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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785 Raising Cain ( 1992 )

 Brian De Palma returned to the pyschological  horror/thriller after eight years away with this  enjoyably  silly romp which  often lurches into self-parody without becoming too arch.  You're  thrown into it  mid-plot with no preamble, having to piece things together through flashbacks with a shedload of red herrings to distract you. John Lithgow plays Carter/Cain , an apparently sensitive husband and father with an adulterous wife  who is nevertheless  on a murderous mission to collect children and dispose of their mothers for some nefarious purpose  because he has multiple personalities. Lithgow holds it together with a tour de force performance as five "separate characters" although the climax  is surprisingly clumsy.

Lola Davidovich ( as Jenny)

Sex : Jenny has alfresco sex with an old boyfriend though it could be an illusion

Death :  Survives

Lolita  is a Canadian actress of Serbian descent who began acting on US TV. After a few bit parts in films in the eighties she broke throuh as the title characterin director Ron Shelton's Blaze . She appeared in four more of Shelton's films and has been married to him since 1997. From the noughties on. she dropped down to supporting roles but she is still active.

Mel Harris ( as Sarah)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Mel  was born in Pennsylvania  and made her film debut in 1986 in the Rutger Hauer vehicle Wanted: Dead Or Alive. The following year, she started in the role that made her famous, that of Hope in the series Thirtysomehing. After that she worked more in TV than film up to 2020. She ha been married six times.

Teri Austin ( as Karen )

Sex : No

Death : Killed by  Cain offscreen after being chloroformed

Teri is from Toronto and came to prominence in the mid-eighties as Jill Bennett in the TV series Knots Landing .Her career after that was mainly on TV. In 2001 she  retired to become a full time animal activist, setting up the Amanda Foundation.

Gabrielle Carteris ( as Nan )

Sex : No

Death : Stabbed in the chest by Cain

Gabrielle was born in Arizona and first appeared on TV in 1987. She achieved fame in Beverley Hills 90210 though  she lied to get the part, being much older than her character. This was her second film and she has been much more active on TV than in films. From 2016 to 2021, she was President of oe of the major acting unions.

Kathleen Callan ( as Emma )

Sex : No

Death : Dies of heart failure in hospital

This was Kathleen's only screen role.

784 Split Second (1992)

 This  Anglo-American co-production mashes up the science fiction, monster movie and  buddy  cop genres with unconvincing  results. Set in the near future/recent  past -2008 - in a mildly-flooded and rat-infested London  Rutger Hauer  is Harley Stone, a half-insane cop chasing a serial killer who killed his partner. He is assigned  Dick Durkin ( Neil Duncan) an inexperienced academic as his new partner  by his barely-acknowledged superior (Alun Armstrong)  and they eventually  realise their  quarry is not exactly human. Nothing really hangs together. Despite the odd flash of wit in their exchanges , the  development of the two men's relationship is no more  believable than the rubber suited monster who can tie knots despitte having huge claws for hands. The plot is illogical and the world-setting half-hearted at best.

Kim Cattrall ( as Michelle )

Sex : Michelle has been having an affair with Harley 

Death : Survives

Kim  was  born in Liverpool but the family emigrated to Canada when she was still a baby. She studied  drama in both London and New York and made her film debut in the action thriller Rosebud in 1978. For the next few years she alternated bewtween Canadian films and frequent guest star roles in popular US TV series (Logan's Run, Starsky and Hutch, The Incredible Hulk, Charlie's Angels). She made more impact in US films in the eighties with the lead female role in Mannequin probably the pinnacle of her film career. Her star was fading in the nineties until Sex  And  The  City in 1998 spectacularly  reignited her  career. She  is  still very active.

Tina Shaw  (as nightclub stripper)

Sex : She reveals her breasts during her routine

Death : Survives

Tina  was a bit part actress active  since 1986 who often played strippers. This was her final screen appearance. 

