William Finley Archives

The Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 9, 2001Phantom of the Opera Rock Musical Parody

Predating The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Brian De Palma conducts a very funny parody of The Phantom of the Opera (and several other horror films) as a glitter rock musical

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham, …

Category: Horror

9 March 200120 August 2020 by Roog

Eaten Alive (1977)

Rating: ★★

Nov 21, 2008Psycho Backwoods Motelier

The first film that Tobe Hooper made immediately after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a dementedly OTT Southern Gothic with Neville Brand as a backwoods motelier serving up his guests to the crocodiles

Director: Tobe Hooper

Actors: Neville Brand, Marilyn Burns, Jose Ferrer, Robert Englund, …

Category: Horror

21 November 200823 February 2026 by Roog

Simon (1980)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 5, 2001Fake Alien Comedy

A directorial debut from Woody Allen co-writer Marshall Brickman, an offbeat comedy where scientists hypnotise Alan Arkin into believing he is an alien

Director: Marshall Brickman

Actors: Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton, Judy Graubart, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 July 20012 November 2023 by Roog

The Funhouse (1981)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 14, 2002Carnival Horror House Slasher

Tobe Hooper makes a slasher film that is well above the average and one of his better films. Taking place in a carnival haunted house, Hooper shakes the slasher tropes up with undeniably freakish effect at times

Director: Tobe Hooper

Actors: Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, Sylvia Miles, Cooper Huckabee, …

Category: Horror

14 September 200215 February 2026 by Roog

Silent Rage (1982)

Rating: ★★

Mar 30, 2026Action Film/Resurrected Psycho

A Chuck Norris horror film! One of his earlier films where Chuck is pitted against a psycho who is resurrected from the dead and becomes a near-invincible killing machine

Director: Michael Miller

Actors: Chuck Norris, Ron Silver, Steven Keats, William Finley, …

Category: Horror

30 March 202630 March 2026 by Roog

Night Terrors (1993)

Rating: ★★

Aug 22, 1999Sado-Sexual Games/Marquis De Sade's Descendant

Another example of Tobe Hooper's slight into mediocrity in the 1990s, an erotic thriller that features a madly overacting Robert Englund as the Marquis de Sade and an innocent being corrupted by his descendant in the modern day

Director: Tobe Hooper

Actors: Robert Englund, Zoe Trilling, William Finley, Chandra West

Category: Horror

22 August 199916 November 2019 by Roog