Deadly Blessing (1981)
Nov 6, 2001Religious Cult Killings
An early Wes Craven film about a series of killings among an Amish-like cult led by Ernest Borgnine. Craven's eerie dream horrors sit alongside a confusing script
Sharon Stone
King Solomon’s Mines (1985)
Jun 8, 2003Adventure Film
Cannon Films' remake of the H. Rider Haggard adventure novel was made to exploit the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark but that does not excuse what an awful film it is where everything is played up for excruciating camp humour
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)
Feb 12, 2005Lost City Adventure
This is a sequel to Cannon Films' excruciating camp version of King Solomon's Mines. Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone are back. This is a marginal improvement but far from a good film
Total Recall (1990)
Jun 18, 2005Virtual Memories/Reality Bender/Action
Adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story is killed by being turned into an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle and by director Paul Verhoeven's burying the reality bending subtleties of the story under bludgeoning ultra-violence
Scissors (1991)
Jun 19, 2001Imprisonment Psycho-Thriller
Impressive psycho-thriller from Frank De Felitta that plays out with the silent logic of a nightmare as a young unknown Sharon Stone finds herself a prisoner in an apartment
Basic Instinct (1992)
Aug 14, 2000Psycho-Sexual Thriller
This slick eroticised thriller was a huge success and made the career of Sharon Stone. The absurd plot bears no resemblance to human motivation but Paul Verhoeven makes an undeniably provocative and entertaining package
Sliver (1993)
May 21, 1999Psycho-Sexual Thriller
Adaptation of an Ira Levin thriller is turned into a blatant copy of Basic Instinct featuring Sharon Stone in more steamy scenes
Diabolique (1996)
Feb 17, 2003Les Diaboliques English-Language Remake
Les Diaboliques is one of the great all-time thrillers. This remake, designed to highlight a post-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone, is an abortion that rewrites the classic twist ending for something upbeat
Antz (1998)
Jun 11, 1999Animation/Talking Ants
The first animated film from DreamWorks, a rather charming effort that takes place in an ant nest with Woody Allen perfectly voice cast as a nebbish ant who decides to defy the crowd
Sphere (1998)
Dec 16, 1999Crashed UFO Underwater/Michael Crichton Adaptation
Michael Crichton was hot property after the success of Jurassic Park but this was one flop. A by no means uninteresting film about a group of scientists in an underwater habitat making contact with an alien lifeform
The Muse (1999)
Aug 31, 1999Modern Muse/Hollywood Satire
Albert Brooks film with Sharon Stone as a Greek muse. This suggests a Woody Allen whimsy crossed with something of Robert Altman’s The Player and its satire on Hollywood with real-life celebrities playing themselves
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Apr 19, 2007Southern Gothic Psycho-Thriller
Mike Figgis, the director of Leaving Las Vegas, visits the Backwoods Brutality genre in this Southern Gothic, but despite a top drawer cast, this never does more than stir lukewarm cliches
Catwoman (2004)
Oct 4, 2004Comic-Book Superheroine
The long-planned Halle Berry-starring Catwoman movie proved a widely ridiculed bomb. The film throws out the comic-book Catwoman and instead opts for an approach the frequently collapses into the risible
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Apr 2, 2006Psycho-Sexual Thriller
Sequel to Basic Instinct made fourteen years later. Sharon Stone vamps her way across the screen but the heated sexuality of the original has been watered down to a lukewarm whimper