Mac Ahlberg Filmography

King of the Ants

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Chris L. McKenna, Kari Wuhrer, Daniel Baldwin, George Wendt, Timm Sharp

Synopsis: Touted as something of a return-to-form for Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon, King of the Ants offers the brutal tale of a man discovering his previously untapped potential for violence. Despite the fact that his future seems relatively undefined, young drifter Sean Crawley (Chris McKenna) is an Read More

M.Y.O.B.

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Katharine Towne, Lauren Graham

Synopsis: The Opposite of Sex auteur Don Roos throws his hat into the ring of the teen-TV tournament with this look at a whip-smart young woman who has little patience for the fads and follies of her turn-of-the-century peers. Riley (Katharine Towne has left the safety of her Midwestern life for the West Read More

Levottomat

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mikko Nousiainen

Synopsis: An old dog has a hard time learning new tricks in this drama set in Turku. Ari (Mikko Nousiainen), a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina Read More

Air Rage

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ice-T, Cyril O'Reilly

Synopsis: Marine fighter pilot Sykes (Cyril O'Reilly) and his three fellow pilots are on trial in a military court, accused of massacring innocent civilians in a fiery raid against South American drug smugglers. Sykes makes a plea bargain that keeps his men from prison, but in court, the politically Read More

Can't Stop Dancing

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ben Zook, Melanie Hutsell, Margaret Cho, Bruce Daniels, Michael Irpino

Synopsis: Actor Ben Zook co-wrote and co-directed this broad comedy, in which he stars as Randy Rubio, the leader of a small-time dance troupe who hasn't let his 260-pound girth get in the way of his dreams. When Randy and his fellow hoofers are told their 15-year run at a Topeka, Kansas theme park has come Read More

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Fantasist Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his 1957 Saturday Evening Post short story, "The Magic White Suit," previously adapted as a TV drama, a stage musical, and a play. Middle-aged Gomez (Joe Mantegna) hopes to own the beautiful white suit he spots in a store window. Read More

Good Burger

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad, Abe Vigoda, Shar Jackson

Synopsis: Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, stars of the popular Nickelodeon series All That, confront the ogre of faceless corporate tyranny and have fun doing it in this comedy for young people. Ed (Mitchell) is a teenager who lives for his job at Good Burger, a small but friendly neighborhood Read More

Space Truckers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar, Charles Dance, George Wendt

Synopsis: Former National Lampoon editor Ted Mann, who scripted this $27 million science-fiction comedy, calls it "the first outer-space road movie." According to Mann, the film has "no scientists, no techies, none of the usual polished, sanitary environments we're used to in our space films. Space is like Read More

A Very Brady Sequel

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Tim Matheson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Christine Taylor

Synopsis: Like its lively predecessor, The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), this mild comic send-up takes its characters and situations from the popular family sitcom of the 1970s, The Brady Bunch. Set in the '90s, it is filled with in-joke references to American pop culture. However, one need not be familiar with Read More

The Late Shift

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kathy Bates, John Michael Higgins, Daniel Roebuck, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: Based on the non-fiction best-seller, The Late Shift is an irreverent, behind-the-scenes look at the conflict over who would succeed Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show, Jay Leno or David Letterman. Beginning with Carson's retirement, the made-for-cable film follows the backstage Read More

The Brady Bunch Movie

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Christine Taylor, Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Michael McKean, Jean Smart, Henriette Mantel

Synopsis: The Brady Bunch Movie pays tribute to the 1970s TV show while poking gentle fun at it. The Brady family, led by father Mike (Gary Cole), still live in their suburban, split-level home and are still throwbacks to the era that spawned them. Eternally perky wife Carol (Shelley Long) is the perfect Read More

Beverly Hills Cop III

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Hector Elizondo, Timothy Carhart, John Saxon, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: The third entry in the popular Beverly Hills Cop series finds Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) returning yet again to Southern California, this time on the trail of two car thieves turned murderers. As he teams up again with L.A. cop Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), Foley's investigation Read More

Striking Distance

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, Brion James, Robert Pastorelli, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: A maverick Pittsburgh policeman loses his job after he shares his suspicion that one of his colleagues is a serial killer. This thriller centers on his hunt to prove his point, a search that becomes more desperate when the killer begins killing the cop's female associates. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

My Boyfriend's Back

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Danny Zorn, Edward Herrmann, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Actor Bob Balaban directed this black comedy for Disney concerning a young zombie's love for a pretty high school girl. Johnny Dingle (Andrew Lowery) is a sweet-natured soul who has been in love with Missy McCloud (Traci Lind) ever since first grade, but he's always been reluctant to ask her out Read More

