Dee Wallace Archives

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 27, 2003Backroads Brutality

The second film from Wes Craven, a classic in the 1970s Backwoods Brutality cycle with a family stranded in the desert as they come under attack from a family of cannibals lurking in the hills

Director: Wes Craven

Actors: Dee Wallace, Michael Berryman, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, …

Category: Horror

27 February 200324 February 2026 by Roog

The Howling (1981)

Rating: ★★★½

May 24, 2013Werewolves/Genre Spoof

The film that made the name of Joe Dante who fills it with a barrage of werewolf movie references and in-jokes. The film's reputation rests on an amazing mid-film effects sequence where a man transforms into a wolf

Director: Joe Dante

Actors: Dee Wallace, Christopher Stone, Patrick MacNee, Dennis Dugan, …

Category: Horror

24 May 20135 April 2026 by Roog

E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Rating: ★★★★★

Dec 16, 2001Cute Alien

Perhaps the greatest children's film ever made, the story of the affection between a lonely boy and a stranded alien. Steven Spielberg paints in beautiful, tender emotions from the heart that can only not touch the most cynical

Director: Steven Spielberg

Actors: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote

Category: Science Fiction

16 December 200125 September 2023 by Roog

Cujo (1983)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 7, 2000Killer Dog/Stephen King Adaptation

One of the more underrated Stephen King adaptations about a rabid killer dog. Director Lewis Teague turns the last 40 minutes with Dee Wallace and son trapped in a car by the dog into an extended climax of grueling tension

Director: Lewis Teague

Actors: Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh-Kelly, Danny Pintuaro, Christopher Stone, …

Category: Horror

7 September 200018 July 2025 by Roog

Shadow Play (1986)

Rating: ★

Feb 12, 2014Ghost Story

Very obscure independently-made ghost story – and justly so … It seems more interested in being a vague, incredibly pretentious woman's psychodrama than it ever is in the usual ghost story stuff of spooking and scaring an audience

Director: Susan Shadburne

Actors: Dee Wallace, Cloris Leachman

Category: Horror

12 February 20147 September 2022 by Roog

Legend of the White Horse (1986)

Rating: ★

May 31, 2023Magical Horse/Dragon

Christopher Lloyd and Dee Wallace star in one of the tattiest of 1980s fantasy films about a magic horse that is really a dragon. This is killed by some abysmal effects.

Director: Janusz Morgenstern, Jerzy Domaradski

Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Dee Wallace, Soon-Teck Oh, Christopher Stone, …

Category: Fantasy

31 May 202322 June 2026 by Roog

Critters (1986)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 9, 2003Malicious Alien Creatures

A surprisingly likeable Gremlins copycat concerning an invasion by a horde of malicious alien creatures. An enjoyable popcorn muncher that has produced four sequels.

Director: Stephen Herek

Actors: Scott Grimes, Dee Wallace, Billy Zane, Billy Green Bush, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 July 20033 October 2025 by Roog

Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)

Rating: ★

Jun 23, 2013Giant Alligator

The 1980 Alligator was amusing but this hardly one of the sequels the world was burning to see. An utterly formulaic copy that is killed by impoverished giant alligator effects

Director: Jon Hess

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Dee Wallace, Steve Railsback, Richard Lynch, …

Category: Horror

23 June 201315 November 2025 by Roog

Popcorn (1991)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 4, 2003Movie Theatre Slasher/Genre Homages

Surprisingly good modern slasher film set in a movie theatre during a festival of old horror films. The films come with surprisingly affectionate and well done recreations of old gimmick films, and the slasher sequences a more than reasonable style

Director: Mark Herrier

Actors: Jill Schoelen, Tony Roberts, Derek Rydall, Dee Wallace, …

Category: Horror

4 July 200311 February 2025 by Roog

Temptress (1995)

Rating: ★

Apr 19, 2010Erotica/Possession by Kali

Erotic horror film made by Playboy where Kim Delaney is possessed by an incarnation of Kali

Director: Lawrence Lanoff

Actors: Kim Delaney, Chris Sarandon, Ben Cross, Dee Wallace, …

Category: Horror

19 April 20107 September 2022 by Roog

Invisible Mom (1995)

Rating: ★

Dec 6, 2002Invisible Housewife

B-budget director Fred Olen Ray makes an invisibility comedy with impoverished effects. Olen Ray's usual parade of bimbos and cynical one-liners is kept under restraint and this made as a children’s film

Director: Fred Olen Ray

Actors: Dee Wallace, Russ Tamblyn, Barry Livingston, Stella Stevens, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 December 200222 April 2026 by Roog

Subliminal Seduction (1996)

Rating: ★½

Mar 24, 2010Sinister Brainwashing Plot

Ian Ziering stars in a B-budget ripoff of The Stepford Wives where he discovers that a computer company is encoding brainwashing messages in a videogame

