Ross Hagen Movies

A young inventor is tinkering with his latest creation when something goes wrong, and he turns his dad into a real-life invisible man. Now the boy must somehow find a way to get him back to normal. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

In this erotic thriller, a photographer ends a torrid, but unhealthy relationship. Unable to bear the rejection, his already unbalanced ex-girlfriend goes off the deep end and begins terrorizing him at every turn. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Late stuntman Bernhard Pock wrote, directed, and starred in this gritty modern-day fairy tale about a biker poet on a journey of self-discovery. Pock is Jeremy, a lone wolf who takes on a traveling companion when he happens on a young kidnapped girl (Amber Tamblyn). Together the duo crosses the country, meeting an oddball menagerie of characters along the way. Nancy Kwan also stars. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

In this erotic mystery sequel, a woman goes undercover as a go-go dancer in a sleazy nightclub to find her sister's killer. Kimberly Kelley stars as Jennifer Brennan, whose sister, a professional stripper, was murdered by a serial killer whose modus operandi includes suffocating his victims with plastic wrap. In hopes of catching the deranged culprit, Jennifer agrees to pose as the Los Angeles club's new striptease artist, with the secret aid of a paraplegic detective, John Donnelly (Ross Hagen). While she's seeking the man who ended her sister's life, Jennifer befriends co-workers Lacy (Tane McClure) and Cherry (Julie K. Smith) and discovers that she's got a natural talent for the art of taking it all off. After she performs a lap dance for him, Jennifer also beds one of the club's regulars, Paul Douglas (Jack Turturici), an artist. Eventually, the intrepid Jennifer discovers that all of the killer's victims were mothers and begins to suspect the club's abusive owner, Joe Martoni (Brett Baxter Clark). But a clue leads her investigation to a shocking conclusion. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

A man discovers that on-line sex isn't as impersonal as he thought in this erotic thriller. When his wife Susan (Tammy Parks) is murdered, Brad (Mike Meyer) is heartbroken, and he's convinced that the death is somehow linked to his own infidelity with women he met while looking for sex in internet chat rooms. When Detective Crank (Ross Hagen), the cop investigating the case, quickly loses interest in finding Susan's killer, Brad takes the bull by the horns and begins taking a second look at his own sexual past -- with potentially dangerous results. The deadly beauties Brad encounters include Julie Strain, Gail Harris, and Shanna McCullough. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

No sooner did Jurassic Park score at the box office than the imitations began turning up like bad pennies. The redoubtable Fred Olen Ray, once more delivering a bankable project at the least possible cost, was responsible for Dinosaur Island. Typical of the Ray ouevre is the presence of several top-heavy young ladies, whose costumes can be mercifully described as immodest. The dinosaurs are rubber novelty-shop creations that wouldn't convince a dim-witted duck, but they serve their purpose in forcing the females in the cast to jiggle past the camera in abject horror. Ross Hagen, a veteran of this sort of fare, heads the cast of Dinosaur Island, doing an excellent job of convincing us that the dialogue he's been given is actually worth reciting. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

A frame job corners two TV-station employees trying to recover an important video. ~ John Bush, Rovi

The girlfriend of a man executed by the Mob is targeted for murder in this low-budget action film from director John Stewart. Barri Murphy stars as the woman on the run, and the genre cast includes Cameron Mitchell, William Smith, and Hoke Howell. Associate producer Ross Hagen, veteran of numerous drive-in films, appears as Drago, the ruthless villain. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

This gory medical thriller managed to pre-date an early-'90s spate of direct-to-video exploitation films dealing with sleazy black-market organ banks. The plot centers on the activities of the "Body Organ Replacement Network," a secret criminal organization (led by ubiquitous movie villain William Smith) which obtains donor organs -- by any means possible -- for anyone willing to meet their prices and keep their mouths shut. Their methods usually involve patrolling the city in an ambulance looking for unwilling "donors" (usually female), who are promptly chopped up on the operating table. The sinister wheels are put in motion again when a wealthy family approaches the B.O.R.N. network about obtaining a replacement heart for their ailing daughter. Though not quite as gory as it sounds, this is still a pretty sleazy exercise which plays like a tabloid-flavored version of Robin Cook's novel Coma, without the clever insight of Michael Crichton's 1978 film. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

Phantom Empire pokes fun and pays a sly tribute to the sci-fi serials that made Saturday afternoon at the movies such a treat. Featuring plenty of in-jokes, the story centers on the hunt for a lost stash of diamonds that leads the hero into a fabulous subterranean world ruled by a mysterious beauty and scads of scary mutants. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Fred Olen Ray always manages to attract major names to his bargain-basement actioners, and Armed Response is no exception. The scene is Chinatown, where Yakuza boss Mako yearns to get his hands on a stolen jade statue. David Goss, son of retired cop Lee van Cleef and the brother of Vietnam veterans David Carradine and Brent Huff, is hired by Mako to deliver half a million dollars to the crooks who've got the statue. Things go awry, ending in a shootout. Mortally wounded, Goss brings the statue home, at which point a vengeful Carradine picks up the storyline. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi