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Looking for reviews of Jill Schoelen movies? Cinafilm has a total of 505 reviews across 10 movies.
Movies starring Jill Schoelen have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 54%.
Rich Girl - released in 1991 - is Jill Schoelen's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 2 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jill Schoelen is Chiller - released in 1985 - with a score of 33% based on 11 reviews.
A more unconventional husky-voiced "scream queen" heroine of the 1980s was Jill Schoelen, daughter of well-known fashion designer Dorothy Schoelen. Born and raised in Burbank, she studied at the Acting for Life Theatre in Burbank and started off on TV as a teen in the Fame-influenced TV pilot called Best of Times (1981) (TV) starring the up-and-coming Nicolas Cage and Crispin Glover. She gained in experience with a number of innocuous films geared mostly toward the young, including D.C. Cab (1983), Thunder Alley (1985) and Hot Moves (1984). The dark-eyed, black-haired pretty with the trademark bangs wouldn't find her horror niche until hooking up with Wes Craven and his TV movie Chiller (1985) (TV). From there she scored big with the cult shocker The Stepfather (1987) wherein she played the resourceful stepdaughter terrorized by the lecherous, meek-appearing Terry O'Quinn as the title monster.
The sleeper hit put Jill on the map with a seemingly solid future, continuing on with The Phantom of the Opera (1989), this time keeping company opposite Freddy Krueger inhabiter Robert Englund as her deranged pursuer. But a few bumps in the road with such lowgrade fodder as Curse II: The Bite (1989), Cutting Class (1989) and Popcorn (1991) put a permanent damper on her career, despite coming back with a bit of grit in the thriller TV movie When a Stranger Calls Back (1993) (TV). Her object-of-a-stalker days behind her after filming Not Again! (1996), she settled comfortably back and raised two children with husband/musician/composer Anthony Marinelli.
Jill Schoelen has acted in films with Paul Gleason, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Dermot Mulroney.
Jill Schoelen has worked with these film directors: Wes Craven, Joel Schumacher, Christopher Cain and Floyd Mutrux.
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