Rachel Talalay Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Producer

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The Wind in the Willows

Crew: Director

Actors: Matt Lucas, Mark Gatiss, Lee Ingleby, Bob Hoskins, Imelda Staunton

Synopsis: Thesps Matt Lucas, Bob Hoskins, Mark Gatiss and Lee Ingleby star in this live-action BBC miniseries adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's beloved novel The Wind in the Willows. The program weaves the familiar tale of Mole, Rat, Badger and the inimitable Mr. Toad, who remain fast friends as they Read More

2006
Terminal City: Episode 1

Crew: Director

2005
Terminal City: Episode 2

Crew: Director

2005
Terminal City: Episode 8

Crew: Director

2005
Terminal City: Episode 7

Crew: Director

2005
Touching Evil [TV Series]

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Actors: Jeffrey Donovan, Vera Farmiga, Zach Grenier, Debbi Morgan, Peter Wingfield

2004
Ally McBeal: Blowin' in the Wind

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Peter MacNicol, Jane Krakowski, Portia de Rossi, Regina Hall, Josh Hopkins, Julianne Nicholson, James Marsden

2002
Wolf Lake

Crew: Director

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tim Matheson, Graham Greene, Sharon Lawrence, Scott Bairstow

Synopsis: Due to the round-the-clock coverage of the World Trade Center tragedy, the beginning of the fall 2001 TV season was delayed on all of the major networks. The first "new" primetime series to be unveiled was CBS's Wolf Lake, a quirky supernatural effort in the tradition of The X-Files and Twin Read More

2001
Touching Evil: Series 02

Crew: Director

Actors: Robson Green, Nicola Walker, Shaun Dingwall, Michael Feast

Synopsis: Charming but streetwise Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green) is back on the case in this collection of three episodes from the British television series Touching Evil. Along with his partner, D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker), Creegan gets a long, hard look at the underside of life in Read More

1998
The Borrowers

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie, Bradley Pierce

Synopsis: Peter Hewitt (Tom and Huck) directed this $30-million family film, an adaptation of Mary Norton's classic children's novels about a miniature family of wee folk, four inches high, living beneath the floorboards of an English cottage. The Borrowers family, so labeled because they "borrow" from the Read More

1997
Tank Girl

Crew: Director

Actors: Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Ice-T, Naomi Watts, Don Harvey

Synopsis: Based on a popular British cult comic book, this film is the story of a futuristic feminist superhero and her fight to preserve the environment against an evil government bureaucracy. The action is set in the year 2033, after an ecological disaster of drought and pollution has ravaged the Read More

1995
Ghost in the Machine

Crew: Director

Actors: Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey, Ted Marcoux, Wil Horneff, Jessica Walter

Synopsis: A serial killer is transformed into a computer virus out to destroy more than your hard drive in this sci-fi thriller. Terry Munroe (Karen Allen), a single mother, is looking for a gift for her boss and visits a computer store, where one of the employees demonstrates a hand-held scanner than can Read More

1994
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane, Rick Logan

Synopsis: The producers insisted that this sixth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series marked the last; no points for guessing that additional sequels followed. This time, homicidal wraith Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) decides to extend his reign of terror past Elm Street. His agent-on-earth is his Read More

9/13/91
Book of Love

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chris Young, Keith Coogan, Josie Bissett, Beau Dremann, Aeryk Egan, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Jill Jaress

Synopsis: A teenager in the '50s moves to a new neighborhood and has to deal with all the problems that come with it in this lighthearted feature--complete with a rock 'n' roll soundtrack. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1/4/91
Cry-Baby

Crew: Producer

Actors: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Polly Bergen, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake

Synopsis: John Waters does a quirky spin on '50s nostalgia in Cry-Baby, his musical homage to Rebel Without a Cause and Romeo and Juliet. Set in Baltimore in 1954 at the birth of rock & roll, the film features Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker. Depp is pure charisma as a juvenile delinquent with a Read More

4/6/90
Hairspray

Crew: Co-producer, Producer

Actors: Ricki Lake, Michael St. Gerard, Divine, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown

Synopsis: Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early '60s for his playful focus in Hairspray. Ricki Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, just one of several alliteratively named characters coming of age in 1962 Baltimore, where "The Corny Read More

2/26/88
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Rodney Eastman, Danny Hassel, Andras Jones, Tuesday Knight, Ken Sagoes

Synopsis: This fourth trip down Freddy Lane was the most successful at the box-office, but although it has some impressive visuals, it is mostly an empty film. Credit must go to the effects team for some fine work, but otherwise, this entry from the director of Cutthroat Island (Renny Harlin) is extremely Read More

1988
Return to Horror High

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Lori Lethin, Brendan Hughes, Alex Rocco, Scott Jacoby, Andy Romano

Synopsis: In 1982, Crippen High School was the scene of a gruesome series of dismemberment murders, but the killer was never identified. Five years later, Cosmic Pictures arrives at the long-abandoned campus to make a low-budget horror movie based on the tragedy, and suddenly the terror begins anew. The Read More

1/9/87
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Crew: Line Producer, Producer

Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, Robert Englund

Synopsis: The best of the Elm Street sequels, this creepy, surreal fantasy features terrific effects, a fine young cast, and an air of grim fatalism that sets it apart from its giggly successors. Patricia Arquette stars as Kristen, whose nightmare leads to a slashed wrist which looks suspiciously like a Read More

1987
Android

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Brie Howard, Norbert Weisser, Crofton Hardester, Kendra Kirchner

Synopsis: Several movie genres collide head-on in Android. Klaus Kinski plays a slightly cracked scientist, working in solitude on a remote space station. Kinski is hoping to develop a race of humanlike robots, the prototype of which is Max. 404 (Don Opper). He is interrupted by a coed gang of space-hopping Read More

1982