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Amazing Maurice, The (2022): Dir. Toby Genkel, Florian Westermann
Feat. Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, Himesh Patel…; An adaptation of Terry Pratchett's book that revisits the tale of the pied piper. Maurice is a streetwise, opportunistic tomcat who contrives a…
Bad Guys, The (2022): Dir. Pierre Perifel; Action comedy from DreamWorks Animation based on Aaron Blabey’s best–selling book series about a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws…
Clifford The Big Red Dog (2021): Dir. Walt Becker
Feat. Jack Whitehall, Darby Camp, Tony Hale…; Spirited animal caper about a 12–year old girl whose love for a rescue dog causes the animal to grow into a giant ten–foot hound, which…
Stray (2020): Dir. Elizabeth Lo; A companion piece of sorts to KEDI (2016), the popular film about the stray cats of Istanbul, that this time presents the dog’s eye–view of…
Crawl (2019): Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper; When a category 5 hurricane hits South Florida, a young woman attempts to save her father and finds herself fighting to survive in a flooded house…
Pet Sematary (2019): Dir. Dennis Widmyer, Kevin Kölsch
Feat. Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow; Nothing if not audacious, this updated screen adaptation of the terrifying Stephen King novel takes liberties with the plot to arguably increase the…
Meg, The (2018): Dir. Jon Turteltaub
Feat. Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson…; Shamelessly cheesy sub–JAWS aquatic entertainment, with Stratham as a deep–sea rescue diver who is going to save a group of scientists…
Rampage (2018): Dir. Brad Peyton
Feat. Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman…; A fun, big–budget monster movie featuring an extraordinarily intelligent silverback gorilla who mutates into a raging creature of enormous size…
Kong: Skull Island (2017): Feat. Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson…; When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster…
47 Metres Down (2016): Dir. Johannes Roberts
Feat. Claire Holt, Mandy Moore; Survival horror with two sisters on vacation in Mexico who become trapped inside a shark viewing cage 47 metres under the ocean. Fairly predictable…
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016): Dir. David Yates
Feat. Eddie Redmayne, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler…; This 1920's period fantasy adventure is the first in the HARRY POTTER universe to be adapted for the screen by J. K. Rowling herself. Eddie Redmayne…
Shallows, The (2016): Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
Feat. Blake Lively; Nail–biting but certainly shallow thriller with Blake Lively as a lone surfer being stalked by a great white shark off the Mexican coast.…
Hunt, The (TV Series) (2015): From the producers of PLANET EARTH come this spectacular nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough that looks at the contest between predator…
Jurassic World (2015): Dir. Colin Trevorrow
Feat. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins…; The monstrous popcorn franchise reboots on the premise of silly humans building a theme park on the original site of Jurassic Park, only to have its…
Revenant, The (2015): Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson…; A masterfully intense dramatization of the gruelling experience of frontiersman Hugh Glass and his fight for survival after being mauled by a bear,…
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014): Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell…; This exciting sequel to the prequel in the PLANET OF THE APES franchise concerns the conflict between a growing nation of genetically evolved apes…
Hidden Kingdoms (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Stephen Fry; This six part BBC nature series uses camera wizardry to contrive high–stakes animal adventures. While seasoned Attenborough viewers may be put…
Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014): Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Fox…; Jumping the shark is this "slightly better" sequel to the unlikely disaster movie hit. The definition of dumb fun.
When Animals Dream (2014): Dir. Jonas Alexander Arnby
Feat. Sonia Suhl, Lars Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter…; 16–year old Marie lives on a small island with her seriously ill mother and her father, who takes care of the family. But suddenly mysterious…
Sharknado (2013): Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard; An irrational internet sensation, this Z–grade disaster movie has gained unlikely cult status on the back of its has–been casting (Tara…
Piranha 3DD (2012): Dir. John Gulager
Feat. Danielle Panabaker, Katrina Bowden, David Koechner…; This chestier sequel to 2010's Piranha remake goes overboard with gratuitous T&A and wanton violence. Dumb, but if you're in the mood, a lot of fun,…
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011): Dir. Rupert Wyatt
Feat. James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow…; A thought–provoking prequel to the PLANET OF THE APES legacy, set during the present day where a genetically–enhanced chimpanzee uses its…
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010): Dir. James Nguyen
Feat. Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore; Shoe–string trash homage to Hitchcock's THE BIRDS that follows a romantic couple whose small town that is attacked by birds.…
Cane Toads: The Conquest (2010): Dir. Mark Lewis; Irreverent filmmaker Mark Lewis' second comically horrific take on the environmental devastation left in the wake of the giant toads' unstoppable…
Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010): Dir. Brad Peyton; Detente is reached in the feline and canine cold war with the former enemies uniting to track down a rogue cat spy with a dangerous Machiavellian…
Marmaduke (2010): Dir. Tom Dey
Feat. Owen Wilson, Emma Stone, George Lopez…; Breezy family fare with the lovable Great Dane wreaking havoc in a new neighbourhood and plotting a bullying doberman's…
Piranha (2010): Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Elisabeth Shue, Richard Dreyfuss, Jerry O'Connell…; Stupefyingly gory remake has the man–eating fish dining out on exhibitionist students while Sheriff Shue must do her best to protect the…
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009): Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman…; Wes Anderson’s quirky, buttoned–up sensibility is a fantastic match for Roald Dahl’s classic tale about a sly, debonair fox (George…
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008): Dir. Raja Gosnell
Feat. Drew Barrymore, Piper Perabo, Andy Garcia…; Cute, comedic tale of self–discovery follows a spolit socialite pooch lost in Mexico (voiced by Drew Barrymore), desperate to find her way home…
Black Water (2007): Dir. David Nerlich, Andrew Traucki
Feat. Maeve Dermody, Diana Glenn, Andy Rodoreda…; A fishing tour turns deadly for tourists when their boat is capsized deep in the swamp by a large crocodile in this skillful survival horror. The…
Cat Dancers (2007): Dir. Harris Fishman; Strangely compelling portrait of a pre–Siegfried and Roy act, who tragically added wild cats to their routine. Somewhat in the tradition of…
Primeval (TV Series) (2007): Feat. Douglas Henshall, Juliet Aubrey; Exciting kidult adventure romp posits time slips in modern–day England that unleash various prehistoric creatures onto the world. From the…
Rogue (2007): Dir. Greg McLean
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington; Second terrifying outing from the dir. of WOLF CREEK centers on a 'rogue' giant crocodile in the Australian outback, whose latest prey is a boatful…
Water Horse, The: Legend of the Deep (2007): Dir. Jay Russell
Feat. Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, Emily Watson…; NZ–filmed magical adventure inspired by the legend of Loch Ness in which a small boy secretly adopts a baby mythical creature that grows to…
Black Sheep (2006): Dir. Jonathan King
Feat. Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney…; A slick splatter–comedy in the Kiwi tradition of BAD TASTE, about a herd of rabid, flesh–eating sheep run amok in rural New…
Snakes on a Plane (2006): Dir. David R Ellis
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Margulies, Rachel Blanchard…; Shamelessly egregious B–movie actioner with Samuel L. Jackson playing an FBI agent escorting a federal murder witness (Phillips) on a…
Cursed (2005): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Portia de Rossi…; Two siblings (Ricci, Eisenberg) are bitten and infected by a werewolf on the loose in their manicured Los Angeles suburb. Discovering that…
Isolation (2005): Dir. Billy O'Brien
Feat. Essie Davis, Sean Harris, Marcel Lures; Macabre Irish thriller contained entirely to a farm where a small group of people are pursued by a group of mutated parasites. Itself a bit of a…
King Kong: Peter Jackson Production Diaries (2005): Presenting a close–to–the–ground account of the forging of Peter Jackson's KING KONG (2005), this shows the filming with all its…
Locusts - Day of Destruction (2005): Dir. David Jackson
Feat. Lucy Lawless, John Heard; Cheese–dipped thriller set in the good ol' US of A, where a swarm of pissed off bio–engineered locusts run riot across the countryside…
Wallace and Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005): Dir. Nick Park
Feat. Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes; Triumphant big–screen leap for the amiably English claymation heroes – Wallace and Gromit – with this effort finding them running…
Land Before Time 11: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2004)
Good Boy! (2003): Dir. John Robert Hoffman; Family comedy has a canine agent is sent to Earth (from the Dogstar) to find out why the planned invasion by dogs has gone awry. Here he finds the…
Bark! (2002): Dir. Kasia Adamik
Feat. Lisa Kudrow, Hank Azaria, Vincent D'Onofrio; A man becomes troubled when his wife starts acting like a dog – barking at strangers, nuzzling family members – and calls on…
Crocodile Hunter, The (Collision Course) (2002): Dir. John Stainton
Feat. Steve Irwin, David Wenham; Surprisingly winning fictional bigscreen outing for its instantly recognisable titular ‘character’ Steve Irwin. When a valuable piece…
Eight Legged Freaks (2002): Dir. Ellory Elkayem
Feat. David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson; Every decade produces at least one eight–legged monster movie, and this one for the CGI generation comes courtesy of Kiwi ‘bug…
Willard (2002): Dir. Glen Morgan
Feat. Crispin Glover, Jackie Burroughs, R. Lee Ermey…; Stylistic update of the 70s mini–classic of the same name, with cult actor Crispin Glover as the meek office clerk who befriends and trains a…
Jurassic Park 3 (2001): Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, William H. Macy…; Sam Neill is the only original cast member to return (save a cameo from Laura Dern) for more run–around with the dinosaurs. Without…
Ginger Snaps (2000): Dir. John Fawcett
Feat. Emily Perkins, Katherine Isabelle, Mimi Rogers; Canadian variation on the teen–horror model mixes the gene pool of adolescent angst with the werewolf genre, adopting lycanthropy as a metaphor…
Deep Blue Sea (1999): Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, LL Cool J; Jaws in an underwater science lab. Actionmeister dir. Renny Harlin (CLIFFHANGER) dispenses with all the important plot–details early, in order…
Lake Placid (1999): Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt; Gleefully silly horror contrivance abitrarily plonks a 30ft Asian crocodile down in Black Lake (where did Lake Placid go?) to dine on pigs, chickens…
An American Werewolf in Paris (1997): Dir. Anthony Waller
Feat. Julie Delpy, Tom Everett Scott; Belated official sequel to the '80s horror–comedy classic takes up with the progeny of the London howler (Julie Delpy), also plagued by…
Anaconda (1997): Dir. Luis Llosa
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Ice-Cube, Jon Voight…; Riverboat excursion through the Amazon proves treacherous for a bunch of wholly unsympathetic stock characters. Among giant man–eating snakes,…
Angry Beavers, The (TV Series) (1997): Kids buddy–slacker series from the heyday of Nickelodeon after school TV about two adolescent beaver brothers who set up flat in a forest pack.…
Edge, The (1997): Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle MacPherson; Cool–headed millionaire Anthony Hopkins, playboy hot–head Alec Baldwin, and their pilot get trapped in the Alaskan wilderness, where they…
Lost World, The (Jurassic Park 2) (1997): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite…; Spielberg steals a few licks from KING KONG for this perfunctory JURASSIC PARK sequel. Yup, its more of the same, really, so its no surprise that the…
Mimic (1997): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam; A mutant strain of humanoid bugs come back to taunt entomologist Mira Sorvino, who enters into a fierce confrontation through the dank, falteringly…
Ghost and the Darkness, The (1996): Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer; When construction on a railroad in 19th century Uganda is interrupted by two ferocious, crafty lions snacking on the workers, the great white hunter…
Project Grizzly (1996): Dir. Peter Lynch; Endearing documentary depicting the improbable quest by self–styled inventor Troy Hurtuboise to construct a suit of armour capable of…
Congo (1995): Dir. Frank Marshall
Feat. Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry; This Jurassic turkey from the usually–golden pen of Michael Crichton follows a mis–matched motley crew into the African jungle to…
Wolf (1994): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader; Jack Nicholson moons through this as a timid book editor–turned–lycanthrope. This is an 'adult' reworking of familiar material that can't…
Jurassic Park (1993): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum…; All–time world box–office champ will be most remembered for the breakthrough computer effects that bring the Dinos to astonishing life.…
Pet Sematary (1989): Dir. Mary Lambert
Feat. Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby; A competent scarefest scripted by Stephen King from his own novel about a country doctor's experiences with things that won't stay dead.
