Darlanne Fluegel Archives

Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Rating: ★★

Jul 5, 2002Psychic Link with a Serial Killer

Faye Dunaway is a fashion photographer who gains a psychic link into the mind of a killer. From a John Carpenter script but the thriller plotting is never up to the chic suggestiveness the film is given

Director: Irvin Kershner

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Auberjonois, Brad Dourif, …

Category: Horror

5 July 200220 October 2025 by Roog

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 15, 2011Space Opera

Roger Corman jumps aboard the Star Wars fad and offers up a version of The Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven located in space. Corman has thrown a reasonable budget at the film for once and it emerges as colourfully enjoyable

Director: Jimmy T. Murakami

Actors: Richard Thomas, George Peppard, Sybil Danning, John Saxon, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 January 201125 November 2025 by Roog

Freeway (1988)

Rating: ★★

Oct 12, 2023Freeway Serial Killer

Thriller where widow Darlanne Fluegel and radio talkback host Richard Belzer team up to hunt a serial killer shooting people on the L.A. freeways

Director: Francis Delia

Actors: Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo, Richard Belzer, Billy Drago, …

Category: Horror

12 October 202312 October 2023 by Roog

Pet Sematary II (1992)

Rating: ★★

Feb 2, 2001Resurrection of the Dead

Sequel to the 1989 Pet Sematary that reverses the sympathies of the original - now it is a child that resurrects a parent - but this never quite finds the same effectiveness

Director: Mary Lambert

Actors: Edward Furlong, Clancy Brown, Anthony Edwards, Jared Rushton, …

Category: Horror

2 February 200118 October 2023 by Roog

Slaughter of the Innocents (1993)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 27, 2002Serial Killer Thriller

Reasonable copy of The Silence of the Lambs with Scott Glenn as an FBI agent tracking a killer obsessed with Noah's Ark

Director: James Glickenhaus

Actors: Scott Glenn, Darlanne Fluegel, Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Sheila Tousey, …

Category: Horror

27 January 200217 March 2025 by Roog

Scanner Cop (1994)

Rating: ★★

May 5, 2003Psychic Powers

Third of the sequels to Scanners, this stars Daniel Quinn as a police officer who discovers scanner abilities

Director: Pierre David

Actors: Daniel Quinn, Richard Lynch, Richard Grove, Darlanne Fluegel, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 May 200322 December 2021 by Roog

Relative Fear (1994)

Rating: ★½

Dec 13, 2002Autistic Child Psycho-Thriller

Routine variant on the psycho child theme, which heads into rather dubious territory when it leads us to think a series of killings are being conducted by an autistic child

Director: George Mihalka

Actors: Darlanne Fluegel, Martin Neufeld, James Brolin, M. Emmet Walsh, …

Category: Horror

13 December 200218 July 2023 by Roog

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 15, 2008Disfigured Avenging Superhero

This was the second and better of the two video-released sequels to Sam Raimi's Darkman starring Arnold Vosloo in the title role. This adds a much more interestingly complex plot to the mix

Director: Bradford May

Actors: Arnold Vosloo, Jeff Fahey, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Darlanne Fluegel, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 June 200815 January 2026 by Roog