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  • Five Easy Pieces
  • Five Easy Pieces review by from Salisbury
    Rated - 4 stars A little jewel 16 March 2005
    ...eing especially because Nicholson gives a performance worthy of his talent. Karen Black is excellent too. She has never received enough critical acclaim. An actress bo...  
  • Burnt Offerings
  • Burnt Offerings review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 1 stars Undercooked Offerings 9 June 2004
    ...Atrocious! This is an example of why Karen Black's career took a dive in the late seventies, after such superb performances in stuff like Five Easy Pieces and Day Of The ...  
  • House Of 1000 Corpses
  • House Of 1000 Corpses review by A customer from Braunton, England
    Rated - 5 stars house of 1000 corpses 1 November 2005
    ... that includes Killer Karl (Chad Bannon), Baby (Sheri Moon) and Mother Firefly (Karen Black). The Sequel The Devils rejects is out and is one i am looking forward to seein...  

Karen Black - filmography


  • The Single Woman (2009)
    Starring: Judd Nelson,  Patricia Arquette,  Margot Kidder
    Director: Kamala Lopez
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A Single Woman is a distinct, lively portrait of Jeannette Rankin (the first American woman elected to Congress; also a suffragette, peace activist and reformer) that takes us from her childhood in 1880's Montana, to her last television interview in 1972. Deliciously political, occasionally ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Watercolors (2008)
    Starring: Tye Olsen,  Kyle Clare,  Greg Louganis
    Director: David Oliveras
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When a gifted, young artist arrives at the opening of his first New York exhibition his erotic paintings trigger memories of his first love, a troubled athlete whose depression and self-denial led to suicide. Through a series of flashbacks we see Danny and Carter struggle with their mutual ..read more »
    Rate this: 0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 1 member
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  • Ghost Writer on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Alan Cumming,  David Boreanaz,  Anne Heche
    Director: Alan Cumming
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Jonathan Vandermark, is a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and without a penny to his name. When one man, Sebastian enters his life and takes advantage of John's charity, his life and afterlife will be changed forever.
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 1,811 member
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  • Dr Rage on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Andrew Divoff,  Denice Duff,  Stephen Polk
    Director: Jeff Broadstreet
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In his eagerness to create a revolutionary new drug, Doctor Timothy Straun has taken science to a new level of madness. He has no code of ethics and utilises the homeless and convicts as guinea pigs in his controversial research into human rage. Sometimes he resorts to experimenting on himself...
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 58 members
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  • House Of 1000 Corpses on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Sid Haig,  Karen Black,  Bill Moseley
    Director: Rob Zombie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Rob Zombie, the heavy metal hero who has released such albums as SINISTER URGE and HELLBILLY DELUXE as a solo act and ASTRO-CREEP 2000 with his band, White Zombie, takes on the world of horror movies in this very bloody, very entertaining tale that rips off the old car-trouble story in which a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 7,173 members
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  • Curse Of The Forty Niner on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Karen Black,  John Philip Law,  Richard Lynch
    Director: John Carl Buechler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Be careful what you wish for. Six money-hungry teen-somethings are off on a quest to find the lost gold in the haunted hills of Suttersville known back in the days of the gold rush for their wealth in gold, but they may just be getting more than they bargained for. Legend has it that the late gold ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 39% from 265 members
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  • Teknolust (2002)
    Starring: Tilda Swinton,  Jeremy Davies,  James Urbaniak
    Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When Rosetta Stone (Swinton), bio-geneticist, breeds three half-human half-robots (Self Replicating Automatons) by combining her own DNA with computer software, she also creates a set of unanticipated tribulations. Her clones keep her company, entertain her, and listen to her problems. Their only ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 37% from 7 members
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  • Soul Keeper on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Rodney Rowland,  Kevin Patrick Wallis,  Brad Dourif
    Director: Darin James Ferriola
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two thieves steal an ancient relic, but its value is in summoning demon spirits. This acts as the catalyst for a full unleashing of a demon lord who seeks human souls. Having learned their lesson that petty thievery can only bring trouble and pagan evil, the robbing duo now enlist the help of an ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 112 members
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  • Haunting Fear on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent,  Karen Black,  Delia Sheppard
    Director: Fred Olen Ray
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Prolific B-movie director Fred Olen Ray bring this loose adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's Haunting Fear to the screen. Brinke Steven stars as Victoria, a woman who has terrifying dreams of being buried alive. Her husband Terry (Jan Michael Vincent) sends her to Dr. Harcourt (Karen Black) for ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 37% from 45 members
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  • Eternal Evil on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Karen Black,  Winston Rekert,  Lois Maxwell
    Director: George Mihalka
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A worshipper of black magic and the occult teaches an infatuated young man the art of astral projection, to be able to travel outside his body. He begins to experience bizarre nightmares.....or are they night-mares ?
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 35 members
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  • Cut and Run (1985)
    Starring: Lisa Blount,  Leonard Mann,  Richard Lynch
    Director: Ruggero Deodato
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A cameraman and a reporter head into the jungle searching for the missing son of a TV producer hoping to find a big story. What they get caught up in is a drug war which threatens to take their own lives.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 44% from 16 members
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  • Savage Dawn (1985)
    Starring: George Kennedy,  Richard Lynch,  Karen Black
    Director: Simon Nuchtern
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 36% from 3 members
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  • Bad Manners on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Martin Mull,  Karen Black,  Anne De Salvo
    Director: Robert Houston
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Five children in an orphanage take a blood oath to become a family, and not let anyone separate them. When one of their number is adopted, the remaining four devise a crazy kidnap scheme to rescue their 'brother'.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 36% from 90 members
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  • Burnt Offerings on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Karen Black,  Oliver Reed,  Burgess Meredith
    Director: Dan Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A family of vacationers, including Oliver Reed and Karen Black as the parents, rents a sprawling mansion for the summer and soon discovers that all is not as it should be. Among other equally strange things, dead plants come back to life, and the swimming pool kills bathers.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 196 members
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  • Family Plot on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Bruce Dern,  Karen Black,  William Devane
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Hitchcock's diabolically funny and exciting movie about a search for a missing heir proved to be his final film. Starring Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, and Karen Black, Family Plot is the story of a cabbie (Dern) and a psychic (Harris) who team up to find a dead man who's not really ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,030 member
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  • Rhinoceros on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Zero Mostel,  Gene Wilder,  Karen Black
    Director: Tom O'Horgan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This adaptation of Ionesco's absurdist classic was part of the American Film Theater series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Gene Wilder stars as Stanley, a depressive young man who abhors virtually all ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 198 members
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  • Drive, He Said (1971)
    Starring: William Tepper,  Karen Black,  Bruce Dern
    Director: Jack Nicholson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 46% from 8 members
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  • Born To Win on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  George Segal,  Karen Black
    Director: Ivan Passer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A man is driven to plan a robbery of a New York restaurant to support his hundred dollar a day heroin habit. A witty comment on respectable people turned into outlaws by drug laws more dangerous than the drugs themselves. AKA "The Addict."
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 261 members
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  • Easy Rider - BLU-RAY Version (1969)
    Starring: Peter Fonda,  Dennis Hopper,  Jack Nicholson
    Director: Dennis Hopper
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A landmark in film history, EASY RIDER blew the studio doors open for more young directors than any film before or since, helping to create the wide-open climate that would lead to the production of many outstanding films in the 1970s. As its director, Dennis Hopper is usually given the lion's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 102 members
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  • Gypsy 83 on DVD
    Starring: Sara Rue,  Kett Turton,  Karen Black
    Director: Todd Stephens
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 87 members
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  • The Straun House
    Starring: Andrew Divoff,  Karen Black
    Director: Jeff Broadstreet
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Loosely based on a true story, THE STRAUN HOUSE follows a man with an anger problem who's committed to an insane asylum-and subjected to terrifying experiments, with disastrous results. The game cast, directed by Jeff Broadstreet, includes Andrew Divoff, Karen Black, and John Kassir.
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  • Blue Tooth Virgin
    Starring: Austin Peck,  Bryce Johnson,  Tom Gilroy
    Director: Russell Brown
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: What happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn't good? Sam, an aspiring screenwriter, and David, a successful magazine editor, have been pals for years. When David doesn't appreciate Sam's ..read more »
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  • Legends Series - Va Va Voom on DVD
    Starring: Cher,  Ann-Margret,  Raquel Welch
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Cher, Ann-Margret, Raquel Welch, Cybill Shepherd, Brooke Shields and Karen Black sing high-production, song and dance renditions of the big hits of the '60s and '70s. Culled from lost early footage of '70s TV specials, here is rare footage of Hollywood's sexiest screen sirens performing live at ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 20 members
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  • Firecracker on DVD
    Starring: Karen Black,  Mike Patton,  Susan Traylor
    Director: Steve Balderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Meek, reclusive and talented, Jimmy (Jak Kendall) is emotionally imprisoned by his abusive, alcoholic older brother David (Mike Patton) and his fanatically religious mother, Eleanor (Karen Black). He finds escape in the neon glow of a travelling sideshow carnival. Clad in red satin and gifted with ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 17 members
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Karen Black - watch online


