827 Wishmaster (1997)

 Wes  Craven kicked off a new  franchise with this one which is notable for the number of horror icons from both in front of and behind the  cameras making cameos. The Wishmaster is a djinn from the Middle East set free from imprisonment in a gemstone who grants wishes in a malevolent fashion to anyone he comes across but needs to secure three from a young analyst to achieve world domination. With a dazlling array of special effects and a plain Jane heroine this does seem like something new but there's a campy feel which makes it difficult to love.

 Tammy Lauren ( as Alexandra )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Tammy is from San Diego and began her career s a child actress in the late seventies. She was primarily a TV actress with a smattering of film credits , this one being her only starring role. She retired in 2014.

Wendy Benson ( as Shannon )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Wendy  was born in New Tork but is part-Scottish. She too is seen mainly on TV but her career is ongoing. She is married to actor Michael Landes.

Gretchen Palmer ( as Ariella)

Sex : No

Death : Turned into a showroom dummy but it gets reversed

Gretchen is from Massachusetts and worked her way up from bit parts to more substantial roles in independent films such as Trois in 2000. She hasn't been seen since a brief run in NCIS; Los ANgeles

826 Snow White : A Tale of Terror (1996)

 This amounts to a de-Disneyfication of the Grimm's fairy tale in an attempt to recapture something of the darkness of the original story. It balances things out by making Snow White something of a spoiled brat and her stepmother worthy of at least some sympathy. And this being the nineties. there's only one dwarf ; the other half dozen miners are normal-sized. Filmed in the Czech Republic this looks good and has some sterling performances but does suffer from the basic problem that you  already know how the story plays out.

Sigourney Weaver (as Claudia )

Sex : Claudia has sex with her husbnd

Death : Crushed by debris in a fire

Because the film didn't get a theatrical release  Sigourney was nominated for an Emmy for her performance rather than a film award.

Monica Keena ( as Lilly )

Sex : Monica narrowly escapes being raped

Death : Survives

Monica as born in NYC  and made her film debut in 1993 in While You Were Sleeping.Besides this one her major roles were in Crime ad Punishment In Suburbia and Freddy vs Jason  and Dawson's Creek on TV. She has an on/off relationship with Edward Furlong.

Joanna Roth (as Lilianna)

Sex : No

Death : Fatally injured in a coach crash

Joanna was born In Denmark and made her film debut as Ophelia in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1990. She has primarily  worked in British TV often alongside her husband, Scottish actor John Hannah.

Taryn Davis ( as little Lilly)

Sex : n/a

Death : Survives

Taryn was Little Miss America in 1991. This was her only film  role. Her only appearance as an adult was a small role in the TV series iCarly in 2007.

Dale Wyatt ( as Ilsa )

Sex : No

Death : Uncertain, possibly dies in the fire

Dale was a bit part actress whose film career began with Troll in 1986. After this film, she began a second career as  a  dialogue coach and soon dropped acting  to concentrate on that. She continues to be much in demand.

825 Mimic (1985 )

 This  film is  stylish  but  too long and at  times patently ridiculous. Much  of  the  story has already happened by  the  start of the  film : a young entomologist has solved a  children's epidemic caused by cockroaches by creating a mutant insect to wipe out the infected horde. You hardly need me to tell you where the story goes from there apart from the fact there's an autistic boy involved who's entirely superfluous and that Jeremy Northam is horribly miscast as the romantic lead,

Mira Sorvino ( as Susan Tyler )

Sex : Susan has some bathtime foreplay with her husband

 Death : Survives

Mira  is the daughter of Sopranos star Paul Sorvino and had an uncredited role in his film The Stuff in 1985 when she was 17. Her first credited film role was in Amongst Friends in 1993, a film that starred her grandfather. She escaped her family's shadow in 1995 when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite. While she  has never quite lived up to that early promise she works steadily and is  also a UN ambassador on human trafficking.

Alix Koromzay ( as Remy )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Alix is of Hungarian extraction  and made her film debut in 1990 with a tiny role in Kindergarten Cop. She  was essentially a bit part actress but  got to reprise her role in Mimic 2. Her career appeared to have ended in 2006 but she popped up again in 2024's The Lost Coast.

824 Event Horizon (1997)

 This  science fiction horror film is  essentially a darker take on the Russian classic, Solaris  although there's  a  fair  helping of  Alien's claustrophobic creepiness too . Larry Fishburne  heads  a  rescue  crew to a spaceship that disappeared  seven years earlier which includes the ship's designer  Dr Weir ( Sam Neill). As soom as they board the lost ship,  bad things start to happen and they gradually realise that .the  evil lies in the ship itself. It  wasn't a  box office success and some  of  the  characterisation is a bit thin but  I  like its nihilistic tone.

Joely Richardson (as Starck)

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Joely is the surviving daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and made her film debut as  a  toddler alongside younger sister Natasha in their father's film The Charge Of the Light Brigade in 1965. Her first acting appearance, after abandoning her ambition to be a tennis player, was in the 1985 film Wetherby playing hr mother's younger self. Since  then she has enjoyed a steady career , marked  by poor choices in film ( Shining Through, Loch Ness) and success on TV ( Lady Chatterley, Nip/Tuck ) . She  is still very active in both media.

Kathleen Quinlan ( as Peters )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

        

Kathleen  was born in Pasadena and  began acting as a teenager in 1973 with a small role in American Grafitti  and a numberof TV appearances. She  was regularly seen in the eighties but reached the pinnacle of her career with an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Apollo 13 in 1995. She is still active.

Holley Chant  ( as Claire )

Sex : No

Death : Claire is an apparition having previously slit her wrists in the bath

Holly's acting career began in 1991 with an appearance in LA. Law. Her last two TV  appearances were on British TV so one assumes she moved to the UK. She disappears after 2005.