Innocent Blood

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Robert Loggia, Anthony LaPaglia, David Proval, Don Rickles, Don Rickels

Synopsis: An uneven but entertaining blend of graphic horror and black comedy from John Landis, very much in the mode of the director's successful An American Werewolf in London. French actress Anne Parillaud -- star of Luc Besson's acclaimed thriller La Femme Nikita -- plays Marie, a lithe and lovely Read More

Nails

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Maniacal Dennis Hopper plays a high-strung L.A. homicide detective who embarks upon a vengeful hunt for the drug pushers who brutally murdered his partners. His investigation soon reveals that the dealers' influence extends to the highest echelons of city government. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Oscar

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Tim Curry, Marisa Tomei, Don Ameche

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the wealthy and powerful head of the Chicago mob, but his ailing father (Kirk Douglas) doesn't approve of his life in crime, and on his deathbed, Dad makes Snaps promise to go Read More

Robot Jox

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo, Robert Sampson, Danny Kamekona

Synopsis: Sometime far into the future international powers settle their differences in gigantic arenas where each nation sponsors an incredible robot gladiator. These gladiators duke it out to determine the distribution of world territories. This might be best appreciated by pre-teen video warfare fans. Read More

Crash and Burn

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Paul Ganus, Megan Ward, Bill Moseley, Eva La Rue, Jack McGee

Synopsis: Set in the year 2030, the film concerns a rebel movement led by Lathan Hooks (Ralph Waite), who is dedicated to the riddance of the conservative corporate machine which rules America. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Meridian

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn

Synopsis: Sherilynn Fenn heads the cast of Full Moon Productions' Kiss of the Beast. Fenn plays an art student who inherits a mysterious, accursed Italian castle. Before long, a troupe of Felliniesque circus performers take shelter in the drafty old manse. Assuming that Fenn is there against her will, a few Read More

The Horror Show

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, DeDee Pfeiffer, Aaron Eisenberg

Synopsis: This muddled attempt at creating a new supernatural serial killer franchise (in the mode of Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series) features perennial movie thug Brion James as sadistic mass murderer Max Jenke, who hacked up more than 100 victims with a meat cleaver before his Read More

DeepStar Six

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard, Greg Evigan, Miguel Ferrer, Nia Peeples

Synopsis: Friday the 13th director Sean S. Cunningham helmed this sea-monster opus about a team of engineers on an undersea missile platform who disturb the slumber of a huge, killer crustacean, which soon develops a taste for human-flavored snacks. The rubbery-looking beastie is quite a laugh, but there Read More

The Reluctant Agent

Crew: Cinematographer

Ghost Town

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Penelope Windust, Bruce Glover

Synopsis: This interesting fusion of the horror and Western genres involves a modern-day sheriff (Franc Luz) whose search for a missing heiress leads him into the title locale, a frontier-age Arizona township whose residents are cursed with immortality. He eventually discovers that the abductee (Catherine Hickland Read More

Prison

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lane Smith, Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Andre de Shields, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Synopsis: Prison guard Ethan Sharpe (Lane Smith) watched as Burke (Viggo Mortensen) dies in the electric chair in 1964. Over two decades later, Sharpe is the warden, and Burke returns from the dead to exact revenge on the wicked warden when the prison re-opens. Two victims drip blood while dangling in Read More

Pulsepounders

Crew: Cinematographer

Arena

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Marc Alaimo, Claudia Christian

Synopsis: Though bereft of budget, the 1988 sci-fier Arena has its heart in the right place. The scene is a distant planet, where extraterrestrial gladiators square off in an arena. Earthling Steve Armstrong would like to prove his fighting skills, but the evil planetary ruler Marc Alaimo won't let him. Read More

House 2: The Second Story

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano, Lar Park Lincoln, Bill Maher, John Ratzenberger

Synopsis: This mundane sequel to New World Pictures' surprise horror hit bears little connection with its predecessor apart from the participation of writer Ethan Wiley, who also assumed directorial duties. This time around, the title abode is an old mansion inherited by the great-great-grandson of its Read More

Dolls

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ian Williams, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Carrie Lorraine, Guy Rolfe, Hilary Mason

Synopsis: Young Judy Bower (Carrie Lorraine) is spending the summer with her stupid, abusive father, David (Ian Williams), and nasty stepmother, Rosemary (Carolyn Purdy-Gordon). On a dark and stormy night, their car breaks down on a lonely road in the woods and they are forced to seek shelter. As they walk Read More

From Beyond

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree

Synopsis: The production team responsible for the twisted cult classic Re-Animator -- including director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna -- returned the following year with this equally depraved (perhaps more so) follow-up, based once again (and very loosely) on the pulp-horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft Read More

House

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Kay Lenz, Mary Stavin

Synopsis: A mild box-office hit for New World Pictures, this lightweight attempt at horror parody from Friday the 13th producer Sean S. Cunningham stars former Greatest American Hero William Katt as a best-selling pop-horror novelist (a la Stephen King) who suffers an insurmountable case of writer's block Read More

The Eliminators

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds, Conan Lee, Roy Dotrice

Synopsis: A touch of comic relief adds to this otherwise predictable sci-fi actioner about a mad scientist (Roy Dotrice) holed up in a remote jungle fortress in Mexico with his time-machine and robotic know-how. He plans on zapping himself back to the Roman Empire to reign as emperor in Caesar's stead Read More

Ghost Warrior Swordkill

Crew: Cinematographer

Ghost Warrior

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hiroshi Fujioka, Janet Julian

Synopsis: This inventive low-budget action-fantasy from producer Charles Band was released briefly as Swordkill before undergoing a title change for home video. Basically a samurai variant on Iceman, the story involves the discovery of 400-year-old Japanese warrior Yoshimita (Hiroshi Fujioka) encased in Read More

The Dungeonmaster

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Leslie Wing, Blackie Lawless, Danny Dick

Synopsis: First shot in 1983 but not released until 1985, this low-budget, amateur fantasy is about Paul Bradford (Jeffrey Byron), a computer whiz who takes on the forces of evil in the guise of Heavy Metal (Blackie Lawless), the leader of an eponymous L.A. band, and Mestema (Richard Moll) the black Read More

Re-Animator

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, Robert Sampson, David Gale

Synopsis: Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a brilliant medical student who has perfected a green-glowing serum for regenerating life into dead things -- or even parts of dead things. But a corrupt superior, Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), assumes control of West's experiments and winds up, by ghastly Read More

Zone Troopers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Timothy Van Patten, Art La Fleur, Biff Manard, William Paulson

Synopsis: This off-beat story combines elements of a science fiction adventure and World War II drama. A platoon of U.S. soldiers are surrounded by the enemy in Italy and are forced to fight their way back behind the lines to their troops. The platoon is populated by the usual characters: "Sarge" (Tim Thomerson Read More

Trancers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Michael Stefani, Art La Fleur, Biff Manard

Synopsis: With the whimsical tagline "Jack Deth is back and he's never been here before," director Charles Band melds Blade Runner, The Terminator, and Jingle All the Way for this low-budget science fiction adventure. The story takes place in Angel City in the year 2247, when enforcer Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson Read More

Ghoulies

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Jack Nance, Peter Risch

Synopsis: Joe Dante's box-office fantasy Gremlins had barely left American cinemas before Charles Band's B-movie factory, Empire Pictures, rushed out this cheap knockoff. While Dante's film benefited from the director's wry sense of humor and the high-concept clout of executive producer Steven Spielberg, Band Read More

Prime Risk

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Toni Hudson, Lee Montgomery

Synopsis: In this first full-length, uneven feature by novice, 22-year-old director Michael Farkas, Julie (Toni Hudson), a young computer whiz has just been turned down for a good job at a local bank, and on top of that injury, some of the ideas she presented in her bid for the job were stolen by the bank's Read More

Swordkill

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hiroshi Fujioka, John Calvin, Janet Julian, Frank Schuller, Bill Morey

Synopsis: In this funny Japanese adventure, the great 16th-century samurai warrior Yoshimitsa ends up frozen in a glacial crevasse while looking for the villains who abducted his wife. Four hundred years later his remains are discovered by skiers and sent to LA to be studied. Miraculously, the warrior Read More

Metalstorm - the Destruction of Jared-Syn

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeffrey Byron, Tim Thomerson, Kelly Preston, Richard Moll

Synopsis: Metalstorm was a courageous if unsuccessful attempt to renew the 3-D craze of the 1950s. Jeffrey Byron heads the cast as space ranger Dogen, who is bound and determined to stem the activities of integallactic looney-tune Jared-Syn (Mike Preston). We then segue into a plotline that is more Western Read More

