Frankenstein: Dethroning God
Boris Karloff. Photo: Universal Mary Shelley was only 19 years old when she finished writing the story of Frankenstein. I don't know what kind of childhood she had that led…
Alien vs. Predator
An expedition heads to Antarctica hoping to find ancient ruins underneath the ice; the mission is successful, but they also run into two species of monsters. The man who gave…
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
When paleontologist Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore) decides to go to John Hammond's (Richard Attenborough) second dinosaur-inhabited island, her boyfriend (Jeff Goldblum) reluctantly joins the expedition. Regarding the script, there’s nothing…
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…
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…
Eight Legged Freaks
After an accident with toxic waste, spiders mutate and grow in size, eventually attacking humans in a small Arizona town. A film in the vein of Tremors (1989) and Arachnophobia…
Jaws: A Whale of an Adventure
Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss. Photo: Universal In 1975, scientists knew a thing or two about sharks. The public, however, seemed to be largely ignorant. That must be…
Godzilla
As a result of French nuclear tests in the Pacific, a dinosaur mutates and turns into a huge killing machine that attacks New York. Well, turns out that size didn’t…