Born with a rare hypopituitary disorder, Esther Coleman aka Leena Klammer is a grown woman who looks like a 9-year-old girl. She manipulates families into adopting her, tries to seduce the husband of the family, and kills everyone if things don’t go her way.

Born with supernatural powers that can cause animals and people around her to go insane and kill themselves, Samara Morgan was eventually murdered by her adopted parents but came back as a vengeful ghost that unleashed a cursed video on the world that allows her to kill anyone who sees it after 7 days.

Albert Shaw aka The Grabber terrorized a Denver suburb in the 70s, kidnapping young boys and locking them in his basement before ultimately killing them.

The leader of the True Knot cult, Rose the Hat and her followers hunt down and kill children who have the Shining, absorbing their psychic essence called “steam” which allows them to live for centuries and maintain and enhance their psychic powers.

Forced on vacation by his brother and sister-in-law, Chicago cop Jack Wild becomes the only one who can stop a group of terrorists who have taken over the ski resort they are staying at and later has to save a train full of hostages from a different group of terrorists.

A hitman, Alex Lewis, finds that he’s become a target after he refuses to complete a job for the dangerous criminal organization that employs him.

Putting up a front as a pool cleaner in the San Fernando Valley, Bud Jablonski is actually a vampire hunter who needs to get back into the vampire hunter’s union in order to make enough cash to prevent his ex-wife and daughter from moving to Florida.

Back on the job after an extended break, mercenary/assassin Ladybug takes a simple job retrieving a briefcase from a Japanese bullet train but finds the train full of fellow assassins with their own, conflicting, agendas.

Trying to prove herself as a Comanche hunter and warrior, Naru finds herself up against a Predator and has to figure out how to survive and defeat the intergalactic big-game hunter.

A former FBI agent, Tom Lone is presumed dead along with his family but he secretly undergoes plastic surgery to take on the persona of international assassin Rogue in order to exact his revenge.

Probably kicking off with Tim Burton’s Batman in 1989 but definitely with Dick Tracy in 1990, the early to mid-90s was full of big, pulpy blockbusters like The Rocketeer, The Shadow, The Mask of Zorro, and The Phantom, the latter of which you can watch in this week’s Everything Action Theater.