Steve RailsbackFilmography

Rest Stop: Don't Look Back

Actors: Diane Salinger, Joey Mendicino, Richard Tillman, Julie Mond

Synopsis: One year after unsuspecting road trippers Jesse and Nicole were drilled, ripped, and splattered into oblivion, the same psychopath responsible the gruesome deaths of those two young girls returns to refine his torture skills on the three travelers who have come searching for them. Forever roaming Read More

Plaguers

Actors: Steve Railsback, Alexis Zibolis, Noelle Perris, Jared Michaels, Page LaPierre

Synopsis: The crew of a spaceship fight for their lives after an alien energy source begins turning everyone aboard into rampaging mutants in this sci-fi shocker starring Steve Railsback. The year is 2241. Captain Holloway is the commander of the Pandora. She and her crew of six are transporting a form of Read More

King of the Lost World

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: Steve Railsback and Bruce Boxleitner headline this modern take on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic fantasy adventure about a mysterious undiscovered world where creatures beyond out wildest imagination roam free. A commercial airliner has crashed deep in the heart of the Amazon, and as the Read More

The Devil's Rejects

Actors: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Ken Foree, Matthew McGrory

Synopsis: Directed by the prolific Rob Zombie, The Devil's Rejects is a sequel of sorts to 2003's House of 1000 Corpses, and picks up several weeks after House left off. This time, the clash revolves around the tribe of violent lunatics and decidedly valueless family members of the original film, who have Read More

Neo Ned

Actors: Jeremy Renner, Gabrielle Union, Ethan Suplee, Cary Elwes, Sally Kirkland

Synopsis: Ned (Jeremy Renner of Dahmer) is a proud member of the Aryan Brotherhood who has been admitted to a mental institution for his involvement in a racially motivated murder. Dr. Magnuson (Cary Elwes) and Johnny (Ethan Suplee) have trouble keeping Ned in line. Boisterous and belligerent, he's prone to Read More

Intermedio

Actors: Edward Furlong, Steve Railsback, Cerina Vincent, Amber Benson

Slash

Actors: Steve Railsback, Craig Kirkwood, Danny Keogh

Synopsis: A horrifying family legend comes back to haunt the singer of a popular rock band teetering on the edge of super-stardom in this tale of terror from veteran genre director Neal Sundstrom. Life on the road isn't easy for Slash, a rock band whose big break seems to be forever looming just around the Read More

Ed Gein

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Sally Champlin, Carol Mansell

Synopsis: By day, Ed Gein was a quiet man who kept watch over the farm left to him by his late mother in Plainfield, a small rural community in Wisconsin. But by night, Gein was one of the most bizarre and dangerous psychopaths in recorded history. Raised by a violent alcoholic father and a mother with an Read More

The Sinister Saga of Making 'The Stunt Man'

Actors: Richard Rush, Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Chuck Bail

Synopsis: In honor of the DVD release of the 1980 cult film The Stunt Man, director Richard Rush recounts the trials and tribulations he confronted while making that much praised film. Speaking from a variety of quirky settings including his private plane and a UCLA sculpture garden, he openly admits that Read More

Made Men

Actors: James Belushi, Michael Beach, Timothy Dalton, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: A man under federal protection finds himself on the run from a gang of angry mobsters and a cop gone bad after his successful execution of a multimillion dollar heist. This studio film is not to be confused with the 1997 indie melodrama, starring Cara Buono of The Sopranos and directed by Don Read More

Disturbing Behavior

Actors: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Steve Railsback, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: David Nutter made his directorial debut with this fantasy thriller, attempting a switch on The Stepford Wives premise. The Clark family moves from Chicago to Cradle Bay, and Steve Clark (James Marsden) is cautioned by Gavin Strick (Nick Stahl) about the separating factions at the local high Read More

Vanishing Point

Actors: Christine Elise, Keith David, John Doe, Viggo Mortensen, Jason Priestley

Synopsis: A Desert Storm veteran with a 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger and a need for speed incurs the wrath of authorities when he makes a cross-country dash to be by the side of his ailing, pregnant wife in this remake of director Richard Sarafian's 1971 cult classic. Jimmy Kowolski (Viggo Mortensen) is a Read More

Stranger in the House

Actors: Michele Greene, Steve Railsback, Bruce Dinsmore, Kathleen Kinmont, Vlasta Vrana

