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Richard Stanley has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
Rob the Mob
2014
Crime · Drama
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Dir. Richard Stanley · With Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Marianne Sägebrecht
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.
Dir. Richard Stanley · With Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
Dir. Richard Stanley · With Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch
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Prime Video · Included+2
The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.
Dir. David Gregory · With Richard Stanley, Kier-La Janisse, Michael Gingold
Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.
Dir. Nacho Cerdà · With Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden, Valentin Ganev
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.
Dir. Buddy Giovinazzo, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley, Douglas Buck, Karim Hussain, David Gregory, Jeremy Kasten · With Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb, Amanda Marquardt
A plane crash surviving attorney stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis
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