Ray Wise’s Typical Vibe
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Ray Wise has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by RoboCop.
Recurring themes

Better Watch Out
2017
Horror · Thriller

Trash Fire
2016
Comedy · Drama

10 Cloverfield Lane
2016
Thriller · Science Fiction

Clown
2014
Horror · Thriller

Insidious: The Last Key
2018
Horror · Thriller

Parasyte: Part 1
2014
Science Fiction · Horror

Cult of Chucky
2017
Horror · Thriller

The Banana Splits Movie
2019
Horror · Thriller

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Max · Included

The Journey of Natty Gann
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Disney+ · Included

Powder
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Prime Video · Included

Fresh Off the Boat
2015 · Series · Actor
Top 50%Hulu · Included

All the Way
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 59%Max · Included

Dead End
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 63%Prime Video · Included

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Dir. David Lynch · With Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick

When LexCorp accidentally unleashes a murderous creature, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s.
Dir. Lauren Montgomery, Bruce Timm, Brandon Vietti · With Adam Baldwin, Anne Heche, James Marsters

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Dir. George Clooney · With David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney
When their bus is crippled on the side of a deserted road, a team of high school athletes discover an opponent they cannot defeat – and may not survive.
Dir. Victor Salva · With Travis Schiffner, Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.
Dir. Jeremy Kagan · With Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise

Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This phenomenon changes the lives of all those around him in ways they never could have imagined.
Dir. Victor Salva · With Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
Dir. Tim Robbins · With Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman

A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American and an immigrant mother often bewildered by white culture.
Dir. Nahnatchka Khan · With Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'
Dir. Jay Roach · With Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie, Melissa Leo

When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close scrutiny proves the disc has been doctored, and the detectives realize they're dealing with a cover-up as well.
Dir. Philip Kaufman · With Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Tia Carrere
A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a disturbing relationship with a mysterious but seemingly innocent youngster.
Dir. Jonathan Zarantonello · With Barbara Steele, Heather Langenkamp, Ray Wise

On Christmas Eve, while driving to see his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Dir. Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa · With Ray Wise, Alexandra Holden, Lin Shaye
An awkward, unemployed man who can talk to the dead teams up with a rebellious bartender to find the vengeful ghost that's been terrorizing their town.
Dir. Richard Bates Jr. · With Matthew Gray Gubler, Ray Wise, Kat Dennings

After being stung by a giant insect, Cooper learns that these bugs are attacking the whole city. He joins forces with the survivors, in order to find a way to counter-attack.
Dir. Kyle Rankin · With Christopher Rodriguez Marquette, Brooke Nevin, Wesley Thompson

A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.
Dir. Adam Green · With Ray Wise, Adam Green, Kane Hodder
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was a Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.
Dir. Joe Lynch, Adam Green, Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan, Bear McCreary · With Richard Riehle, Adam Rifkin, Ray Wise

Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing, a half-human, half-plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue government agent Alice Cable and defeat his evil arch nemesis...even if it costs him his life.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise
When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the entire city is destroyed.
Dir. Mike Mendez · With Greg Grunberg, Lombardo Boyar, Clare Kramer

Pauline, a disturbed, outcast teenager, has a fascination with surgery and experiences violent, psychosexual fantasies, all while aspiring to a career in medicine.
Dir. Richard Bates Jr. · With AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter

A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
Dir. Quentin Dupieux · With Mark Burnham, Steve Little, Éric Judor
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
Dir. Eric Valette · With Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancón

Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. The girl happens to be the only daughter of one of the richest men in the state. In a while the car chase is being broadcast live on every TV-channel.
Dir. Adam Rifkin · With Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins

Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course.
Dir. Eric Wareheim, Tim Heidecker · With Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, John C. Reilly

As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.
Dir. Sam Liu · With Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Tara Strong

Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
Dir. David Gelb · With Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover
After a one night stand Deb wakes up in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.
Dir. Kyle Rankin · With Maria Thayer, Michael Cassidy, Ray Wise

21 year-old slacker Sam Oliver learns that his parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born, and now Sam has to repay the debt by becoming the Devil's bounty hunter, retrieving souls that have somehow escaped from Hell.
Dir. Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas · With Bret Harrison, Tyler Labine, Rick Gonzalez
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the local paperboy. She thinks this is ridiculous, until she encounters the boy himself. It turns out that he is a cunning and dangerous sociopath, one who may have gruesomely killed her father - and others.
Dir. Victor Salva · With Rose McGowan, Luna Lauren Vélez, Ray Wise
Erroll Babbage has spent his career tracking sex offenders and his unorthodox methods are nearly as brutal as the criminals he monitors. When he links one of his deranged parolees to the disappearance of a local girl, he and his new partner must scour the S&M underground to find her before it's too late.
Dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung · With Richard Gere, Claire Danes, KaDee Strickland
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