Russell Mulcahy

Directing

Russell Mulcahy

Born 1953-06-23 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Russell Mulcahy (born 23 June 1953 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian film director. His work is easily recognized by his use of fast cuts, tracking shots and use of glowing lights.   Description above from the Wikipedia article Russell Mulcahy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Not Quite Hollywood poster
6.7

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.

Not Quite Hollywood

2008

Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know poster
6.6

Celebrating Duran Duran with exclusive backstage access, interviews with the band and rare footage charting their rise to fame, and the highs and lows of their career.

Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know

2018

The Horror Crowd poster
5.7

Revealing, intimate documentary spotlighting the Hollywood horror community.

The Horror Crowd

2020

Beyond Raccoon City: Unearthing 'Resident Evil: Extinction' poster
2.2

Extensive document of Extinction’s creation, featuring star Milla Jovovich, director Russell Mulcahy, producer Paul W.S. Anderson, and more.

Beyond Raccoon City: Unearthing 'Resident Evil: Extinction'

2008

The Players: The Cast of 'Extinction' poster
NR

The cast of “Resident Evil: Extinction” discuss their their characters. Produced for the “Resident Evil: Extinction” DVD.

The Players: The Cast of 'Extinction'

2008

Classic Albums: Duran Duran - Rio poster
6.9

This entry in the Classic Albums series examines RIO, the 1982 release that put Duran Duran on the road to stardom. Looking back at the creation and release of the hit singles "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Save a Prayer," and many others, the critical retrospective analyzes the album's overall effect on the musical landscape of the early 1980s. The optimistic and celebratory album generated a string of hit singles and groundbreaking videos, catapulting the band to global stardom. This DVD tells the story behind the writing, recording, and subsequent success of the album through newly filmed interviews, musical demonstrations, and both new and archival performances.

Classic Albums: Duran Duran - Rio

2008

Behind the camera

Highlander poster
6.9

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

Highlander

1986

Teen Wolf: The Movie poster
7.4

The wolves are howling once again, as a terrifying ancient evil emerges in Beacon Hills. Scott McCall, no longer a teenager yet still an Alpha, must gather new allies and reunite trusted friends to fight back against this powerful and deadly enemy.

Teen Wolf: The Movie

2023

The Shadow poster
6.1

Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "the power to cloud men's minds", The Shadow comes blazing to the rescue with explosive results.

The Shadow

1994

Highlander II: The Quickening poster
4.7

The Prize has been won. Connor MacLeod is mortal... Now an old man on the verge of death, memories of his past on the planet Zeist resurface, where a vengeful enemy, General Katana, plots to destroy him once and for all.

Highlander II: The Quickening

1991

The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior poster
4.7

The heroic tale of young Mathayus and his relentless quest for justice against an evil and powerful villain, King Sargon. Mathayus faces heart-stopping tribulations during his adventurous, odds-defying trajectory toward his ultimate destiny: becoming the formidable warrior king of an ancient desert empire.

The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior

2008

Bait poster
5.7

A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.

Bait

2012

Ricochet poster
6.1

An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Ricochet

1991

Resurrection poster
6.1

A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along with perversely ironic biblical quotes.

Resurrection

1999

Silent Trigger poster
5.2

Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman and fellow assassin Clegg become that agency's prime targets.

Silent Trigger

1996

The Real McCoy poster
5.7

Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated, Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately, between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex, she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.

The Real McCoy

1993

Prayers for Bobby poster
8.1

Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.

Prayers for Bobby

2009

Resident Evil: Extinction poster
6.3

Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.

Resident Evil: Extinction

2007

Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy poster
4.7

Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the cursed seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book, and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthirsty Talos.

Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy

1998

Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy poster
4.7

Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the cursed seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book, and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthirsty Talos.

Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy

1998

In Like Flynn poster
4.9

A mostly true account of future Hollywood star Errol Flynn's sea adventures in the early thirties, sailing from Australia to Papua in search of gold, along with his best friend Rex, a former Canadian smuggler; Dook, a handy English gentleman; and Charlie, a grumpy old sailor.

In Like Flynn

2018

Give 'em Hell, Malone poster
5.7

A tough as nails private investigator (Malone) squares off with gangsters and their thugs to protect a valuable secret. Malone goes through hell to protect the information but he dishes some hell as well...

Give 'em Hell, Malone

2009

The Lost Battalion poster
6.7

Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.

The Lost Battalion

2001

On the Beach poster
6.2

The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.

On the Beach

2000

No artwork available
NR

A mother struggling with addiction is forced to resurrect a violent past to rescue her kidnapped daughter from ruthless human traffickers.

The Savior

Blue Ice poster
5.3

An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.

Blue Ice

1992

Razorback poster
5.9

In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.

Razorback

1984

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb poster
5.1

Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

2006

Swimming Upstream poster
6.8

A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment towards him as the father deals with his own demons.

Swimming Upstream

2003

While the Children Sleep poster
5.1

A prosperous couple find the perfect live-in nanny but soon discover she intends to do her job to deadly perfection.

While the Children Sleep

2007