Synopsis: In this thriller, a jewel thief's mistake during a diamond robbery forces him to stash the loot at the crime scene where he left a female executive for dead. In order to finish the heist, however, the crook must avoid an insurance adjuster and an enraged husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Barb Wire

Actors: Pamela Anderson, Temuera Morrison, Victoria Rowell, Jack Noseworthy, Xander Berkeley

Synopsis: Set in the year 2017, Barb Wire takes place after democracy has fallen and a fascist military junta has taken over the U.S. government, plotting to wipe out the country with Red Ribbon, a laboratory-manufactured disease derived from the AIDS virus. The entire test city of Topeka has been Read More

Street Corner Justice

Actors: Marc Singer, Steve Railsback, Kim Lankford, Willie Gee, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr.

Synopsis: In this exciting actioner, maverick ex-Philadelphia cop Mike "Street" Justus lands in Southern California, rounds up a gang of ex-cons who owe him favors and violently purges a Los Angeles suburb of the hard-core crooks who plague it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher, Brian Dennehy, Lexi Randall

Synopsis: This character drama follows the exploits of an aged oil seeker, known only as Mr. Cox, as he roams across Texas in search of black gold. He has a special gift for it and has helped many wildcatters strike it rich. Unfortunately, he has yet to find his own gusher. In 1935, Cox has only a suitcase Read More

Pressure Point

Actors: Steve Railsback, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Steve Railsback, Don Mogavero, and Larry Linville star in this politically themed action thriller. A ruthless radical militia group has set their sites on Washington D.C., and a former CIA operative who is behind bars on dubious charges is given a chance to redeem himself by when he comes up with Read More

Separated by Murder

Actors: Sharon Gless, Steve Railsback, Ed Bruce

Synopsis: Sharon Gless does double duty in this made-for-TV drama, in which she plays Betty Gay Wilson and Peggy Joy Lowe, a pair of identical twin sisters who've always had an extremely close relationship. When Betty's husband is killed, a local eccentric steps forward with a shocking accusation: the Read More

The Spy Within

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Alex (Theresa Russell is a government agent who trades sex for state secrets. Will (Scott Glenn) is a taciturn demolition expert troubled by a violent past. When the two find themselves being pursued by the same nefarious spy ring, bullets start flying and bedsprings start creaking. ~ Jonathan Read More

Private Wars

Synopsis: In this crime drama, members of a formerly peaceful community fight back after the cops fail to protect them from the gangsters who have turned their neighborhoods into battlefields. They do this by hiring a boozy detective to investigate the backgrounds of the supposedly upstanding local Read More

Nukie

Save Me

Synopsis: Three stalwarts of made-for-TV productions -- Harry Hamlin, Michael Ironside, and Steve Railsback -- team up for this erotic thriller. Hamlin plays a mild-mannered accountant who takes up with an intriguing stranger (Lysette Anthony), who happens to harbor multiple personalities: seductress Read More

Calendar Girl

Actors: Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds, Jerry O'Connell, Joe Pantoliano, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: Lots of guys used to dream about having a date with Marilyn Monroe, but three friends who are about to graduate from high school to go their separate ways try to make that fantasy a reality in this comedy, set in 1962. Roy (Jason Priestley), Ned (Gabriel Olds), and Scott (Jerry O'Connell) have Read More

Bonds of Love

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Grace Zabriskie, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: The Bonds of Love in this made-for-TV drama are those forged between divorcee Kelly McGillis and mentally disabled Treat Williams. What begins as a friendship between two lost souls blossoms into a deep and genuine romance. Their wedding plans are challenged by his mother (Grace Zabriskie) and Read More

Quake

Synopsis: Set during the big San Francisco earthquake of 1990, this crime drama centers on an obsessed surveillance expert who uses the disaster to finally capture the beautiful woman he has been stalking. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sunstroke

Actors: Jane Seymour, Stephen Meadows, Don Ameche, Steve Railsback, Ray Wise

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable outing, a woman desperately searches the Arizona desert for her kidnapped daughter. Falsely accused of murder and therefore avoiding the cops, she must go it alone until she meets a helpful but enigmatic wanderer who helps her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Forever: A Ghost of A Love Story

