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  • Forsythe spooked by Gacy dreams - 22 December 2010
    -Actor William Forsythe was haunted by John Wayne Gacy while portraying the serial killer for a hard-hitting new movie - his sleep was interrupted by weird dreams and he couldn't shake the character after filming wrapped.- -The Rock star thought it would be a challenge to

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  • The Last Victim
  • The Last Victim review by kultguy from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Master of menace William Forsythe plays serial killer John Wayne Gacy in The Last Victim 16 March 2011
    ... Row shortly before Gacy was executed. The film adaptation excels because of William Forsythe’s masterful turn as the notorious serial killer. Known for his many menacing ro...   Read customer review

William Forsythe - filmography


  • Loosies (2012)
    Starring: Jaimie Alexander,  Michael Madsen,  Peter Facinelli
    Director: Michael Corrente
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A young pickpocket in the New York subways, living a fast, free, lifestyle is confronted by a woman whom he had a one night affair with, she informs him that she is now pregnant with his child, he must now choose between continuing the lifestyle he lead or take responsibility for his actions.
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 2 members
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  • Inkubus on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Nicholas John Bilotta,  Mike Cerrone,  Jessica Conlan
    Director: Glenn Ciano
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The demon, Inkubus, nonchalantly walks into a soon-to-be decommissioned police-station. Soon the few remaining police officers become pawns in his quest to tempt his near-Nemesis Detective Diamante into a final confrontation.
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 144 members
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  • The Last Victim on DVD (2010)
    Starring: William Forsythe,  Jesse Moss
    Director: Svetozar Ristovski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A criminology student decides to delve into the mind of John Wayne Gacy in an effort to understand one of America’s most sadistic serial killers. Their correspondence leads to a shocking, dangerous and twisted game of cat and mouse.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 730 members
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  • iMurders on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Gabrielle Anwar,  William Forsythe,  Tony Todd
    Director: Robbie Bryan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the producers of the cult hit, Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth, comes a horror thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end. When the members of an online social networking website are brutally murdered in succession, one person's past holds the key to the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 173 members
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  • Stiletto on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Tom Sizemore,  Michael Biehn,  Tom Berenger
    Director: Nick Vallelonga
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A deadly seductress sets out to avenge her sister, in the process uncovering a dark conspiracy that makes her question everything she's been fighting for in this action thriller featuring Tom Berenger, Tom Sizemore, William Forsythe, and Michael Biehn. Raina (Stana Katic) was deeply in love with ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 741 members
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  • 88 Minutes on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Alicia Witt,  Leelee Sobieski
    Director: Jon Avnet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In 88 MINUTES, Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino), a Seattle-based college professor and forensic psychiatrist, is informed by an enigmatic caller that he has exactly that amount of time to live. The threat is linked to Gramm's role in putting a convicted serial killer (Neal McDonough) behind bars nearly a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 18,266 members
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  • Halloween on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton,  Malcolm McDowell,  Daeg Faerch
    Director: Rob Zombie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After murdering his older sister, her boyfriend, and his mother's boyfriend, disturbed ten year old Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) is committed to a psychiatric facility. Seventeen years later, a now adult Myers (Tyler Mane) escapes and immediately returns to his home town of Haddonfield in order to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 11,439 members
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  • Southern Gothic on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Yul Vazquez,  Nicole DuPort,  William Forsythe
    Director: Mark Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Hazel Fortune (Yul Vazquez) works in a strip club in the small Southern town of Redemption. Haunted by the death of his only daughter, Fortune has become a self-destructive, suicidal alcoholic, until he meets Starla Motes (Nicole DuPort). Hazel's downward spiral is interrupted when he is befriended ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 93 members
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  • Hack! on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jay Kenneth Johnson,  Danica McKellar,  Gabrielle Richens
    Director: Matthew Flynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Vincent King (Sean Kanan) and his wife, Mary Shelley (Juliet Landau), are two deranged cinephiles who decide to create the ultimate homage to classic horror films by shooting a snuff movie. When a group of college students, led by the studious Emily (Danica McKellar), sails to the King's remote ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 296 members
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  • Final Approach (2007)
    Starring: Dean Cain,  William Forsythe,  Tracey Gold
    Director: Armand Mastroianni
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon unless they receive ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 6 members
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  • Freedomland - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Julianne Moore,  Edie Falco
    Director: Joe Roth
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A carjacking-turned-kidnapping provides the set-up for a complex story of racial and class divide, as black detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) attempts to uncover the truth in victim Brenda Martin's story. Bleeding and dazed in an inner city ER, Brenda (Julianne Moore) explains that on ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 654 members
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  • The Devil's Rejects on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Sid Haig,  Bill Moseley,  Deborah Van Valkenburgh
    Director: Rob Zombie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The follow-up to his 2003 horror hit HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, Rob Zombie's THE DEVIL'S REJECTS continues the story of a bizarre group of very odd people who like to torture, maim, and kill virtually everyone they come in contact with. When Sheriff Wydell (William Forsythe) pays a visit to the body-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 13,584 members
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  • City by the Sea on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Frances McDormand,  James Franco
    Director: Michael Caton-Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    New York City homicide detective Vincent LaMarca has forged a long and distinguished career in law enforcement, making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work. But on his latest case, the stakes are higher for Vincent - the suspect he's investigating is his own son, Joey. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,354 members
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  • Gangland (2000)
    Starring: Danny Aiello,  William Forsythe,  Polly Draper
    Director: Danny Aiello
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Vincent Dianni has worked for the Mob as one of the foot soldiers for a long time. When he decides that enough is enough the Mafia bosses send a protege to take him out...
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 68 members
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  • Blue Streak on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Martin Lawrence,  Tamala Jones,  William Forsythe
    Director: Les Mayfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Lawrence stars as ex-con Miles Logan--a crafty jewel thief forced to hide his stash of diamonds at a construction site when his $20 million heist went awry. Now that he's out of the slammer, he wants the loot back! There's only one problem--the place he hid them is now an L.A. police precinct. When ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,253 members
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  • The Last Marshall on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Scott Glenn,  William Forsythe,  John Ortiz
    Director: Mike Kirton
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A Texas Marshall, Cole McClary doesn't believe in the criminal having any rights. He believes the law should shoot first and ask questions later. When a drug gang arrive on his turf to do a spot of kidnapping he takes exception and a bullet which was meant for a judge. Taking the law into his own ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 75 members
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  • Dollar For The Dead on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Emilio Estevez,  Howie Long,  William Forsythe
    Director: Gene Quintano
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Lone gunslinger Cowboy (Emilio Estevez) rides into a small western town pulling a wooden coffin behind him. Pursued by The Regulators, a band of vigilante lawmen led by Reager (Howie Long), Cowboy's only purpose seems to be to use his superior shooting skills to defend those who can't defend ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 212 members
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  • Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Rob Schneider,  William Forsythe,  Eddie Griffin
    Director: Mike Mitchell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Schneider is Deuce Bigalow, a bumbling fish tank cleaner. When Antoine, a successful gigolo with a sick fish, has to leave the country for a few weeks, he offers Deuce the opportunity to housesit for him. Predictably, Deuce manages to trash the place and must enlist the aid of pimp TJ (Griffin) to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 11,099 members
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  • Blue Streak - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Martin Lawrence,  Tamala Jones,  William Forsythe
