Mark Aiken Movies
An ambitious young businessman finds that getting ahead in the corporate world can truly be murder in director Paul Tarantino's supernatural shocker. Ben Caruso (Ben Parrillo) was looking to move up in the world when a friend suggested he seek the assistance of sexy corporate headhunter Sarah Tierney (Kristi Clainos), but he never realized the price he would have to pay for her services. Soon after finding Ben a high-paying job on the graveyard shift, Sarah's unrelenting sexual advances serve as a blindingly seductive precursor to the otherworldly horrors that lie ahead. When Ben finds out that Sarah was decapitated ten years ago and his true new job is to join the tortured souls of her previous conquests in locating her missing head, James finally finds out just how literally this headhunter takes her job. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Benjamin John Parillo, Kristi Clainos, (more)
- 2003
Emerging from the mansion's plumbing system, the legendary Lady of the Lake (Danielle Bisutti) solicits the aid of the Charmed Ones to protect the enchanted sword Excalibur. As a result, innumerable strange characters -- possessing powers ranging from evil to really evil -- show up at mansion, hoping to pull the fabled sword from the fabled stone. As it turns out, the only one capable of pulling it off (or should that be "pulling it out"?) is Piper (Holly Marie Combs), who now must locate Excalibur's rightful owner before the sword's power overwhelms and destroys her. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, (more)
A couple running a rideshow discover the find of a lifetime, only to realize it could well be the death of them in this horror story. Angus Shaw (Rufus Sewell) and his wife, Lillian (Carla Gugino), run a travelling carnival which barnstorms the countryside in the early 1900s. The Shaws' circus includes a sideshow which promises much in the way of monsters and human oddities, but for the most part delivers second-rate actors dressed up in costumes or using smoke-and-mirrors effects to fool the customers. Lillian herself offers the most spectacular illusion, posing as a fake mermaid. One night, Angus offers a helping hand to an aging sailor (Aubrey Morris), and the old salt offers to show Angus and Lillian something truly amazing -- a real, honest-to-Pete mermaid (Rya Kihlstedt). Astounded by what he's seen, Angus decides the fortune he could make exhibiting a real mermaid is too great to resist, and he steals the creature from the sailor. Angus and Lillian waste no time booking passage to the United States with their find, but en route to America they discover this mermaid is hardly a benign creature -- she has a taste for human blood, and soon the ship's crew is shrinking at an alarming rate. Lillian also finds herself developing a strange psychological bond with the mermaid, a connection more powerful than her vows to her husband. She Creature was produced for the Cinemax premium cable service as part of a series of "Creature Features" produced by special effects wizard Stan Winston and former American International Pictures head Samuel Z. Arkoff, most of which were inspired by horror films AIP made in the 1950s. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, (more)
- 1998
Duncan Roy wrote and directed this British horror-comedy about popular celeb TV cook Clancy (Mark Aiken), a bisexual caught between his girlfriend and his boyfriend. As his fame grows, so does his paranoia that leaks about his homosexual life could ruin his career, prompting a plan to ditch the boyfriend and marry the girlfriend. But everything goes askew after he accidentally kills a pet dog owned by a homophobic psycho. Shown at the 1998 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mark Aiken, Rocky Marshal, (more)
