by Chevalier

Alona  was born in Ukraine but her parents emigrated to Israel when she was 7. She had a film career in Israel from 1985 but  this  is her only film outside of that and her last screen role. She is now a best-selling novelist in Israel.

Chandra West (as Beth )

Sex : No

Death : Decapitated (offscreen)

Chandra  is  from Alberta  and  trained as a ballet dancer. She  made  her acting  debut on Canadian TV in  1990  and  has been a reliable supporting  actress in Hollywood films such as White Noise. She has been inactive in recent years.

Irit Sheleg  (as Fatima)

Sex : No

Death : Hanged (offscreen)

Irit is another Israeli actress making a one-off appearance in a Western film. She is still active.

813 Haunted (1995 )

 This  British-made  ghost  story set in the 1920s has been largely forgotten  but  it's worth a gander. Obligatory  American, Aidan Quinn plays David, Ash, a sceptical professor of para-psychology still  carrying a burden of guilt over the death of his twin sister Alice in childhood. He accepts an invitation from an old lady Miss Webb ( Anna Massey)  to come to England and investigate the ghosts that are plaguing her. Although the special effects are a  bit ropey and  the obvious use of  body doubles distracting, it's still a  good story and well acted with a twist that I didn't see coming.

Kate Beckinsale ( as Christina )

Sex : Christina has sex with David though it might be an hallucination

Death : Dies in a house fire 

Kate is the daughter of  actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe and had a disruptive  childhood following the shock death of her father when she was just five.. She made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing in 1993 and  gradually increased her profile through the nineties. At the start of the new millennium she moved to Hollywood . She had a part in the box office bomb Pearl Harbour but really came to the fore in the Undeworld franchise beginning in 2003. She is still very active  balancing big budget action movies with dramatic roles in smaller films. She was in a long term relatioship with actor Michael Sheen and they remain friends.

Victoria Shalet ( as Juliette )

Sex : n/a

Death : Drowns in a lake

Victoria was born in London and started acting from an early age, making her TV debut in a Screenplay episode aged seven. Her film  debut in The Maid came the following year although her career was mainly spent on British television  becoming well known as Harmony Parker in the children's TV series The Queen's Nose. She was less successful as an adult actress and in 2012  decided to give  it  up and train as a therapist.

Geraldine Somerville (as Kate )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Geraldine  is an Irish actress who made her film debut in Close My Eyes in 1983.She  came to attention as DS Penhaligon in Cracker , winning a BAFTA for Best Actress in 1995. She had a regular role in the noughties as the adult Lily Potter in the Harry Potter franchise but  also starred in 2001's  Gosford Park since  when she  has been somewhat  typecast in period roles.

812 Return of the Texas Chainsaw Masacre (1995)

 First time director Kim  Henkel got an unbelievable stroke of luck  when both the unknowns he cast in the lead roles  broke  big shortly after the film's release giving  it  a  publicity boost it didn't deserve. This is by far the worst film in the Chainsaw franchise. The plot is pretty much a  re-run of the first film, differentiated by camp black comedy which doesn't sit well with the amount of misogynistic violence on show. The ending which introduces a bizarre subplot about the illuminati makes no ense whatsoever.

Rene Zellweger ( as Jenny )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Well. even A-listers have to start somewhere. This was Rene's first starring role after a string of bit parts and her first chase scene (some parts of which used a stunt double ) is the best part of the film. A year later she made  her breakthrough  in Jerry Maguire  and her future was assured, In 2001, she landed her signature role in Bridget Jones Diary and has appeared in all four films of the franchise.  In 2003, she won an Oscar for Cold Mountain. After 2010  she took an extended sabbatical but returned in triumph with another Oscar for Judy in 2019.

Tonie Peresnsky ( as  Darla )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Tonie  was  a  Canadian actress who  won  early  plaudits  for  her theatre work. She crossed into  films in 1988  but  remained largely a bit part actress. She retired in 2004 following a family tragedy.

Lisa Marie3 Newmyer ( as Heather )

Sex : No

Death : Heather has her skull crushed by a mechanical leg

Lisa was a native of Texas and this was her screen debut. She made sporadic appearances including  in Sin City (2005) but disappears after 2008.

811 Mute Witness ( 1995 )

 This  is  a  good horror  thriller, set  in  Russia to save money,  which balances out  the  tension and violence with a surprising amount of black humour. Billy Hughes, a  mute make up artist  is in Moscow working on a dire slasher film directed by her sister's boyfriend Evan Richards. Revisiting the studio late at night, she stumbles on two of the Russian crew making a snuff film and barely escapes with her life but her problems are only just beginning. The film is notable for a brief  cameo from Alec Guiness filmed ten years earlier when the director buttonholed him at a film festival;that's why he addresses his Russian minion by an English name.

Marina Zudina ( as Billy )

Sex : Billy flashes her body to a peeping tom in the hope he can rescue her

Death : Survives

Marina was a last minute replacement for Gina Bellman and did not speak English . She is a native of Moscow  and  this is the only non-Russian production on hr c.v.. She  is a widow with two children and hasn't  worked since 2020.

Fay Ripley ( as Karen )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Fay was  born in Wimbledon. This was her first film, having been cut out of Frankenstein in 1994. She  made  her name as Jenny in Cold Feet  starting out in 1998 and  has never been out of work on British TV since.

Larisa Khusnullina ( as Victim )

Sex : Has Sex with her killer in the snuff film

Death : Stabbed repeatedly to death 

This is  the only non-Russian production among her 7 credits.

Olga Tolstetskaya ( as Actress )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Again, Olga's career has been entirely spent in Russia.