783 The Lawnmower Man (1992)

 This sci-fi horror film was very loosely ( so loose he sued to dissociate himself from it ) based on a Stephen King short story. Pierce Brosnan plays Dr Angelo, a driven scientist working in  Virtual Reality for a shady corporation. When he loses his subject chimp, he enlists Jobe ( Jeff Fahey ) a retarded gardener for his experiments. Jobe soon  attains normalcy but then develops much further than intended. The plot  has more in common with the Oscar-winning Charly from 1968 than the source material and  though the effects  inevitably look dated it's still an absorbing story, the last  half  hour being an edge of the seat thrill ride.

Jenny Wright (as Margie )

Sex : Margie has sex with Jobe

Death : Survives but brain-damaged 

Jenny was a former model from New York who first appeared on TV  in 1981. She made her film debut the following year in Pink Floyd :The Wall. A  small  part in St Elmo's Fire put her on the fringe of the Brat Pack and she dated Nicolas Cage for a time. This was her  final film role and she dropped out of the public eye after a couple more TV appearances

Colleen Coffey ( as Caroline Angelo)

Sex : Caroline comes onto her husband but he's not interested

Death : Survives

This  was Colleen's first film role after a smattering of TV appearances. She remained a bit  part actress before retiring into family life after 1997.

782 The Gate II ; Trespassers (1992)

 Louis Tripp returns as  Terry , the nerdy one in this  silly sequel to the 1987 film. Despite the events of the first film, Terry somehow works out that the demons he summoned could  also perform as genies and  banish his father's  alcoholism. His ritual is gatecrashed by three intruders, two oafs and a nice girl who takes a shine to him. Although parts of the film work quite well ( the make-up artist deserves a  mention )   the plot has a certain making it up as we go along quality which prevents you from really engaging with it.

Pamela Segull ( as Liz )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Pamela was born in New York. Her father was a screenwriter. She emerged in the early eighties making her film debut in Grease 2 and starring in The Facts Of Life on TV. She  struggled to get out  of  supporting roles  and  diversified into  voiceover work both as women and young boys scoring big with King Of The Hill  by which time she was  known by her married name of Pamela Adlon. She started to get good TV roles such  as Marcy in Californication and  was showered with awards for her work on the comedy series Louie both as a performer and writer. She  remains in high demand.

781 Scanners II : The New Order (1991 )

 This  sequel arrived ten years after its predecessor. without David Cronenberg or any of the original cast and  went  straight to video. Despite these unpromising portents, it's actually a half-decent film.  David Hewlett stars as David Kellum, a young veterinary student who discovers his powerful telepathic abilities when he and his girlfriend are caught up in a store robbery. This brings him to the attention of  corrupt cop Forrester ( Yvan Ponton ) who is collecting scanners for his own nefarious purposes. There is some loose plotting  particularly around introducing a link to the first film halfway through the movie but  the maintenance of a human element to the story and satisfactory special effects compensate.

Deborah Raffin ( as Julie)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

This  was  Deborah's penultimate film and a farewll to horror.

Isabelle Mejias ( as Alice )

Sex : Alice sleeps with David

Death : Survives

Isabelle is  a  French-Canadian actress  who started acting at the start of the eighties. She  was  touted for Hollywood stardom after her leading role in the 1984 film Unfinished Business. It never really materialised though she worked steadily up until 1996 when she  apparently  retired. She has dropped out of the public eye completely.

780 Howling VI ; The Freaks

 After the  atrocity that was Howling  V. this one  raises  the  franchise slightly by  being merely poor. Brendan Hughes plays Ian, a young British man who turns up in a small American town for  no apparent reason. He's swiftly followed by a travelling  canival run by suave  Mr Harker (Bruce Payne)  who specialises in displaying freaks (including Antonio "Huggy Bear" Fargas ). It turns out Harker and Ian have some history It's uneven  in tone, has some dodgy acting  and  low-flying boom mikes  but there is the odd  impactful scene that lifts it above its predecessor.

Michelle Matheson (as Liz)

Sex : Liz has sex with Ian (largely offscreen)

Death : Survives

Michelle's  parents met while acting in the TV series Land of The Giants. She made her acting  debut  on TV in the 80s comedy series Mr Belvedere in which she had a recurring role. This was her first film. Although she had parts in poular ilms such as Threesome and Kingpin, her acting career fizzled out . She has also dablled in music and has had an autobiographical novel Saving Angelfish published. 

