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John Glover has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by In the Mouth of Madness.
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The Nameless
1999
Thriller · Mystery

The Believers
1987
Horror · Mystery

The Vanishing
1993
Thriller · Drama

One Eight Seven
1997
Drama · Thriller

At Close Range
1986
Crime · Drama

The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
2021
Crime · Drama

The Boy Who Killed My Parents
2021
Crime · Drama

The Returned
2013
Horror · Thriller

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.
Dir. James DeMonaco · With Pete Davidson, John Glover, Mugga
A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
Dir. Quentin Dupieux · With Alain Chabat, Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Bouchez
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
Dir. Brian Helgeland · With Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe

Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
Dir. Joe Dante · With Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover

Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom takes out an advert offering $30,000 in reward money to the first person who can show him evidence of an angel, a demon, or prove that ghosts exist - anything to prove to him that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates - a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his protective mother, he embarks on an adventure through Los Angeles that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.
Dir. Andy Mitton, Jesse Holland · With Clark Freeman, Jay Dunn, John Glover

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.
Dir. Taylor Hackford · With Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards

as Paul Briggs, U.S. Embassy
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Charles Bronson, José Ferrer, Theresa Saldana

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty
Batman and his sidekick Robin attempt to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze, who wants to make Gotham City into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy, a botanical femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contend with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl, joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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