Warren Oates Archives

Badlands (1973)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 21, 2009True Life Killers on the Run

Terrence Malick’s first film, very loosely based on the murder spree of Charles Starkweather, albeit one where Malick reinvents Starkweather and girlfriend Caril Fugate as innocents adrift in the great American landscape

Director: Terrence Malick

Actors: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates

Category: Horror

21 April 200924 November 2025 by Roog

Race with the Devil (1975)

Rating: ★★

Feb 2, 2003Backroads Pursuit by Satanists

This has been conceived as a 1970s car chase film mashed up with the 1970s fad for Satanism and occult where two couples in an RV inadvertently witness a devil worship ceremony and are pursued

Director: Jack Starrett

Actors: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker, …

Category: Horror

2 February 200322 January 2026 by Roog

Sleeping Dogs (1977)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 16, 2014New Zealand Dystopia

The cornerstone of the modern New Zealand film industry – the first film of both Sam Neill and Roger Donaldson – a vigorous dystopian action film that offers up a nightmare of sleepy parochial 1970s NZ being brutally overrun by the imagery of totalitarianism

Director: Roger Donaldson

Actors: Sam Neill, Ian Mune, Warren Oates

Category: Science Fiction

16 December 201418 February 2020 by Roog

Blue Thunder (1983)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 15, 1999Hi-Tech Helicopter Theft/Action

Dan O'Bannon scripted film about a hi-tech helicopter, this crackles with great writing and some immensely exciting aerial action scenes from director John Badham

Director: John Badham

Actors: Roy Scheider, Malcolm McDowell, Warren Oates, Daniel Stern, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 September 199910 September 2025 by Roog