Natalya Polyushkina  as Natasha

Sex : No

Death : Survives

This is Natalya's only screen credit, performing the same function on the real set as she does on screen.

810 The Prophecy (1995)

 With Christopher Walken in the lead  role, I had high hopes for this  one  but they were to be mostly disappointed. There are good moments, mainly provided by Walken, but they  are  defeated by writer-director Gregory Widen's attempts to write a sequel to the Bible on the back of a fag packet. Elias Koteas plays Thomas a  student priest who bails out at his ordination due to horrific visions of the Afterlife. Years later he's a cop visited by a strange man Simon (Eric Stolz) who eludes to a second war between angels  in which Gabriel (Walken) is on the wrong side. From that point on, it just gets sillier by the ninute and by the time Lucifer (Viggo Mortensen) arrives to give tactical advice to the goodies, it's a lost cause.

Virginia Madsen (as Katherine )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Virginia was born in Chicago and is the sister of Michael Madsen. She made her film debut in 1983 in Class and worked steadily in film and TV, enjoying her highest profile in 1992 with the lead role in the  original Candyman. She is married with one son and is still a very busy actress.

Moriah  Shining Dove Snyder (as Mary)

Sex : N/a

Death : Survives

Moriah was born in Boise and has Native American ancestry. She  won a beauty pageant at  two  and soon became  a  child star in musicals, home  schooled to accommodate her itinerant career. She made her film debut in The Brady Bunch Movie just before this one. She repriised the role of Mary in the third Prophecy film at 17 but that's her last screen credit. She is married with three children.

Amanda Plummer ( as Rachel )

Sex : No

Death : Killed when Thomas crashes the truck in which they're struggling

Amanda is the daughter of Christopher Plummer. Although she is most feted for her theatre work , she has still  amassed a huge number of screen credits in a career which is ongoing. She  is  most prominent in Pulp Fiction as Tim Roth's sidekick.

809 Lord of Illusions (1995 )

 This Clive Barker effort  was based on one of  his own  short stories which is somewhat ironic as its main fault is that it's too long. The  lengthy prologue sees a Manson-like cult figure Nix ( Daniel Van Bargen ) despatched by Dorothea,  a young girl he has kidnapped and a group of defectors led by star pupil Swann (Kevin O Connor ) who come to rescue her, though they all fear he might return, Swann later maries Dorothea and finds fame as an illusionist using some of the occult magic Nix has taught him but  she  worries and hires a private eye Harry (Scott Bakula) to protect him. The finished film was heavily edited but it's still  neatrly two hours long so you don't  expect lirritating loose  ends  and seemingly  pointless diversions. It's not terrible but could have been a lot better.

Famke Janssen ( as Dorothea )

Sex : Dorothea has sex with Harry

Death : Survives

Famke is originally from Amsterdam and first came to the USA  as a fashion model. In 1992 she  switched to acting, Making a first impression in Goldeneye in 1995. She is  best known for playing Jean Grey in the X-Men franchise But she has many other film and TV credits. Her first film as director Bringing Up Bobby in 2011 was poorly received.

Ashley Lynn Cafalgna ( as Young Dorothea )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Ashley is from Iowa and yhis was her second film aged 12. Her film career was brief and undistinguished but she did better on TV in Saved By The Bell: The New Class and The Bold And The Beautiful. In 2001 , she married Anthony Tesoro and  gave up acting  for  helping run a Christian ministry and  occasionally releasing  EPs of religious songs. They have two children.

Sheila Tousey ( as  Jennifer )

Sex : No

Death : Runs in front of a car

Sheila is a Native American actress from New Mexico who first appeared in 1992's Thunderheart. She  is well known in the Native American  sphere where she has won awards. Her film career ended in 2005  but she is still active in theatre.

Susan Traylor ( as Maureen )

Sex : No

Death : Mentioned as having died  but no details

Susan was born in New York  and started acting relatively late, her first film being A  River Runs Through It. Though pretty much a bit part actress in mainstream films such as Heat, she  has been recognised for her work in independent films such as Valerie Flake and The Casserole Club. That said, she is still probably best known for being Bob Dylan's daughter-in-law.

808 Darkman II : The Return of Durant ( 1995 )

 This  sequel to  Sam Raimi's  enjoyable comic book  romp of 1990  was a   straight  to  video  affair as   the original did  better on video than the cinema and Liam Neeson was unwilling to return to the role. Instead Arnold Vosloo replaces him. Vosloo's  been OK as a villain in other movies but he's hopelessly miscast here ,leaving the whole film on the shoulders of Larry Drake, returning as the villain Durrant (who's unfeasibly survived the  helicopter crash into a bridge in the first film  with nothing more than a limp). Drake is great although he's not given as many good lines  this time  round aand the film is a tired effort.

Kim  Delaney ( as  Jill Randall )

Sex : No

Death : Blown up with a car bomb

Kim  is  from  Philadelphia  and worked as a model before  turbing to acting. She made a big impression in her first TV role on the daytime  soap All My  Children  and appeared in the Bratpack film That Was Then This Is Now. Her  career stalled in the late  eighties  but  picked  up again on TV with a starring role in NYPD Blue  for eight years from 1995. She has been married three times and has had a few brushes with the law for drink driving.

Renee O Connor ( as Laurie Brinkman )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Renee  is  from  Texas and first appeared on screen at 17 on the Disney  Channel. Her career was going nowhere very fast until 1995 when she got the part of Gabrielle in Xena : Warrior Princess which  ran to 2001. Now financially secure she started her own film company and has dabbled in directing and producing while still acting. She is married with two children.