Scream: Murder Movie Mania

Drew Barrymore. Photo: Dimension In 1994, Wes Craven directed his New Nightmare, the only Freddy Krueger flick he made after the original. It was a surprisingly intelligent outing, a meta-slasher…

Jaws the Revenge 

After losing her youngest son to a shark, Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) goes to the Bahamas to get away from Amity, but the shark follows her. I don’t know if…

Jaws 3-D 

When a great white swims into Sea World in Florida, the oldest Brody son, Mike (Dennis Quaid), must confront his old fears. All of a sudden the Brody boys are…

Jaws 2

Chief of Police Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) begins to suspect that another great white is killing people in the waters off Amity Island, but the mayor refuses to listen to…

Final Destination 3 

As Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and friends are about to take a roller coaster ride, she has a premonition of a major accident and they decide not to take…

Final Destination 2 

After having a vision where she dies in a violent highway pileup, Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) and a few others narrowly escape death... but then the strange accidents begin. The…

Cloverfield: Finishing al-Qaeda’s Work

Photo: Paramount The marketing campaign was brilliant. Few had talked about Cloverfield before the first teaser trailer, but after that it was on everybody’s mind. What is this? A disaster…

I Know What You Did Last Summer 

On graduation night, four high school students accidentally hit a pedestrian with their car; they dump the body into the ocean, but that’s not the last they hear of their…

Psycho: Sins of the Mother

Janet Leigh. Photo: Universal In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock decided to shake things up after making several films that were in color, generously budgeted and featured A-list stars. His new picture…