Jack Perez This FAQ is empty. Director: | Director: This British effort makes a decent fist of it, particularly in the eerie early scenes in which the entire global population is blinded by a convincingly psychedelic meteoric light show. Though the Kristen Stewart-led thriller has the inescapable feel of being sewn together from elements of sci-fi thrillers past, there are a handful of inspired sequences, namely the Lovecraftian finale that gives viewers one of the most high-budgeted renditions of the iconic Cthulhu. | King Kong was the standard for giant animal movies for several decades -- and to some extent, it still is. For some, Tim Curry will always embody Pennywise the dancing clown, a manifestation of fear itself. Stars: Plus, ‘Monsters Inc’ is just comic genius, running the gamut from daft, Zucker-esque wordplay (‘Business Shriek’ magazine, Harryhausen’s restaurant) to some of the most sophisticated quickfire visual comedy Pixar ever produced. Chris Carmack, What happens when mosquitoes feed on alien carcasses? Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, and Bridget Fonda lead a team of scientists trying to defeat a giant crocodile who seemingly can't stop eating cows. (Maybe.) | As usual with these classic horror films, the tragic curse comes into play when the hapless Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr) gets scratched while fending off an attacking wolf, then as the full moon rises, a revolting transformation takes hold and as quick as you can say ‘those slacks are going to need a new crotch’ he’s hot on the trail of human blood. 0. René Cardona Jr. John Bromfield, In addition to this, the first ‘Evil Dead’ film also contains one of the most spectacular (and elongated) death scenes in modem film, as we witness an actor covered in flaps of latex reduced to a pool of bubbling Plasticine pus. | Both tell the comic book tale of schlubbish wage slave Ash (the inimitable Bruce Campbell) and his blood-splashed battle with a tranche of accidentally awoken Kandarian demons who want nothing more than to swallow his soul. – David Jenkins. | Gross: Stars: While the visuals are especially sumptuous, the blithering script is no more than a clutch of clichés and even an actor with the innate vivacity and overarching wit of Curry has his work cut out with lines like 'Oh, Mother Night! 39,348 Mark H. Harris has written about cinema and horror films since 2003. Dr. Zeb Hogan travels down under to find an aquatic Australian icon - the Murray Cod - and to uncover why it has virtually disappeared from its namesake waterway - the Murray River. Jaws' legendary stature reaches beyond its legendary theme music to every facet of the film: acting, direction, writing, action, scares -- it delivers on all levels. Just as the vastness of space has given way to countless fictional stories of the terrors up there, the unknown depths of the world's oceans have given way to tales of aquatic mystery. Director: 32,989 Gregor Bloéb, | Votes: Fighting infestation by a shape-shifting alien parasite from the cold comfort of their Arctic research station, MacReady’s already cabin-feverish scientist chums are whittled away in a series of increasingly sickening/wondrous set pieces until some horrifying choices become necessary. Richard Jaeckel, Sean S. Cunningham Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community. 78 min Director: Macarena Gómez, R Director: | It’s a rip-roaring success, fusing to-the-minute anti-social commentary with fabulously icky critter effects and fountains of gore. Of course, it would be easy to contend that Diesel and Co are the real monsters of the piece and that the bat-things were the ones under attack from alien invaders… But where’s the fun in that? The reasons for this are manifold, but one stands out: there’s just no way to make plants scary. Taken, for example, as a metaphor for childhood abuse and its destructive psychological legacy, the film becomes a study of a corrupted woman’s terror of her own emotional potential, and her seething sexual and violent impulses: in a way, the gender-reversed mirror of Cronenberg’s ‘The Fly’, but with a far less romantic, more oppressive and doom-laden atmosphere. Director: With Zeb Hogan, Tristan Guttridge. Saffron Burrows, Richard Dreyfuss, 63 min | Thomas Jane, This time around, Cadillac-sized ants that, for some reason, scream like little girls sneak up on a group of land investors in the Florida swamplands. ... See full summary », Director: In Gary Jones' magnum opus, an experiment to mix spider and alien DNA (Does it matter why?) Horror, Sci-Fi. 6.1. The mixture of computer-generated and practical effects used in the film to bring the leviathan-like sea monster to life results in an unusually unsettling sequence of imagery. | | Adventure, Drama, Horror. Dennis Quaid, A documentary series chronicling the real-life high-sea adventures of the Alaskan crab fishermen. Will Sampson, | The Fly (1987) Director: David Cronenberg. Stars: Stars: Are sentient aliens like ET or Chewbacca eligible? It might be sentimental at times, but when it scares – and it really does scare – it’s a chilling reminder that, no matter your age, clowns are terrifying. | Ralf Moeller, | – Tom Huddleston, Shut up and comb your faceThe humble werewolf has received an enviable number of screen outings in modern times, from Jack Nicholson prancing around as a hirsute sex pervert (insert gag here) in 1994’s ‘Wolf’, through murderous menstrual tension in the underrated ‘Ginger Snaps’ (2000) and wishy-washy teenwolf traumas in ‘Twilight: New Moon’ (2009) to Joe Johnston’s brand new megabudget remake, ‘The Wolfman’, but it’s this rock-solid olde-worlde charmer we’ve chosen for this list. Mimic has the only sorta-kinda made-up creature on this list: a hybrid of a termite and a mantis that's bred to kill cockroaches that are spreading a child-killing disease throughout New York. | A blend of comedy and creature-feature, Lake Placid is nowhere near a "great movie." Full of hammy acting and ridiculous melodrama, It Came From Beneath the Sea makes the list for only two reasons: Ray. Director: | Peggy Feury, R When sharks come from afar, searching for food find a beach for meat. | | It's silly and doesn't altogether work, but Betty White's supporting turn as a local who quips her way around the film is what makes it an enduring romp that at least tried to do something a little off-kilter. James Mason, Adventure, Thriller. (Nope.) Note: this list sticks to large REAL animals; thus, no Godzilla villains or mythical creatures. | Gross: Comment. We resolved early on to rule out zombies and vampires, largely because both genres are good for separate features on their own. Seeing the film again, it’s remarkable that ‘Top Gear’-man's idea of the ultimate Hollywood director, Ridley Scott, was able to craft such an impeccably modulated and eloquent space opera in which structured exposition and intricately drawn characters help to embed the nightmare of the situation far deeper than any crummy gore effects or slap-dash set pieces ever could. Patrick Bergin, | Paul Lukas, Jimmy T. Murakami Edward L. Cahn Richard Carlson, 26,216 Director: Instead, we opted for all the killer rabbits, killer plants, killer fish, killer clowns (‘We all float down here’) and killer dessert. 126 min 91 min The make-up work looks like something you might see at a fancy dress party on an Essex housing project, and thus doesn’t really stand up to some of the more inventive creations on this list. But then again, when you’re the bastard son of man and lungfish (as the labcoat-wearing boffins solemnly inform us), perhaps you’re born with a built-in inferiority complex. Daniel Grodnik Special effects pioneer Willis O'Brien made Kong one of the few cinematic monsters to occupy the emotional as well as the narrative heart of their own movie and his towering achievement is still the benchmark for anyone who would make a myth from a ropey old monster yarn. Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters. These movies usually are in the science fiction, fantasy or horror genre or more than one of the above, but sometimes can be in a different one. One part disco musical, one part mermaid horror film, and another part modern fable, The Lure is the story of two mermaid sisters who become land walking, lounge singing, love-seeking girls in a local community. Billy Warlock – third banana on TV nork-fest ‘Baywatch’ – finds himself literally knee deep in family entanglements when he discovers that his blue-blood parents and all their preening yahoo friends are in fact not just a pack of wheedling, self-obsessed poshos, but a sub-species of mutant, body-melding cannibals given to orgiastic bacchanalia, eating the poor and a ghastly practice known has ‘shunting’ that looks only slightly more inviting than grinding one’s genitalia into overcranked farm machinery. Del Tenney But again, this description only tells one side of the story, and ‘Cat People’ is a film dedicated to exploring every angle on its subject: the male and the female, the victim and the murderer, the monster and the human being. Begun by patriarch Yule Kilcher who immigrated from Europe during WWII, and currently led by his sons, Otto and Atz ... See full summary ». 106 min © 2020 Time Out England Limited and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. 105 min | Vin Diesel’s noble savage Richard B Riddick and an agreeably clichéd band of crash survivors have to contend with the bone-white desert wastes by day, but it’s at night when the fun really begins, as the darkness literally comes alive with shapeless fury. I mean, Jeff Goldblum does turn into a giant fly by the end -- albeit only for the last five minutes. Stars: | Monster High is an American fashion doll franchise created by Mattel and launched in July 2010. The dream is over, and the insect is awakeIf the sign of a truly great monster movie is that it provokes broader emotions than mere horror, then ‘The Fly’ is a masterpiece. Directors: | Gross: [citation needed]. People enter into his strange world to exploit his weird passion, and he uses the animals to gain revenge on ... See full summary », Director: Sara Paxton, Camille Sullivan, R Bad action movie dialogue, awful acting, a corny sense of humor and outdated stop-motion animation combine for a campy good time, thanks to a nice level of gore, some frantic action sequences and the hilarious appearance of the rubber mosquito puppets.