The comic-book fantasy during the filming of which Brandon (son of Bruce) Lee was shot to death with a prop pistol. We have been assured that the fatal accident has been left out of the final cut, but that doesn't eliminate the ghoulishness of the thing. It's an essential element of the character, Eric Draven (rhymes with raven, synonym for crow), that he stands still for getting riddled with bullets: they can't stop him. That's because he is already dead (riddled with bullets), and has risen from the grave to avenge himself on a gang of low-rent, overmatched bad guys. For the purpose, he has done himself up to look like a cross between early Alice Cooper and Jack Nicholson's The Joker, though the accompanying music-video visuals tend to tip the scales toward the former. Underneath all that makeup, and amid all those pyrotechnics, he could be almost anybody. It was not a part, as the saying goes, to die for. With Ernie Hudson and Michael Wincott; directed by Alex Proyas. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd