Treat Williams Archives

Dead Heat (1988)

Rating: ★

Nov 5, 1999Cop and his Zombie Partner

Made not along after the success of Lethal Weapon, this offers a wacky spin on the buddy cop formula having a cop paired with a zombie. The mildly amusing notion is killed by the excruciating comedy relief of Joe Piscopo

Director: Mark Goldblatt

Actors: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin, …

Category: Horror

5 November 19999 October 2025 by Roog

The Phantom (1996)

Rating: ★★

May 1, 2003Comic-Book Superhero

Big screen adaptation of the popular comic-strip superhero. This aims for the tone of an old fashioned serial adventure and is nicely mounted but crucially never comes to life.

Director: Simon Wincer

Actors: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, James Remar, …

Category: Fantasy

1 May 20037 July 2023 by Roog

Deep Rising (1998)

Rating: ★

Feb 27, 2003Sea Monsters

Early Stephen Sommers film that feels like it has been mounted as Alien meets Titanic. Between the ridiculous one-dimensional writing and Sommers’ CGI overkill, this heads well into bad movie material

Director: Stephen Sommers

Actors: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Anthony Heald, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 February 200317 January 2026 by Roog

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 3, 2010Underground Adventures/Jules Verne Adaptation

Hallmark TV mini-series version of the Jules Verne novel that keeps faith to the book for the most part before heading off on some colourfully exotic adventures

Director: George Miller (ii)

Actors: Treat Williams, Jeremy London, Bryan Brown, Hugh Keays-Byrne

Category: Science Fiction

3 July 201022 December 2021 by Roog

Critical Mass (2000)

Rating: ★

Jan 18, 2004Action/Nuclear Power Plant Hijacking

Low-budget Fred Olen Ray action film is another variant on Die Hard with security guard Treat Williams foiling a terrorist hijacking of a nuclear power plant. For some reason this also includes reuse of footage from Terminator 2

Director: Fred Olen Ray

Actors: Treat Williams, Udo Kier, Lori Loughlin, Andrew Prine, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 January 200420 October 2024 by Roog

Venomous (2001)

Rating: ★

May 25, 2008Deadly Snakes/Plague Outbreak

Low-budget director Fred Olen Ray makes a head-scratching crosshatch between a plague outbreak film and an Animals Amok film with a town being attacked by snakes infected with a deadly virus

Director: Fred Olen Ray

Actors: Treat Williams, Mary Page Keller, Geoff Pierson, Hannes Jaenicke, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 May 20083 May 2024 by Roog

Age of Dinosaurs (2013)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 10, 2021Genetically-Engineered Dinosaurs Amok

A modestly effective Jurassic Park copy from The Asylum with genetically-revived dinosaurs loose in L.A. and featuring better than usual effects

Director: Joseph J. Lawson

Actors: Treat Williams, Ronny Cox, Jillian Rose Reed, Jose Rosete, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 March 202110 July 2026 by Roog

Eve of Destruction (2013)

Rating: ½

May 8, 2014Dark Energy Experiment Amok/Disaster Mini-Series

An impoverished sf disaster mini-series about a dark matter experiment going amok that manages to tediously drag out four hours of soap opera dramatics and control room doubletalk

Director: Robert Lieberman

Actors: Steven Weber, Christina Cox, Treat Williams, Aleks Paunovic, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 May 201419 October 2025 by Roog