Kristy Swanson Archives

Deadly Friend (1986)

Rating: ★

Apr 5, 2002Teenager Resurrects Girlfriend

Wes Craven was hot as a result of A Nightmare on Elm Street but badly lucked out with this ridiculous film in which a teenager raises his girlfriend from the dead by planting a computer chip from a robot in her brain

Director: Wes Craven

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Matthew Laborteaux, Anne Twomey, Anne Ramsey, …

Category: Horror

5 April 200222 September 2025 by Roog

Flowers in the Attic (1987)

Rating: ★

Jun 18, 2001Twisted Family Melodrama

Film adaptation of Virginia C. Andrews’ popular Gothic potboiler about a brother and sister who develop an incestuous relationship after being locked in the attic by their mother. Andrews’ turgid melodrama gets the screen adaptation it deserves

Director: Jeffrey Bloom

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant

Category: Horror

18 June 20016 February 2026 by Roog

Highway to Hell (1991)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 18, 2011Afterlife Parody

A witty afterlife comedy, a modernised retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice where Chad Lowe drives down the highway to hell to rescue his girlfriend

Director: Ate de Jong

Actors: Chad Lowe, Kristy Swanson, Patrick Bergin, C.J. Graham, …

Category: Fantasy

18 January 20111 November 2025 by Roog

Mannequin on the Move (1991)

Rating: ★

Aug 6, 2003Romance with a Statue Comes to Life

A sequel to the Mannequin, the inane comedy about a romance with a storefront dummy come to life,. Here Kristy Swanson plays a princess who is turned into a statue before being awoken in the present

Director: Stewart Raffill

Actors: Kristy Swanson, William Ragsdale, Meshach Taylor, Terry Kiser, …

Category: Fantasy

6 August 200312 March 2026 by Roog

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Rating: ★

Sep 4, 2000Cheerleader Vampire Hunter

An unfunny comedy about a cheerleader vampire slayer. This should have been quickly forgotten but instead it surprisingly became the basis for a much superior hit tv series several years later

Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, …

Category: Horror

4 September 200015 December 2025 by Roog

The Phantom (1996)

Rating: ★★

May 1, 2003Comic-Book Superhero

Big screen adaptation of the popular comic-strip superhero. This aims for the tone of an old fashioned serial adventure and is nicely mounted but crucially never comes to life.

Director: Simon Wincer

Actors: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, James Remar, …

Category: Fantasy

1 May 20037 July 2023 by Roog

Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000)

Rating: ★★

Dec 17, 2000Gonzo Stoner Film

A bizarrely surreal, anything goes comedy as two bros set out to find their car after a night partying. This feels like Repo Man as though directed by the Farrelly Brothers after they had inhaled a few bongs

Director: Danny Leiner

Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Jennifer Garner, Marla Sokoloff, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 December 200025 January 2026 by Roog

Zebra Lounge (2001)

Rating: ★

Dec 20, 2022Psychopathic Swingers

An erotic thriller where a couple are stalked by psychopathic couple after venturing into the swingers scene, this comes with a ridiculously high-handed condemnatory moralism

Director: Kari Skogland

Actors: Cameron Daddo, Kristy Swanson, Stephen Baldwin, Brandy Ledford, …

Category: Horror

20 December 202229 December 2025 by Roog

Red Water (2003)

Rating: ★½

May 22, 2025Killer Shark

B killer shark films where environmentalists, oil rig workers and drug dealers converge on a Louisiana river where a shark lurks

Director: Charles Robert Carner

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson, Coolio, Langley Kirkwood, …

Category: Horror

22 May 202513 November 2025 by Roog

The Black Hole (2006)

Rating: ★

May 25, 2008Black Hole & Electrical Monster Amok

Of all the concepts in physics, the wildest of these is the black hole. It seems highly disappointing that this set out to be a film about a black hole but all we get is a film about an electrical monster amok

Director: Tibor Takacs

Actors: Judd Nelson, Kristy Swanson, David Selby

Category: Science Fiction

25 May 200828 December 2025 by Roog

Mimesis: Nosferatu (2018)

Rating: ★★

Oct 14, 2021Mysterious Group Restage Nosferatu

Sequel to Mimesis, which had people trapped in a simulation of Night of the Living Dead, where this time people are trapped in a recreation of Nosferatu

Director: Douglas Schulze

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Julie Kline, Connor Alexander, Jordan Campo, …

Category: Horror

14 October 20213 September 2025 by Roog