 

798 Afraid Of The Dark ( 1991 )

 This  British  psychological  thriller about  a  disturbed  boy losing his sight  has a strong cast ( not all giving their best performance unfortunately )  and  an  unreliable  narrator  twist  that  makes it  ahead of its time  It's  a  bit  slow at  times   but  an  interesting effort with an unexpectedly hopeful ending after the  unpleasant  tone  of much  that has preceded it.

Fanny  Ardant  ( as  Miriam )

Sex : Miriam is heavily pregnant

Death : Survives

Fanny is a highly respected actress in French cinema with two Cesar Awards and nominations for six more. Her film career blossomed after catching the eye of Francois Truffaut with ehom she had a daughter. This is one of the few films she has made outside France. She courted controversy by expressing her admiration for the REd Brigade terrorist group in 2007. Since 2009  she has branched out into directing and screenwriting.

Clare Holman ( as Rose )

Sex : Rose poses  topless for a photographer but it's actually a delusion

Death : Survives

Clare  is  from  London  and  has ben a much in demand actress, mainly in British TV since 1988. She is best known  for  playing pathologist Laura Hobson in Inspector Morse and Lewis  and the adulterous teacher's wife in The Lakes . She  was married to theatre director Howard Davies from 2005 to his death in 2016.

Susan Wooldridge ( as Lucy )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Susan  is another British actress who is still active. She was born in Hammersmith.In an up and down career  she had small parts in British films of the 1970s then rose to fame as Daphne Manners in The Jewel In The Crown. She also starred in John Boorman's Hope And Glory in 1987. Her fortunes dipped until  All Quiet On The Preston Front in the mid-nineties.  Since then her career has continued as a low profile character actress.

797 Two Evil Eyes ( 1991)

 This was a joint effort by George Romero and Dario Argento with  each one filming a segment inspired by Edgar Allen  Poe. Romero goes first with The Facts In The Case of  M. Valdemar starring Adrienne Barbeau as a soon-to-be-widow whose lover is  hypnotising her dying husband into arranging his affairs to benefit them. When he dies too soon they put him in the freezer but of course he doesn't lie still. Despite the modern setting it's old-fashoned and a bit too predictable. Argento's narrative The Black Cat is grislier and more  inventive though a little rushed in places and the ending is very contrived. Harvey Keitel plays a cynical photographer jealous of his young girlfriend's affection for her cat, a resentment  that  spills into violence and worse. It's the more  gripping of the two when you're not distracted by the lousy effects when the cat goes into action.

Madeleine Potter ( as Annabel)

Sex : Annabel is having an affair with one of her students

Death : Hit with a meat cleaver

Madeleine made her film debut in a Merchant-Ivory production The  Bostonians and has made three other films with them. Though born in America, she has been based in Britain since the mid-nineties dividing her time between stage, TV and voice work.

Julie Benz ( as Betty )

Sex : No

Death : Survives 

This  was  19-year old Julie's film debut, possibly owing to being a native of Pittsburgh where it was filmed. She is the daughter of a doctor and a figure skater. She was hoping to be a skater herself but injury diverted her into acting. In 1996 she auditioned for the main role in Buffy The Vampre Slayer   . She didn't getit but was compensated by the supporting role of Darla which made her name. Julie is a big star on TV  which rather overshadows her film work.

Lanene Chanters (as Bonnie)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

This was Lanene's only screen appearance. 

796 Body Parts (1991 )

 This  body horror  film has  a  completely  ludicrous premise and  the last thirty mintes or so don't make a great deal of sense  but  the  impressive  cast take it seriously  and  it  is  pretty good gory fun, A serial killer has his execution method switched from the electric chair to dismemberment in an operating theatre - which seems like cruel and unusual punishment to me -so Dr Webb ( Lindsay Duncan)  can give his limbs to patients such as  psychiatrist Bill Crushank  (Jeff Fahey) , When  the arm seems to have a mind of its own, Bill tracks down the other recipients  including an unusually sympathetic Brad Dourif.

Kim Delaney ( as Karen )

Sex : Karen has sex with Bill

Death : Survives

Kim  was  born in Philadelphia  and was  a  very  successful teen model before  breaking  into acting  on TV in 1981 on All My Children . Although she has  appeared  sporadically in films, she is  primarily a TV actress winning an Emmy Award for NYPD Blue. She  is  still active, seen most  recently in Chicago Fire.

Sarah Campbell  ( as Samantha )

Sex : N/a

Death : Survives

This  was Sarah's first film role. She managed to keep her career going, mainly on TV up to the mid-90s and has made one or  two  appearances  s  an extra since.

795 Bride Of Reanimator ( 1991 )

 This  sequel  to the 1985 film reunites most of the key cast but it's  shockingly bad; it's no surprise it went straight to video. In  its gore and special effects, it outdoes the previous film in sheer volume  but  if  you're looking for a coherent plot  or  even consistency of motivation  - Dan  Cain (Bruce Abott in particular -, this is the wrong film for you. There  are  still one or two good jokes here and there but  it's not worth wading through the manure to find them.

Fabiana Udenio ( as Francseca )

Sex : Francesca has sex with Dan then is repeatedly assaulted by the zombiefied cop

Death : Survives

Fabiana was born in Argentina ut raised in Italy where she became a teen model. She made her film debut in a German picture in 1978 but moved to the US in the eighties. She has regularly worked in TV and  is  currently  in  the  series FUBAR.

Kathleen Kinmont ( as Gloria )

Sex : Glora is stripped for resuscitation

Death : Gloria dies of an unspecified terminal illness

Kathleen was cast after Barbara Crampton declined to return although she plays a different character.

794 Silence Of The Lambs (1991 )

 This  is  one  of  the  most  seminal films  of  the  nineties , winning "the Big Five" Oscars ( the most  recent  film to  do  so ) and rehabilitating  the  horror genre singlehandedly.  A promising young FBI agent is assigned to visit a  hyper-intelligent  psychiatrist turned serial cannibal, Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins ) in the  hope  of  eliciting insights into the mind  of  a  still-at-large serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. Lecter agrees to  help if she'll  divulge some personal secrets.to  him. The  film is stylish and  gripping with  a pervading sense of dread  compensating for  the limited amount of actual gore. The deductive logic gets a bit bumpy towards the end but otherwise it's near-perfect.

Jodie  Foster ( as Clarice Starling )

Sex : Clarice gets semen thrown in her face by Lecter's cellmate

Death : Survives

Jodie made her first appearance in a commercial at the age of three and soon joined the Disney stable. She was the premier child actress in the seventies ; in the second half of which she started appearing in provocative roles  in films like The  Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane and Taxi Driver. Shortly after starting university at Yale, she atracted unwelcome publicity when her stalker tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan  in 1981 and for the next few years she was box office poison. Her career spectacularly revived in 1988 with an Oscar for her role in The Accused and  this  film brought her another one. She  has had  successes and  failures  since, with forays into producing and directing , but remains an A-lister.

Kasi Lemmons ( as Ardelia )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Kassii was born in Missouri and started acting on TV in the late eighties. She made her first film appearance in Spike Lee's School Daze. She  harboured directing ambitions,  got her first chance with Eve's Bayou in 1997 and has made few onscreen appearances since. Her work as a director has been showered with woke-y awards but she has yet to score at the box office.

Brooke Smith ( as Catherine )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Brooke was  from  New York , the  daughter of  a  Hollywood publicist  and  this  was  her  third  film. This  remains  her  most  high profile  role but  she  has  worked steadily in film and TV ever since.

Lauren Roselli ( as Staci)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Lauren was the keyboard player in the band Book Of Love . This was the first of four films in which Jonathan Demme cast her. her only screen credits.

793 Popcorn (1991 )

 This  postmodern slasher spoof isn't nearly as clever as it thinks it is  with its  films-within-a film  structure and numerous  references to other movies.  A group of film students  and their tutors stage a horrorthon using old 50s  B-movies  at a condemned cinema where a gruesome tragedy once played out  and of course there's a hideously deformed survivor out  for  revenge. Even given it's a spoof ,you expect  some internal logic and avoidance of plotholes - the reggae band that can play during a powercut is a classic - and  I  don't  think  the  heavy  dose of Talking Killer Syndrome is  deliberate.