Director: Andrew Stevens

Actors: Ian Ziering, Dee Wallace, Andrew Stevens, Kin Shriner, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 March 201010 September 2025 by Roog

The Frighteners (1996)

Rating: ★★

Dec 6, 2000Medium vs Ghostly Serial Killer Comedy

Before The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson flopped badly with this ghost comedy. Jackson allows his obsession with the effects technology to take over at the expense of much else and provides little that is funny

Director: Peter Jackson

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace, …

Category: Horror

6 December 200015 February 2026 by Roog

Black Circle Boys (1997)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 12, 2005Teenage Satanists/True Story

Modest and effective portrait of troubled youth as a teen is drawn into a group who have sworn allegiance to Satan. The film is driven by an intense compelling performance from Eric Mabius as the group's leader

Director: Matthew Carnahan

Actors: Scott Bairstow, Eric Mabius, Dee Wallace, Tara Subkoff, …

Category: Horror

12 February 200529 November 2025 by Roog

Skeletons (1997)

Rating: ★★

Mar 26, 2007Smalltown Secrets

An almost respectable film from David DeCoteau about a journalist uncovering the disappearance of a gay man in a town that eliminates those who do not conform to its wholesome lifestyle

Director: David DeCoteau

Actors: Ron Silver, Christopher Plummer, James Coburn, Dee Wallace, …

Category: Horror

26 March 200730 November 2020 by Roog

Killer Instinct (2000)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 19, 2001Abandoned Asylum Slasher

A reasonable B-budget slasher film in which teens accept a dare to spend a night in an abandoned asylum only for someone to have rigged the facility with traps and start stalking them

Director: Ken Barbet

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Dee Wallace

Category: Horror

19 July 20019 June 2026 by Roog

The Lost (2005)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 29, 2007Smalltown Psycho

Chris Sivertson directs a frequently explosive film based on a Jack Ketchum novel that tells the story of a true-life teenage killer and the magnetic sway he held over others

Director: Chris Sivertson

Actors: Marc Senter, Shay Astar, Robin Sydney, Ed Lauter, …

Category: Horror

29 July 200728 July 2026 by Roog

Headspace (2005)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 19, 2007Expanded Mental Powers and Demons

Modest and effective horror film about a teenager who starts to gains expanded mental abilities - but where this also appears to unleash monsters

Director: Andrew van den Houten

Actors: Christopher Denham, Olivia Hussey, William Atherton, Dee Wallace, …

Category: Horror

19 April 200730 October 2025 by Roog

The Plague (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 19, 2008Zombified Children

Interestingly different film about zombified children set after a time when childbirth has died out. This generates a reasonable level of tension but arrives at a very confusing end

Director: Hal Masonberg

Actors: James Van Der Beek, Ivana Milicevic, Brad Hunt, Josh Close, …

Category: Horror

19 January 20082 March 2023 by Roog

Abominable (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 22, 2018Bigfoot Film

This offers the novelty of a Bigfoot film by way of Hitchcock’s Rear Window where wheelchair-ridden witnesses Bigfoot preying on a house of girls. This generates a reasonable degree of tension

Director: Ryan Schifrin

Actors: Matt McCoy, Lance Henriksen, Jeffrey Combs, Mike Deak, …

Category: Horror

22 October 20186 November 2025 by Roog

Halloween (2007)

Rating: ★★

Feb 13, 2009Slasher Film

Another inferior entry in the mid-00s fad remake of 70s/80s horror films. Whereas John Carpenter gave us Michael Myers as evil incarnate, Rob Zombie gives us Michael Myers as a misunderstood and unloved kid

Director: Rob Zombie

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Daeg Faerch, …

Category: Horror

13 February 200922 December 2025 by Roog

The House of the Devil (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 17, 2010Occult Sacrifice

The film that started to get attention for Ti West as a director, a slow burn work where Jocelin Donahue is hired for a babysitting job only to find sinister things going on when she arrives at the house

Director: Ti West

Actors: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, …

Category: Horror

17 January 20105 November 2025 by Roog

Exit Humanity (2011)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 1, 2013American Civil War Zombie Film

Modestly effective zombie film set during the US Civil War. This eschews the usual gore-drenched zombie attacks in favour of a nicely achieved story about one man's internal journey through the apocalypse

Director: John Geddes

Actors: Mark Gibson, Bill Moseley, Dee Wallace, Adam Seybold, …

Category: Horror

1 March 201319 May 2025 by Roog

The Lords of Salem (2012)

Rating: ★★

May 27, 2013Occult Happenings/Witch's Curse

In this homage to the 1970s occult film, Rob Zombie tones back the posturing shock effect of his earlier films and creates atmosphere. Eventually though, Zombie creates a film that feels coiled to unleash something bad but falters