    Director: Les Mayfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Lawrence stars as ex-con Miles Logan--a crafty jewel thief forced to hide his stash of diamonds at a construction site when his $20 million heist went awry. Now that he's out of the slammer, he wants the loot back! There's only one problem--the place he hid them is now an L.A. police precinct. When ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 713 members
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  • Hell's Kitchen NYC on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Stephen Payne,  Jade Yorker,  Angelina Jolie
    Director: Tony Cinciripini
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    HELL'S KITCHEN NYC tells the tragic story of a group of New York City youths whose involvement in a drug deal ends up ruining their lives. After the drug deal turns sour, one of them ends up dead. The remaining three individuals must confront what really happened and decide for themselves who is to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 1,037 member
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  • Row Your Boat on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Jon Bon Jovi,  Jill Hennessy,  Bai Ling
    Director: Sollace Mitchell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jamey Meadows (Jon Bon Jovi) is a convict just released from prison, hoping to live a straight life on the outside. His brother tries to re-enlist him into the crime world, but Jamey resists, getting a job as a census taker. Through this job he meets Chun Hua, a Chinese immigrant. Despite all of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 92 members
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  • Firestorm on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Michael Greyeyes,  Barry Pepper,  Christianne Hirt
    Director: Dean Semler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sinister convicts revolt when their prison work detail is dispatched to battle a roaring wildfire. But their carefully conceived escape plan doesn't account for skilled "smoke jumper" Jesse Graves, who parachutes in to mete out justice and rescue their hostages. A by-the-numbers debut for both ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 130 members
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  • The Rock on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Nicolas Cage,  Ed Harris
    Director: Michael Bay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In Michael Bay's THE ROCK, gung-ho general Francis Hummel (Ed Harris), armed with deadly chemical rockets and aided by violent cohorts, takes over the island of Alcatraz, holding 81 tourists hostage. Hummel promises to deploy the missiles over San Francisco if Washington doesn't make amends to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 35,860 members
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  • Gotti (1996)
    Starring: Armand Assante,  William Forsythe,  Richard C. Sarafian
    Director: Robert Harmon
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    To some he was a folk hero; a man raised on the streets of New York City whose success had earned him the lifestyle of the rich and famous. To others he was a killer; a ruthless manipulator who murdered his way to the top of America's most powerful criminal organisation.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 39 members
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  • The Rock - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Nicolas Cage,  Ed Harris
    Director: Michael Bay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In Michael Bay's THE ROCK, gung-ho general Francis Hummel (Ed Harris), armed with deadly chemical rockets and aided by violent cohorts, takes over the island of Alcatraz, holding 81 tourists hostage. Hummel promises to deploy the missiles over San Francisco if Washington doesn't make amends to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 3,252 members
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  • Palookaville (1995)
    Starring: William Forsythe,  Vincent Gallo,  Frances McDormand
    Director: Alan Taylor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Three friends decide to embark on a life of crime. But with their only criminal experience gleaned from what they've seen on television, the heist of the decade these fellows have planned may very well turn into the flop of the century. Winner of Best Picture Prize at the 1995 Venice Film Festival.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 869 members
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  • Evidentia on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Sylvie Guillem,  William Forsythe,  Niklas Ek
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Top international ballerina Sylvie Guillem puts her own ideas about dance and movement on film. Collaborating with her chosen directors and choreographers five pieces are performed here around three main themes: Dance, Movement and Moving Pictures. 'Solo' is performed by William Forsythe, 'Blue ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 53 members
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  • Virtuosity on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Kelly Lynch,  Russell Crowe
    Director: Brett Leonard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1999 Los Angeles, an imprisoned ex-cop is given one last shot at redemption when he's turned loose to track down a virtual killer who has escaped the confines of cyberspace. Computer-generated special effects enhance this thriller from the director of 1992's "The Lawnmower Man."
