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James Karen has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Pursuit of Happyness.
Fright Night
1985
Comedy · Horror
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandiwe Newton
Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.
Dir. Dan O'Bannon · With Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
Dir. Ken Wiederhorn · With Michael Kenworthy, Thor Van Lingen, Jason Hogan
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Dir. Graeme Clifford · With Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley
After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.
Dir. Richard Marquand · With Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
Dir. Tobe Hooper · With Hunter Carson, Karen Black, Timothy Bottoms
Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in their path. Can they prevent the flesh-eating piranhas from escaping into the ocean and spawning?
Dir. Scott P. Levy · With William Katt, Alexandra Paul, Monte Markham
Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.
Dir. Arthur Allan Seidelman · With Arnold Stang, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Deborah Loomis