  • Ghost Writer to Watch Now (2007)
    Starring: Alan Cumming,  David Boreanaz,  Anne Heche
    Director: Alan Cumming
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 89 minutes
    When John Vandermark (Alan Cumming, X-MEN, GET CARTER), a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and nothing much else, encounters Sebastian (David Boreanaz, BONES, ANGEL), he is stirred to help him in any way he can. But Vandermark soon grows bitter when his charity is ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 2 members
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  • Read you like a book to Watch Now (2006)
    Starring: Tony Amendola,  Joe Bellan,  Karen Black
    Director: Robert N. Zagone
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 101 minutes
    A magical book transforms all who come in contact with it in a neighborhood bookstore. Our main characters include Dante, manager of the bookstore, who harbors a crippling secret from his past; Gina, a quirky customer, who knows about every subject except the most important - love; Zoe, Dante's ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 39% from 10 members
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Karen Black facts

5 most recent films

The Single Woman - 3 stars
Watercolors - 0.5 stars
Ghost Writer - 1.5 stars
Dr Rage - 1.5 stars
America Brown - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Easy Rider - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Capricorn One - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Five Easy Pieces - 3.5 stars
Airport: Terminal Pack - 3.0 stars
The Great Gatsby - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Single Woman - 3 stars
Irene in Time - 3 stars
Blue Tooth Virgin - 3 stars
The Straun House - 0.0 stars
Watercolors - 0.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Bruce Dern - 3 times - show films
Sam Waterston - 3 times - show films
Richard Lynch - 3 times - show films
Alan Cumming - 2 times - show films
Brenda Vaccaro - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alan Cumming - 2 times - show films
Peter Hyams - 2 times - show films
Henry Jaglom - 2 times - show films
Jeff Broadstreet - 2 times - show films
V - 1 times - show films