Ken Foree

Ken Foree

Born: February 29, 1948
in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kentotis Alvin "Ken" Foree (born February 29, 1948) is an American actor probably most famous as the hero Peter in Dawn of the Dead and Kenan & Kel as Roger, Kenan's dad.

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Re-Resonator: Looking Back at From Beyond
Title: Re-Resonator: Looking Back at From Beyond
Released: February 28, 2023
Type: Movie
A making-of documentary featuring interviews with actors Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Ken Foree; screenwriter Dennis Paoli; producer Brian Yuzna; film editor Lee Percy; composer Richard Band; foley artist Vanessa Ament; effects supervisors Michael Deak and Anthony Doublin; effects artists William Butler, Gabriel Bartalos, John Naulin and Robert Kurtzman
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Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Title: Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Character: Self
Released: May 19, 2020
Type: Movie
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like "Night of the Living Dead," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and sci-fi gems such as "Blade Runner," and "A Clockwork Orange."
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Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Title: Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Character: Self
Released: April 21, 2020
Type: Movie
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.
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Day 14
Title: Day 14
Released: April 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Two young siblings must take care of their dangerously ill parent and protect each other from the outside world during a pandemic.
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John Henry
Title: John Henry
Character: BJ Henry
Released: January 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Ex-gang member John Henry is a quiet man with a violent past. When two immigrant kids on the run from his former South Los Angeles gang leader stumble into his life, John is forced to reconcile with his past in order to try and give them a future.
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Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Title: Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Character: Self
Released: February 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.
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The Midnight Man
Title: The Midnight Man
Character: Hamilton
Released: October 3, 2017
Type: Movie
Hoping to fix their dysfunctional marriage, a couple travels to an isolated mountain cabin to work out their problems - but the one problem they didn't anticipate is the maniac trying to kill them.
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Title: Dimension 404
Character: Agent Man
Released: April 4, 2017
Type: TV
Inspired by the Internet’s “404” error code, Dimension 404 aims to evoke that 3 AM feeling of wandering onto the weird side of the web, stumbling upon stories that cannot be explained in the world that we know.
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The Rift
Title: The Rift
Character: John Francis Smith
Released: April 28, 2016
Type: Movie
The satellite has vanished and the only clue is a trail leading to a small village nestled on the outskirts of forest line. As the team begins to investigate they quickly discover that something else came back from space, something not of this world. As their time runs out, the team must battle to unlock the terrifying truth behind the ill-fated mission.
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The Divine Tragedies
Title: The Divine Tragedies
Character: Homer
Released: October 3, 2015
Type: Movie
Two brothers fulfill their murderous fantasies, but doing so derails their relationship.
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Wrath of the Dead: Prologue
Title: Wrath of the Dead: Prologue
Character: Reyes
Released: February 8, 2014
Type: Movie
When hell rises... One man will go to war for the survival of the humanity!
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The Lords of Salem
Title: The Lords of Salem
Character: Herman Jackson
Released: April 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?
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Cut/Print
Title: Cut/Print
Character: Detective Jack Stanley
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: Movie
A group of ambitious filmmakers set out to create the world's first reality horror movie. What ensues is a hellish game of cat and mouse as a cryptic filmmaker, known only as The Maestro, comes out from hiding in search of his "perfect shot."
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Water for Elephants
Title: Water for Elephants
Character: Earl
Released: April 15, 2011
Type: Movie
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
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Zone of the Dead
Title: Zone of the Dead
Character: Agent Mortimer Rejes / Agent Mortimer Reyes
Released: January 20, 2011
Type: Movie
A police-escorted prisoner transport supervised by Interpol sets off to Belgrade. The route leads the transport through Pančevo, where they encounter an ecological disaster and infected people who are trying to kill them. Interpol agents Mortimer Reyes and Mina Milius soon realize that their only chance for escape from the zombie hordes lies in allying with the dangerous, mysterious prisoner.
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D.C. Sniper
Title: D.C. Sniper
Character: John Allen Muhammad
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A mysterious shooter randomly kills innocent citizens in public; one after the other in broad daylight. All murders happen not far from the White House; not far from the President.
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Live Evil
Title: Live Evil
Character: Max
Released: September 18, 2009
Type: Movie
Human blood is no longer fit for consumption as the vampire race slowly becomes extinct.
