Every Dolph Lundgren Horror Movie Ranked
Every Dolph Lundgren Horror Movie, Ranked
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Horror has recently become something of a niche for Rocky IV’s breakout star/’80s action icon Dolph Lundgren, but how do his 7 genre efforts rank?
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Rocky IV star Dolph Lundgren has made all manner of B-movies over the years, but how do the cult actor’s horror offerings rank? Almost every actor has some horror lurking on their CV. Whether it is a few early, embarrassing roles like future star Bradley Cooper’s horror movies or a string of parts as the scream queen du jour like Jamie Lee Curtis, most actors will have at least a few forays into horror during their screen career.
However, some stars turn to the genre later in their careers due to its low budget and quick turnaround. Horror movies are famously cheap and quick to produce, meaning more prolific stars can act in numerous genre outings within the same year if they please. That approach seems to be exactly how ‘80s action icon/Rocky IV breakout star Dolph Lundgren is spending his later career.
Lundgren’s love affair with horror has not begun as recently as 2010, although his output in the genre has increased dramatically since then. No, Lundgren’s horror pedigree stretches as far back as a 1990 horror-comedy, a 1998 religious horror, and a 2013 zombie horror before his recent spate of genre releases. So, how do these outings rank in comparison with each other, and which is the best of Dolph Lundgren’s seven horror movies?
Shark Lake (2015)
An unforgivably boring monster movie, 2015’s low-effort Lundgren outing Shark Lake is about as imaginative as its title. This straight-to-DVD dud has some unintentionally funny moments, like the movie treating Lundgren’s character losing custody of his daughter as an outrageous miscarriage of justice when imprisoned for endangering the public by letting an endangered shark species loose in a public lake moments earlier. However, these laughs are few and far between, and this Jaws knockoff will mostly leave viewers wishing they threw on the real, less convoluted Stephen Spielberg monster movie.
Dead Trigger (2017)
Imagine being so good at video games that the government recruited you to kill real-life zombies and save scientists who were trying to find a cure for the apocalyptic outbreak. Then imagine a government competent enough to design a game that trains zombie killers but unable to avoid or contain a zombie outbreak in the first place. If both these ideas don’t feel like too much of a stretch, 2017’s Dead Trigger may be worth a watch. For everyone else, this zombie horror that sees Lundgren’s tough mercenary lead a crack team of gamers into a zombie-ridden city is nowhere near as funny as that description may sound, playing things disappointingly straight and making for one of the actor’s more forgettable outings.
The Minion (1998)
Unfortunately, no relation to the Despicable Me franchise (which Lundgren will soon appear in the upcoming fourth installment of), The Minion is instead a turn-of-the-millennium supernatural action-horror wherein Lundgren’s tough-guy hero needs to stop the titular servant of the Antichrist from freeing his master before 1999 ends. Credit where it is due, The Minion was released before the very similar Stigmata and End of Days, both action-horrors with near-identical premises that arrived only a year later. That said, this one is unfortunately not quite as fun as either of the later, bigger-budget religious horror blockbusters, although the action sequences are perfectly passable. Worth a watch for viewers who want to see an ’80s muscle man stop the apocalypse via Christianity but can’t stand Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Welcome to Willits (2016)
An attempt to follow up 2016’s Don’t Kill It with another goofy horror-comedy hit, the same year’s Welcome to Willits is a less focused but still fun entry into the sub-genre. Here, Lundgren takes a backseat and plays a deadpan supporting role as a small-town sheriff dumbfounded by a string of slasher-style killings. The culprit is the movie’s sort-of-antihero, sort-of-villain, a delusional drug dealer convinced his marijuana farm is being invaded by aliens and killing a group of unfortunate trespassers one-by-one as a result. As that description implies, this ambitiously odd blend of Fargo, Without A Paddle, and You Might Be The Killer doesn’t entirely add up as a slasher story. However, as a periodically entertaining, offbeat horror-comedy, it has its moments, and it is elevated by a charming comic turn from Lundgren.
Battle of the Damned (2013)
The imperfect but ambitious Battle of the Damned boasts one of Lundgren’s better action-horror conceits, and it is one that viewers may have heard before. A group of mercenaries is sent into a zombie-infested city by a rich benefactor who may or may not have shady ulterior motives and must take on both zombies and robots in the ensuing melee. The lower-budget Battle of the Damned does have similarly gonzo energy that makes the movie one of Lundgren’s stronger horror, more unabashedly fun outings despite not quite reaching levels like Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead,
Don’t Kill It (2016)
The second horror-comedy on this rundown, 2016’s Don’t Kill It, is also the first serious contender for the top spot. Lundgren stars as a demon hunter who tracks a body-hopping demon to small-town Mississippi in what is essentially a bloodier, funnier remix of the underrated Fallen (1998). It’s a wild, funny, gory, and authentically unpredictable horror-comedy, and one that only loses out on the top spot because Lundgren’s earlier movies have an undeniable nostalgia factor missing in this recent release.
I Come In Peace (1990)
I Come In Peace is a sleazy slice of action/comedy/sci-fi/horror that fits the “buddy cop meets unlikely genre element” blueprint of its contemporaries Dead Heat, The Hidden, and Split Second. Fortunately, like those three, I Come In Peace is also a wildly underrated hidden gem that thoroughly deserves the cult following it is finally receiving decades after its release. Directed by Craig R. Baxley, who would go on to shoot some solid Stephen King miniseries, the campy thriller follows Lundgren’s Detective Jack Caine, a cop tasked with taking down some white-collar heroin dealers who killed his partner.
If the image of drug dealers dressed as Wall St yuppies isn’t enough to sell the prospective viewer, the news that an alien cop is also pursuing an alien drug dealer who is killing addicts in the same city should do it. The premise is admittedly similar to Predator 2, but with the big advantage that Lundgren and this alien cop soon team up to take down both the human and alien drug dealers. If that sentence alone doesn’t sell I Come In Peace, nothing will. A charming, bloody, fast-paced thrill ride that lives up to its ingeniously absurd premise, this one is comfortably Dolph Lundgren’s best horror movie.
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