[7] Maybe I crave Bigfoot movies and the innocence of the 1970s so much that I give half-way decent ‘Squatch flicks more credit than I should, but I was impressed with Creature from Black Lake, a low-budget film with production values that exceeded my expectations. John David Carson and Dennis Fimple star as a pair of Chicago college students traveling to rural Arkansas to investigate …
[4] After a comet wipes out most of Earth’s population, a valley girl and her sister roam the empty streets of Los Angeles fighting zombies and entangling with a shady group of scientists who want to harvest their blood. Night of the Comet sounds like it could be a fun genre romp, but writer/director Thom Eberhardt (Captain Ron, Gross Anatomy) never finds the right tone …
[8] Mel Gibson headlines this M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable) sci-fi thriller about a single father (Gibson) of two young children and his younger brother (Joaquin Phoenix) who discover mysterious crop circles in their fields. Signs unfolds like George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, depicting a global nightmare — in this case, alien invasion — from the claustrophobic perspective of one family …
[7] Naomi Watts (Mulholland Dr) stars as a journalist investigating the bizarre, synchronized deaths of four teenagers who died exactly seven days after watching a disturbing videotape. After watching the tape herself, the clock starts ticking for Watts’s character. She finds herself in an island community where a troubled young girl named Samara (Lilo & Stitch‘s Daveigh Chase in flashbacks) seems to be at the …
[6] Steve Railsback and Peter Firth star in this film by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist) that revolves around an invasion of London by, well… space vampires. Railsback heads the space exploration team that finds the humanoid creatures on an alien ship, but once the creatures arrive on Earth they begin sucking the lifeforce out of everyone who crosses their path. Hooper said …
[9] With this re-telling of Dracula and Nosferatu, director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) re-solidifies his position as the most exciting artist working in cinema today. Eggers casts Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult as a Ellen and Thomas Hutter, a young couple living in 1838 Germany. Their lives are torn apart when Thomas, a real estate agent, is called upon to visit Transylvania where …
[7] Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani star in this disturbing horror film from writer/director Andrzej Zulawski. Adjani’s character asks Neill’s for a divorce, but when Neill refuses to let her go, both of them descend into madness. Possession is part psychological thriller, part dark fantasy, eventually introducing threatening doppelgangers and a weird octopus monster that scores with Adjani. If you ask me what Possession means, …
[6] There were a few dozen Godzilla movies released between the original in 1954 and this one, but The Return of Godzilla is a reboot of sorts. It takes a slightly more serious tone than its predecessors and acts as a direct sequel to the ’54 film. The lowdown: Japan doesn’t want to believe it, but Godzilla has been resurrected from the ocean depths and …
[6] Japan’s Toho Pictures launched a third reboot of their Godzilla franchise with this 29th installment (not counting two American-made movies). Shin Godzilla follows various political figures and public agencies as they deal with the arrival of a giant creature that crawls out of the ocean and starts wreaking havoc across the land. It grows and evolves into the Godzilla we all recognize, only meaner …
[7] Underwater hydrogen bomb testing awakens a prehistoric monster from the depths of the ocean in this Japanese classic that launched a mighty franchise still active today. Godzilla is a lot like King Kong or the Universal Monster Movies in spirit and execution, balancing special effects mayhem with a strong message about the perils of scientific advancement. Other Godzilla movies would improve on the former …
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