Jill  Schoelen ( as Maggie/Sarah)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Jill's straight-faced  conviction in the leading  role keeps  the  film  afloat.

Freddie Marie Simpson ( as Tina )

Sex : Tina is having an affair with her tutor

Death : Killed by the maniac offscreen, means unknown

Freddie made only two films in a very brief career in the early nineties

Kelly Jo Minter ( as Cheryl )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Kelly Jo only has a small role in this one.

Ivette Solar ( as Joanie )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Ivette was a bit part actress active in the first half of the nineties.

Karen Witter ( as Joy )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Karen  was both a  medical student and a Playboy model before going into acting. She  was  mainly  a  TV actress with a two year run in One Life To Live  and bit parts in films although she was the female lead in 1989's Buried Alive. She seems to have retired now.

792 Warlock (1991)

 There aren''t too many original ideas in  this  film about a time-travelling warlock from the 17th Century ( the dreaded Julian Sands )  pursued by a vengeful hunter ( Richard E Grant ) with the aid of a modern-day plucky  heroine. There are distinct echoes of The Terminator , Highlander,  and Time After Time to  name a few. There are effective moments but mostly  this is too silly to be  enjoyable with  Sands as wooden as ever and  Grant  seemingly making up the plot as he goes along in a dodgy ( and completely  unnecessary) Scottish  accent.

Lori Singer ( as Kassandra)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Lori was born in Texas into a musical family and she herself became  a  musical prodigy  as  a solo cellist at 13. She went to a prestigious music school  but  then moved  into modelling and then acting, inspired by her brother Marc ( best known for V). She got a good part in the TV series Fame which was written around her talents then made her fim debut in Footloose. After Short Cuts in 1993, her film career waned and she has moved into  producing documentaries  with some success.

Nancy Fox ( as Boy's mother )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Nancy is  another Texan who made an impact as a teenager in the  early  seventies in the medical comedy Temperatures Rising. Thereafter, she worked steadily in TV and  on stage but only made two films. She is still active.

Anna Levine ( as  Pastor's wife )

Sex : Warlock feels her up and determines she is pregnant

Death :  Uncertain

Anna  was born in New  York and came  up  the  hard  way with bit parts in many eighties films  before  starting to get  meatier  roles in the nineties by  which time she was known as Anna Thomson. These included The Unforgiven, True Romance and The Crow.She seems  to have retired after 2012.

791 Predator 2 ( 1990 )

 I  remember switching  this  film off when it was  first televised in the mid-nineties and it  hasn't improved with age Schwarzenegger  declined to return and instead you have Danny Glover as a cop trying to deal with the chaos as the  alien warrior  starts wiping out drug gangs  like a dreadlocked Charles  Bronson. Indeed, in its mindless violence and wafer-thin narrative and characterisation, this has far more in common with the Death Wish sequels than the original Predator.  Though up to the role physically, Glover  is no leading man and Gary Busey phones in his performance as the shady man government man- who  - guess what - wants to use the alien for miliatary purposes.

Maria Conchita Alonso ( as  Leona  Cantrell)

Sex : Leona is pregnant

Death : Survives 

Maria was born in Cuba  but went into exile with her parents in 1962  and has remained a staunch Republican.  She  first  worked as a model in Venezuela ,making the final seven in the Miss World contest in 1975.  She worked extensively in Venezuelan TV in the early eighties but moved to the US in 1982 to further her career. She peaked in the late  eighties with The Running Man and Colors  then  her  film career stalled somewhat. perhaps due to her political views, and she was seen more on TV. She is still very active and has a parallel career as a singer in the Spanish language market.

Teri Weigel ( as Mary)

Sex :  Mary is having vigorous sex with  a drug lord when a rival gang interrupt them

Death : Presumed to survive

Teri was a former Playboy  centrefold who made decorative appearances in a few  mainstream films and the TV series Married...With Children  before  moving into porn films  from which she has now presumably  reired.