
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".

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.