Timothy Bottoms Archives

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 28, 2026Limbless Soldier Hallucinates

Classic anti-war film with Timothy Bottoms as a limbless, sightless soldier in a hospital bed as his mind wanders between hallucinations, visions of the afterlife and attempts to communicate with the medical staff

Director: Dalton Trumbo

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Diane Varsi, …

Category: Fantasy

28 July 202628 July 2026 by Roog

Rollercoaster (1977)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 18, 2005Psycho Bomber

1970s disaster movie with George Segal tracking Timothy Bottoms as a mad bomber blowing up rollercoasters

Director: James Goldstone

Actors: George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, …

Category: Horror

18 March 200514 May 2024 by Roog

Tin Man (1983)

Rating: ★★

Jan 19, 2008Deaf Inventor Builds an A.I.

Earnest, sincere film where deaf Timothy Bottoms receives an operation that allows him to hear again, as well as builds an A.I.

Director: John G. Thomas

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Deana Jurgens, Troy Donahue, John Phillip Law

Category: Science Fiction

19 January 20084 December 2024 by Roog

Invaders from Mars (1986)

Rating: ★★

Jun 9, 2003Alien Body Snatchers

Tobe Hooper's remake of the 1950s alien invaders classic for Cannon Films has much better effects and more technical proficient than the original but misses any of its paranoid, alienated mood

Director: Tobe Hooper

Actors: Hunter Carson, Karen Black, James Karen, Timothy Bottoms, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 June 200322 April 2026 by Roog

The Fantasist (1986)

Rating: ★★

Jul 15, 2002Irish Psycho-Thriller

Robin Hardy, director of The Wicker Man, makes an Irish-set thriller in which a country girl moved to the city is stalked by a serial killer who sends his victims poetry

Director: Robin Hardy

Actors: Moira Harris, Timothy Bottoms, Christopher Cazenove, John Kavanagh, …

Category: Horror

15 July 200224 October 2025 by Roog

Uncle Sam (1997)

Rating: ★★

Aug 2, 2010Vengeful Undead Army Veteran

Film about an undead military veteran from director William Lustig and a script by the great Larry Cohen that unevenly digs into patriotic sentiment with black regard

Director: William Lustig

Actors: Isaac Hayes, Timothy Bottoms, Robert Forster, David Shark Fralick, …

Category: Horror

2 August 20106 February 2025 by Roog

Murder Scene (2000)

Rating: ★★

Mar 29, 2008Clairvoyance Thriller

Thriller where student Nicole Eggert begins to have clairvoyant visions leading her to an abducted girl

Director: Rob King

Actors: Nicole Eggert, Callum Keith Rennie, Timothy Bottoms, Will Sanderson

Category: Fantasy

29 March 200810 January 2024 by Roog

Elephant (2003)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 15, 2004High-School Shooting Spree

Gus Van Sant makes a film about the high school shooting phenomenon, although has almost nothing to say about it. Where the film does mesmerise is in Van Sant's seemingly naturalistic style and non-linear narrative.

Director: Gus Van Sant

Actors: Alex Frost, John Robinson, Timothy Bottoms

Category: Horror

15 June 200430 September 2020 by Roog

Parasomnia (2008)

Rating: ★★

Jun 2, 2015Girl With Sleeping Sickness/Dream-Invading Serial Killer

William Malone, the director of House on Haunted Hill remake, makes an interestingly different film about a girl who has spent most of her life asleep being pursued by a genius killer who invades her dreams

Director: William Malone

Actors: Patrick Kilpatrick, Cherilyn Wilson, Jeffrey Combs, Dov Tiefenbach, …

Category: Horror

2 June 20152 March 2026 by Roog

The Land That Time Forgot (2009)

Rating: ★★

Aug 18, 2010Prehistoric Lost World

A low-budget modernised version of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book about a group ending up on a lost island where dinosaurs still roam. Slightly better than usual for The Asylum

Director: C. Thomas Howell

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Timothy Bottoms, David H. Stevens, Anya Benton

Category: Science Fiction

18 August 201023 May 2026 by Roog