Leviathan (1989)
The plot: Set sometime in the near future, we follow a crew of eight on the last few days of their stint working for a deep-sea silver mining operation off the coast of Florida....
Category: Horror
The Babadook (2014)
Old-school horror thrills are on the agenda for this low-budget Australian shocker that emerges as one of the most effective scary films of 2014. It’s nothing too new in terms of the formula plot,...
The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
The first The Purge had been one of the surprise hits of 2013, earning $64 million on a $3 million budget. What it had was its interesting concept. What it lacked was the budget to really...
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Indie film giant Jim Jarmusch writes and directs another genre musing with Only Lovers Left Alive, which offers a different take on the vampire movie, a subgenre that one would think would have few new...
Predator (1987)
A leaner-than-customary Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Major “Dutch” Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert hostage...
The Purge (2013)
I wish there were a day every year that we, the audience, could just purge all of the memories of films like this. The premise: In the near future, the United States’ government has...
Alien (1979)
A benchmark science fiction film, Alien is a simple premise but given profound and complex treatment. It’s also one of the scariest horror films of it (or any) era, and though its Oscar-winning visual effects...
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
George Zaloom and Les Mayfield, assistants to producer Hilton Green on the set of Psycho II, came up with an idea for another potential sequel. It was a riff on Hitchcock’s Spellbound except with an...
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A breakthrough film for director and co-scripter George Romero (Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead), in what would forever be known as the father of all zombie movies, Night of the Living Dead had...
Army of Darkness (1992)
Army of Darkness represents the third and (so far) final entry in the Evil Dead trilogy by Sam Raimi (Darkman, The Quick and the Dead), further continuing the trend away from the more straightforward horror of The Evil Dead and...