William Katt Archives

Carrie (1976)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 6, 2000Telekinetic Teen's Revenge/Stephen King Adaptation

The very first Stephen King adaptation, a hit that made King's name. Brian De Palma directs with flamboyant visuals that make you gasp but the film would be nothing without its amazing central performances from Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, …

Category: Horror

6 June 20007 November 2025 by Roog

Baby – Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 4, 1999Dinosaur Discovered

Disney family film about an expedition to Africa to find a dinosaur. This was made before Jurassic Park and so the effects are physical and variable but the film has an undeniable tenderness

Director: B.W.L. Norton

Actors: William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, Julian Fellowes, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 August 199912 July 2026 by Roog

House (1986)

Rating: ★★

Sep 2, 2003Haunted House/Horror Comedy

Amiably silly haunted house film with William Katt fighting rubbery pop-up monsters. This doesn't take itself too seriously. A minor hit that produced three sequels.

Director: Steve Miner

Actors: William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Mary Stavin, …

Category: Horror

2 September 20032 November 2025 by Roog

House IV (1992)

Rating: ★

Jan 15, 2026Haunted House/Horror Comedy

The fourth and last in the series of 1980s horror comedies that began with House produced by Friday the 13th director Sean S. Cunningham. This brings the first film's William Katt back to round the series out

Director: Lewis Abernathy

Actors: Terri Treas, William Katt, Scott Burkholder, Ned Romero, …

Category: Horror

15 January 202615 January 2026 by Roog

Cyborg<sup>3</sup> (1994)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 15, 2002Cyborgs on the Run

The second of Michael Schroeder's sequels to Albert Pyun's Cyborg both of which are better than the original. This does interesting things with the hokey idea of a pregnant android.

Director: Michael Schroeder

Actors: Khrystyne Haje, Zach Galligan, Richard Lynch, William Katt, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 July 20025 December 2020 by Roog

Piranha (1995)

Rating: ★

Apr 11, 1999Killer Fish

The 1978 Piranha is remade as a cable tv movie but has excised all the humour and witty genre in-referencing of the original

Director: Scott Levy

Actors: William Katt, Alexandra Paul, Darleen Carr, Monte Markham, …

Category: Horror

11 April 199920 June 2024 by Roog

Daddy’s Girl (1996)

Rating: ★★

May 28, 1999Psycho Child

A formulaic evil child psycho-thriller where young Gabrielle Boni kills to protect her perfect adopted family. At least young Boni conjures an effective nastiness on screen

Director: Martin Kitrosser

Actors: Gabrielle Boni, William Katt, Michele Greene, Roxana Zal, …

Category: Horror

28 May 199914 January 2026 by Roog

The Man From Earth (2007)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 19, 2010Immortal Man

Beautifully written film about an immortal. The result is an entirely captivating SF film whose whole effect emerges simply from people sitting in a living room talking

Director: Richard Schenkman

Actors: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, Richard Riehle, John Billingsley, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 September 201025 March 2023 by Roog

Super (2010)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 24, 2011Schmuck Tries to Become a Superhero

After Defendor and Kick-Ass all coming out within a short space of time, the superhero with no powers comedy was getting over-familiar but this outing from James Gunn still finds some new things and proves highly amusing

Director: James Gunn

Actors: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page/Elliot Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, …

Category: Fantasy

24 July 201122 November 2024 by Roog

Mirrors 2 (2010)

Rating: ★½

Sep 1, 2021Haunted Mirrors

A sequel to Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors that abandons most of the basics of the first film and strips everything down to a series of gory, novelty deaths

Director: Victor Garcia

Actors: Nick Stahl, Emmanuelle Vaugier, William Katt, Lawrence Turner, …

Category: Horror

1 September 202112 September 2024 by Roog

Sparks (2013)

Rating: ★★

Sep 5, 2014Superhero Film

Low-budget superhero that co-opts the cod-film noir look from Sin City. Alas the film has an excessively sprawling and complicated plot, while the film noir style looks like no more than cheap pastiche reduced to cliche poses by well-meaning amateurs

Director: Christopher Folino, Todd Burrows

Actors: Chase Williamson, Ashley Bell, Clancy Brown, Jake Busey, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 September 20145 March 2020 by Roog

The Unwanted (2014)

Rating: ★★

Apr 9, 2026Possible Lesbian Vampire

An interesting adaptation of the classic lesbian vampire story Carmilla. This modernises and relocates it to Middle America and plays the vampirism with a psychological ambiguity

Director: Bret Wood

Actors: Hannah Fierman, William Katt, Christen Orr

Category: Horror

9 April 20269 April 2026 by Roog

The Man From Earth: Holocene (2017)

Rating: ★★

Jan 28, 2018Immortal Man

The Man from Earth built up a reasonable reputation with a simple concept - a 14,000 year old man tells his life story that comes with a killer of a twist. This sequel far less interestingly becomes a detective story about a group of students trying to find if their professor is the same character

Director: Richard Schenkman

Actors: David Lee Smith, Akemi Look, Brittany Curran, Sterling Knight, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 January 20184 January 2025 by Roog