Reggie Bannister Movies

A traveling sideshow arrives in another town decimated by the dustbowl, where the performers find themselves beset by a malevolent force that begins claiming them one-by-one. Meanwhile, Detective Ellison (Reggie Banister) launches an investigation that leads him to question Virgil the Strong Man (Chris Straviski) and Ratty the Snake Handler (Doug Jones), two of the sideshow's most prominent performers. Perhaps, if they don't have the answers to the questions he's asking, elusive carnival owner Helen (Denise Gossett) will. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

An average college student becomes a reluctant hero after going to work for a bio-mechanical engineer, then getting stuck in a revolutionary new battle suit after his mentor is murdered by a scheming arms dealer. Dr. Arthur Blake was on the verge of completing his life's work when he was viciously gunned down by Sebastian Reed, who plans to get rich by marketing the powerful suit as the ultimate weapon of war. Realizing that he is now trapped in a high-tech metal exoskeleton, Kyle narrowly escapes death thanks to the late Dr. Blake, who has created an artificial intelligence program based on his likeness and installed it into the suit's helmet. Determined to get the suit at any cost, Reed kills Kyle's parents and abducts his girlfriend before unleashing an army of ninjas and a murderous robot to track it down. Now, with a little help from Dr. Marissa Lee - who has her own reasons for wanting to see Reed suffer - Kyle finally harnesses the true powers of the battle suit, and prepares for battle. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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, Rovi

Gang-bangers come up against a new enemy who doesn't recognize any colors other than blood red in this urban horror story. Mac T (Ethan Ednee) is the battle-hardened leader of a street gang in South Central Los Angeles called the Lords of Crenshaw; Mac T and his lieutenants aren't afraid to use violence to get their way, and they've scheduled a meeting with Mitchell (Reggie Bannister), an underground arms merchant, to increase their stockpile of firepower. What the Lords don't know is Mitchell has also scheduled a meeting with another gang at the same time -- El Diablo Muerto, a crew from the East L.A. barrios led by tough-guy Caesar (Noel Gugliemi). When the Lords and the Diablos discover they're both in Mitchell's secret warehouse, it looks as if war s about to break out, until unusual circumstances provide them with a common and deadly enemy. A meteor has crashed near Mitchell's compound that has turned the recent dead into zombies with a taste for human flesh. The two gangs discover they're right in the path of dozens of the hungry undead, along with several innocent bystanders -- an egocentric television weatherman, his wife and a psychotic street preacher -- and they must all join forces to battle the zombies if there's to be any hope of survival. Last Rites was the first full-length feature film from writer, director and visual effects artist Duane Stinnett. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A grim discovery in the basement of a crumbling prison reformatory reveals a demonic secret that cuts to the very base of mankind's struggle against sin in this supernatural thriller starring Michael Berryman, Bill Moseley, Michael Dorn, Adrianne Curry, and Kevin McCarthy. Far beneath the west cellblock of a turn of the century prison lies a malevolent secret that has lain dormant for one hundred years - a sub-basement structure with only one entrance and one exit. When the skeletal remains of seven brutalized children are discovered inside, a special CSI team is quickly brought in to conduct a more thorough investigation. What they find may change the entire way mankind views the wages of sin, for there dwell seven fallen angels; each responsible for one of the deadly sins and each determined to show mankind just how many ways there are to pass from this mortal realm into the next. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

When an obsessive recluse discovers the cursed parts of the original killing machine, The Mangler takes it's deadliest form yet in this installment of the long-running series inspired by Stephen King's short story. Upon discovering the parts of the original Mangler, a handy fix-it man named Hadley (Weston Blakesley) reconstructs the bloodthirsty machine to horrifying results. As the machine takes possession over the weak-willed Hadley, the evil that festers deep within drives him to become a murderous psychopath whose sadism knows no bounds. When a pair of father/son burglars set their sights on the rampaging repair man's modest home, the carnage they find within has them running for their lives. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

An ancient evil finds resistance in the most unlikely of places in this oddball comedy horror effort from Phantasm director Don Coscarelli. Resting in the confines of a Mud Creek, TX, nursing home after fading into obscurity following his departure from the limelight, an aging and embittered Elvis (Bruce Campbell) befriends a delusional patient named Jack (Ossie Davis) who claims to be John F. Kennedy. It seems that at the height of his popularity Elvis had switched identities with a convincing double, and, upon the death of the substitute, missed his chance to reclaim his former fame. Despite his anger at never having made a comeback, Elvis finds a new reason to live when Jack tips him off to an evil mummy that is feasting on the souls of hapless nursing home inhabitants. Before long the geriatric duo must muster the strength to fend off the malevolent soul sucker lest they ultimately fall prey to the fearsome Bubba Ho-Tep (Bob Ivy). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

The concluding installment of the popular horror series brings back the principal heroes Reggie, Mike, and Jody (Reggie Bannister, Michael Baldwin, and Bill Thornbury) for their final battle against the evil Tall Man (Angus Scrimm). Mike is trying to escape the Tall Man's designs on turning him into a servant of the interdimensional body thieves, while Reggie is trying not to get involved, despite Jody's pleas for help. When a demonic cop with a skinned man in his trunk pulls Reggie over along a dark highway, and spits Reggie's mouth full of yellow slime when shot, it becomes clear that he will have to play too. After crashing his hearse in Death Valley, Mike dreams about the days of the Civil War, where he meets Jebediah Morningside (Scrimm), the Tall Man's pleasant former self. By the time he returns to the earthly plane, the dimensional forks introduced in previous installments have multiplied into over a dozen. While Reggie is occupied by a pretty undead blonde who ends up having two of the Tall Man's silver Death Balls for breasts, Jody turns out to not be quite dead either, being able to change his own body into the Death Balls at will. As the forks continue to multiply, Mike constructs his own Death Ball and skips through various dimensions with Jody looking for the Tall Man. Eventually, the brothers slip into the past to the night when Morningside turned evil in an attempt to stop the horror before it could begin. Needless to say, everything comes back to the cemetery for the chilling final battle, but it doesn't stay there for long. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Set in a future American metropolis, Metro City, this sci-fi-thriller features a policewoman heroine who like the hero in Robocop was brought back from the dead and turned into a super-human fighter. Unlike the aforementioned robot-man, however, she is brought back not with hardware, but with special drugs and a heavy duty training program. The woman dislikes the drugs because of the nightmares they create, but she is dedicated and so completes her regimen so successfully that she is called the Demolitionist and sent out to clean up the city's crime-fouled streets. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Paul Bunnell's horror film That Little Monster stars Melissa Baum as Jamie, a student studying abroad who begins the film interviewing for a nanny position. She gets the job, but soon discovers that strange things are occurring with the child, the family, and their house. She soon begins to fear for her life. The film was shot in a way that pays tribute to the Universal horror films of the '30s. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

In this taut outdoor actioner, a pair of teens head into the Rockies as part of a course in survival and end up having to use all of their skills to survive when they find themselves hunted by a pack of crazed mercenaries. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Phantasm is a surprisingly artful and imaginative horror film, an impressive film for 23-year-old director Don Coscarelli who worked with a miniscule budget to create a small masterpiece. When Mike (Michael Baldwin) spies some sinister Jawa-like creatures stealing corpses from the local cemetery, he and his older brother Jody (Bill Thornbury) explore the mausoleum, where they find that the mortician (Angus Scrimm), a towering, emaciated figure with superhuman strength, has somehow bridged the gap between Earth and the afterworld and needs fresh corpses. Among the tools of his trade is a flying Swiss army pinball that bores into the skulls of its hapless victims then extracts their brains. Their allies die off one by one, until only the brothers are left to defend humankind against the nefarious "Tall Man" and his army of shrouded dwarves. While the film does contain a fair amount of graphic violence, the gore is never gratuitous and, relative to other movies of its day, is used rather sparingly. The effects are fantastic as is the highly stylized direction; the result is a memorable chiller with more than its share of genuine shocks. ~ Jeremy Beday, Rovi