Brad Dourif at Criticker

Brad Dourif
	Date of Birth: Mar 18, 1950 Country: USA Biography: From 1963 to 1965, Dourif attended Aiken Preparatory School in Aiken, SC, where he pursued his interests in art and acting. Although he briefly considered becoming a professional artist, he finally settled on acting as a profession, inspired by his mother's participation as an actress in community theater. His high-strung style also served him well in a number of horror films, notably as the voice of the evil doll Chucky in Child's Play (1988) and its sequels. [Edit Biography] Total Films at Criticker: 62 - You've Seen 0
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Fading of the Cries (2011)

Summary: Jacob, a young man armed with a deadly sword, saves Sarah, a teenage girl, from Mathias, a malevolent evil that has begun plaguing a small farmland town while in search of an ancient necklace that had belonged to Sarahs Uncle. (imdb)

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Priest (2011)

Summary: A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece. (imdb)

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Catch .44 (2011)

Summary: Three girls get another asignment from crime boss Mel(Willis), after a failed drug run, but things soon turn sour.

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Chain Letter (2010)

Summary: A maniac murders teens when they refuse to forward chain mail.

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Touching Home (2010)

Summary: The true story about a father struggling to make amends with his twin sons as they pursue their dreams of professional baseball.

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Summary: A rogue detective is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs - while playing fast and loose with the law.

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Halloween II (2009)

Summary: Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister

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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)

Summary: Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.

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Humboldt County (2008)

Summary: A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself. (imdb)

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The Wizard of Gore (2007)

Summary: Montag the Magnificent (Glover) is a master illusionist who performs at underground venues, selecting female volunteers from his rave-like audiences. To their hysteria, it appears he's dismembered their bodies, but his sleigh of hand has fooled them. However, female bodies show up dead from the same wounds performed on stage. Investigators are baffled, and the chase to find the killer begins. (imdb)

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Halloween (2007)

Summary: After young Michael Myers killed his older sister one Halloween night he was committed for 15 years to a mental institution were he soon broke out and is in search for his little sister Laurie Strode as he returns back to his home town Haddonfield and finds his sister she and hers friends must put up a battle to survive as Michael Myers tries to kill them. (imdb)

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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

Summary: The film follows a hypothetical proposition: a group of astronauts are circling the earth in a spacecraft, but they cannot return, as our planet has become uninhabitable. The cause of this remains open - all-out war, outbreak of a new disease beyond control, radiation after the complete disappearance of the ozone layer, or whatever. The crew of the spacecraft has to find a more hospitable place out there in space, and releases a probe from their cargo bay, Galileo. But Galileo - after sending back very disquieting data - has to be sent on a suicide mission. (Warner Herzog Filmproduktion)

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Drop Dead Sexy (2005)

Summary: When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target. (imdb)

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Seed of Chucky (2004)

Summary: The killer doll is back and his family must slay together in order to stay together. (Rogue Pictures)

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Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of 'Heaven's Gate' (2004)

Summary: Documentary about the fiasco involved in the production of Cimino's masterpiece Heaven's Gate. (youtube)

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The Hazing (2004)

Summary: The Evil Dead meets Scream as an evil professor, through an ancient staff and a book of incantation, possesses the bodies of a group of fraterity and sorority pledges during a night of "hazing" activities in an abandoned mansion... (imdb)

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Vlad (2003)

Summary: Four foreign exchange students, at the behest of a Bucharest professor, dare to enter the draconian heart of Vlad the Impaler's dark past. (Quantum Entertainment)

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The Calling (2002)

Summary: From an early age, Leroy Jenkins (Damian Chapa) is called by a mysterious force he knows only as 'The Spirit'. Abandoned by his Cherokee mother and scorned as 'half-injun', Leroy is raised poor by a rural South Carolina family. Strange voices and supernatural occurrences haunt his early life and he runs from them until the age of 22 when a freak accident - or something more brings him close to death and finally to an Atlanta tent revival where he is miraculously healed. (imdb)

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The Ghost (2001)

Summary: A feared Chinese Tong soldier goes undercover in America as an Asian Internet bride. (imdb)

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Soulkeeper (2001)

Summary: When two small-time thieves steal a powerful ancient relic, they inadvertently unleash a satanic demon lord with a habit of preying on the lost souls of mortals. Now, with the help of a strange dark angel, the thieves wage a bloody war with savage monsters of the underworld.

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The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000)

Summary: The conclusion to The Prophecy Trilogy. Once again, Christopher Walken returns as the Arch-Angel Gabriel. As the War in Heaven and on Earth rages on, Pyriel, the Angel of Genocide, rises to power, intending to destroy all of mankind... (imdb)

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Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2000)

Summary: Documentary that explores Argento's film career. (imdb)

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Shadow Hours (2000)

Summary: Michael is a recovering alcoholic/drug user. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy stranger, Stuart, enters Michael's life, taking Michael through a tour of the seediest and slimiest parts of L.A. underbelly. Is Stuart leading Michael to hell, or salvation? (imdb)

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Interceptor Force (1999)

Summary: A crack team of mercenaries (Olivier Gruner, Glenn Plummer) is deployed to investigate the mysterious crash of a squadron of F117s commanded by Air Force Major MacKenzie (Ernie Hudson). At the site, they track a lifeforce which defies the imagination -- an alien capable of morphing into any organic or pure energy form it comes in contact with, including humans. Survival skills are tested with a vengeance as enemies erupt into a firestorm of fury.

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Silicon Towers (1999)

Summary: Charlie Cook is a man in a dead end job. But while he contemplates a change, he is suddenly promoted to the top security level of his company and asked to take over from a colleague who has mysteriously disappeared. However, not soon after taking up his new position Charlie receives an unidentifiable encoded e-mail containing some top secret information. (imdb)

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Progeny (1998)

Summary: An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population. (imdb)

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Senseless (1998)

Summary: An outrageous comedy about two college students who'll try anything to get ahead! (Miramax)

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Bride of Chucky (1998)

Summary: Chucky hooks up with another murderous doll, the bridal gown-clad Tiffany, for a Route 66 murder spree with their unwitting hosts (imdb)

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Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Summary: Ellen Ripley (Weaver) died fighting the perfect predator. Two hundred years and eight horrific experiments later, she's back. A group of scientists has cloned her-along with the alien queen inside her-hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the resurrected Ripley must team up with a band of smugglers, including a mechanic named Call (Ryder), who holds more than a few surprises of her own. (20th Century Fox)

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Nightwatch (1997)

Summary: Ewan McGregor plays a law student who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue. He begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a serial of murders. (imdb)

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Sworn to Justice (1996)

Summary: After attackers kill her sister and nephew, a female psychologist becomes a defense witness by day and avenger by night. (imdb)

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Black Out (1996)

Summary: John Gray, a mild-mannered banker, gets hit by a car and loses most of his memory. When he gets out of the hospital... (imdb)

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Murder in the First (1995)

Summary: Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punnishment, he is put in solitary confinement. (imdb)

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Death Machine (1995)

Summary: Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in a world of models, toys and magazines. When he is fired by Cale for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes the ultimate killing machine called the 'Warbeast' against Cale and those who would help her. (imdb)

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Color of Night (1994)

Summary: Psychologist Bill Capa gives up his practise when he unintentially pushes a patient to committ suicide... (imdb)

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Amos & Andrew (1993)

Summary: When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal. (imdb)

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Wild Palms (1993)

Summary: LA in the near future, Harry Wykoff accepts a job as presidents of a gigantic TV company. Het is confronted with a total new technology called "The New Reality" where three-dimensional TV animated pictures are projected in living rooms all around the world. Harry launches to the top of the company with his career but once there he is caught in a web of intrigues, betrayal and murder. A game of life and death begins... (imdb)

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Final Judgement (1992)

Summary: A priest is suspected in the brutal murder of a young stripper. To prove his innocence, he descends into the world of strip clubs and pornography, hoping to catch the killer. The priest is hampered by the police and taunted by the killer. A friend of the stripper tries to help him before another life is claimed. (imdb)

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Critters 4 (1992)

Summary: Just before bounty hunter Charile triggers his gun to destroy the last two Critter-eggs, he gets a message that it would be illegal to extinguish the race from the galaxy. He's sent a transporter where he puts the eggs - unfortunately the transporter takes him with it and then gets lost in space... (imdb)

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London Kills Me (1991)

Summary: For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible pair of shoes," an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him... (imdb)

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Murder Blues (1991)

Summary: A detective becomes obsessed with bringing a man to justice, whom he is sure is a serial killer and the murderer of a woman with which both men were involved. However, the supposed killer may be as much a victim as the murdered people. (imdb)

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Chaindance (1991)

Summary: As a part of a special government reform program, inmate J.T. Blake has to take care of Johnny Reynolds who has cerebral palsy. In the meantime, another inmate wants to take care of J.T. Blake forever. (imdb)

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Scream of Stone (1991)

Summary: A meeting of two world famous climbers, one is an experienced mountaineer the other a free climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the free climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is the world's best free climber. (imdb)

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Child's Play 3 (1991)

Summary: It's been eight years since the events in the second film, we now see that Andy is a teenager who has been enrolled in a military school, but Chucky the killer doll returns to cause chaos, and is now setting his sights on younger cadet. (imdb)

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Spontaneous Combustion (1990)

Summary: A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him. (imdb)

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Hidden Agenda (1990)

Summary: When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth (imdb)

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The Exorcist III (1990)

Summary: A serial killer haunts the streets of Georgetown, do these events have anything to do with the exorcism of 15 years ago? (imdb)

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Child's Play 2 (1990)

Summary: Chuckie's back as the doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer, butchering all who stand in his way of possessing the body of a boy (imdb)

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Graveyard Shift (1990)

Summary: Based on Stephen King's short story about a Maine textile mill, where it's workers come into contact with something far more gruesome than anyone might expect. (imdb)

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Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror (1990)

Summary: Two travelers, one a well to do young clerk on the way to a reunion with his wife, the other a scruffy, feral bounty hunter meet at sundown on a lonely prairie and agree to swap stories to pass the time. This is a portmanteau film featuring four intriguing stories linked by the two story teller's attempts to psych each other out. (imdb)

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Sonny Boy (1989)

Summary: A small-town crime boss accepts delivery of a stolen car, only to find there's a baby in the back-seat (imdb)

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Mississippi Burning (1988)

Summary: Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists. (imdb)

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Child's Play (1988)

Summary: Young Andy Barclay gets the doll he wanted. However, he did not know it was alive (imdb)

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Fatal Beauty (1987)

Summary: Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of 'Fatal Beauty' begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike works for the original owner of the drugs and tries to tell himself that since he does not handle the drugs, he is 'clean'. Mike becomes Rita's constant companion as the drug hijackers are hunted, while more and more bodies continue to turn up. (imdb)

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Blue Velvet (1986)

Summary: Set in a small American town, Blue Velvet is a dark, sensuous mystery involving the intertwining lives of four very different individuals. The film's painful realism reminds us that we are not immune to the disturbing events which transpire in Blue Velvet's sleepy community. There is a darker side of life waiting for us all. (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group Inc.)

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Dune (1984)

Summary: In the distant future, a man appears who may be the prophet that a long-suffering galaxy has been waiting for.

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Ragtime (1981)

Summary: A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. (imdb)

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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980)

Summary: Based upon the true story of Jim Jones, a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people, who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came to the attention of the authorities, they started to investigate. Rather that faces the charges, Jim Jones committed suicide, and convinced virtually All of his followers to do the same. (imdb)

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Heaven's Gate (1980)

Summary: Michael Cimino's bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion, over the woman they both love (imdb)

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Wise Blood (1979)

Summary: A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church. (imdb)

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Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Summary: Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes. She contacts the police and with the aid of a police detective, tries to stop the killer. But first, they have to figure out who it is. (imdb)

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Summary: Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse. (imdb)

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