Susan Lanier

Acting

Susan Lanier

Born 1947-08-01 · Dallas, Texas, USA

Susan Lanier, also known as Suze Lanier-Bramlett, was born in Dallas, Texas. This multi-talented and sassy actress, producer, director, writer, vocalist and musician is most known for starring in The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Welcome Back, Kotter (1975) and Cut! (2014). She has performed everywhere from Broadway with Tennessee Williams to the big screen with Wes Craven to the small screen opposite John Travolta. She was married to musical icon Delaney Bramlett.

Acting credits

The Hills Have Eyes poster
6.2

Taking an ill-advised detour en-route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their RV breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, they find themselves at the mercy of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills.

The Hills Have Eyes

1977

Johnny Dangerously poster
6.3

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Johnny Dangerously

1984

The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 poster
4.3

A motocross team on their way to trial a new super-fuel head out across the desert lead by Rachel, who, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, is a survivor of the cannibal clan which menaced the Carter family several years before.

The Hills Have Eyes Part 2

1985

Area 51 poster
5.0

Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.

Area 51

2015

Betrothed poster
2.9

A trip to the store turns into a surreal nightmare when a college student is kidnapped by a deranged, dysfunctional family. Now Audra West finds herself trapped in the middle of the desert, and betrothed to Adam, the youngest son of the murderous clan. As a determined detective conducts a frantic search, Audra realizes the only way to survive is to escape. But even if she could get away, almost two hundred miles of desert lies between her and help.

Betrothed

2016

Man-Eater poster
NR

Friends go for a camping trip and run into a cannibalistic killer.

Man-Eater

2025

No Solicitors poster
3.0

Lewis Cutterman is a well respected brain surgeon and happily married with two beautiful children who run the family business. They are model citizens within the community. A simple visit to their home by a solicitor is greeted by an invitation to dinner; except dinner takes a macabre turn when the solicitor finds himself drugged by the family. Waking up, the solicitor soon discovers they will be slowly eaten piece by piece and that the kid's family business is to farm out their internal organs to needy patients.

No Solicitors

2015

Madame X poster
6.7

Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her daughter. The daughter, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

Madame X

1981

Inverted poster
7.0

An off-the-grid satanic cult known as "The Inverts" kidnap a group of diverse individuals to recruit for the Holy War against the second coming of Christ.

Inverted

2024

The Night the Bridge Fell Down poster
6.2

A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his means of escape refusing to let any of the rescuers draw near the survivors. Time is running out ...

The Night the Bridge Fell Down

1980

Her Life as a Man poster
5.3

To land a sportswriting job on a national magazine run by a chauvinistic editor, an aspiring female reporter convincingly disguises herself as a man to get the inside story.

Her Life as a Man

1984

The Black Mass poster
5.2

In 1978, a serial killer searches for victims amongst the female student population of a Florida university.

The Black Mass

2024

Cut! poster
4.2

Nothing is as it seems as an ex-con and aspirant filmmaker set out to manufacture a horror film by scaring real people; however, when it goes too far and someone actually dies, the pair decide that killing for real on film is the way to make a truly terrifying movie.

Cut!

2014

Looking Back at 'The Hills Have Eyes' poster
6.3

This laid-back interview-laden documentary about the film Hills Have Eyes, The (1977) details the entire production of the movie. All of the financing and weather problems are explained, as well as many other difficulties on set. The interviewees also talk about their starts in the film industry, which took place in and around when the film was made.

Looking Back at 'The Hills Have Eyes'

2003

Beneath the Black Veil poster
0.5

After losing their child in a horrific accident, Aaron and Genna's once idyllic life is turned upside down. They begin to question how a loving God could take their little boy from them. Desperate to seek revenge against God, they begin to break each of the ten commandments. But their desire for vengeance will be bittersweet.

Beneath the Black Veil

2019

The Boatyard poster
NR

A group of friends go on a cruise, then things go terribly wrong and they find themselves fighting for their lives.

The Boatyard

2023

The Pickle Goes in the Middle poster
NR

A naive stranger gets caught up in a criminal gang's attempt to take over a fast-food franchise.

The Pickle Goes in the Middle

1973