- The Man Who Was Death
- aka; Alien Invasion
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Summer School
Return Of The Living Dead Part II
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
HBO’s Tales From The Crypt
Darkman
Sleepwalkers
Mom And Dad Save The World
Space Case
The Program
Super Mario Bros.
Carlito's Way
Just Us
In The Mouth Of Madness
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead
The Rock
8 Heads In A Duffle Bag
xecrate
Galaxy Quest
Linear Thought
Year of release: 1986
Directed by: Hal Needham
Written By: Sam Bernard, Geoffrey Edwards
Corey plays: BMX Biker at Helltrack
Co-Starring: Bill Allen, Lori Loughlin, Ray Walston, Jack Weston, Laura Jacoby
Plot: Teenage drama revolved around BMX racing and such dilemmas as: the good guys can beat the bad guys, who’s gets the fastest bike, must you cheat to win and should our hero miss his SAT tests to compete in the big race.
Corey Says: “I had a great time on the set. I got to hang out, ride my bike around and get paid for it.”
Year of release: 1986
Written and directed by: John Hughes
Corey plays: Economics Student
Co-Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia
Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Gray, Ben Stein
Plot: If Ferris can just get away with one more sick day — it had better be a good one.
Corey Says: “Who wouldn’t want to work with John Hughes?”
Year of release: 1987
Directed by: Carl Reiner
Written by: Stuart Birnbaum, David Dashev
Corey plays: student
Co-Starring: Mark Harmon, Kirsty Alley, Dean Cameron, Gary Riley, Kelly Jo Minter, Duane Davis
Plot: A high school teacher’s vacation plans are ruined when he gets stuck teaching remedial English in summer school.
Corey Says: “It was another great set where I got to hang out, drive go-karts, ride roller coasters and play volleyball at the beach.”
Year of release: 1988
Written and directed by: Ken Wiederhorn
Corey plays: Special Zombie
Co-Starring: James Karen, Michael Kenworthy , Thor Van Lingen, Jason Hogan, Thom Mathews
Plot: Brain-eating zombies attacking suburbia with zest and vigor.
Corey Says: “The full blown make up took four hours. It was a pain in the butt, but it turned out great. Taking it off didn't take as long, but it HURT. A couple days in a row of that, and I was no happy camper.”
Year of release: 1988
Directed by: Stephen Chiodo
Written by: Stephen Chiodo, Edward, Chiodo, Charles Chiodo
Corey plays: Klown Performer
Co-Starring: Grant Cramer, Suzane Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon, Michael Stegel, Peter Licasso, Royal Dano
Plot: Circus clowns aliens invade a small town using weapons that let out popcorn instead of bullets. They also capture people and keep them captive in cotton candy cocoons for later feedings, all with painted on smiles.
Corey Says: “I got a thrill from reading the script. The Chiodo Brothers had written a great screenplay, the best that I’d read in a long time.”
Year of release: 1989
Directed by: Walter Hill, Kevin Yagher (Crypt Keeper sequences)
Teleplay: Walter Hill, Robert Reneau
Corey plays: FBI Detective Wesley
Co-Starring: William Sadler, J.W. Smith, Roy Brocksmith, Gerit Graham, John Kassir
Plot: When the death penalty is abolished, Niles Talbot, a penitentiary executioner turns freelance electrocutioner. But fate may pull a switch on this man who loves to throw the switch.
Corey Says: “The time I spent working on this episode was some of the very best time I had in show business.”
Year of release: 1990
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Written by: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Chuck Pfarrer, Daniel Goldin, Joshua Goldin
Corey plays: Dock Worker #7
Co-Starring: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Larry Drake, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, Ted Raimi, Nicholas Worth, Bridget Hoffman, Neal McDonough, Bruce Campbell
Plot: Dr. Westlake is on the verge of discovering the key to cloning body parts; brutally attacked and left for dead, returns to stalk his deserving victims from the shadows.
Corey Says: “I was in and out, there and gone.”
Year of release: 1992
Directed by: Mick Garris
Written by: Stephen King
Corey plays: Student of Mr. Fallows
Co-Starring: Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige, Ron Perlman, Dean Martin, Glenn Shadix, John Landis, Joe Dante, Stephen King, Clive Barker
Plot: When Mary and Charles arrive in a small town of Travis, Indiana, ugly things begin to happen. The deadly duo are sleepwalkers — fiendish, cat-like vampire creatures who can only survive by sucking the life force out of unsuspecting virgins.
Corey Says: “I’ve always been a fan and jumped at the chance to be in a Stephen King film.”
Year of release: 1992
Directed by: Greg Beeman
Written by: Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon
Corey plays: Sephie
Co-Starring: Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones, Jon Lovitz, Wallace Shawn, Eric Idle, Danny Cooksey, Dan Stanton, Don Stanton
Plot: Emperor Tod Spengo of the Planet Spengo is a runty bore who plans to destroy Earth when he spies suburban housewife Marge Nelson jazzercizing in her backyard and is determined to make her his queen.
Corey Says: “This is a great, fun movie if you enjoy Monty Python and other movies that blatantly defy logic.”
Year of release: 1992
Written and directed: Howard R. Cohen
Corey plays: Bunny
Co-Starring: Hoyt Axton, Bridget Hoffman, Ray Walston, Ted McGinley, Joseph Campanella, Jon Draikas, Felicity Waterman, Mark Hammond,
Plot: A future were mental institutions are located on far-away planets. One such planet is the apex for an invasion of Earth by rodent-like aliens. It is up to a band of intrepid mental patients to thwart their evil schemes. The mental patients, naturally, are ignored in reporting this savage plot, so it's up to them to save the Earth.
Corey Says: “I haven’t even see a finished print of the film myself. In the end, the movie disappeared into thin air, the ultimate Hollywood illusion.”
Year of release: 1993
Directed by: David S. Ward
Written by: David S. Ward, Aaron Latham
Corey plays: ESU Football Player
Co-Starring: James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Cheffer, Kristy Swanson, Duane Davis, Ed Friedenbaum
Plot: Sensitive tearjerker about college football players caught up in the drive for a championship. As the season takes its toll on both mind and body, players prepare for the Big Game.
Corey Says: “Caan says ‘Everybody acts, every day, every second,’ and that’s so true.”
Year of release: 1993
Directed by: Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel, Roland Joffeé (uncredited), Dean Semler (uncredited)
Written by: Edward Solomon, Parker Bennett, Terry Rutte
Corey plays: Dizzy
Co-Starring: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson, Lance Henriksen
Plot: Based on the popular Nintendo game, the brothers are in hot pursuit of Princess Daisy who’s been kidnaped by Koopa and taken to Dinohattan, a fungi-infested, garbage-strewn, rat-hole version of Manhattan.
Corey Says: “Super Mario Bros. Was the first time I watched myself where I didn’t feel sick.”
Year of release: 1993
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Written by: Edwin Torres, David Koepp
Corey plays: Bar Patron
Co-Starring: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, John Leguizamo, Luis Guzman, James Rebhorn, Viggo Mortensen
Plot: Puerto Rican ex-con Carlito Brigante, just out of prison after serving five years of a much longer stretch due to technicalities with the help of his sleazy lawyer. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen.
Corey Says: “I thought Pacino was as good or great than he’d ever been.”
Year of release: 1994
Written and directed: Darlene Takagi
Corey plays: Corey Tait
Co-Starring: Duncan Fraser, Fred Johnson, Lance Reece, Tim Fisher, Craig Peters, Ron Smith, Bill Kirkenbauer , Ed Friedenbaum, Michele Foubert, Casper T. McAmmond
Plot: A confused, alienated character in a purely psychological sense.
Corey Says: “The film never seems to go quite where you expect it to go.”
Year of release: 1995
Directed by: John Carpenter
Written by: Michael DeLuca
Corey plays: Lydia
Co-Starring: Sam Neill, Jurgen Prochnow, Charlton Heston, David Warner, John Glover, Bernie Casey, Hayden Christensen
Plot: Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act in the seemingly quiet little East Coast town of Hobb's End, where the author resides.
Corey Says: “I wanted to take this road with John because he has made some perfect films. It was the best part I had in years. I never felt more relaxed.”
Year of release: 1995
Directed by: Gary Fleder
Written by: Scott Rosenberg
Corey plays: Luce
Co-Starring: Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams, Jack Warden, Steve Buscemi, Gabriele Anwar , Christopher Walken, Bill Cobbs, Marshall Bell, Glenn Plummer
Plot: Retired gangster Jimmy the Saint, who has been living the quiet life in Denver until, out of the blue, he is summoned to visit his ex-boss, The Man With The Plan. As Jimmy learns, The Man has both a plan and an offer he can't refuse: a lot of money to pull off a simple "action," by scaring off the kid who's romancing The Man's dim-witted son's ex-girlfriend.
Corey Says: “I identified with the character’s feeling of failure; feeling inept and unable to be understood. It’s a pretty consistent theme with a lot of people’s lives.”
Year of release: 1996
Directed by: Michael Bay
Written by: David Weisberg, Douglas Cook
Corey plays: FBI Agent Decker
Co-Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn,
Plot: It's a quiet day in San Francisco as 81 civilians are on a tour of Alcatraz, the prison famous for the fact that no prisoner had ever successfully escaped. During the tour, General Francis Hummel takes the civilians hostage with the help of other marines. He has 15 rockets of deadly V.X. gas at his disposal, ready to launch at San Francisco.
Corey Says: “This is probably the most normal character I’ve played — and I’m not real comfortable with that.”
Year of release: 1997
Written and directed by: Tom Schulman
Corey plays: La-Ura
Co-Starring: Andy Comeau, George Hamilton, Ernestine Mercer, Todd Louiso, Dyan Cannon, David Spade, Joe Pesci, Anthony Mangano
Plot: Mob boss man Tommy, loses his heads, the evidence to a successful hit, to med student Charlie Pritchett, who’s headed for a Mexican vacation with his fiancée’s uptight family.
Corey Says: “It really made fun of what people’s idea of me was.”
Year of release: 1999
Directed by: Ed Friedenbaum
Written by: Darlene Takagi
Corey plays: Corey O’Malley
Co-Starring: Kevin Epstein, Gavin Black, Keith Downs, Josh Bradley, Ed Friedenbaum, Patrick Ersgard, Michele Foubert
Plot: Loosely based on the Axe-Man of New Orleans; unsolved violent killings between 1911 and 1919 in which he would break through a door panel and then wreaking death and destruction with an axe that belonged to the victim. Like Jack The Ripper, the Axe-Man's identity remains a mystery.
Corey Says: “I’ve been fascinated with since I was a young kid. I jumped at the chance to do the film.”
Year of release: 1999
Directed by: Dean Parisot
Written by: David Howard, Robert Gordon
Corey plays: Gruber
Co-Starring: Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Tony Shaloub, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell, Enrico Colantoni, Robin Sachs, Justin Long
Plot: At a sci-fi convention, the actors from a campy 70s TV space series are mistaken for real space traveling heroes by naive aliens who need them to aid in an intergalactic war and whisk the troupe off to a galaxy far, far away.
Corey Says: “There were 10 other guys with more box office draw who wanted that role, but Tim wanted me. It was really a brave thing he did.”
Year of release: 2000
Written and directed by: Darlene Takagi
Corey plays: Fern Gaudette
Co-Starring: John Morton, Drew Kirkwood,, Chris Tate, Chuck Smith, Lance Reece, Ed Friedenbaum
Plot: Owsla officer rescues a man and takes him on a trek across the desert on camels to save his life
Corey Says: “I don’t have an allergy to leading lady things or kind-of-commercial movies.”
