#craig r. baxley

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Craig R. Baxley as The Creature in Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode "The Sentry"

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5" x 11", 2024

By Josh Ryals

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Dark Angel will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on July 9 via Scream Factory. The 1990 sci-fi action movie is also known as I Come in Peace.

Craig R. Baxley (Rose Red, Storm of the Century) directs from a script by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Spider-Man) and Jonathan Tydor. Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley and Matthias Hues star.

Dark Angel has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Go In Pieces: Remembering Dark Angel – Interviews with actor Brian Benben, cinematographer Mark Irwin, editor Mark Helfrich, and special effects artist Gabriel Bartalos (new)

A Look Back at Dark Angel – Interviews with director Director Craig R. Baxley and actors Dolph Lundgren and Brian Benben

Theatrical trailer

Image gallery

Detective Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) thought he'd dealt with every kind of crime on Earth. But now, someone is using human bodies to manufacture narcotics. Someone – or something – not of this world. To the alien predator that has arrived on Caine's turf, human endorphins represent the perfect drug. To Caine, the otherworldly visitor represents mankind's worst threat … and if the alien's mission succeeds, the destruction of humanity is soon to follow. Together with his straight-arrow partner from the FBI (Brian Benben) and his girlfriend, the city coroner (Betsy Brantley), Caine must race against the clock to send this unwelcome visitor home in pieces!

Pre-order Dark Angel.

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Storm of the Century (1999)

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Stephen King's Rose Red (2002) miniseries

-(finished) watchin' Season 1 (miniseries)- 12/8/2023- 2 [1/2] stars- on Hulu

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I Come In Peace (1990)

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Action Jackson - How Do You Like Your Ribs? (1988)

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Greatest exploding helicopter put on film.

Stone Cold (1991) dir. Craig R. Baxley

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‘Action Jackson’ starring Carl Weathers, Sharon Stone, and Vanity opened in theaters this week 35 years ago. 🚨🔥🚘

“𝙸𝚏 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝, 𝙸'𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚗𝚎𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍.”

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Dark Angel (1990)

Summary: Detective Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) must team up with Special Agent Arwood "Larry" Smith (Brian Benben) to investigate a series of drug-related deaths.

By-the-numbers sci-fi police procedural that goes off the rails in third act. Alternative title (above) really stupid.

Rating: 2.5/5

Photo credit: Cult Celebrities

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Craig R. Baxley as Mettencourt, The Black Knight in Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode "The Knightly Murders"

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5" x 11", 2024

By Josh Ryals

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Rose Red (2002), dir. Craig R. Baxley

Пересмотр. Чтобы подтвердить существование паранормальных явлений, ученая отправляется в "дом с привидениями" - особняк "Красная Роза". Чтобы усилить эффект, создаваемый потусторонним миром, она набирает команду из людей, так или иначе имеющих дело со сверхъестественным. И дом откликается...

Сериал Стивена Кинга, сделанный в тандеме с Крейгом Баксли, которого я очень уважаю за "Бурю столетия". Чаще всего Кинг работал над сериалами с двумя режиссерами - Миком Гаррисом и Крейгом Баксли. Гаррис сразу идет в мусорную корзинку. Баксли хотя бы снимает со вкусом: атмосферой, операторской работой как в кино, а не в дешевых сериалах, красивыми актерами*... "Красная Роза" хотя бы отчасти вдохновлялась "Призраком дома на холме". Та же идея: ученый, исследующий паранормальное, собирает медиумов в доме с привидениями. Так же, как у Ширли Джексон, ключ к дому - самый мощный медиум, девочка, вызвавшая в раннем детстве на дом камни с неба. Некоторые локации также как будто перекочевали из романа. Хотя сюжет у Кинга свой, и призраки вполне осязаемые. Получилось вроде киноаттракциона с выпрыгивающими из-за углов пугалками - собственно, фильмы про дома с привидениями почти все такие. Мне чем-то этот сериал нравится. Бесят клише кинговских персонажей и ситуаций. Уже надоели. Если б они хотя бы не расходились с реальной жизнью... И третий, заключительный эпизод оказался скучным: ужасы все свалены в кучу - с одной стороны, с другой - спасение как по мановению волшебной палочки. Зато атмосферу аттракциона "со страшком" в первых двух авторам создать удалось. И авторские метафоры, как всегда, со вкусом. Например: "Ее мысли высоко надо мной. Она словно принцесса в высокой башне". Это - про умственно отсталую девочку.

*RIP Джулиан Сэндс:(. Не догадались его в этом фильме красиво убить.

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Stone Cold will be released on Blu-ray on May 9 via Kino Lorber. The 1991 action thriller comes with reversible artwork.

Craig R. Baxley (Rose Red, Storm of the Century) directs from a script by Walter Doniger. NFL player Brian Bosworth stars in his acting debut with Lance Henriksen, William Forsythe, Arabella Holzbog, Sam McMurray, and Richard Grant.

Stone Cold has been newly restored in 2K from an interpositive. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by action film historians Mike Leeder and Arne Venema (new)

Interview with actor Brian Bosworth (new)

Interview with actor Lance Henriksen (new)

Interview with actress Arabella Holzbog (new)

Interview with actor Sam McMurray (new)

2 theatrical trailers (newly mastered in 2K)

NFL superstar Brian "The Boz" Bosworth makes his movie debut as John Stone, the only cop tough enough to take out a gang of stone-cold killers. Going undercover, he has to pose as an outlaw biker to win the trust of their diabolic leader Chains (Lance Henriksen) and his right-hand psychopath Ice (William Forsythe).

Stone soon discovers there's more to these bikers than heavy metal mayhem. They're plotting a paramilitary assault on the State Capitol, where one of their men has been sentenced to execution. In a spectacular climax, Stone is up against the gang and on his own. And the killers soon discover that if you go up against John Stone, he'll burn you cold…Stone Cold.

Pre-order Stone Cold.

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CREEPYPASTA BOOK CLUB EPISODE 32: BORRASCA https://open.spotify.com/episode/5ryAgxnKu4YE1zOpxc9FBW Jonah and Wednesday welcome this week’s guest, Tempest, to the club room! Can the three solve the mystery of Borrasca’s popularity? 

This week’s community spotlight: Sundrop: Stories of Shifting Sands is an e-zine depicting strange and fearsome imaginations of the desert by artists of color. Five comics in total, this anthology delivers both the awe of the land and the chill of its night. Find it here: https://ko-fi.com/s/600fe084c0 ! 

If you have a small horror or web fiction project you want in the spotlight, email us! Send your name, pronouns and project to creepypastabookclub@gmail.com.

Music Credits: https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/

The Story: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3e2zje/borrasca/

Our Tumblr: https://creepypastabookclub.tumblr.com/

Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepypastaBC

Featuring Hosts:

Jonah (he/they) (https://withswords.tumblr.com/)

Wednesday (they/them) (https://wormsday.tumblr.com/)

Guest host:

Tempest (any pronoun)

Works Cited: ASEAN’s Black Market Babies, Athira Nortajuddin; https://theaseanpost.com/article/aseans-black-market-babies 

On the word “ Borasco”; https://www.oed.com/dictionary/borasco_n?tl=true Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey; Dretzin, Rachel; McNally, Grace; Zweifach, Justin; et al; ;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20560404/ Kimberlite; https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/summer-2019-kimberlites-earths-diamond-delivery-system Polaris Project, on human trafficking; https://polarisproject.org/ 

Southern Gothic Literature; Thomas Ærvold Bjerre; https://oxfordre.com/literature/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-304 Whump; https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HurtComfortFic 

Further Reading: Aja, Alexandre; Craven, Wes; Levasseur, Grégory; et al; The Hills have Eyes; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454841/

Anderson, Joel; Lake Mungo; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816556/ 

Ashman, Howard; Menken, Alan; Little Shop of Horrors; https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/little-shop-of-horrors-13538 Auerbach, Dathan; Penpal; https://www.reddit.com/r/NosleepIndex/comments/25mqnk/penpal_u1000vultures/ Barton, Joe; Bruckner, David; Nevil, Adam; Ritual;  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5638642

Baxley, Craig R.; King, Stephen; et al; Storm of a Century; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135659/

Beaird, John; Mihalka, George; Miller, Stephen A.; et all; My Bloody Valentine;  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082782/ Boorman, John; Dickey, James, Deliverance https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/ 

Byles, Will; Fessenden, Larry; Samuels, Pete; Reznick, Graham; Villiers, Justin; Until dawn  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2742544/ Forbes, Bryan; Goldman, William; Levin, Ira; et all; Stepford Wives; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073747/

Gaiman, Neil; American Gods; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods Green, Cliff; Lindsay, Joan; Weir, Peter; Picnic at Hanging Rock https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/

Hardy, Robin; Pinner, David; Shaffer, Anthony; Wicker man https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/ 

Howard, Abby; Scarlet Hollow; https://abbyhoward.itch.io/scarlet-hollow

  Henkel, Kim; Hooper, Tobe; Texas Chainsaw Massacre https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/ Jackson, Shirley; Lottery; https://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/the-lottery/summary/ Kawase, Toshifumi; Ryukishi07; et all When the Cicadas Cry https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0845738/

Petty, J.T.; et al; Outlast 2  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4733294/ Poison jr; on gas leak; https://twitter.com/poisonjr/status/1494811675622580227?lang=en gas leak

Russel, Ken; Stoker, Bram; Lair of the White Worm; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095488/

Questions? Comments? Email us at: creepypastabookclub@gmail.com

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Stephen King's Rose Red (2002) miniseries

-(started) watchin' Season 1 (miniseries) 3 episodes- 11/24/2023- on Hulu

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80's Watch: Action Jackson (1988)

Watched:  02/04/2023

Format:  HBOmax

Viewing:  First

Director:  Craig R Baxley

Well, 13-year-old-me that wanted to see this, we did it.  We finally got around to watching Action Jackson (1988).  And what a strange, strange movie this is.  

There are moments where you think "this movie had a $5 budget" and then you think "well, there are lots of explosions and stuff."  But you also know the star here was Carl Weathers, who is charismatic and cool, but he hadn't carried a ton of stuff or big action movies.  The director is the stunt coordinator from Predator, and the film includes not just Weathers but Bill Duke as the cranky captain calling Jackson into his office and a brief appearance by Sonny Landham (Billy in Predator).  

But that's not all!  Craig T. Nelson plays the Mr. Big corporate villain, a fresh-faced Sharon Stone is his dumb-as-a-bag-of-rocks wife, Vanity is our deeply complicated love interest/ MacGuffin, Tom Wilson (Biff from BTTF) is a cop,  Robert Davi gets five minutes.  But most remarkable, it's just full of "that guy!" character actors in almost every scene.  

The basic plot, which is rendered almost incoherent by the film, is (I think) that Jericho "Action" Jackson once took down the son of a prominent businessman (Craig T. Nelson) but was demoted for police brutality in the process.  Now Craig T. Nelson has a secret goon squad that is bumping off people who could mess up him taking control of the American Autoworkers Union, which he sees as his path to controlling American politics (which seems wildly dubious in 1988, but okay).  Despite having Sharon Stone as his new trophy wife, Nelson is also bedding heroin junky and pop singer, Vanity.  

You know what?  This movie makes sense only in that I *could* belabor myself with relaying all the twists and turns, but it ends in a completely insane scenario at Nelson's house (which is also the house used for the exteriors of Stately Wayne Manor in the 1960's Batman TV show) with Jackson driving a car through a house.  

But, yeah, the movie is just weird.  It takes like 10 minutes to get to Jackson, showing us these weirdly over elaborate murders of people who seem like they could be killed by just walking up to them with a gun and then walking away.  There's a whole pointless detour where we meet pool-hall thugs who cut off dude's balls as a thing they do.  They clearly realized the movie was making no sense and added in a barber we named "Lady Exposition" because she basically both gives Jackson all the info he needs and explains the plot to the audience.  

There's a whole set up for how mean and bad-ass Jackson is that takes so, so much time.  But Carl Weathers always seems... really nice.  And the movie seems to forget that everyone is afraid of him immediately after the start.  For whatever reason, the movie also doesn't allow Jackson to use a gun.  He's forbidden to have one because of his prior actions or something?  He's also supposed to be a Harvard Law School grad we're supposed to believe decided to use that wildly lucrative degree to become a cop?  It's just such a weird movie.  Like - you can do 1000x more with that degree as almost anything else if you want to help out your hometown.  

But he also doesn't really do anything "actiony" until the 38 minute mark of the movie.  Y'all...  that's really late.  They could have opened on him kicking ass.  They could have done a lot of things, but they don't.  We have a whole musical number tucked in there.  There's a plot-driving murder that should be the page 30 twist that happens like 45 minutes in.  It's insane.

There's just so much stuff in the movie that makes zero sense.  Pretty much everything around Vanity was just weird.  Her reason for being a MacGuffin is that she supposedly knows something that can put Craig T. Nelson away, but I have no idea what it was supposed to be - and I don't think she knew either.  But whatever it was, it was hot enough that he tries to kill her by blowing up her phone?  And despite the fact Vanity is a heroin addict who spends the length of the film looking like the healthiest junkie you've ever seen, at the end, she's clearly hooking up with Jackson.  It's so, so weird!  She's gonna clear out his apartment and get back on that horse.  But just look at that poster.  That is one smashing-looking heroin fiend!

Anyway, it's a fascinating watch.  I don't remember the last time I couldn't follow a movie that was pretending like this was all straight forward.  But, holy shit, it is not.  

Oh, and the title track is something called "He Turned Me Out" by the Pointer Sisters.  Which, last I checked, that's slang for being put on the street to turn tricks.  So, I don't even know.  I'm sure that's not what it is.  But I don't know what it is.

I did notice HBOmax categorized it as a comedy, and it made me wonder if I was missing something while watching, because to my eyes, which VERY much remember cop movies of 1988.  Someone help me out here.

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