Maria Ford Movies

Angel of Destruction stars female martial-arts expert Maria Ford in the title role. In the tradition of the "B" westerns of Yore, Ford sets out to avenge her sister's murderer. She's essentially a woman of peace, though she leaves a lot of her opponents in pieces. There's gore galore before she corners the killers, and it is for this reason, rather than the frequent glimpses of the leading lady's bare torso, that the film is rated R. The saving grace of Angel of Destruction, for non-chopsocky fans, is the fact that Maria Ford actually has a soupcon of acting ability. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

This softcore exploitation effort from the Roger Corman stable is a peculiar attempt to reinvent Bram Stoker's story as a T&A film featuring marauding babes in rat-pelt bikinis. The story posits an Amazonian group of Victorian-era lesbians who have formed a colony under Queen Adrienne Barbeau. Barbeau is sort of a Pied Piper to a group of vicious rats used in the women's murderous raids on men who have wronged them. In one such attack, the women capture writer Bram Stoker (Kevin Alber), who is recruited to chronicle the women's activities. But the plot is really secondary here. The main point of this film is to show scantily-clad women running around in bikinis, having swordfights and performing topless veil-dances. Barbeau is particularly over-the-top, saying things like "I am the Queen of the vermin!" and sporting hairdos which get progressively bigger and sillier as the film goes on. An amusing second-rate attempt at a Hammer-style historical horror film, this is a fun, trashy timekiller for genre fans. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

After several strippers are murdered, a reporter (Barbara Alyn Woods) goes undercover at a seedy club to unmask the killer. ~ John Bush, Rovi

In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. Fast-forward five years, when mobster kingpin Al Capone (F. Murray Abraham) gives the real Dillinger (Martin Sheen) an offer he can't refuse: rob millions from a secluded vault or watch his wife and child get whacked. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

In the year 2018 A.D., Dr. John Denniel (Jeff Wincott) is a geneticist who is persuaded by Lt. Anna Pontaine (Maria Ford) to help with a government study of extraterrestrial viruses to be brought back to Earth on an upcoming space probe. John and Anna find their feelings are moving beyond professional courtesy, and they marry and are soon expecting a child. Their happiness is cut short when they receive word that the space probe has fallen out of orbit, crash landing in Africa while carrying a virus that could possibly kill billions of people. After Anna suffers a miscarriage, she becomes obsessively protective of a set of human embryos John has created, which have been engineered to be resistant to the virus; she wants to see them brought to term, while John wants to use them to create a vaccine that could save lives as the virus spreads. Meanwhile, John discovers the crash of the space probe was rigged by General Wallace (Stacy Keach), a psychotic racist who wants to wipe out humanity so he and his associates can repopulate the earth as a purely Aryan planet; John also finds Wallace has plans of his own for the embryos. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

In this follow-up to the erotic thriller I Like to Play Games, Suzanne (Maria Ford) is now the head of an advertising agency, and in her spare time, she enjoys making the men who work for her jump through hoops (and then some). However, when she's approached by Dominick D'Aura (Bobby Johnston), the owner of a chain of upscale strip clubs who wants Suzanne to design a new campaign for him, she has finally met her match in the arena of sexual gamesmanship. However, Suzanne and Dominick's erotic play soon turns dangerous when extortion, blackmail, and violence creep into the mix. While I Like to Play Games Too features a different director and cast than the first film (in which Suzanne was played by Lisa Boyle), they were written by the same man, David Keith Miller. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

From the evidence at hand, it seems apparent that the inexpensive Mind Twister was the last cinematic stand for the late Telly Savalas. There's a wacko killer at large, murdering at random. A courageous cop offers himself as bait to stop the murderer. This proves difficult, as who knows where the killer will strike next? Richard Roundtree and Suzanne Slater also show up in this garish Fred Olen Ray concoction. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Based on horror author H.P. Lovecraft's writings, Necronomicon: Book of the Dead includes three short stories devoted to the deadly and mysterious "Necronomicon." When Lovecraft (played by Jeffrey Combs) manages to smuggle the legendary book out of a heavily guarded library, he quickly finds himself immersed in its passages, and three short stories take form as he sets off to record the information. In the first, Bruce Payne plays a disgruntled man whose inheritance of an old motel turns out to be more than he bargained for, as there are a nasty group of demons populating its basement. The second story follows a young reporter in search of a doctor who allegedly found the path to immortality, though, like the unwitting motel owner, he wouldn't realize how far in over his head he was until it became too late. The last story features Signy Coleman as a tough-as-nails police officer who descends into a strange set of catacombs in order to find her missing partner -- little does she know that an infamous serial killer is already living inside its subterranean depths. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Doria Rone and Julie Ashton, the stars of the Playboy Channel's popular series Night Calls, once again take their escapades to feature length in this sexy comedy. When Doria's wealthy Uncle Cecil (Richard Long) suddenly kicks the bucket, Doria and Julie head out to his ranch to claim their inheritance, with their curvaceous friends Kat (Amber Newman) and Eden (Nancy O'Brien) tagging along for the ride. Brandi (Maria Ford), Cecil's greedy and unpleasant widow, would just as soon keep her late husband's money for herself, but the trouble is, she isn't sure just where he's hidden it, so she enlists the help of stump-dumb wrangler Zeke (Anthony Rema) in finding it. She quickly finds herself in a mad race with Doria and Julie to find the loot, with finders being keepers. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A band of murderous outlaws nicknamed The Blue Jean Killers are the focus of this satirical erotic comedy starring straight-to-video stalwart Maria Ford. The movie targets the sacred cows of crime enforcement, the media, and the fashion industry as it follows a consumerist Bonnie and Clyde on their L.A. crime spree. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

In this Ring of Fire sequel, Don Wilson and Maria Ford play an enduring couple who survive all sorts of interference from rival kickbox gangs in their effort to put a little romance in their lives. When Ford is kidnapped and taken deep into the subterranean womb of an enemy gang hideaway, her lover must come to her rescue. ~ Rovi

Director Dan Golden's remake of Marcus De Leon's 1992 erotic thriller Kiss Me a Killer stars Maria Ford as the femme fatale who lures a country-western singer into murdering her sadistic bar-owner husband. Executive producer Roger Corman, who also released De Leon's film, made a career of re-using similar storylines with slight alterations and passing them off as new films. This one falls short of its predecessor due mostly to Golden's workmanlike direction and the hackneyed backdrop. Golden's next job for Corman, however, was a surprisingly witty adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Burial of the Rats (1995). ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi