Richard Marcus Movies

There's a showdown at the hospital. Navi (Nestor Serrano) is holding Behrooz (Jonathan Ahdout) hostage. He's afraid to kill him because he thinks Dina (Shohreh Aghdashloo) will tell the authorities everything if he does. Meanwhile, Dina warns Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) that if he doesn't save Behrooz, she'll do nothing to help him find the override. Eventually it all ends with Behrooz in custody, at which point Dina admits that she doesn't actually know where the override is. She gives them an address where the family got their assignments, and Jack and Tony (Carlos Bernard) go to investigate. They find an underground bunker with some plans involving the kidnapping and the override. Sarah (Lana Parrilla), having worked out a deal for Driscoll (Alberta Watson) to compensate her for being wrongfully accused and tortured, notices that the CFO of the company that owns the building is none other than Paul Raines (James Frain), Audrey's (Kim Raver) husband. Jack asks Audrey to call Paul and find out where he is, so that Jack can pick him up for questioning. When Audrey learns that Paul is about to leave town, she agrees to meet with him to discuss getting back together. Meanwhile, Marianne (Aisha Tyler) tells Curtis (Roger R. Cross) that she can access a file in Powell's office with information that might lead them to the override. Curtis suspects that a trap awaits, but he agrees to take her there. Tony heads back CTU, where Driscoll agrees to temporarily reinstate him. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi

This cheap, direct-to-video gorefest owes what little inspiration it can muster to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The plot involves a cluster of bad actors on a weekend camping trip who are set upon by a band of cannibalistic crackers hoping to stock up on fresh human carcasses in preparation for a long winter. To this end, the deformed yokels (one of whom sports a jet pilot's headgear for some unexplained reason) begin hacking, sawing and bludgeoning away at the youths with a variety of farm implements. Surprisingly, chainsaws do not come into play, although the omission was more likely a budgetary constraint than an attempt to avoid outright plagiarism. Little more than a prolonged excuse to sling blood and entrails across the screen, this amateurish effort is enlivened only slightly by a deranged performance by redneck comic Richard Marcus, whose hideously incoherent babbling should give viewers some indication of the filmmakers' general state of mind. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

With the over-the-top gruesomeness of The Re-Animator to compare it to, Wes Craven's Deadly Friend limps into the second tier, coming across as a Frankenstein tale lost on Elm Street. Paul (Matthew Laborteaux) is a teen computer genius who has recently moved to a new town. The quiet and peaceful milieu permits him to continue experimenting with his life's work -- a human-like robot named Bee Bee. But Paul becomes smitten with the comely girl next door, Samantha (Kristy Swanson). For Samantha, however, the small-town life is less than quiet and peaceful; she is the victim of an abusive father, who she dreams of killing. During an argument, her father pushes her down the stairs, and she lapses into a coma. Paul, with the help of local paperboy pal Tom (Michael Sharrett), decides to implant Bee Bee's microchips into Samantha's brain to re-animate her back to life. But Samantha, restored to life and with the strength of an inhuman robot, decides to exact vengeance upon her father and the rest of the townspeople who have done her wrong. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Director Jackie Kong, who later made the cult favorite Blood Diner (1987), directed this terrible monster movie for exploitation pioneer Bill Osco, who stars under the pseudonym "Rexx Coltrane." The plot concerns a mutant child who has become a monster after being exposed to toxic waste in a small Idaho town. Mortimer (Osco) wants to investigate a series of disappearances, only to have his efforts stymied by the town's mayor (José Ferrer), who is worried about the potential economic impact on the local potato industry. This abysmal horror film was made in 1980 and shelved for three years despite a cast which includes Oscar winners Ferrer and Dorothy Malone, Martin Landau, and Kinky Friedman. Other featured performers are Ruth Buzzi, Murray Langston ("The Unknown Comic"), and Kenny Rogers' wife (at the time), Marianne Gordon. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi