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Richard Franklin has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1990s.
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Witchboard
1986
Horror · Mystery

Amsterdamned
1988
Action · Horror

Christmas Evil
1980
Horror · Thriller

Firestarter
1984
Horror · Science Fiction

Dressed to Kill
1980
Thriller · Mystery

The Seventh Sign
1988
Horror · Drama

The House on Sorority Row
1982
Horror · Mystery

Insidious: The Red Door
2023
Horror · Thriller

Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?
Dir. Richard Franklin · With Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly, Vera Miles
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.
Dir. Richard Franklin · With Elisabeth Shue, Terence Stamp, Steven Finch
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
Dir. Richard Franklin · With Robert Thompson, Susan Penhaligon, María Mercedes
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goes well until some unknown man kills both the killer and Mike. Mike's boss, Silak says it was the killer who killed Mike but Rollie knows it wasn't. Obviously, Silak is involved with Mike's death, so he calls on Leo McCarthy, the cop from the last movie, who is now a P.I., for help and they discover it's not just Silak they have to worry about.
Dir. Richard Franklin · With Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin

Davey Osborne is an average 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination. He spends his days playing video games and pretending to be a spy with his imaginary father-figure, Jack Flack - a substitute for his real father, who is struggling with the recent death of Davey's mother. However, fantasy becomes reality for Davey after he witnesses the murder of an FBI agent, who in his dying breath, gives Davey a mysterious video game cartridge called Cloak & Dagger, which in actuality contains top-secret government information. With the help of his younger friend Kim, the tech savvy Morris, and even a little help from his fictional secret agent mentor, Davey must stay one step ahead of pursuers as he tries to survive a real-life game of espionage in the streets of San Antonio, Texas.
Dir. Richard Franklin · With Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Dir. Richard Franklin · With Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward