Maxwell Caulfield - 1990s

1990s

• Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1990): Robert Van Helsing (Bruce Campbell) is an incompetent descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, exploring the small town of Purgatory in search of his infamous ancestor. But Purgatory is inhabited by reclusive vampires (M. Emmet Walsh) et al., who prefer to take it easy and lounge around in sunglasses and sun cream - a protection against the sun's deadly rays. David Harrison (Jim Metzler) is an expert in the production of synthetic blood, and has been summoned by Jozek Mardulak David Carradine, as Purgatory's blood-making facility is not working. Harrison is unaware that Purgatory is populated by vampires, thinking his work as part of an official experiment, and ends up in a vampire civil war: the evil Shane (Caulfield) - another vampire elder - prefers the traditional ways of obtaining blood.

• Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992): Waxwork II: Lost in Time reunited Caulfield with Campbell, Carradine, and Metzler. Waxwork 2 also featured Caulfield's real-life wife, Juliet Mills. Waxwork 2 is a series of short tales stitched together by a wraparound story and the original film. Caulfield stars in the science fiction segment, in which a crew of astronauts find their space ship the target of aliens.

• Gettysburg (1993): Caulfield starred alongside Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Sam Elliott, and Martin Sheen in Ronald F. Maxwell's 254 minute epic film, which co-starred Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell, Richard Jordan, James Lancaster, and Stephen Lang. The film recounted the Battle of Gettysburg that took place 1 to 3 July 1863, as based on the book The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. Caulfield played Colonel Strong Vincent, a lawyer who gained notoriety as an officer during the battle of Little Round Top. He successfully defended Little Round Top with his Union brigade, and was mortally wounded during the battle.

• Empire Records (1995): Caulfield starred alongside Rory Cochrane, Ethan Embry, Anthony LaPaglia, Debi Mazar, Brendan Sexton III, Robin Tunney, Liv Tyler, Johnny Whitworth and Renée Zellweger as Rex Manning, a sleazy has-been pop star, in Allan Moyle's film, Empire Records (1995). Plot: Empire Records is a small, independent record shop managed by Joe (LaPaglia). His employees are all high-school students and young adults. The store is set somewhere in Delaware. Rex Manning is invited to the shop by Joe for an autograph signing session. A washed-up pop singer, Manning, who still believes he should be treated as a star, makes a move on the young Gina (Zellweger). This only adds to Joe's mounting problems, as the shop is in danger of being turned into a Music Town chain store and the staff have gambled and lost his savings at a Atlantic City casino, albeit in an unselfish final bid to save Empire Records. Caulfield provided vocals for the song "Say No More (Mon Amore)", which plays relentlessly in the shop prior to his arrival on Rex Manning Day. Initially, the film fared moderately on a critical level and poorly on a commercial level, but has since garnered a cult status (the youngsters in the film being typically Generation X material).

• Prey of the Jaguar (1996): In 1996, Caulfield played the costumed avenger "The Jaguar". After his family is killed by drug dealers, Derek Leigh (Caulfield), an American cop and ex-military Special Operations agent, adopts the persona of vigilante superhero "Jaguar". He is inspired by a cartoon character invented and sketched by his late son. Leigh eventually exacts his revenge on the drug lord.

• Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996): In the City of Oblivion, a suave, yet lethal bounty hunter named Sweeney (Caulfield) arrives to arrest the seductive outlaw Lash on multiple charges, including murder. Lash, who has just inherited a mine of Derconium, a valuable mineral, from Crowley in a card game, meets up with the brother of Jaggar, Redeye. Jaggar wants the mine for himself, so he can rule the galaxy. Thus ensues a fight over who will capture Lash: the Sheriff of Oblivion vs Jaggar vs Sweeney. Oblivion 2: Backlash is part science fiction, part Western, part Fantasy. It is part of the B-film horror production company, Full Moon Features aka Full Moon Entertainment. Oblivion 2: Backlash also features Andrew Divoff, Isaac Hayes, and Meg Foster.

• The Real Blonde (1997): Caulfield had a starring role in Tom DiCillo's The Real Blonde (1997) opposite Matthew Modine and Catherine Keener. Plot: Joe and Mary have been living together in Manhattan for six years. Joe is an waiter-actor, who has no agent or acting credits, but is nevertheless extremely ambitious. Mary works as a make-up stylist for hot fashion photographer Blair, and she pays most of the couple's bills. Joe finally lowers his standards and accepts a degrading bit-part in a Madonna video, while his friend and co-waiter Bob gets a high-paying job on a soap opera opposite siren Kelly. Caulfield played Bob, a pretentious British actor who sleeps with models and subsequently drops them for not being real blondes. He eventually finds "The Real Blonde" when he meets actress, Kelly (Hannah), his co-star on the soap opera. She, however, turns out to be equally pretentious, while Bob's girlfriend proper, Savannah (Wilson), is truly in love with him.

• The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997): Caulfield made a cameo appearance in the Bill Murray espionage spoof, The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997). He appears near the end of the film as a secret agent.

• Dazzle (1999) was a British fantasy film, in which Caulfield played a widowed children's writer with writer's block; a fairy takes on human form and enters his life and that of his daughter.