William Sanderson’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
William Sanderson has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Blade Runner.
Recurring themes

Darkman II: The Return of Durant
1995
Action · Horror

Trancers II
1991
Action · Science Fiction

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991
Action · Thriller

The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

No Escape
1994
Action · Drama

Dark Angel
1990
Action · Thriller

Split Second
1992
Science Fiction · Action

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
Dir. Jesús Salvador Treviño · With Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Mira Furlan

Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a good deed that will put him in trouble.
Dir. Peter R. Hunt · With Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
Dir. Joe Johnston · With Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin
A genetic research facility worker exposes animal abuses there to a local TV reporter, who frees and takes in a genetically altered dog from the lab, unaware that he has a violent streak.
Dir. John Lafia · With Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen, Robert Costanzo
Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.
Dir. Tom McLoughlin · With Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, Robert Rusler

John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Dir. Harley Cokeliss · With Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn
After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide they cannot live in their current situation in the west. They hire a grizzled alcoholic wagon master by the name of James Harlow to take them on a journey back to their hometowns in the East.
Dir. Peter Markle · With John Candy, Richard Lewis, John C. McGinley