Ronald Shusett’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Ronald Shusett has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Alien.
Recurring themes

I Am Not Your Negro
2017
Documentary

Finding Vivian Maier
2014
Documentary

Generation Wealth
2018
Documentary

Requiem for the American Dream
2015
Documentary

The Edge of Democracy
2019
Documentary

The Propaganda Game
2015
Documentary

The Red Pill
2016
Documentary

Room 237
2012
Documentary
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone

After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Dir. Gary Sherman · With James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson

Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Dir. Andrew Davis · With Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva

The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.
Dir. Alexandre O. Philippe · With Ronald Shusett, Roger Christian, Ivor Powell
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Dir. Geoff Murphy · With Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo

After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a giant female ape is captured to serve as a source for a blood transfusion. When Kong awakens following his heart transplant, he senses the nearby presence of the female ape and the two escape to wreak havoc together.
Dir. John Guillermin · With Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin, Peter Elliott