Joe Estevez Movies

Horror fans who like their scares delivered raw are certain to flinch at this brutal shocker about four teenage travelers who make the fateful mistake of picking up a hitchhiker. Later, the stakes of survival are raised after the doom vacationers take a terrifying wrong turn. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

A Bay Area madman is slicing and dicing the denizens of San Francisco and taunting the press with a series of cryptic letters in this edge-of-your-seat thriller starring Todd Bridges, Joe Estevez and directed by Jose and Eduardo Quiroz. Someone is killing the men and women of San Francisco, and it's up to a pair of SFPD detectives, a tenacious reporter, and a savvy psychologist/priest to release the city from the homicidal maniac's grip of fear. When the journalist covering the case becomes the killer's next target, the detectives are forced to run in a race against time to ensure that one of San Francisco's most respected reporters doesn't end up becoming the news instead of delivering it. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

The direct-to-video supernatural thriller Scar opens with the disappearance of college student Zack, out hiking in the woods one fatal evening when he comes to a brutal and inexplicable end. One year later, the victim's nightmare-ridden friend, Tom, and former girlfriend, Jenny, decide to search for some answers, and find the forest littered with a trail of corpses; each bears a strange, bloody scar that may be tied to Zack's murderer. The pair soon find themselves pursued by the mysterious force that claimed their buddy, and must unlock a series of enigmatic, arcane secrets held by town residents, before their own lives are extinguished. And when the scar appears on Jenny, she and Tom high-tail it back to the woods to locate and confront Zack's murderer once and for all. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

Killer Story concerns best friends, both writers, who engage in an impromptu storytelling contest at the behest of an attractive girl at the bar where they are sharing some drinks. They each tell chilling tales of horror, but the loser of this contest may be subject to something much worse than either of them could imagine. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

A series of small-town murders with no apparent connection leads two detectives towards a horrific discovery in this terrifying tale starring Linnea Quigley, Robert Z'Dar and Joe Estevez, and directed by Marc Selz. When two young couples are viciously murdered in the small town of Rockville, the police are baffled and the citizens are terrified. Now, as the body count continues to mount and police investigation hits a standstill, it's up to two detectives to find the missing link and bring the murderous madman to justice. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

A selfless Mexican immigrant just looking to get his papers and help others in their time of need encounters a variety of outrageous characters upon entering the United States in director Jose Reyes Bencomo's outrageous road film. From a drug smuggling nun whose charitable orphanage serves as a front for moving product to angels in disguise and the Devil himself, the quest on which the unassuming hero embarks is filled with treachery, deceit, and supernatural intrigue. Who knows, before the story is over, our unassuming hero may even save the world. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Initially conceived as a sequel to David DeCoteau's amusing Prison of the Dead (2000), this straight-to-video horror film was written by minor cult actor Trent Haaga. The story line posits a new reality-based television series along the lines of Fear Factor in which five attractive models must spend the night in a haunted asylum for a million-dollar prize. There's a greedy producer who sets booby-traps for the girls along the way, not knowing that there is a real presence in the hospital -- the ghost of an evil millionaire who had kidnapped several young women years before, hoping to force them to marry him. The contestants make confessions to the cameras strategically placed within, only to have their deepest fears used against them by the malevolent ghost. Joe Estevez shows up as well, adding a small bit of name value to a cast including Debra Mayer, Tanya Dempsey, and Stacey Scowley. This was one of several collaborations between B-movie moguls J.R. Bookwalter and Charles Band, concluding with Dead & Rotting the same year. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

After fate conspires to make a man into an outlaw, he struggles to protect his child, the only thing he has left in life, in this drama. Pablo Hernandez (Jesus Nebot) was a professor of literature in Honduras when a hurricane descended on his city and wiped away nearly everything he had. While his young daughter, Cristina (Chelsea Rendon), managed to survive the disaster, his wife, his home, and his school were all destroyed. With nowhere to go, Pablo smuggles himself and Cristina into the United States, where he is able to find work as an undocumented laborer. But Pablo's bad luck comes back with a vengeance when, after borrowing his boss' truck, he accidentally runs into a child playing in the street; Pablo flees the scene of the crime, and after collecting his daughter, tries to stay one step ahead of police detective Bryan (Vernee Watson-Johnson), who has been assigned to bring the driver to justice. Needing to flee the country, Pablo finds a benefactor in Soid (Lindsay Price), a renegade documentary filmmaker who offers to give him and his daughter a lift to Mexico. However, Soid's help comes with a price -- she wants to make a film about Pablo's flight from the law, and she's eager to milk the incident for as much publicity as possible. Leading man Jesus Nebot also wrote and directed the film in collaboration with Julia Montejo. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Martin Sheen and his son Charlie Sheen play father and son, appropriately enough, in this tense crime thriller. Bill Patterson (Martin Sheen) is a veteran police detective who works side by side with his son Jake (Charlie Sheen) in the vice squad. Both Bill and Jake share a dedication to their work that often gets in the way of their relationships with others. The job has put a wedge between Jake and his wife Rebecca (Meredith Salenger), and Jake also feels that he's starting to burn out, tired of living in the shadow of his better-respected dad. When a fellow vice detective is killed trying to crack a drug ring, Bill and Jake make it their personal responsibility to bring in the killers and take the drugs off the street. However, they quickly discover that they've severely underestimated the ruthlessness and brutality of the dealers (played by Tina Nguyen, Joe Lando, Courtney Gains, and Bruce Nelson) and that their lives are in great danger. No Code of Conduct was the first feature written and directed by Bret Michaels, who rose to fame in the 1980s as the lead singer with the popular rock band Poison. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

A security guard using video surveillance to monitor a parking lot sees a man stash a bag in a car shortly before being apprehended by the cops. After waiting until the coast is clear, the guard steals the bag from the car and discovers that it contains $300,000. He promptly unites with his friends to spend his newfound wealth, not counting on the fact that a group of vengeful mobsters want the money back. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide