Billy Drago Movies
Supporting actor Billy Drago first appeared onscreen in the '80s. ~ All Movie GuideDirectors Danielle Agnello and Joe Hall collaborate on this minimalist study of abandonment, abuse, guilt, and psychological despair set against the backdrop of Los Angeles' hipster enclaves and focusing on the broken bond between three once-inseparable brothers. When one of the brothers accidentally killed, the remaining two wrestle with their guilt while inadvertently falling into a dangerous pattern of destructive psychic pain. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David O'Donnell, Kristanna Loken, (more)
An ambitious young intern at a prestigious Miami law firm finds his dreams of passing the bar and becoming a real lawyer thrown into question when he hastily agrees to help one of the firm's partners move -- only to discover that the attorney's new home is in Los Angeles. Rick Robinson (Ben Gourley) has what it takes to become a great lawyer, the only trouble is that he's a bit of a pushover. Though today he spends most of his time copying documents and dreaming of courtroom debate, in four short days he will take the bar and begin his professional career. Upon stepping into the office elevator and noticing one of the firm's partners, Maxwell McAllister (Rutger Hauer), the starstruck Rick jumps at the chance to help the counselor move. His patience is put to the ultimate test, however, when he arrives at the lawyer's house to find a mountain of boxes and a note demanding that he hire a moving truck and drive the load to Los Angeles. As if that weren't bad enough, the lawyer's pet pig and spoiled, college-dropout daughter, Michele (Mila Kunis), will be joining him on the drive. Not only does the tempestuous Southern belle seem intent on sabotaging Rick at every turn, but by the time he arrives in L.A. he will have to jump on a plane and race home in order to take the bar exam on time. Strong bonds have a funny way of forming in tense situations, though, and before Rick and Michele know it, they can't stand the idea of being apart. Moving McAllister also co-stars Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ben Gourley, Mila Kunis, (more)
Jeff Rector, Billy Drago, Christina Campbell and Fred Williamson star in this nocturnal tale of terror concerning a successful businessman seduced into the treacherous world of the undead. Transformed into a bloodthirsty vampire by the kiss of a beautiful night-walker, businessman Richard Clarke (Rector) is seduced into a world where the supernatural is very real. But don't believe the romantic myth, because to become a vampire is to wage a never-ending fight for survival. As a heavily armed group of vampire hunters known as the S.T.A.K.E. Team learns of Richard's existence, they quickly set out to dispatch him and ensure that the vampire virus is eradicated once and for all. With the S.T.A.K.E. Team fast closing in on Richard, his only hope for survival may lie with a vicious underground gang of vampires known as the Bleeders, who won't stop the killing until every last day-walker has been savagely drained of their life blood. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jeff Rector, Christa Campbell, (more)
Wilmer Valderrama, Angie Cepeda, Joel David Moore, and Michael Parks star in director Brian Cox's adaptation of Javier Hernandez's gothic-flavored comic book about a young man gifted with a strange supernatural power, and determined to save the soul of the woman he loves. As a young orphan, Diego (Valderrama) met a mysterious Indian man who spoke Aztec and marked the boy with the sign of Tezcatlipoca before dropping dead and leaving the child to fend for himself in the desert. A decade later, Diego has settled in a Latino community in the southwestern United States. The love of Diego's life is a beautiful girl named Maria (Cepeda), the niece of a padre who resides at a local mission. To this day Diego holds a strange fascination with the Aztec gods, and on the Day of the Dead he paints himself up as a zombie mariachi before setting out to celebrate. On the way to the party, however, the mark on Diego's hand reappears and he is suddenly killed in a violent automobile accident. Upon awakening in the Aztec afterlife, Diego's heart is ripped out by Mictlantecuhtli and offered up to Tezcatlipoca. Now Tezcatlipoca retains full power over Diego's soul, and the apocalyptic prophecies of the Aztecs begin to come true as a cycle of sun showers commence. But with each sun shower a sacrifice must be made - a sacrifice of significant symbolic value. Unfortunately for Maria, her family is of the same Christian bloodline that once brought about the demise of the Aztecs, making them an ideal candidate for sacrifice as the sun showers commence. The one thing that Diego doesn't realize is that the mark left on him by that strange Indian so many years ago singled him out as the sacrificial priest charged with carrying out the sacrifices, and that his supernatural mission won't be completed until the last of Maria's bloodline has been offered up to the ancient gods. Now, in order to protect his love and prevent the apocalypse, Diego must turn against an ancient deity whose power and wisdom is beyond that of anything than the newly transformed sacrificial priest can even comprehend - much less hope to defeat. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Wilmer Valderrama, Angie Cepeda, (more)
When disaster strikes and necessity dictates that the festering rivalry between the Franklin and Red Eagle families be set aside in the name of survival, the resulting tale of brotherhood gives testament to mankind's remarkable power for forgiveness in this family-oriented Western starring David Carradine and Wes Studi. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Parkes
Alexandre Aja directs this remake of Wes Craven's film The Hills Have Eyes. In this update, a family is taking a cross-country road trip when their trailer breaks down, leaving them stranded in the desert of New Mexico. There, they find themselves under attack by the savage "hill people," who were deformed by radiation during nuclear testing. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, (more)
An American journalist in search of the love he once left behind travels to a mysterious Japanese island where the past is best left forgotten in the one installment of Showtime's Masters of Horror series that was too controversial for American television. It was long ago that Christopher (Billy Drago) met the mysterious prostitute who captured his heart, but their grim fate was forever sealed when he left the island with only a promise to return one day in the future. Unlike many of the insincere souls who promise to spirit the prostitutes away from the dark and infernal island, Christopher actually made good on his word. However, life is cheap on this bewitched island where the local brothel is the sole refuge for weary souls, and though he ultimately proved to be a rare exception to the rule, Christopher has taken far too long to fulfill his promise. Now, as he shares his woeful tale with a horribly scarred whore (Youki Kudoh) whose knowledge of his long lost love's true fate may prove more of a curse than a blessing, Christopher is about to discover that there are times when death can be the kindest release of all. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy Drago, Youki Kudoh, (more)
A demon has come to Earth to force possessed women to bear its children, and it's up to a half-human/half-demon hybrid to save the human race in Earth vs. the Spider director Scott Ziehl's dark tale of satanic terror. As possession sweeps the land and the population of the planet lies helpless to defend themselves against the growing supernatural forces that surround them, the offspring of a demon and a human (Billy Drago) must fight to ensure the human race remains free from the murderous influences of Satan's minions. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Patrick Flanery, Colleen Porch, (more)
Mummies stars Danny Trejo, Max Perlich, and Billy Worth as members of a group of criminals who set out to find a cache of gold hidden in Mexico. The group soon discovers that mummies are in charge of protecting the valuable commodity. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
The horror film Blood Relic begins in 1983 when a fighter pilot discovers an artifact that unleashes an evil force that makes the pilot go on a killing spree at the naval base where he works. He is arrested for his crimes, but not before stashing the artifact in one of the base's hangars. The plot jumps to 2005, and that hangar is now about to be turned into a museum, but the newly released pilot wants to get back and reclaim the object -- an act that could unleash a whole new wave of terror. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the summer of 1981, Brian (George Webster) and Neil (Chase Ellison) are both eight years old and playing on the same little league baseball team in a small Kansas town. One day, after a game, Brian blacks out after getting caught in a rainstorm, and five hours later he finds himself sitting in his basement with his nose bleeding and no memory of what happened to him. Over the years, the event -- particularly the missing five hours -- weigh heavily on his mind, and he becomes convinced that he was kidnapped by space aliens. Teenaged Brian (now played by Brady Corbet) becomes friends with Avalyn Friesen (Mary Lynn Rajskub), a woman who claims to have been abducted by aliens on several occasions, and she urges him to look to his dreams for patterns that might suggest what happened to him. Meanwhile, during the same summer, Neil developed a powerful crush on their little league coach (Bill Sage), who appeared to have also taken a shine to Neil. Neil's mother (Elisabeth Shue), seeing nothing wrong with their friendship, lets the coach look after Neil while she's off on one of her many dates, and before long Neil begins sexually experimenting with the older man. Neil's introduction to sex inspires him to become a hustler when he grows into his teens, and after burning his bridges in his hometown, Neil (now played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his close friend Wendy (Michelle Trachtenberg) move to New York, where he continues to cruise for a living but under significantly more risky circumstances. One day, Neil is contacted by Brian, who after seeing one of their team photos from their days in little league suspects he might have some clues as to what happened to him in 1981. Mysterious Skin was based on the novel by Scott Heim, and marked the first time Gregg Araki made a film that did not originate with one of his own screenplays. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (more)
In the first part of Charmed's season-six finale (originally telecast as a single two-part episode), Gideon (Gildart Jackson) makes a last-ditch effort to destroy baby Wyatt. Gideon's scheme involves exiling father-and-son Whitelighters Leo (Brian Krause) and Chris (Drew Fuller) to a bizarre mirror world where evil is good and vice versa. Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) and Paige (Rose McGowan) had better hurry in their rescue efforts: if Chris does not return in time for his "past self" to be born to Piper (Holly Marie Combs), the space-time continuum will be damaged beyond repair. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Drew Fuller, (more)
In the opening episode of Charmed's seventh season, benevolent witch Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and her Whitelighter husband, Leo (Brian Krause), are grieving over the loss of their "future son" Chris. To forget their problems, the couple attends a Hindu wedding ceremony -- only to end up as vessels for the powers of two very nasty Hindu gods. It is now up to Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) and Paige (Rose McGowan) to prevent the possessed Piper and Leo from allowing the gods to consummate their love, thereby unleashing unimaginable horror upon the world. In other developments, Phoebe has second thoughts about taking a leave of absence from her gossip column when she meets her temporary replacement, Leslie St. Claire (Nick Lachey); and Paige struggles to keep the magic school from shutting its doors permanently. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, (more)
In the concluding half of Charmed's season-six finale (originally telecast as a single two-part episode), Whitelighters Leo (Brian Krause) and Chris (Drew Fuller), still trapped in a bizarre mirror world, must battle their evil alter egos in order to thwart Gideon's (Gildart Jackson) scheme to destroy little Wyatt. As for Wyatt's mother, Piper (Holly Marie Combs), she is just about to give birth again. But the occasion may not be a festive one: Piper is fated to be the future mother of Chris -- and woe be unto him if he doesn't return to the real world in time for his own birth! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Drew Fuller, (more)
The Cleaners, whose job it is to erase all evidence of mortal contact with witches, try to cover up videotaped proof of Phoebe's (Alyssa Milano) and Paige's (Rose McGowan) witchcraft by framing Inspector Daryl Morris (Dorian Gregory) for murder. When the Charmed Ones try to help Daryl, they end up on trial for their lives themselves. Despite the friction between them, Leo (Brian Krause) and Chris (Drew Fuller) join forces to save Daryl and the girls. But there's a fly in the ointment -- namely, the Charmed Ones' perennial nemesis Barbas the Fear Demon (Billy Drago). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, (more)
J. Christian Ingvordsen's horror film Fort Doom concerns a group of prostitutes led by Lacy Everett (Debbie Rochon). The women stick with each other for safety and support while attempting to find a place to settle down after the Civil War. When they learn that an abandoned military fort is nearby, they attempt to set up shop there. However, they learn upon their arrival that the fort is not deserted at all. The current denizens are more dangerous than the prostates could ever have suspected. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Still waging an internal battle between his good and evil sides, Cole (Julian McMahon) becomes convinced that a malevolent outside force is rechannelling him into committing murder. That "force" turns out to be Barbas (Billy Drago), the Demon of Fear, and an old nemesis of the Charmed Ones. Although Phoebe (Holly Marie Combs) and Piper (Alyssa Milano) steer clear of Cole's plight for fear of further strengthening Barbas, Paige (Rose McGowan) has no qualms about trying to vanquish the Demon of Fear, who in retaliation launches a campaign of psychological terror that turns the girls against one another in an extremely violent fashion. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, (more)
A young man's future hangs in the balance as two opposing forces struggle for his trust in this dramatic thriller from director Menahem Golan (Over the Top). Bo Brown stars as Jackie Stewart, a high-school basketball phenom poised to hit the big time. Enter Shakes Montrose (Billy Drago), a shady character bent on exploiting Jackie's talents for his own financial gain. Meanwhile, Jackie's coach is truly looking out for the young man's best interests and may be the only person who can save him. Death Game also stars Richard Lynch and Maureen Lavette. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joe Lara, Billy Drago, (more)
One man is forced to go back to the dangerous life he struggled to leave behind in this action-thriller. Dirk Longstreet (Oliver Gruner) is a man who learned to fight and fight well, and put that talent to use in the most punishing environment imaginable. Longstreet was lured into "the Circuit," a private (and illegal) fighting club where spectators will bet fortunes on no-holds-barred battles in which two men fight until they simply can't go on -- often until one of the fighters has died. Longstreet was one of the very few men who not only fought in the Circuit and lived to tell about it, but managed to move on and build a new life for himself. Longstreet joined the faculty of a college, where he enjoyed working with athletes, until he learned that his younger brother, Jeremy (Ilya Morelle), had been recruited to become the Circuit's newest fighter. Now Longstreet must step back into the ring in order to spare his brother the fate he was able to escape. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
A crime caper that gaily spoofs such antecedents as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and nods its head more than a few times to the work of Quentin Tarantino, Very Mean Men opens in a bar, where a bartender (Matthew Modine) finds himself serving drinks to a tough-looking guy (Martin Landau) he pegs as a cheap drinker. In order to keep the miniscule tips coming, the bartender makes up a story about warring mob families in the San Fernando Valley. In one corner there are the Minettis, who are led by Gino (Ben Gazzara), a mobster who's mellowed with age. Gino wants to make amends when Big Paddy Mulroney (Charles Durning) complains that Gino's clan is invading his side of the Valley. Gino's temperamental son Paulie (Scott Baio, sporting peroxided hair and a goatee to match) gives Mulroney money, only to then stiff Mulroney's waitress daughter on a tip after having lunch at the family's diner. Soon ethnic insults are flying like bullets, and everyone is out for revenge. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Matthew Modine, Martin Landau, (more)
Every 1,300 years, the "Demon of Fear," Barbas (Billy Drago, in his first series appearance), emerges from the Underworld, intent upon scaring all good witches literally to death on the occasion of Friday the 13th (significantly, this episode originally aired on Friday, February 13, 1999). Receiving an ominous warning from a very reliable source about Barbas' impending return, the Halliwell sisters prepare to do battle against the demon -- while Prue (Shannen Doherty) struggles to overcome an inner demon of her own making. Even with all this activity, Piper (Holly Marie Combs) finds time to inaugurate another romance (or at least, attempt to do so), while Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) again has trouble adjusting to a new job -- and this one is very important, not only to her but to her sisters. ~ All Movie Guide
A group of young people try to shot down the operations of a handful of gangsters with the help of some friends from the animal kingdom in this family comedy. Monkey Business stars Jay Thomas, Richard Moll, Billy Drago, Kathren Laurents, and a young Shia LaBeouf; writer Ted Fox appears as Zipper Headley. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ted Fox, Billy Drago, (more)
In late 1996, a group of armed revolutionaries invaded the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, and took the staff (which included a number of high-echelon politicians) hostage in a bid to win freedom for 400 political prisoners being held in Peruvian jails. Lima: Breaking the Silence is a fictionalized action-drama inspired by this real-life siege. The cast includes Joe Lara, Christopher Atkins, Billy Drago, and Charles Napier. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
When a troupe of sexy gymnasts are kidnapped and taken to the title island by a vengeful drug cartel, it's up to commando leader Mike McBride (Hulk Hogan) to rescue them. The excitement in this fast-paced actioner begins when McBride and the Navy SEALS he commands are assigned to capture a drug lord in his country. During the operation, one of McBride's men betrays him and McBride is nearly killed. Still, he, fellow SEAL Leroy (Carl Weathers) and buxom drug-enforcement officer Ashley (Shannon Tweed) manage to complete their mission. McBride and company then set off for vengeance against the traitor, who in turn retaliates by kidnapping a team of gymnasts and taking them to his impregnable lair on a remote Caribbean island. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hulk Hogan, Carl Weathers, (more)
A Japanese woman visiting friends in Los Angeles becomes entangled in a deadly plot as a result of her uncanny resemblance to a mysterious beauty from the past in director Phil Scarpaci's labyrinthine thriller. Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles to take a momentary reprieve from her failing marriage and spend some time with old friends, Ryoko Shimura (Naomi Kawashima) is abducted by the delusional Andrew Martini (Josh Brauer), a man still reeling from an East-West love affair and who believes Ryoko to be the reincarnation of the Japanese lover who abandoned him. Martini isn't the only man haunted by visions of the Japanese beauty though, and when hard-boiled LAPD detective John Keith (Billy Drago) is assigned to track Ryoko down, the observant detective's discovery of a terrifying connection between the two women threatens to destroy Ryoko, Andrew, and John. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide































