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John Schuck has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight.
Nine Months
1995
Romance · Comedy

Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.
Dir. Ernest R. Dickerson · With Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois

CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt, Woody Allen

Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Shelley Long, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote
Six years ago, the lovable intergalactic fugitive Gordon Shumway, best known as ALF, was on his way back to his new home when the Alien Task Force finally caught up with him. Now, he is being studied at a top-secret military base where he finds allies who feel that ALF's existence should be announced to the world to ensure his safety... especially when they learn that the abrasive Colonel Milfoil wants ALF, and all Alien Life-Forms, destroyed.
Dir. Dick Lowry · With Paul Fusco, Miguel Ferrer, William O'Leary