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The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
Title: The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
Character: Luke St. Luke (voice)
Released: September 12, 2009
Type: Movie
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is an animated comedy that also combines elements of a horror and thriller film. It is based upon the comic book series created by Rob Zombie that follows the character of El Superbeasto and his sexy sidekick sister, Suzi-X, voiced by Sheri Moon, as they confront an evil villain by the name of Dr. Satan.
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Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
Title: Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 2008
Type: Movie
A rare-to-find 4 hour documentary behind the scenes during the making of Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007).
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Brutal Massacre: A Comedy
Title: Brutal Massacre: A Comedy
Character: Carl
Released: July 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Harry Penderecki, a once heralded horror auteur, finds himself on the outside looking in at Hollywood. He hasn't had a hit film in years, and most in the industry, including his close friends, think he's washed up. Harry is given one last chance to redeem himself with what could be his best or last picture. Brutal Massacre becomes just that, as the cast and crew find themselves battling one mishap after another as Harry struggles to keep his sanity against overwhelming resistance to finish the picture and find himself at the top once again.
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Title: 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust
Character: Nate Keller
Released: July 17, 2008
Type: TV
Detective Nick Maguire learns that his sister Sara, a nurse at the local penitentiary, disappeared during a mysterious prison break in which George escaped. While scouring the gritty streets of New Orleans, Nick finds George and learns that there was more to the prison break than anyone thought. Now, in order to save his sister, Nick will have to learn to trust George.
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The Boneyard Collection
Title: The Boneyard Collection
Character: Byron Styles (segment "The Devil's Due at Midnight")
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The first one, BOOGIE WITH THE UNDEAD, has an all girl rock band booked to play a gig in a town overrun by flesh-eating zombies. In the second one, THE DEVIL'S DUE AT MIDNIGHT, a coven of beautiful witches conjure up Brad Dourif as The Devil, and endures the inept attacks of witch killer Ken Foree. In the first long segment, HER MORBID DESIRES, an actress gets the lead role in a vampire movie, only to discover that starlets are being murdered on the set. The other long segment, CRY OF THE MUMMY, has the reincarnated mummy, formerly the last Pharaoh of the 4th Dynasty, looking to sue the movie studios because he can't get work as a mummy. His new lawyer offers to represent him as an agent, but the mummy will only work in film if he can direct.
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Brotherhood of Blood
Title: Brotherhood of Blood
Character: Stanis
Released: October 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Driven by vengeance, thirsty for blood... and damned to hell! Guarded by vampires and chained in a dark cellar by the mighty vampire King Pashek, crack vampire hunter Carrie Rieger's time is running out.her relentless quest to crush the world's undead scourge has brought her to the home of Pashek. But she is not here to hill him. Instead she wishes to join forces with her immortal enemies in an effort to rise up against an even more terrifying threat, one that would chill the soul of even the most blood-thirsty vampire; the mighty vampire demon Vlad Kossel.Thought to have been killed many hundreds of years ago, Kossel has now returned to wreak bloody vengeance on his kind before enslaving humanity. He will destroy everything in his path and there is only one hunter who can stop him...
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Halloween
Title: Halloween
Character: Big Joe Grizzly
Released: August 31, 2007
Type: Movie
After being committed for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.
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Splatter Disco
Title: Splatter Disco
Character: Shank Chubb
Released: August 11, 2007
Type: Movie
The owner of a fetish club finds out that, along with dealing with his wife who wants to leave him, his dying father, and the city wanting to close his club, he now has to deal with a psycho killer that's offing his employees and patrons.
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Black Santa's Revenge
Title: Black Santa's Revenge
Character: Black Santa
Released: March 30, 2007
Type: Movie
A down-and-out Santa is robbed of all the toys for all the poor kids in town. He searches for the thugs responsible and serves up his own brand of holiday cheer.
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Devil's Den
Title: Devil's Den
Character: Leonard
Released: October 22, 2006
Type: Movie
Quinn Taylor and his friend Nick are on their way back from Mexico with a load of Spanish Fly to sell in the States. They stop at a gentlemen's club called The Devil's Den and decide to test out their product on the unsuspecting women there. Only, these women aren't really human, and the two men find themselves in a very fatal position. Also tossed in are a female-assassin on the hunt for Quinn, a monster hunter!
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Working with a Master: Stuart Gordon
Title: Working with a Master: Stuart Gordon
Character: Himself
Released: March 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary about horror master Stuart Gordon.
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The Devil's Rejects
Title: The Devil's Rejects
Character: Charlie Altamont
Released: July 22, 2005
Type: Movie
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
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The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Title: The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Character: Himself
Released: September 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Feature documentary which profiles both the 1978 film and the career of director George A. Romero, including extensive interviews with all principle cast members and production personnel.
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Dawn of the Dead
Title: Dawn of the Dead
Character: The Televangelist
Released: March 19, 2004
Type: Movie
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
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Title: The Nightmare Room
Character: Coach
Released: August 31, 2001
Type: TV
The Nightmare Room is an American children's anthology horror series that aired on Kids' WB. The series was based on the short-lived book series The Nightmare Room children's books created by Goosebumps author, R.L. Stine. The Nightmare Room originally aired from August 31, 2001, to March 16, 2002, in the United States. It was rated TV-Y7 for fantasy violence and scenes deemed too scary or disturbing for younger viewers in the United States. Reruns of the series started airing on Chiller on January 7, 2013.
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Two Heads Are Better Than None
Title: Two Heads Are Better Than None
Character: Roger Rockmore
Released: July 15, 2000
Type: Movie
The Rockmores set out on a family road trip with an uninvited Kel stashed in the trunk. While camping out in the woods, Kenan has a scary encounter with a mysterious, shadowy figure...
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Title: Kenan & Kel
Character: Roger Rockmore
Released: August 17, 1996
Type: TV
Set in Chicago, the show follows the kid-friendly misadventures of two high-school friends who are always scheming and dreaming. Kenan, who works at a grocery store, constantly devises crazy plans to strike it rich, while orange-soda-loving buddy Kel is always dragged along for the ride despite his track record for messing things up.
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The Dentist
Title: The Dentist
Character: Detective Gibbs
Released: June 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Dr. Feinstone has everything, a beautiful wife and a successful career in dentistry; but when he discovers his wife's affair, he realizes that behind every clean, white surface lies the stench of decay.
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Sleepstalker
Title: Sleepstalker
Character: Detective Rolands
Released: April 23, 1995
Type: Movie
Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer
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Title: Due South
Character: Macon Lacroix
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.
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Title: Babylon 5
Character: PFC Large
Released: January 26, 1994
Type: TV
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
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Title: Viper
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: TV
Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege from one crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is an assault vehicle that masquerades as a Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and coupe. The series takes place in "the near future". The primary brand of vehicles driven in the show were Chrysler or subsidiary companies. The Viper Defender "star car" was designed by Chrysler Corporation engineers. The exterior design of the car was produced by Chrysler stylist Steve Ferrerio.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Vincent Parmelly
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Joshua Tree
Title: Joshua Tree
Character: Eddie Turner
Released: April 8, 1993
Type: Movie
Wellman Santee (Dolph Lundgren) a former race car driver, whose livelihood is transporting exotic stolen super cars, is involved, with his partner Eddie, in shoot out, resulting in the deaths of his friend and a highway cop. Santee is framed for the cop's murder and jailed in a maximum security prison. A few months later, Santee breaks out after narrowly escaping an attempt on his life. He reaches a local diner where he steals a car, abducts the owner, Rita and flees, completely unaware that his hostage is a deputy sheriff. A massive manhunt ensues, spearheaded by Lt. Severance a tough, obessive cop. Santee leads the detective and his men on a dramatic high speed chase, from the desert wilderness to the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Santee's out to clear his name and when it comes to getting even, he's taking revenge into overdrive.
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Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
Title: Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
Character: First USC Coach
Released: April 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Chronicling the short but eventful life of Hank Gathers (played by Donny B. Lord as a child and Victor Love as a young adult), this fact-based drama chronicles the hoopster's rise from the inner city of Philadelphia to a starring role on Loyola Marymount's basketball team before a heart condition cut his career short. Nell Carter plays Hank's supportive mom, and George Kennedy portrays a neighborhood priest who inspired the boy.
