Alicia Witt Archives

Dune (1984)

Rating: ★★★½

Feb 1, 2001Desert World/Intergalactic Politics/Precognitive Messiah

David Lynch disowned his film version of the classic Frank Herbert SF novel. However, Lynch may be incapable of making a bad film and this, while acting freely with the book, has a visual grandeur that makes it highly watchable

Director: David Lynch

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Sting, Jurgen Prochnow, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 February 200125 January 2026 by Roog

Fun (1994)

Rating: ★★★½

May 28, 2010Teenage Girl Lovers/Killers

This came out the same year as Peter Jackson's overrated Heavenly Creatures, although wasn't as recognised, but is a much better, more socially realistic version of the lesbian lovers-killers theme

Director: Rafal Zielinski

Actors: Renee Humphrey, Alicia Witt, William R. Moses, Leslie Hope

Category: Horror

28 May 201024 October 2025 by Roog

Four Rooms (1995)

Rating: ★★

Nov 12, 2002Black Comedy Portmanteau

An anthology of blackly funny tales, including episodes directed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, all centred around Tim Roth as a long-suffering hotel bellboy

Director: Alexandre Rockwell, Allison Anders, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez

Actors: Tim Roth, Jennifer Beals, Quentin Tarantino, Bruce Willis, …

Category: Fantasy

12 November 200222 October 2025 by Roog

Urban Legend (1998)

Rating: ★★½

May 9, 1999Slasher Film

Following the success of Scream, this was an attempt to make an upmarket slasher film based around the motif of urban legends in the same way that Scream used 1980s slasher films. It is a stretch to make urban legends fit in some cases but director Jamie Blanks delivers reasonable tension

Director: Jamie Blanks

Actors: Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Jared Leto, Loretta Devine, …

Category: Horror

9 May 19997 June 2020 by Roog

Longlegs (2024)

Rating: ★★

Aug 30, 2024Serial Killer Thriller

Osgood Perkins has been a director on the rise in recent years. This was his fourth film where he makes a serial killer thriller featuring a verrrry weird Nicolas Cage in the title role

Director: Osgood Perkins

Actors: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, …

Category: Horror

30 August 202430 July 2026 by Roog