Doug Jones’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Doug Jones has 22 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Pan's Labyrinth.
Recurring themes

Eega
2012
Fantasy · Action

Queen of the Damned
2002
Fantasy · Horror

Constantine
2005
Fantasy · Action

Hancock
2008
Fantasy · Action

Blue Exorcist: The Movie
2012
Animation · Fantasy

The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It
2007
Horror · TV Movie

The Brothers Grimm
2005
Adventure · Fantasy

Dororo
2007
Action · Fantasy

Adaptation.
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Hocus Pocus 2
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 12%Disney+ · Included

Hocus Pocus
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Disney+ · Included

The Shape of Water
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Max · Included

John Dies at the End
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Prime Video · Included

Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Netflix · Included

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.
Dir. Spike Jonze · With Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston

29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.
Dir. Anne Fletcher · With Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
Dir. Kenny Ortega · With Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins

Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim Earth for his magical kindred. Tired of living in the shadow of humans, Prince Nuada tries to awaken an ancient force of killing machines, the all-powerful Golden Army, to clear the way for fantasy creatures to roam free. Only Hellboy can stop the dark prince and prevent humanity's annihilation.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones
At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the spirits of audiences along the way. During their travels, they discover a man without limbs at a carnival sideshow. However, after an intriguing encounter with the showman, he becomes driven to hope against everything he has ever believed.
Dir. Joshua Weigel · With Eduardo Verástegui, Nick Vujicic, Doug Jones

In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones

A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
Dir. Don Coscarelli · With Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
Dir. Mike Flanagan · With Parker Mack, Annalise Basso, Elizabeth Reaser

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Dir. Joann Sfar · With Éric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta

A folklore professor becomes unwittingly possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of Thunder and Lightning. But when The Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense dispatches a team of agents to investigate, a cursed samurai sword sends Hellboy to a supernatural dimension of ghosts, monsters, and feudal mayhem. Now while pyrokinetic Liz Sherman and fishboy Abe Sapien battle one very pissed-off dragon, a lost and cranky Hellboy must find his way home.
Dir. Phil Weinstein, Tad Stones · With Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones

Tricia's husband has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia'. Tricia is reluctant, always holding out hope, but Callie is practical and wants her to move on. As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house.
Dir. Mike Flanagan · With Katie Parker, Courtney Bell, Morgan Peter Brown
After Sabrina is abducted, she finds herself in an underground lair, forced to do battle with other innocent women for the amusement of unseen spectators. Each of these reluctant warriors has something to lose, but only one will remain when the game is done.
Dir. Josh C. Waller · With Zoë Bell, Rebecca Marshall, Sherilyn Fenn

A small town news team discovers a box of videotapes wherein a faceless figure, dressed in a dark suit, haunts and torments a family...slowly driving them insane. Soon after, they realize that the 'Operator' has begun to stalk them as well.
Dir. James Moran · With Christopher Rodriguez Marquette, Alexandra Breckenridge, Jake McDorman

When Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien are assigned to investigate the ghost-infested mansion of a publicity-hound billionaire, they uncover a plot to resurrect a beautiful yet monstrous vampire from Professor Bruttenholm’s past. But before they can stop her bloodbath, Hellboy will have to battle harpies, hellhounds, a giant werewolf, and even the ferocious goddess Hecate herself.
Dir. Tad Stones, Victor Cook · With Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones

When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.
Dir. Stacy Title · With Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas

as Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer
Disney+ · Included
The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
Dir. Tim Story · With Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans

Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
Dir. Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman · With Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Mary Wiseman

Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.
Dir. Robert Rodat · With Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Will Patton
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.
Dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak · With Dwayne Johnson, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike
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