Sam IrvinFilmography

Deadly Skies

Crew: Director

Actors: Antonio Sabato, Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Moriarty

Synopsis: When a keen-eyed scientist discovers that a large asteroid is currently on a deadly collision course with the planet Earth, she must seek the help of a military outcast to jump into action and save humanity from annihilation in a tense, end-of-the-world thriller starring Rae Dawn Chong, Antonio Read More

Too Cool For Christmas

Crew: Director

Actors: Brooke Nevin, George Hamilton, Barclay Hope, Adam Harrington, Donna Mills

Synopsis: 16-year-old Lindsay Dearborn (Brooke Nevin) is "Too Cool for Christmas," and wants no part of the family celebration being planned by her two male homosexual parents (Adam Harrington and Barclay Hope) and her kid sister Alexa (Jodelle Ferland. Nope, Lindsay is gonna spend the holidays skiing with Read More

A Very Cool Christmas

Crew: Director

Actors: Brooke Nevin, George Hamilton, Barclay Hope, Ingrid Torrance, Donna Mills, Jodelle Ferland

Elvira's Haunted Hills

Crew: Director

Actors: Cassandra Peterson, Richard O'Brien, Mary Scheer, Scott Atkinson, Mary Jo Smith

Synopsis: Sam Irvin directed this 2001 send-up of the classic horror films of the '50s and '60s. Starring Cassandra Peterson as her tradmark character, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the film finds the well-endowed goth gal spending the night in a mysterious house while en route to Paris, France, circa 1851. Read More

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Andrew Keegan, John Mahoney, Dean Cain, Matt McGrath, Zach Braff, Ben Weber

Synopsis: Greg Berlanti directs this comedic romp about a quartet of gay yuppies looking for love in all the wrong places. Though photographer Dennis (Timothy Olyphant) longs for a long-term relationship, he continues his routine of one-night-stands until he meets neophyte queer Kevin (Andrew Keegan) at a Read More

I'll Remember April

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Trevor Morgan, Pam Dawber, Mark Harmon, Haley Joel Osment

Synopsis: Haley Joel Osment stars in this melodramatic war drama about Japan's attempted incursion into California's water just after Pearl Harbor. Japanese sailor Matsuo (Yuji Okumoto) falls overboard off the coast of Passerville. He eventually finds refuge in an old factory where four boys, including Pee Read More

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: MacKenzie Astin, Carmen Electra, Markus Redmond, Lucy Liu, Lisa Rotondi, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: If aliens from another galaxy were to observe ordinary people as they look for love in contemporary America, what would they make of it? That is the premise of The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, which takes the form of a documentary in which a camera crew from an alien civilization spies Read More

Kiss of a Stranger

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Corbin Bernsen, Matt Battaglia, Jeff Cesario, Robert Walden

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, Mariel Hemingway plays Nova, a television gossip reporter. During a broadcast, she jokingly says that every good-looking man in Los Angeles is gay; a few days later, she's attending a concert by her mother, an aging rock star, and meets an attractive man named Nathan who Read More

Backlash: Oblivion 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Meg Foster, Maxwell Caulfield, George Takei, Julie Newmar, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: On the wild desert planet of Oblivion, a man called Sweeny comes to search for a corporate saboteur. Though deceptively dressed as a greenhorn city dude, Sweeny is the most effective bounty hunter in the galaxy. He stays in the town where she (he knows nothing about her) is supposed to reside. He Read More

Out There

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A photographer becomes famous overnight for a photo he didn't take himself in this satiric comedy. Delbert Mosely (Bill Campbell) is an award-winning photojournalist whose career has gone into a nosedive, forcing him to take a job with a sleazy tabloid. After getting fired by his editor, Cobb Read More

Magic Island

Crew: Director

Actors: Zachery Ty Bryan, Edward Kerr, Lee Armstrong, French Stewart, Jessie-Ann Friend

Synopsis: Lonely and already cynical about the world, 13-year-old Jack Carlisle's mother is so busy working since his father abandoned them, that she doesn't seem to care or notice whether or not he is alive. Feeling sorry for himself, he decides to run away, but just before he departs, his wise nanny hands Read More

Oblivion

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Joseph Paul, Jackie Swanson, Andrew Divoff, Meg Foster, Jimmie F. Skaggs

Synopsis: What do you get when you combine a Western with a Science Fiction film? You might get this shoot'em up in space. It is set in the distant town of Oblivion (it was actually filmed in Romania). Though it's a high tech town, it has the feel of an old fashioned Western outpost from the 1800's. The Read More

Acting on Impulse

Crew: Director

Actors: Linda Fiorentino, C. Thomas Howell, Nancy Allen, Judith Hoag, Adam Ant

Synopsis: In this behind-the-scenes thriller, a movie actress finds herself accused of hacking up her producer. She tries to flee with two lovers preparing to marry. The three get into all sorts of trouble that ends with the death of the fiancee. Once again, the actress finds herself accused of the crime Read More

Guilty As Charged

Crew: Director

Actors: Rod Steiger, Lauren Hutton, Heather Graham, Lyman Ward, Isaac Hayes, Michael Beach

Synopsis: Sam Irvin's black comedy stars Rod Steiger as a self-styled vigilante who builds his very own electric chair in order to execute paroled murderers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Sticky Fingers

Crew: Associate Producer, Producer

Actors: Helen Slater, Melanie Mayron, Danitra Vance, Eileen Brennan, Carol Kane

Synopsis: This screwball urban comedy is about two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly (Melanie Mayron) and Hattie (Helen Slater), who are asked by an equally spacey, drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend Diane (Loretta Devine) to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of Read More

The First Time

Crew: Associate Producer, Producer

Actors: Tim Choate, Krista Errickson, Marshall Erwin Efron, Wendy Fulton, Raymond Patterson

Synopsis: In this quiet though not quite bland semi-autobiographical look at his formative years, director Charlie Loventhal has his main character Charlie (Tim Choate) enrolled in the film school of a small college. But while Charlie has aspirations of making comedies, his classmates and pretentious film Read More

Home Movies

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Gerritt Graham, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: Brian De Palma directed this treatise concerning an egotistical film professor as a film-making project for his film-production master class at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Kirk Douglas plays Doctor Tuttle, known as "The Maestro," who is the leader of a frenetic film-production cult Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Catafalque

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: A seemingly benign nuclear arms treaty threatens to explode into another Cuban Missile Crisis. The IMF is assigned to squelch the treaty before any damage can be done. Their plan requires Paris to pose as both a fugitive and the fugitive's father--a tour de force that won an Emmy Award for makeup Read More