Chained Heat

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: The B-grade genres of sexploitation, blaxploitation, and jailhouse flicks mixed with this grotesque sex- and violence-filled melodrama. Linda Blair stars as Carol Henderson, a naïve and inexperienced teenager who is sentenced to 18 months in a women's prison after accidentally killing a man. Once Read More

The Young Warriors

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Richard Roundtree, Lynda Day George, James Van Patten, Anne Lockhart

Synopsis: In a conventional teen movie that condemns violence in the dialogue then supplies it in the action sequences, a young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin (James Van Patten) to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his Read More

The Seduction

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Morgan Fairchild, Michael Sarrazin, Vince Edwards, Andrew Stevens, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: The Seduction a z-grade erotic thriller, tells the story of a TV newswoman spied upon and stalked by an obsessed fan. Jamie (Morgan Fairchild) is a beautiful, successful career woman. Derek (Andew Stevens) is an obsessed psychopath who watches her and attempts to become part of her life. When Read More

My Tutor

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Caren Kaye, Matt Lattanzi, Kevin McCarthy, Clark Brandon, Bruce Bauer

Synopsis: In this standard young teen/older woman sex story, Bobby (Matt Lattanzi) has had trouble with French at school, and sex out of school, and so his rich parents hire a winsome 30-year-old tutor (Caren Kaye) to help him with the first subject, without thinking that she would help him with the second Read More

Hell Night

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton, Kevin Brophy, Jenny Neumann

Synopsis: This plodding, derivative slasher opus -- a surprise box-office hit -- stars Exorcist vet Linda Blair as one of a quartet of sorority and fraternity pledges required to spend the title evening of their initiation inside the spooky Garth Manor. The mansion was the site of a gruesome multiple Read More

Parasite

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici, James Davidson, Al Fann

Synopsis: In this gory sci-fi outing, shot and originally released in 3-D, Dr. Paul Dean (Robert Glaudini) is a scientist living in the near future, after America has fallen under the control of a repressive paramilitary regime. Dean's research causes him to absorb an especially voracious parasitic worm Read More

Gangsters

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With that title, the content of Gangsters should be no surprise. A major metropolitan city is in the clutches of a powerful mob. Officials are bribed, police bought off, witnesses sent to the bottom of the river. Can nothing stop this scourge? Yes: the dreaded "Special Squad", a team of Read More

Nocturna

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Nai Bonet, Yvonne De Carlo, John Carradine, Sy Richardson

Synopsis: This inept, obviously low-budget, poorly-acted horror-comedy is primarily a showcase for Nai Bonet a belly-dancer turned actress in her role as Nocturna, the last descendant of Count Dracula. Nocturna has followed her love interest -- rock guitarist (Tony Hamilton) -- from Transylvania to Read More

Bel Ami

Crew: Director

Around the World with Fanny Hill

Crew: Director

The Daughter; or I, A Woman, Part III

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Scott, Ellen Faison, Klaus Pagh

Synopsis: This X rated feature finds a young and sexually inexperienced woman arriving home from boarding school to find her mother having sex with a man. Traumatized, she flees the scene and ends up in a hippie coffee house. She smokes hashish, engages in lesbianism and has sex with a black American Read More

A Time in the Sun

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this Swedish drama, a woman suffers from a terrible fatal illness. Her dark days become brighter after she falls in love and marries a journalist. Soon after the woman bears a child, her health begins to change rapidly. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jeg-En Kvinde, Il

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Synopsis: A woman who has allegedly made love to every man on Earth tries to settle down to a monogamous married life. She marries Mr. Right, who turns out to be Mr. Wrong when she discovers he is a former SS officer, pornographer, high-class pimp and a low-life voyeur. She takes comfort in the arms of his Read More

Fanny Hill

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Diana Kjaer, Keve Hjelm, Oscar Ljung, Tina Hedstrom

Synopsis: John Clelland's ribald 18th-century novel Fanny Hill got plenty of attention during the let-it-all-hang-out '60s. Nudie filmmaker Russ Meyer beat everyone to the punch with his notorious soft-core version of Fanny Hill, filmed in Germany in 1965. Around the same time, director Mac Ahlberg was Read More

I, A Woman

Crew: Director

Actors: Essy Persson

Synopsis: This adult-oriented drama was a surprise box office success when it was released in the U.S. in the late 1960s; it was one of the first sexually-themed films from Sweden to find an audience (and a wide release) in America. Siv (Essy Persson) is a young woman who works as a nurse. After breaking up Read More