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)
[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)
[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…
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
[7] Scientists discover a prehistoric 'man-fish' in the Amazonian jungle and attempt to capture him for study. But we all know how that goes, right? When the creature takes a fancy to the lone woman in the expedition crew (Julia…
Alien: Romulus (2024)
[2] The seventh film in the Alien franchise is by far the worst of the litter, featuring a juvenile cast lacking any charisma who lead us through a tediously dull pastiche of the series' greatest hits. Alien: Romulus reeks of…
The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
[7] A group of cowboys and showmen travel to a hidden valley in Mexico where prehistoric creatures are rumored to live. Once there, they square off against several dinosaurs and capture one of them -- an Allosaurus nicknamed 'Gwangi' --…
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
[7] Oliver Reed gives a compelling performance as a man cursed with becoming a werewolf when the moon is full. After being conceived from rape and losing his mother in childbirth, Reed's character is taken in by a kind couple…
The Descent (2005)
[8] Neil Marshall follows up his auspicious feature directorial debut, Dog Soldiers, with this all-female plunge into the claustrophobic depths of Appalachian caves. The Descent reminds me of From Dusk Til Dawn in that it's really two completely different movies…
Frankenstein (2025)
[7] Director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth) puts his cinematic stamp on Mary Shelley's formative sci-fi novel, casting Oscar Isaac (Dune: Part One, Annihilation) as the obsessed Victor Frankenstein who brings an assembly of dead body…
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
[6] Director/co-writer/actor John Krasinski serves up another helping of his intimate and suspenseful alien apocalypse story. The sequel begins with a flashback sequence of the day the aliens came to earth and began decimating the world's population. Krasinski appears in…