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A Mother's Justice
Title: A Mother's Justice
Character: Warren Thurlow
Released: November 25, 1991
Type: Movie
A young girl named Debbie is attacked by a bus stop one evening and is blindfolded and raped. Her mother, Lila, who is consumed with guilt is determined to catch the rapist...
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The Heroes of Desert Storm
Title: The Heroes of Desert Storm
Character: Gunnery Sgt. Leroy Ford
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
The first Iraq war saw many tragedies and acts of heroism. This is the story seen through the eyes of the men and women involved.
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Night of the Warrior
Title: Night of the Warrior
Character: Oliver
Released: June 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A kickboxer has an accounting problem with the mobster (Anthony Geary) who lent him money for a nightclub.
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Diplomatic Immunity
Title: Diplomatic Immunity
Character: Del Roy Gaines
Released: April 19, 1991
Type: Movie
Cole Hickel, a Marine, pursues his daughter's killer when he is allowed to go back to Paraguay because of "diplomatic immunity."
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Hangfire
Title: Hangfire
Character: Billy
Released: January 11, 1991
Type: Movie
When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders determined to kill or capture all the convicts, even if it means killing all the hostages in the crossfire.
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Title: The Flash
Character: Whisper
Released: September 20, 1990
Type: TV
When a bolt of lightening crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged substances bathes chemist Barry Allen, transforming him into the fastest man alive--The Flash.
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Fatal Charm
Title: Fatal Charm
Character: Willy
Released: September 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins), an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women. But he's so charming that the teenage Valerie just can't believe he really did it, and soon they begin sending each other letters. Adam is caught up in a jailbreak and ends up on the run.
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Taking Care of Business
Title: Taking Care of Business
Character: J.B., Prisoner making demands
Released: August 16, 1990
Type: Movie
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
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Without You I'm Nothing
Title: Without You I'm Nothing
Character: Emcee
Released: May 11, 1990
Type: Movie
Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience.
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Down the Drain
Title: Down the Drain
Character: Buckley
Released: April 25, 1990
Type: Movie
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret information.
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Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
Title: Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
Character: Benny
Released: January 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road. Here they are stalked by the menacing Leatherface and his demented family...a bizarre cannibalistic clan with blood on their hands and a feast on their minds. The students’ only chance for escape is a survivalist with enough firepower to blast Leatherface and the rest of the grisly predators to hell. A depraved shocker of intense terror from the gruesome beginning to the bloody finish.
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Title: Max Monroe: Loose Cannon
Released: January 5, 1990
Type: TV
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Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
Title: Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
Character: Acardi
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A young man named Eric apparently dies in a suspicious house fire after saving his girlfriend, Melody. One year later, a new mall is constructed atop where Eric's house once stood, where a shadowy, uninvited guest is preying on the mall's crooked developers.
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Title: Family Matters
Character: High Top
Released: September 22, 1989
Type: TV
A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
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Title: Life Goes On
Released: September 12, 1989
Type: TV
Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is known as Corky. Life Goes On was the first television series to have a major character with Down syndrome.
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True Blood
Title: True Blood
Character: Det. Charlie Gates
Released: April 28, 1989
Type: Movie
Ray Trueblood, member of a street gang, is framed by an enemy of a rival gang, Billy "Spider" Masters. Ray is accused of killing a cop and he has to escape leaving behind his little brother, Donny. Ten years later Ray returns to his neighborhood to take his brother with him, but things are worse than he could expect: his brother, now 18 years old, hates him and is a member of Billy Masters' gang. Furthermore, Billy Masters is looking for revenge and... the police is still after Ray for the murder of the police officer.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: The Brush
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Glitz
Title: Glitz
Character: Moose
Released: September 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offender he testified against.
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Death Spa
Title: Death Spa
Character: Marvin
Released: May 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.
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Terror Squad
Title: Terror Squad
Character: Deputy Brown
Released: April 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A squad of Libyan terrorists infiltrate the city of Kokomo, Indiana, with the goal of car bombing a nuclear power plant. While attempting to escape local law enforcement, a massive car chase ensues, terrorizing the entire town before the terrorists end up at the local high school and take the detention class hostage. Will they escape? Will the crafty delinquents foil their plans? Will Chuck Connors step more than two feet away from his car? Watch and find out!