Synopsis: Forever: A Ghost of a Love Story was inspired by the unsolved murder of movie director William Desmond Taylor in 1922. High-living music video director Keith Coogan moves into a crumbling Hollywood mansion. Here he is visited by a friendly and very beautiful wraith (Sean Young), who turns out to Read More

Scissors

Actors: Sharon Stone, Steve Railsback, Ronny Cox, Michelle Phillips

Synopsis: A woman who is trying to recover from a sexual attack is locked in a posh apartment with a dead corpse who's the very man she's been dreaming would murder her. She's barely able to hang on to reality when the objects that surround her seem to be coming to life. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Good Cops, Bad Cops

Actors: Ed Asner, Ray Sharkey, George Kennedy

Synopsis: One of the largest crimes in history was the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen as related in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Alligator 2: The Mutation

Actors: Richard Lynch, Steve Railsback, Joseph Bologna, Woody Brown

Synopsis: Not so much a sequel to the John Sayles-scripted Alligator as a shoddy remake, this sophomoric low-budget effort plays like a bad TV movie about a swamp-dwelling alligator mutated to monstrous size by toxic waste, munching on the screaming residents of a lakefront community. The naughty polluter Read More

The Forgotten

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Stacy Keach, Keith Carradine, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: The Forgotten deserves at least a small niche in TV history as the first-ever TV movie made especially for the USA cable network. Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in Read More

The Assassin

Actors: Steve Railsback

Synopsis: Steve Railsback, the star of the cult favorite The Stunt Man, carries the ball in Assassin. Railsback plays a CIA agent, assigned to protect a senator. When the politician is killed, the principal suspect is Our Hero. Left to his own devices, Railsback unearths one of those government conspiracies Read More

Deadly Intent

Actors: Lisa Eilbacher, Steve Railsback, Maud Adams, Fred Williamson, Persis Khambatta

Synopsis: An archaeologist has come back home with a priceless gem in his possession. However, it was ill-gotten and his life is in extreme danger. After he's killed, his widow becomes the mark of several treasure-seekers. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Blue Monkey

Actors: Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Susan Anspach, John Vernon, Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: This slick throwback to the giant-mutant-insect movies of the 1950's has built a small reputation solely on its irrelevant title -- the film contains no monkeys, blue or otherwise -- which confused both reviewers and viewers alike. (This dilemma was solved in its second video incarnation, under Read More

Scenes from the Goldmine

Actors: Catherine Stewart, Cameron Dye, Steve Railsback, Joe Pantoliano, John Ford Coley

Synopsis: In this drama, a lovestruck songwriter is invited to join the band. At first she is thrilled to be near the band's handsome leader. They even embark upon an affair and she is very happy until she figures out that he is stealing her song. During the performances, the actors really play and sing. Read More

The Survivalist

Actors: Steve Railsback, Marjoe Gortner, Cliff De Young, Susan Blakely

Synopsis: This low-budget actioner is set in a world gone mad with the fear that WW III is imminent and centers on a survivalist who has stashed away a veritable armory of high-tech weapons to protect his family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Distortions

Actors: Olivia Hussey, Piper Laurie, Steve Railsback, Rita Gam, June Chadwick

Synopsis: Amy (Olivia Hussey) is a widow who is held captive by her insane Aunt Margot (Piper Laurie) in this predictably routine mystery. After she believes her husband has died, Amy is comforted by a group of society women with lesbian tendencies and is drugged when she goes to live with her aunt who Read More

The Wind

Actors: Meg Foster, Wings Hauser, David McCallum, Robert Morley, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: One of the few Greek filmmakers to work substantially in international productions, Nico Mastorakis has primarily been responsible for undistinguished genre efforts like Blood Tide, Grandma's House, and this thriller. Meg Foster stars as Sian, an American mystery writer who comes to an imposing Read More

Armed and Dangerous

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, Kenneth McMillan, Meg Ryan

Synopsis: In Armed and Dangerous, John Candy plays a cop who has been kicked off the force on a trumped up charge. Eugene Levy costars as a disbarred lawyer. The two outcasts take low-paying jobs as security officers at a company controlled by mob boss Robert Loggia. In their own stumblebum fashion, Candy Read More

