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Brad Dourif has 39 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Recurring themes

Nightwatch
1994
Horror · Thriller

Candyman
1992
Drama · Horror

Willard
2003
Horror · Drama

The Rage: Carrie 2
1999
Horror · Thriller

The Resurrected
1991
Horror · Thriller

The Night Flier
1997
Horror · Mystery

Castle Freak
1996
Thriller · Drama

The Ring Two
2005
Drama · Horror

Deadwood
2004 · Series · Actor
Top 4%Max · Included

Mississippi Burning
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Prime Video · Included

Child's Play
1988 · Movie · Voice
Top 8%MGM+ · Included

Chucky
2021 · Series · Voice
Top 12%Peacock · Included

Halloween
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Shudder · Included

The Exorcist III
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Prime Video · Included

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.
Dir. David Milch · With Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Dir. Alan Parker · With Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her 6-year old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.
Dir. Tom Holland · With Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent

After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies — and allies — from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins.
Dir. Don Mancini · With Zackary Arthur, Björgvin Arnarson, Alyvia Alyn Lind

Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where the chase begins again.
Dir. John Lafia · With Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Christine Elise

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.
Dir. Marc Rocco · With Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.
Dir. Rob Zombie · With Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane

On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.
Dir. William Peter Blatty · With George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif

For ten years, the tortured soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray has been imprisoned inside a child's doll. Chucky is reborn when his old flame, Tiffany, rescues his battered doll parts from a police impound. But Chucky wants his new playmate cut down to size, so he transforms his blushing bride into a stunning little terror. Chucky and Tiffany can't wait to start their own homicidal honeymoon. When this demonic duo hits the road and hooks up with a pair of unsuspecting newlyweds, they leave a trail of murder and mayhem behind them. Chucky's back!
Dir. Ronny Yu · With Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Katherine Heigl

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn

In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
Dir. Ken Loach · With Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif

Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
Dir. Daniel Minahan · With Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
Dir. John Huston · With Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, Amy Wright

After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.
Dir. Don Mancini · With Fiona Dourif, Brad Dourif, Danielle Bisutti
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.
Dir. Eric Red · With Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney
Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, teen Andy Barclay is placed in a military school, and the spirit of Chucky returns to renew his quest and seek vengeance after being recreated from a mass of melted plastic.
Dir. Jack Bender · With Justin Whalin, Brad Dourif, Perrey Reeves

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt
A young Romanian woman and a recovering drug addict launch an unlikely investigation after her parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known as The Headhunter.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie

Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica is wrongly convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family... until a string of grisly deaths occur after her psychiatrist introduces a new group therapy tool -- a "Good Guy" doll.
Dir. Don Mancini · With Fiona Dourif, Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon

A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
Dir. Penelope Spheeris · With Marlon Wayans, David Spade, Matthew Lillard

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
Dir. David Lynch · With Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Patrick Stewart
Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in a world of models, toys and magazines. When he is fired by Cale for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes the ultimate killing machine called the 'Warbeast' against Cale and those who would help her.
Dir. Stephen Norrington · With Ely Pouget, Brad Dourif, William Hootkins
A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.
Dir. Fritz Böhm · With Bel Powley, Liv Tyler, Collin Kelly-Sordelet
John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.
Dir. Ralph S. Singleton · With David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht

In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
Dir. Scott Stewart · With Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Lily Collins
As the War in Heaven and on Earth rages on, Pyriel, the Angel of Genocide, rises to power, intending to destroy all of mankind. The only one who stands in his way is street preacher Danyael, who was born of an Angel and a woman, the nephilim.
Dir. Patrick Lussier · With Christopher Walken, Kayren Butler, Vincent Spano

This time around, Chucky and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then the horror goes Hollywood as Chucky unleashes his own brand of murderous mayhem!
Dir. Don Mancini · With Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Billy Boyd

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny
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