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…
Jurassic Park: A Day at the Zoo
Photo: Universal Computer animated effects was not a new thing in 1992 when Steven Spielberg started shooting this film. Beauty and the Beast (1991) had certain parts of its animation…
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.…
King Kong: An Affair to Remember
Photo: Universal The executives at Universal must have wondered if Peter Jackson had lost his mind. Directing a three-hour remake of an old, classic monster movie sounded like a stupid…
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.…
Monsters, Inc.
Another well-made, visually impressive film from Pixar, this time about a community of monsters in a city whose power supply consists of screams from children who have encountered the monsters…
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…