Joe Kraemer Filmography

Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nicki Lynn Aycox, Kyle Schmid, Nick Zano, Laura Jordan, Mark J. Gibbon

Synopsis: Four friends on a road trip to Las Vegas discover that they don't have to break the bank in order to get some cheap thrills after their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and they inadvertently draw the attention of the psychotic trucker who goes by the handle Rusty Nail. Left stranded in Read More

Ten 'til Noon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alfonso Freeman, Rick Wasserman, Rayne Guest, Jenya Lano, Thomas Kopache

Synopsis: As the clock counts down the final minutes of what will likely be the last morning of Larry Taylor's life, events unfolding simultaneously at another location detail precisely how what seemed to be a typical home invasion may in fact be something far more sinister. Larry Taylor was jet-lagged when Read More

An Unreasonable Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ralph Nader, Jay Acton, Theresa Amato, Pat Buchanan, Peter Camejo

Synopsis: The life and career of one of America's most tenacious consumer advocates and political activists is brought to the screen in this richly detailed documentary. Born in a small town in Connecticut, Ralph Nader was raised to believe the words of his father that "you can fight city hall," and Nader Read More

Avenging Angel

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Cynthia M. Watros, Nick Chinlund

Synopsis: A man of the cloth takes up arms to avenge the violent murder of his wife and child in this made for television western starring Kevin Sorbo, Wings Hauser, and Cynthia Watros. Preacher (Sorbo) has just watched helplessly as his wife and child are brutally gunned down by ruthless land baron Colonel Read More

The Thirst

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Jeremy Sisto, Matt Keeslar, Clare Kramer

Synopsis: In this straight-to-video horror effort, a clan of young vampires find themselves not only craving, but addicted to bloodsucking. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

House of the Dead II

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed Quinn, Sid Haig, Sticky Fingaz

Synopsis: A crack commando squad investigates a college campus inflected with a zombie virus in House of the Dead 2, a film that boldly continues where Uwe Boll's inept first film left off. When a demented professor (Sid Haig) starts to conduct experiments on fresh corpses, all hell breaks loose at Cuesta Read More

The Darkroom

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Reed Diamond, Greg Grunberg, Lucy Lawless, Shawn Pyfrom, Ellie Cornell

Synopsis: The horror film The Darkroom concerns an amnesia victim who has been in an asylum for years. One day he begins to remember flashes from his life, decides to escape from the hospital, and soon befriends a teenager. As he pieces together his former life, he begins to suspect he may be in terrible Read More

Monday

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Producer

My Big Fat Independent Movie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Paget Brewster, Neil Barton, Eric Hoffman, Darren Keefe

Synopsis: All those movies the snotty clerk at the video store keeps telling you to rent get raked over the coals in this over-the-top satiric comedy. Harvey (Eric Hoffman) and Sam (Neil Barton) are a pair of identically black-suited hitmen who have been assigned to take part in a conceptually disastrous Read More

Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kellie Martin, Clarence Williams III, Nina Siemaszko, Casey Sander, Julianna McCarthy

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. To improve business, Sam hosts a book signing with three celebrity "whodunit" authors in attendance. One of the three Read More

McBride: Murder Past Midnight

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of a series starring John Larroquette as McBride (no first name), a hard-nosed cop turned compassionate defense lawyer, specializing in "lost causes." Serving on a jury in the trial of Claire Harriman (Paula Trickey), McBride is not persuaded that Claire Read More

Mystery Woman: Sing Me Murder

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. On this occasion, Sam hopes to bring new customers into her establishment by inviting the once famous folk-rock trio of Read More

Mystery Woman: Game Time

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. This time out, Sam scores a coup when she manages to get reclusive mystery writer Donald Fiske (William Katt) to make a Read More

Mystery Woman: Snapshot

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. The game is afoot when Sam's friend Barbara Sommers (Patricia McCormack, a dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy buff, suspects Read More

McBride: The Doctor Is out... Really Out

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of a series starring John Larroquette as McBride (no first name), a hard-nosed cop turned compassionate defense lawyer, specializing in "lost causes." This time, McBride's client is Leo Eckert (David Bowe), who is convinced that he accidentally shot and killed Read More

Mystery Woman: Vision of Murder

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which specializes in mystery novels. As is her habit, Sam ends up playing amateur detective herself, this time at a fancy health spa called Drummonds. Read More

The Poseidon Adventure

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: A luxury liner has capsized in the middle of the ocean, and it's up to the few remaining survivors to navigate through the treacherous, upside-down maze of terror and make their way to safety in the made-for-television remake of the 1972 disaster film. A terrorist has boarded the luxury liner Read More

The Trail To Hope Rose

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lee Majors, Marina Black, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: An epic-Western in the grand tradition, the made-for-cable The Trail to Hope Rose stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Keenan Deerfield, a half-Indian outlaw just released from prison. Determined to start life anew, Keenan takes a grueling rock-mining job in a town controlled by the odious Driggers Read More

Open House

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Anthony Rapp, Sally Kellerman, Kellie Martin, Ann Magnuson, Jerry Doyle, James Duval

Synopsis: A Sunday afternoon quest to find the perfect American dream home finds a group of wannabe homeowners embarking on a series of strange misadventures in this real estate musical from Slamdance Film Festival founder Dan Mirvish and starring Sally Kellerman, Anne Magnuson, and James Duval. ~ Jason Read More

Emerald Cowboy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Eishy Hayata, Luis Velasco, Eva Hayata, Richard Wilke

Synopsis: Rare-gem mining is the subject of this docudrama, which profiles a Japanese-American who became indoctrinated into the sometimes life-threatening world of Colombian emerald-hunting. Emerald Cowboy is based on the story of Eishy Hayata, who left a lucrative job in Los Angeles in the 1970s to become Read More

Hard Ground

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Unjustly arrested and sentenced to a 99-year-term, grizzled half-breed bounty hunter John McKay (Burt Reynolds) is serving hard time in Yuma Territorial Prison when he is swept up in a prison break engineered by sadistic vigilante leader Billy Bucklin (David Figlioli). Once on the outside, Bucklin Read More

The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Kari Wuhrer, Jake Busey

Synopsis: It's been over 15 years since Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) was terrorized by psychotic hitchhiker John Ryder (the always-evil Rutger Hauer) in Eric Red's low-budget gem The Hitcher. After blowing away the psychopath, Jim turned to the law and eventually settled down with Maggie (Kari Wuhrer), a Read More

Framed

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: A remake of the 1992 British film of the same name, the made-for-cable Framed begins as New York cop Mike Santini (Rob Lowe) is vacationing with his family in the Bahamas. By chance, Santini spots another "tourist": Eddie Meyers (Sam Neill), a high-profile fugitive mobster and a key player in a Read More

A Time to Remember

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Doris Roberts, Dana Delany, Megan Gallagher, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: As the "black sheep" of her wealthy family, struggling artist and single mother Britt Calhoun (Dana Delany) is reluctant to return home for the Christmas holidays. Finally persuaded to do so, Britt finds that her imperious mother Maggie (Doris Roberts) is still more concerned about "what people Read More

The Way of the Gun

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, James Caan, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, two small-time crooks make a bid for the big time with disastrous results. Robin (Juliette Lewis) is carrying a child as a surrogate mother for a wealthy couple, Hale and Francesca Chidduck (Scott Wilson and Kristin Lehman) when she's kidnapped by Parker (Ryan Phillippe) Read More

Chi Girl

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Heidi Van Lier, Joe Kramer, Scott Bejaminson, Phil Smith, Alicia Hude

Synopsis: Writer, director and actress Heidi Van Lier won top honors at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival (an independent-oriented alternative to the concurrent Sundance Festival) for this offbeat comedy about love and romantic fixation. Heather Green (Van Lier) is a journalist with an alternative newspaper Read More

Burn

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Randall Slavin, David Hayter, Andrea Roth, Alfonso Freeman, Karen Rosa

Synopsis: Scott Storm made his directorial debut with this intense psychological thriller. Screenwriter Ben Sharpe (Randall Slavin), is attempting to conquer a writer's block when former friend Tom Rice turns up with a completed manuscript and solid publisher connections. Ben pretends to be pleased for his Read More