Director: Rob Zombie

Actors: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Judy Geeson, …

Category: Horror

27 May 201328 July 2026 by Roog

Hansel & Gretel (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 6, 2019Fairytale Horror Adaptation

Amid the 2010s spate of fairytales rewritten as dark adult fantasies, this was a quite good mockbuster copy from The Asylum. From the director of Sharknado, this is Hansel and Gretel by way of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Director: Anthony C. Ferrante

Actors: Dee Wallace, Stephanie Greco, Brent Lydic

Category: Fantasy, Horror

6 November 201911 March 2026 by Roog

Zombie Killers Elephants Graveyard (2015)

Rating: ★★

Nov 27, 2025Zombie Film

Another entry among the zombie revival fad of the 2000s/10s, this should be commended for taking an epic and ambitious scope in its story, enough it feels to fuel multiple seasons of The Walking Dead

Director: B. Harrison Smith

Actors: Billy Zane, Mischa Barton, Dee Wallace, Felissa Rose, …

Category: Horror

27 November 202527 November 2025 by Roog

Death House (2017)

Rating: ★

Jun 30, 2019Asylum of Insane Killers Unleashed

This comes with the winning idea of being conceived as a horror version of The Expendables bringing back an amazing line-up of horror actors from principally the 80s. Alas, the film itself as an incoherent mess

Director: B. Harrison Smith

Actors: Cornet Palm, Cody Longo, Dee Wallace, Kane Hodder, …

Category: Horror

30 June 201917 January 2026 by Roog

3 from Hell (2019)

Rating: ★★

Oct 20, 2019Family of Psychos

Rob Zombie is back,, making the third in his trilogy of Firefly films following House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. It is all fairly much the same as before where Zombie's sympathies are cleanly with the family of psychopaths and their murderous rampage.

Director: Rob Zombie

Actors: Sherri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Richard Brake, Jeff Daniel Phillips, …

Category: Horror

20 October 201927 September 2022 by Roog

Critters Attack! (2019)

Rating: ★★

Nov 22, 2019Malicious Alien Creatures

For reasons known only to those involved, Critters, the quintessential 1980s VHS series about malicious creatures, has been revived for another sequel but with unmemorable results

Director: Bobby Miller

Actors: Tashiana Washington, Dee Wallace, Tanya Van Graan

Category: Science Fiction

22 November 201912 January 2026 by Roog

Rondo and Bob (2020)

Rating: ★★

Sep 26, 2024Documentary About Rondo Hatton and Robert Burns

A documentary about Rondo Hatton, the 1940s horror actor who suffered acromegaly, and Robert Burns, the eccentric art director from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Director: Joe O’Connell

Actors: Ryan Williams, Joseph Middleton, Kelsey Pribilski, Kyle Hurley, …

Category: Horror

26 September 202413 November 2025 by Roog

13 Fanboy (2021)

Rating: ★★

Jun 19, 2022Killer Stalks Friday the 13th Actresses

Slasher film that comes with a great hook – one where various real-life actresses from the Friday the 13th films are stalked by a masked maniac

Director: Deborah Voorhees

Actors: Dee Wallace, Kane Hodder, Corey Feldman, Haley Reece Greenbauer, …

Category: Horror

19 June 202230 May 2025 by Roog

In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 25, 2022Documentary About 1980s SF Films

A documentary that comes with great affection for the SF films of the 1980s and covers these, along with interviews with key people, although leaves quite a number of blank spots in works it does not cover

Director: David Weiner

Actors: Nancy Allen, Melody Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Shane Black, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 September 202216 April 2026 by Roog

Jeepers Creepers Reborn (2022)

Rating: ★

Nov 6, 2022Monster Movie

The Jeepers Creepers films created a highly original boogeyman with some creepy effect. Mired in controversy, the fourth entry in franchise emerges from Finnish director Timo Vuorensola

Director: Timo Vuorensola

Actors: Sydney Craven, Imran Adams, Jarreau Benjamin, Peter Brooke, …

Category: Horror

6 November 202217 May 2026 by Roog

Nix (2022)

Rating: ★

May 14, 2026Lake Monster

From the director of the Sharknado films. This concerns a family dealing with tragedy caused by a lake monster. Unlike Sharknado, this a work that is taking itself seriously

Director: Anthony C. Ferrante

Actors: Dee Wallace, Michael Paré, James Zimbardi, Niesha Renee Guilbot, …

Category: Horror

14 May 202626 July 2026 by Roog

Stream (2024)

Rating: ★★

Jul 13, 2026Livestreamed Murders

Horror film with a substantial cast of genre veterans where Jeffrey Combs imprisons guests in a hotel and livestreams as a group of killers compete to rack up the most creative kill

Director: Michael Leavy

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Danielle Harris, Dee Wallace, Tony Todd, …

Category: Horror

13 July 202613 July 2026 by Roog