Fred Olen Ray Filmography

Solar Flare

Crew: Director

Super Ninja Doll

Crew: Director

Actors: Christine Nguyen, Nicole Sheridan

Synopsis: Blast into action with the most sensual superhero ever to battle the forces of evil as sexy heroine Super Ninja Doll attempts to prevent diabolical arch-villains Gorath and Tantella from escaping the comic book realm and conquering all of mankind. The citizens of planet Earth are in great danger Read More

Tarzeena

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As a group of intrepid explorers descend upon King Island in search of elusive female heroine Tarzeena, an evil scientist schemes to use his revolutionary radio brain control devise to transform her into the ultimate love slave. With her loyal gorilla Tabonga by her side, Tarzeena stands as the Read More

An Accidental Christmas

Crew: Director

Glass Trap

Crew: Director

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: Glass Trap is another take on the giant monster movie. This time around, mutant ants have cornered a group of humans in a giant skyscraper. The humans must figure out how to escape before the ants get hungry enough to eat all of them. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Bikini Chain Gang

Crew: Director

Cinemaker [Video Series]

Actors: Charles Band

Venomous

Crew: Director

Actors: Treat Williams

Synopsis: At a secret laboratory in the Mojave Desert, a renegade scientific unit of the U.S. military is working on a top-secret project that involves breeding poisonous rattlesnakes that develop a highly contagious virus. But enemy terrorists, in a botched effort to steal the snakes, destroy the lab Read More

Black Horizon

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Ice-T, Hannes Jaenicke

Synopsis: Ed Raymond's science fiction disaster film Black Horizon concerns a group of astronauts who become stranded in space when a meteor strikes the space station onto which they have docked. They must escape before the limited amount of oxygen they have left disappears. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Mach 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Bosworth, Michael Dorn, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: One of America's bravest military men finds himself pushing the limits of his abilities in this action-thriller. Senator Stuart Davis (David Hedison), a U.S. Congressman running for president, is travelling to the Balkins, hoping to speak with political leaders there to stop a civil war that Read More

Sideshow

Crew: Director

Actors: Jaimie Martz, Michael Amos

Synopsis: In this horror opus from director and cult hero Fred Olen Ray, a group of teenagers visit a travelling carnival and encounter the mysterious Dr. Graves (Phil Fondacaro). As Graves lures the unsuspecting visitors into his spell, they soon learn the horrible secret of just how he finds the human Read More

Southern Discomfort: Wrestling on the Indie Circuit

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Writer/producer/director Fred Olen Ray takes a look at small-time independent wrestlers in Southern Discomfort: Wrestling on the Indie Circuit. The documentary's opening sequence shows the promoter, David F. Friedman, as he prepares to hold an event in a high school gymnasium in Anniston, AL. Read More

Mom, Can I Keep Her?

Crew: Director

Actors: Gil Gerard, Kevin Dobson, Justin Berfield

Synopsis: A boy makes the acquaintence of a 500 pound gorilla, and the two become fast friends. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Fugitive Mind

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Heather Langenkamp, Michele Greene

Synopsis: An ordinary man find out that he's been turned into a weapon in this sci-fi thriller. Robert Dean (Michael Dudikoff) is an engineer with Gencom, a multi-national technology firm. Dean enjoys an ordinary life with his wife and family, until he suddenly begins losing most of his memory. As Dean Read More

Active Stealth

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Fred Williamson, Hannes Jaenicke

Synopsis: A soldier sets out on a mission of mercy only to discover he's a pawn in a deadly game in this action thriller from cult hero Fred Olen Ray. Veteran U.S. Air Force pilot Murphy (Daniel Baldwin) and his superior, Captain Reynolds (Fred Williamson), are kidnapped by members of a Central American Read More

Billy Frankenstein

Crew: Director

Actors: Vernon Wells, Daran Norris, Tommy Kirk

Synopsis: In this spooky comedy for the whole family, Billy Frank thinks he's an ordinary kid, until his family inherits an old castle and Billy learns he's a distant relative of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein. Billy's folks decide to visit their family estate, and Billy soon discovers they're not alone in Read More

The Capitol Conspiracy

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Michael Robinson, Don "The Dragon" Wilson

Synopsis: Martial arts star Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action/suspense story. A child is recruited to take part in a secret government experiment which results in him being able to see into the future. Years later, the child is an adult and is working for the government; his latest assignment is Read More

Invisible Mom 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A young orphan is adopted into a somewhat bizarre family, primarily due to the fact that his new mom has a tendency to vanish from sight. When the child's cousins show up to get a bit of the youngster's fortune, his new mom saves the day. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Counter Measures

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Wendy Schumacher

Synopsis: Michael Dudikoff stars in this action thriller in which Syrian sailors hijack a state-of-the-art Russian submarine that features among its arsenal a doomsday weapon that could wipe out half the planet. Can submarine demolitions expert Zach Silver and the crew of the U.S.S. Springfield take back Read More

Operation Cobra

Crew: Director

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Tane McClure, Rick Hill, Deepti Bhatnagar

Synopsis: In this espionage actioner, an angry Interpol operative scours India in search of the one who blew up his partner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Invisible Dad

Crew: Director

Actors: Karen Black

Synopsis: A young inventor is tinkering with his latest creation when something goes wrong, and he turns his dad into a real-life invisible man. Now the boy must somehow find a way to get him back to normal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Little Miss Magic

Crew: Director

Actors: Russ Tamblyn, Michelle Bauer, Ted Monte, Vanessa Koman, Kim Read

Synopsis: An adolescent sorceress-to-be has to pass a special test in order to become a full-fledged witch: she must save a henpecked husband from his battle-axe wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hybrid

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: A handful of people who think they've survived it all are faced with a challenge they never counted on in this futuristic sci-fi story. After much of the Earth is devastated in a nuclear war, a hardy band of survivors -- including scientific and Marine Corps Colonel Paul Hamilton (John Blyth Barrymore Read More

The Shooter

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Randy Travis, Andrew Stevens

Synopsis: A wandering gunfighter finds himself unwelcome in a frontier town terrorized and controlled by a group of bandits in this Western directed by Fred Olen Ray. Atherton (Michael Dudikoff), a Civil War hero who fought on behalf of the Union, enters town and promptly saves a prostitute from a brutal Read More

Fugitive Rage

Crew: Director

Actors: Wendy Schumacher, Tim Abell, Shauna O'Brien, Jay Richardson, Ross Hagen

Synopsis: With a big nod towards Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita (1990) this action thriller tells the tale of how ex-policewoman Tara McCormick puts ruthless gangster Tony Stomponato on ice. Tara's journey began when she was hired to kill Stompanato and failed. As a result she is tossed into prison where she Read More

Maximum Revenge

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Michael Robinson, Landon Hall, Monique Parent, Arthur Roberts, Jay Richardson

Synopsis: When an escaped terrorist threatens to use a nuclear weapon to annihilate a prison and most of Los Angeles in hopes of provoking a catastrophic nuclear conflict between the U.S. and the Arab Middle East, it is up to an incarcerated cop and a courageous team of prisoners to defuse the explosive Read More

100 Years of Horror

Synopsis: Condensed from the 13-episode series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror, the two-hour version, is a celebratory overview of the Hollywood horror genre, rich with film clips from horror movies throughout most of the 20th century. Stars Read More

Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: J.J. North, Ted Monte, Raelyn Saalman, Tammy Parks, Tim Abell

Synopsis: When a finalist for "Centerfold of the Year" downs an experimental beauty-enhancing potion concocted by mad-scientist Dr. Lindholm, the unforseen side effects render her a shaply 60 feet tall. Jealous over all the attention, a rival guzzles the elixir, and soon the gargantuan beauties are battling Read More

Over the Wire

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Cult figure Fred Olen Ray directed this erotic thriller (aired on the Playboy Channel premium cable network) about a telephone lineman who, while on the job, accidentally plugs into a phone call where a woman discusses her plans to murder her sister. When the police tell him there's nothing they Read More

Vampire Vixens from Venus

Synopsis: This low-budget (very low budget) sci-fi comedy is about three aliens who land in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In order to blend in, they morph themselves to look like the local women. Unfortunately, most of the local women look like hookers, and the three of them are continually hit upon by nerdy Read More

Droid Gunner

Crew: Director

Actors: Marc Singer

Synopsis: Sometime in the future, cyborg units are threatening to take over the Earth. After their use is outlawed, four female androids are smuggled onto the planet, and it's up to Jack Ford (Marc Singer) to track them down. His efforts to do so take him on a journey from Phoenix to the underwater city of Read More

Invisible Mom

Crew: Director

Actors: Dee Wallace, Barry Livingston, Trenton Knight, Russ Tamblyn, Christopher Stone

Synopsis: A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction -- an invisibility potion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jack-O

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Brian Bradley, David R. Watkins, Tracy Yarkoni, Justice Leak, Kevin L. Powers, April Glover, Cheri Christian, Sacha Dzuba, Linnea Quigley, Rebecca Wicks, Gary Doles, Ryan Latshaw, Catherine Walsh

Synopsis: This Florida-lensed slasher silliness (not surprisingly produced by exploitation overlord Fred Olen Ray) is enlivened only slightly by posthumous cameos from John Carradine and Cameron Mitchell, as well as appearances from B-movie "Scream Queens" Linnea Quigley and Brinke Stevens. The plot is Read More

Possessed by the Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Sandahl Bergman, Turhan Bey, Shannon Tweed, Ted Prior, Fred Olen Ray, Frank Sivero, Kato Kaelin

Synopsis: Exploitation king Fred Olen Ray was well entrenched in his "Erotic Thriller" phase (typified by films like Inner Sanctum) when he turned out this oddball mix of salacious schemes and demonic possession. When creatively blocked horror writer Howard (Ted Prior) buys an oversized jar containing a Read More

Sorceress

Crew: Producer

Actors: Linda Blair, Edward Albert, Julie Strain

Synopsis: In this dark tale of eroticism and the supernatural, Larry (Larry Poindexter) is an attorney rising through the ranks at a prominent law firm. Larry's wife Erica (Julie Strain) loves her husband very much and would do nearly anything for him -- which takes on a whole new meaning when one discovers Read More

Teenage Exorcist

Crew: Associate Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Brinke Stevens, Eddie Deezen, Robert Quarry

Synopsis: In this supernatural horror/comedy, a young woman buys an old house and moves in. Unfortunately for her, the house is infested with evil spirits, and she becomes possessed. Among the characters she comes across while being possessed are a goofball pizza delivery boy (Eddie Deezen), a transvestite Read More

Mind Twister

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Roundtree, Fred Olen Ray, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: From the evidence at hand, it seems apparent that the inexpensive Mind Twister was the last cinematic stand for the late Telly Savalas. There's a wacko killer at large, murdering at random. A courageous cop offers himself as bait to stop the murderer. This proves difficult, as who knows where the Read More

Dinosaur Island

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ross Hagen

Synopsis: No sooner did Jurassic Park score at the box office than the imitations began turning up like bad pennies. The redoubtable Fred Olen Ray, once more delivering a bankable project at the least possible cost, was responsible for Dinosaur Island. Typical of the Ray ouevre is the presence of several Read More

Witch Academy

Crew: Director

Actors: Suzanne Ager, Priscilla Barnes, Michelle Bauer

Synopsis: A co-ed has a devil of a time getting even with the members of an upper-crust sorority in this horror-comedy. Becky (Veronica Carothers) is a pretty but woefully naïve college student who is determined to join the most exclusive sorority on campus. However, her would-be sisters seem to be more Read More

Double Deception

Synopsis: In classic noir tradition, the protagonist of the made-for-TV Double Deception is hard-boiled private eye John Kane (James Russo), who provides the first-person narration for the deliciously convoluted plotline. Kane knew that former call girl Pamela Sparrow (Alice Krige) was a keg of dynamite the Read More

Wizards of the Demon Sword

Crew: Co-producer, Director

Actors: Lyle Waggoner, Russ Tamblyn, Blake Bahner, Heidi Paine, Jay Richardson

Synopsis: This low-budget Troma film makes fun of low-budget sword and sorcery movies. The story centers on the battle for the mythical Sword of Aktar and its kidnapped keeper Ulric. But for a few stop-motion prehistoric creatures, the special effects are less than stellar. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Munchie

Actors: Loni Anderson, Dom DeLuise, Andrew Stevens, Jaime McEnnan, Arte Johnson

Synopsis: A loose sequel of the 1987 Munchies film, this movie turns the tables by offering the travails of a good Munchie (voice by Dom DeLuise). Found in an abandoned mine by a young boy (Jaime McEnnan), the creature offers to make all of his dreams come true, including help with bullies and bad grades. Read More

Naked Obsession

Actors: William Katt, Rick Dean, Maria Ford, Elena Sahagun, Tommy Hinkley

Synopsis: This 1991erotic thriller revolves around a politician caught in a sexual cover-up that is reminiscent of the real-life 1987 Gary Hart/Donna Rice scandal. After city-council member Franklin Carlyle (William Katt) is mugged and stranded while checking out a redevelopment project in a downscale Read More

Inner Sanctum

Crew: Co-producer, Director

Synopsis: An invalid suspects that her husband and her sultry new nurse are plotting to do away with her. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Shock Cinema, Vol. 1

Actors: Brinke Stevens

Synopsis: Actress Brinke Stevens hosts this compilation of interviews with 11 low-budget filmmakers, mostly in the horror genre. Among the directors profiled are Jeff Burr, Fred Olen Ray, Charles Band, Scott Spiegel, J.R. Bookwalter and David DeCoteau (who also happens to be this film's executive producer). Read More

Soldier's Fortune

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Gil Gerard, Dan Haggerty, Charles Napier, P.J. Soles, Barbara Bingham

Synopsis: With the help of a few of his veteran friends, an ex-Green Beret soldier arrives in Los Angeles from Central America to find his kidnapped daughter. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Haunting Fear

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Brinke Stevens, Karen Black

Synopsis: Exploitation king Fred Olen Ray bulldozes Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Premature Burial" in this sleazy direct-to-video thriller. B-movie babe Brinke Stevens stars as an heiress tormented night and day by the ever-present phobia of being buried alive. Thanks to hypnotic past-life regression Read More

Hollywood Scream Queen Hot Tub Party

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Prepare to scream and soak at the same time as collection of clips from such slasher flicks as Sorority House Massacre 2, Tower of Terror, Slumber Party Massacre, and Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers are all combined into one brand-new fright fest that doesn't skimp on the skin. Brought together under Read More

Bad Girls from Mars

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This is a movie about a movie that is entitled Bad Girls from Mars. Mystery develops when the bountifully buxomed leading ladies are murdered one-by-one. All fingers point to a mysterious masked man who is leaving notes around to add to the suspense. Most of the crimes involve some sort of nasty Read More

Evil Toons

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Monique Gabrielle, Arte Johnson, David Carradine

Synopsis: Veteran schlock merchant Fred Olen Ray serves up this silly horror comedy with a hearty helping of gratuitous softcore skin, cheap monster effects, and walk-ons from assorted B-movie names, including David Carradine, Dick Miller, and Arte Johnson. The thin plot involves a group of curvaceous coeds Read More

Mob Boss

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Eddie Deezen, Morgan Fairchild, William Hickey, Stuart Whitman, Irwin Keyes

Synopsis: This gangster satire involves a boss (William Hickey) who turns over the reins of his organization to an incompetent son (Eddie Deezen). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Spirits

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This horror is set in a scary haunted house where researchers have come to investigate. Ten years before, a number of murders occured there and now it is rife with restless spirits lead by the mummified corpse of a fallen priest who resides in the basement. The only one who can save the imperiled Read More

Sexbomb

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Quarry, Linnea Quigley, Deila Sheppard, Stephen Liska

Synopsis: This low-budget independent movie is a spoof of low-budget independent filmmaking. The story centers on "Faraday International Productions" and the shooting of the laughably awful sub-B horror movie, "I Rip Your Flesh (With Pliers)." Among the film's highlights are semi-nude shots of several Read More

Alienator

Crew: Director

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, John Phillip Law, Ross Hagen, Dyana Ortelli, Jesse Dabson

Synopsis: There's not much doubt this film's a direct descendant of Schwarzenegger's Terminator classic, though it's certainly a distant descendant. Here a fugitive from a far-away planet escapes execution in a hijacked spaceship and crashes on the planet Earth where he's befriended by some young campers Read More

Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gunnar Hansen, Linnea Quigley, Jay Richardson, Michelle Bauer, Dawn Wildsmith

Synopsis: One of the few sleaze-horror movies that actually delivers on the lurid promise of its title (and what a title!), this trashy treasure from the irrepressible Fred Olen Ray also sports a classic exploitation cast, toplined by "Scream Queen" Linnea Quigley. Quigley plays a cute young runaway whose Read More

Warlords

Crew: Co-producer, Director

Actors: David Carradine, Dawn Wildsmith, Sid Haig, Ross Hagen, Fox Harris

Synopsis: In a future where the planet Earth has been poisoned by radiation, a fearless warrior named Dow (David Carradine) stands as mankind's last hope against a tyrannical ruler known only as The Warlord (Sid Haig) and his murderous band of mutant warriors. Accompanied only by the beautiful but fierce Read More

Beverly Hills Vamp

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Eddie Deezen, Britt Ekland, Tim Conway, Jr., Jay Richardson, Michelle Bauer

Synopsis: "B"-sleaze auteur Fred Olen Ray pounded out this vampire parody, which stars career nerd Eddie Deezen as an affable dork and wannabe Hollywood hot-shot who discovers that a high-market bordello -- overseen by slinky Madam Cassandra (Britt Ekland) -- is actually a den of lascivious vampire bimbos Read More

Terminal Force

Crew: Director

Bulletproof

Crew: Associate Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Gary Busey, Darlanne Fluegel, Henry Silva, Rene Enriquez

Synopsis: Frank McBain (Gary Busey) is a cop who earned the nickname of "bulletproof" from the dozens of shootings he has survived over his career. He is called on to retrieve a tank held by communists across the border of Mexico. The enemies are cardboard caricatures of Arabs, Russians, and Mexicans led by Read More

Commando Squad

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Producer

Actors: Brian Thompson, Kathy Shower, William Smith, Sid Haig, Robert Quarry

Synopsis: Drug enforcement agent Cat (Kathy Shower) is sent to Mexico by her boss (Robert Quarry) when fellow agent and former boyfriend Clint (Brian Thompson) is held captive by cocaine-trafficking fiends. The head of the drug cartel turns out to be Morgan (William Smith), a former agent now on the wrong Read More

Star Slammer

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Producer

Actors: Ross Hagen, Sandy Brooke, Susan Stokey, John Carradine, Aldo Ray

Synopsis: Gorgeous space traveller Taura (Sandy Brooke) is captured on the planet Arous (as in "The Brain From..."?) Taura is accused of a murder she didn't commit by Bantor (Ross Hagen) , chief flunkey of the all-powerful Inquisitor (Aldo Ray). She is incarcerated in an intergalactic prison ship, populated Read More

Cyclone

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Heather Thomas, Jeffrey Combs, Ashley Ferrare, Dar Robinson, Martine Beswicke

Synopsis: In this fast-paced actioner, a brave young woman must deliver a specially designed, top-secret super-destructo armored motorcycle that runs on oxygen to the US military after the man assigned to deliver it, her lover, is murdered by enemy agents. Soon after finding his body, the woman finds a Read More

Phantom Empire

Crew: Director

Actors: Ross Hagen, Jeffrey Combs, Dawn Wildsmith, Robert Quarry, Susan Stokey

Synopsis: Phantom Empire pokes fun and pays a sly tribute to the sci-fi serials that made Saturday afternoon at the movies such a treat. Featuring plenty of in-jokes, the story centers on the hunt for a lost stash of diamonds that leads the hero into a fabulous subterranean world ruled by a mysterious Read More

Deep Space

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Napier, Ann Turkel, Bo Svenson, Ron Glass, Julie Newmar

Synopsis: A surprisingly slick flick from Emperor of Exploitation Fred Olen Ray, the story (which Ray co-wrote with T.L. Lankford, borrowing heavily from the director's earlier Biohazard) begins when a satellite carrying top-secret bio-engineered mutants plummets to Earth and disgorges its slavering Read More

Moon in Scorpio

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Britt Ekland, John Phillip Law, William Smith, Lewis van Bergen, April Wayne

Synopsis: In this provocative and scary supernatural thriller, a brides happy honeymoon aboard an Acapulco-bound yacht with her husband, two of his buddies from Vietnam and their girl friends, turns to terror when someone or something begins to kill them one by one. In the end, only she lives to tell the Read More