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,637 member
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  • American Me (1992)
    Starring: Edward James Olmos,  William Forsythe,  Evelina Fernandez
    Director: Edward James Olmos
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An hispanic crime lord creates a position of power for himself and his comrades in prison that extends to the streets of east Los Angeles. At first, he is elated by the control he wields but as maturity and a blossoming relationship affect his consciousness, he realizes that his desire for social ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,073 member
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  • The Waterdance (1992)
    Starring: Eric Stoltz,  Helen Hunt,  Wesley Snipes
    Director: Neal Jimenez,  Michael Steinberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An often overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab centre with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to deal with his new found ..read more »
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  • Stone Cold (1991)
    Starring: Brian Bosworth,  Lance Henriksen,  William Forsythe
    Director: Craig R. Baxley
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Going undercover to infiltrate an outlaw biker gang, a cop poses as an ex-con biker to win the trust of the diabolical gang leader. As a member of the gang he learns that they're plotting a paramilitary assault on the state capitol to rescue a gang member sentenced to execution. Now he's up against ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 33 members
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  • Out for Justice on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Steven Seagal,  William Forsythe,  Jerry Orbach
    Director: John Flynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Action-adventure box-office superstar Steven Seagal portrays a tough Brooklyn cop on the trail of his boyhood adversary, now a crack cocaine dealer and the murderer of his best friend and fellow cop.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,901 members
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  • Dick Tracy on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Madonna,  Charlie Korsmo
    Director: Warren Beatty
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Once again, director Beatty assembles an all-star cast. Dick Tracy, America's top crimestopper, goes up against a mob of colourful gangsters in this rich production. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Supporting Actor--Al Pacino. Academy Awards: 3, including Best Makeup, Best Art ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 2,698 members
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  • Dead Bang (1989)
    Starring: Don Johnson,  Penelope Ann Miller,  William Forsythe
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A tough but true story based on the real experiences of Los Angeles Detective Jerry Beck, a man driven by a personal quest. He is assigned to find a cop-killer, the dead cop being one of his own colleagues. When Beck follows the trail to a white supremacy organisation, the case becomes an ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 20 members
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  • Patty Hearst on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Natasha Richardson,  Frances Fisher,  William Forsythe
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    One evening in February 1974, Patty Hearst, the daughter of newspaper magnate Randolph Hearst, was kid-napped from her Berkeley apartment and taken to a hideout. There she was gagged, blindfolded and kept in a tiny closet. So began a five-year ordeal for Patty, beginning with her kidnapping and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 172 members
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  • Raising Arizona on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Sam McMurray,  Nicolas Cage,  Randall 'Tex' Cobb
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons to Sam Raimi horror movies to 1940s B-movies, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen followed up the stylish film noir of their debut, Blood Simple (1984), with this frantic screwball comedy. H.I. Hi McDonnough (Nicholas Cage) is a philosophical but slightly dim ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 18,213 members
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  • Savage Dawn (1985)
    Starring: George Kennedy,  Richard Lynch,  Karen Black
    Director: Simon Nuchtern
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A motorcycle gang invades a small desert town, terrorizing everyone. Nobody's able to stop them until an ex-Vietnam combat hero (Lance Henriksen) arrives to visit a friend (George Kennedy). Although he'd hoped there would be no more violence in his life, he finds it impossible to ignore the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 21 members
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William Forsythe facts

5 most recent films

Loosies - 4.0 stars
Inkubus - 2.5 stars
The Last Victim - 3.0 stars
iMurders - 2.0 stars
Stiletto - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Rock - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Rock - 3.5 stars
Blue Streak - 3.5 stars
Raising Arizona - 3.5 stars
Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Waterdance - 3 stars
Relentless 3 - 1.0 stars
Savage Dawn - 2.0 stars
Paradise Lost - 2.0 stars
The Gun In Betty Lou's Handbag - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Chris Bauer - 7 times - show films
Johnathon Schaech - 7 times - show films
Saul Rubinek - 7 times - show films
Sean Patrick Flanery - 7 times - show films
Daniel Gillies - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Brad Anderson - 7 times - show films
Tobe Hooper - 7 times - show films
Ernest R. Dickerso - 7 times - show films
Rob Zombie - 6 times - show films
Michael Bay - 5 times - show films