Aliens: Mother Against Mother
Sigourney Weaver. Photo: 20th Century Fox When I first heard about this film, I was 11 or 12 years old and pretty much a novice when it came to movies.…
Pet Sematary II
Geoff Matthews's (Edward Furlong) horror-movie star mother dies in a freak accident; he and his father (Anthony Edwards) move to a small town where a pet cemetery hides a burial…
The Omen
Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber), the American ambassador to Britain, begins to suspect that his five-year-old son could be the anti-Christ. This remake of the 1976 classic uses the color red…
What Lies Beneath
Claire Spencer (Michelle Pfeiffer) discovers that she and hubby Norman (Harrison Ford) live in a haunted house; learning the identity of the spirit puts both her marriage and life at…
The Omen: Arrival of the Antichrist
Lee Remick. Photo: 20th Century Fox In 1973, The Exorcist had been a tremendous hit and came to spawn copies throughout the 1970s. The most successful of these diabolical films…
28 Days Later: The End of Britain
Cillian Murphy. Photo: DNA Films Danny Boyle is emerging as one of the most interesting British directors of our time. Not only because he is obviously gifted, but also because…
Psycho
A few changes were made to this scene-by-scene remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece, but in each instance they add nothing. The use of color makes the movie less scarier…
Halloween: Resurrection
After a final showdown with Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), Michael Myers returns to his childhood home – which college kids have turned into the setting of a reality show.…
The Final Conflict
The son of Satan, Damien Thorn (Sam Neill), is appointed new ambassador to Britain, but his arch-enemy is also headed for London. The third Omen movie shows our boy all…
Damien: Omen II
Satan’s son, Damien (Jonathan Scott-Taylor), has turned 13 and attends a military academy; people close to him begin to sense the kind of power he wields. The second film maintains…