Alien: The Deadly Stowaway
Sigourney Weaver. Photo: 20th Century Fox The most famous sequence of this horrifying classic takes place about thirty minutes into the story. Everyone is relaxing after a somewhat gut-wrenching experience.…
The Birds: What If They Turned On Us?
Tippi Hedren. Photo: Universal There are billions of birds all over the world. What if they all suddenly turned on us? Why, we wouldn’t stand a chance, as one of…
The Visitors
Frank (Kjell Bergqvist) and his family move into an old countryside house, but problems are mounting… especially the fact that something creepy is hiding in the attic. Admittedly, this low-budget…
Freddy Vs. Jason
Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) manipulates Jason Vorhees (Ken Kerzinger) into slaughtering teens on Elm Street; that’s supposed to make Freddy strong enough to mount a comeback. On paper, this is…
The Ring
This surprisingly effective remake of Ringu (1998), a Japanese chiller, became a box office smash and helped elevate Naomi Watts to stardom. She is engaging as the reporter who watches…
Friday the 13th
As teenagers arrive at a summer camp on Crystal Lake, someone there decides that they all deserve to die... Inspired by Halloween (1978), this film has become the crowning achievement…
Alien Resurrection
200 years after Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) death, we find her clone on a ship full of monsters that scientists use for research. Gee, you don’t think they will escape...? With…
Poltergeist III
In this third film in the series, Carol Anne’s (Heather O’Rourke) family is out of the picture and the setting has changed from a California house to a Chicago highrise…
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
The Freelings are recuperating after the first film’s horrific events, but the vicious specters, led by a dead preacher, once again try to get the family under their spell. This…
Alien³
After crash-landing on a remote prison planet, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and the convicts find themselves fighting another monster. David Fincher, in his directing debut, had his work cut out;…