
July 1, 1939 · 87 years old
Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler; July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in various studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as…

Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.

When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.

A phony psychic and her cab driver boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir.

A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.

Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.

Ken Boyd, a lonely man fresh out of the loony bin, who sets out to kill those he deems responsible for his miserable life.

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

A fan club of die-hard James Dean fans meet on the 20th anniversary of his death and reconnect, opening old wounds and facing new ones.

All the kids in a town over night become feverish and have convulsions. The next day they start to become evil, change their names for those of kids killed long ago, and then start killing ...

A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.

The monster babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island so that they can live out their lives as far away from normal humans as possible without killing them. Enraged by the cynicism toward, and the exploitation of...

A smart-mouthed junkie and loser known as J.J. spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

An unsuccessful, nervous businessman gradually comes to befriend an eccentric, asocial nerd on a trip to Utah to bury a deceased cat.

Confused post-teenage virgin Bernard Chanticleer moves to New York City, falls for cold-hearted inscrutable go-go dancer Barbara Darling, then finds true love with a loyal lass.

The star player of a college basketball team starts to go off the rails with an illicit love affair and his roommate going crazy to avoid the war draft.

A story about two classmates - one smart and openly gay and the other school swimming star. They grow as friends and discover their attraction to each other.

Beautiful young women who work at the offices of a phone-sex company are being stalked by a psychopathic killer.

A devil-worshiping woman sends out her four beautiful nieces to lure men back to her place so they can be killed, ground up and sold as meat pies.

A new student moves into school, making enemies with the affluent societies and joining the Science Club.

Bobby Mahon is an actor playing a notorious serial killer on prime-time television. The show becomes a hit, which encourages the real-life murderer on whom it's based, to go on a spree to make it on screen.

Ooga Booga follows an innocent African American medical student who is brutally murdered by a dirty cop, but his soul is magically transferred into an action figure named Ooga Booga. With only his tribal spear and old girlfriend t...

An evil spirit assumes the disguise of a beautiful young woman, so it can seduce and kill men.

Andras Vajda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him i...

Lance, a teenager, dreams to be a Secret Agent, when he is suddenly in the middle of a hacker intrigue, which aims at an International Environmental Congress. Lance gets in possession of a ...

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert takes a twelve-year-old as hostage. Soon, this kid, begins to admire "Stech" for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true.

A gangster's girlfriend is framed and sent to a minimum-security prison.

A woman has nightmares of being buried alive which somehow awakens a long-repressed enity inside her while her greedy, cheating husband plots to murder her for her money.

A reclusive novelist struggles to find romance and meaning in his life despite disastrous and comedic circumstances.