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Viper
Title: Viper
Character: Harley Trueblood
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
After Laura's husband James is murdered, she decides to find out who did it and why. She finds herself in a fight against an anti-terrorist organization in her desire for revenge.
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Title: Beauty and the Beast
Released: September 25, 1987
Type: TV
Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent, a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine, a savvy Assistant District Attorney in New York; and a secret Utopian community of social outcasts living in a subterranean sanctuary. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherine's emotions, and becomes her guardian.
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From Beyond
Title: From Beyond
Character: Buford 'Bubba' Brownlee
Released: October 24, 1986
Type: Movie
The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a beautiful psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Leonard Mosher
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Title: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Character: Big Jake
Released: May 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.
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Title: Matlock
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: TV
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.
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Title: 227
Released: September 14, 1985
Type: TV
A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.
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Command 5
Title: Command 5
Character: Air Controller
Released: August 5, 1985
Type: Movie
A team of special military forces has to save a small town which has been taken hostage by an organization called the Brotherhood.
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Title: Moonlighting
Character: Inmate
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: TV
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Louis McMahon
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
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Title: Hunter
Character: John Masters
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
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Title: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Released: October 3, 1983
Type: TV
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.
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Title: The A-Team
Character: Dirkson
Released: January 23, 1983
Type: TV
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."
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Title: Remington Steele
Character: Herschel 'The Hammer' Sinclair
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: TV
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
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Title: Cheers
Released: September 30, 1982
Type: TV
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.
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Title: Knight Rider
Character: Danton
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.
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Title: Knight Rider
Character: Spider-Man
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.
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Title: Tales of the Gold Monkey
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
In a backwater corner of the South Pacific in 1938, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death-defying hi-jinx, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.
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Title: Report to Murphy
Released: April 5, 1982
Type: TV
Report to Murphy is an American situation comedy television series starring Michael Keaton that premiered on CBS on April 5, 1982.
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Title: T. J. Hooker
Character: Bartender
Released: March 13, 1982
Type: TV
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recuits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.
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Born to Be Sold
Title: Born to Be Sold
Character: Man #2
Released: November 2, 1981
Type: Movie
A social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy newborn babies from teenaged mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through legal adoption channels.
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Knightriders
Title: Knightriders
Character: Little John
Released: April 10, 1981
Type: Movie
A medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and their "King's" delusions of grandeur.
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Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Title: Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Character: Boxer
Released: March 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.
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Document of the Dead
Title: Document of the Dead
Character: Himself
Released: January 19, 1981
Type: Movie
A documentary about George A. Romero's films, with a behind scenes look at Dawn of the Dead.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Terror Among Us
Title: Terror Among Us
Character: Prisoner
Released: January 12, 1981
Type: Movie
A convicted rapist continually violates his parole but slips through the cracks of the justice system until his crimes escalate into a frenzy of terror against five helpless women.
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The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
Title: The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
Character: John Elliot
Released: May 25, 1980
Type: Movie
This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete whose dreams of winning the Decathlon are threatened by his romance with a pretty Russian gymnast.
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Title: The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Character: Pittsburgh Python Player
Released: November 6, 1979
Type: Movie
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
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The Wanderers
Title: The Wanderers
Character: Black Sportsman
Released: July 13, 1979
Type: Movie
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
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Dawn of the Dead
Title: Dawn of the Dead
Character: Peter Washington
Released: September 2, 1978
Type: Movie
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Title: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Character: Honey
Released: July 16, 1976
Type: Movie
In the world of 1930s Negro League baseball, a spirited team of renegade players travels around the Midwest looking for that one big score. Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, and James Earl Jones star as three barnstorming ballplayers who take on prejudice and their own League's unfair rules while stealing cars, food and home base - anything to prove that they're the best team around. It's a showdown of brains over booby traps and sportsmanship over racial segregation as Bingo Long's All-Stars swing their way into a winning season;.
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Title: Kojak
Character: T.J. Smith
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Campfire
Title: Campfire
Character: Sheriff Dobson
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Six ghost stories told around a campfire.
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Dead Bones
Title: Dead Bones
Character: Barman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The Wild West. A bounty hunter is tracking down a criminal. He catches up with him in a small half-abandoned village where he soon discovers that the few remaining locals have unusual customs.