The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

[4] Even if we can remove the Creature from his lagoon, can we successfully take the lagoon out of the Creature? In the Gill Man's second sequel, Jeff Morrow and Rex Reason (both from This Island Earth) play scientists looking…
Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

[5] Sigourney Weaver returns for her fourth (and thus far final) Alien film, resurrected by scientists seeking to extract the alien queen she was carrying at the end of Alien 3 when she heroically back-dived into a vat of molten…
Alien 3 (1992)

Alien 3 (1992)

[6] After surviving two terrifying rounds with the alien xenomorphs, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crash-lands on an all-male prison planet where a few dozen convicts have found God in an abandoned mining facility. But God can't save them from the alien…
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

[3] When I heard they were making a feature-length movie out of a teeny-weenie section of Bram Stoker's Dracula, focusing solely on Dracula's boat trip from Romania to England, I wondered, "How are they going to keep that from getting…
Horror Express (1972)

Horror Express (1972)

[7] British horror icons Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing play rival scientists trying to contain a defrosted prehistoric creature aboard the Trans-Siberian Express in this moody midnight horror flick. The monster's kill count starts to feel repetitive and you'll have…
The Fly II (1989)

The Fly II (1989)

[8] Eric Stoltz (Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful) stars in the sequel to 1986's The Fly, playing the genetically-altered son of Seth Brundle, the scientist who accidentally turned himself into a giant fly in the first movie. Stoltz's character, Martin,…
The Fly (1986)

The Fly (1986)

[9] Jeff Goldblum (Silverado, The Big Chill) plays an inventor who creates teleportation pods that can molecularly deconstruct matter from one location and reconstitute it in another. After he uses himself as a test subject, he's elated by the strength…
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

[6] The third film in the A Quiet Place franchise is a prequel set in New York City the day the vicious alien monsters arrived. If you've seen the previous films, you know the deal: The monsters are blind, but…
Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Revenge of the Creature (1955)

[6] The first sequel to The Creature from the Black Lagoon finds the Gill Man captured and put on display in a Florida theme park. There he's studied by a couple of smitten scientists (John Agar and Lori Nelson) who…
Grizzly (1976)

Grizzly (1976)

[3] An 18-foot tall grizzly bear finds its way into a state park and starts severing heads and limbs in this low-budget, unabashed Jaws rip-off. A park ranger (Christopher George), a naturist (Richard Jaeckel), and a chopper pilot (co-writer Andrew…