Spearfield's Daughter

Synopsis: A Canadian-Australian coproducton which originally aired over Australia's 7 Network, the six-hour miniseries Spearfield's Daughter stars Kim Braden as the title character. The daughter of a prominent and powerful Australian politician (Chris Wiggins), Cleo Spearfield (Kim Braden) incurs her Read More

Lifeforce

Actors: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Director Tobe Hooper adapts Colin Wilson's edgy novel The Space Vampires in this in this horror/sci-fi epic with a cult following. The story concerns a joint British-American space probe of Hailey's Comet. Inside the comet, the astronauts, headed by Carlsen (Steve Railsback), find a spaceship that Read More

Torchlight

Actors: Pamela Sue Martin, Steve Railsback, Ian McShane, Al Corley, Rita Taggart, Arnie Moore

Synopsis: Not quite reaching as far as its storyline would permit, this film on the addiction and downfall of an otherwise successful married man is not always successful itself. Lillian (Pamela Sue Martin) is commissioned to do a painting for Jake Gregory (Steve Railsback), who owns a Los Angeles Read More

The Golden Seal

Actors: Steve Railsback, Penelope Milford, Michael Beck, Torquil Campbell, Sandra Seacat

Synopsis: The Golden Seal manages to be excellent family entertainment without ever resorting to gimmickry or phony sentimentality. The story focuses on a family living in the Aleutian Islands. The father, Jim Lee (Steve Railsback), has long been awaiting the return of the fabled golden seal, which comes to Read More

Trick or Treats

Actors: Jackelyn Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver, David Carradine, Carrie Snodgress

Synopsis: First, a crazed and fighting Malcolm (Peter Jason) is hauled off to an asylum by two men just that much tougher than he is, and then this film jumps ahead several years to Halloween at Malcolm's old home. His wife, Joan (Carrie Snodgress), and her live-in lover, Richard (David Carradine), are Read More

The Eliminator

Turkey Shoot

Actors: Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Carmen Duncan, Noel Ferrier

Synopsis: This grim, violent Australian production is an artless mishmash incorporating elements of The Road Warrior, 1984 , and The Most Dangerous Game. The story is set in a dystopian future society where all "deviants" (i.e. anyone whose ideas don't jive with those of the government) are interred in Read More

The Stunt Man

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: Adapted from Paul Brodeur's novel, Richard Rush's story of a Machiavellian movie director and his accidental employee takes a darkly comic look at movie reality vs. "real" reality. Running from the law, Vietnam vet Cameron (Steve Railsback) stumbles on a movie shoot just in time to interfere with Read More

Deadly Games

Actors: Sam Groom, Jo Ann Harris, Steve Railsback, Dick Butkus, Alexandra Morgan

Synopsis: In this routine slasher film about the relationship between a deranged killer and his victim, Keegan (Jo Ann Harris) is a young woman who returns to her home town to look for her sister's killer. Other victims have been brutally murdered by a man in a black mask, and Keegan turns to the Read More

From Here to Eternity

Actors: Natalie Wood, William Devane, Steve Railsback, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: Having previously spawned an Academy Award-winning film, which starred Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, and Frank Sinatra, James Jones' best-selling military novel From Here to Eternity was adapted into a six-hour miniseries in 1979. Set in Honolulu in 1941 in the days prior to the December 7 attack Read More

Angela

Actors: Sophia Loren, Steve Railsback, John Vernon, Luce Guilbault

Synopsis: In this subpar Canadian film, Sophia Loren is Angela, a prostitute who has decided to become a waitress after she gets pregnant by Ben Kincaid (John Vernon) and needs a better way to support her baby. When Ben gets back from service in the Korean War, he does not believe Angela's little boy is Read More

Helter Skelter

Actors: George DiCenzo, Steve Railsback, Nancy Wolfe, Marilyn Burns, Christina Hart, Cathey Paine

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling Vincent Bugliosi book of the same name, Helter Skelter is a made-for-TV account of the investigation and prosecution of Charles Manson (Steve Railsback), who was convicted of leading a group of followers (known as "The Family") to murder seven people in California Read More

The Visitors

Actors: Patrick McVey, James Woods

Synopsis: This melodramatic thriller is not one of Elia Kazan's directorial shining moments. Kazan, who is better-known for such great films as On the Waterfront, made this film, with his friends, on a very low budget. It is probably most notable for featuring James Woods in an early role. Bill Schmidt (Woods Read More