Monkey Shines (1988): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil; A first–rate thriller about an invalid who loses control over his pet monkey that has been subjected to cerebral experiments. Intelligent…
King Kong Lives (1986): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin, John Ashton; A truly blasphemous sequel to the already inessential 1976 remake, has the big ape somehow survive the fall from the World Trade Centre but needing a…
Howling II, The (Your Sister Is A Werewolf) (1985): Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Sybil Danning; A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts. This film has the dubious honour of being…
Silver Bullet (1985): Dir. Daniel Attias
Feat. Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Everett McGill…; Gary Busey livens Stephen King small town werewolf déjà vu.
Teen Wolf / Teen Wolf Too (1985-1986): Dir. Rod Daniel, Christopher Leitch
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Jason Bateman; In TEEN WOLF, Fox plays a high–school student who discovers he has lycanthropic tendencies. The sequel TEEN WOLF TOO continues the story in…
Company of Wolves (1984): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea; This modest, dream–like horror fantasy was liked so much by author Anne Rice, it led to the Irish director calling the shots on INTERVIEW WITH…
Cujo (1983): Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. Dee Wallace-Stone, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly; Of a higher quality than the usual Stephen King adaption, the scariness of this tale of a rabid St Bernard dog will generally depend on your own…
Of Unknown Origin (1983): Dir. George Pan Cosmatos
Feat. Peter Weller, Shannon Tweed; A mostly inspired horror, this suburban myth plays like an extended episode of 'The Twilight Zone', with claws. Peter Weller is a happily married…
Razorback (1983): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whitely, Bill Kerr; The expat–Oz director exercises his burgeoning talent with this local debut about a giant wild pig that terrorises a small country town.
An American Werewolf in London (1981): Dir. John Landis
Feat. Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter; Screamingly funny resuscitatation of the werewolf genre is great fun for the whole family, replete with Oscar–winning effects and many a great…
Full Moon High (1981): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Adam Arkin, Ed McMahon, Elizabeth Hartman…; Wry horror–comedy with Adam Arkin as a jocular teen whose good time in Transylvannia is marred by his transformation into a werewolf. Change of…
Howling, The (1981): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Dee Wallace Stone, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan; A well–regarded werewolf movie that gets funnier and scarier as it progresses. Rob Bottin's bone–crunching werewolf transformation scenes…
Piranha 2 - The Spawning (1981): Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Lance Henriksen; Mediocre but bearable sequel to the fun 1978 horror about the ravenous, maneating fishies. This sacrifices the campy fun of the original for a…
Wolfen (1981): Dir. Michael Wadleigh
Feat. Albert Finney, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines…; Well–made werewolf yarn based around detective Albert Finney's investigation into a series of flesh–shredding killings in…
Alligator (1980): Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo; Post–Jaws monster thriller, with giant alligator lurking in Chicago sewers. John Sayles script.
Any Which Way You Can (1980): Dir. Buddy Van Horn
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis…; Clint Eastwood returns with his ill–tempered pet orangutan 'Clyde', as a truckie fist–fighting his way through the troubles of life. A…
Every Which Way But Loose (1978): Dir. James Fargo
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Beverly D'Angelo…; Rambling, but loosely enjoyable road–movie, has truckie Eastwood 'befriending' a rowdy orangoutan and following a country singer (Locke) across…
Piranha (1978): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy; A gag–filled spoof of JAWS and B–Movies from the 1950s. Premium schlock from the pen of John Sayles.
Swarm, The (1978): Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. Michael Caine, Katherine Ross, Henry Fonda…; The 70s Disaster Movie rarely got this far–out, with Michael Caine trying to swat a cloud of killer bumble–bees. Many other…
Kingdom of the Spiders (1977): Dir. John Bud Cardos
Feat. William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling; Insecticides poison the food supply of the local tarantula population, setting them off on a hysterical man–hunt in the Arizona desert.…
Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1977): Dir. Albert Band
Feat. Michael Pataki, Jose Ferrer; Strange and not a little camp entry in the 'Dracula' series, has a canine incarnation unleash his fangs on Los Angeles while searching for family…
Squirm (1976): Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy; A storm–toppled powerline drives large (and vicious) sandworms out the surrounding swamp–waters, terrifying the local populace in this…
Beast, The (La Bete) (1975): Dir. Walerian Borowczyk
Feat. Lucy Broadhurst; This unsexy, frequently hilarious art–porn parable from the easily aroused dir. of IMMORAL TALES consists of a hairy sasquatch in heat chasing…
Boy and His Dog, A (1975): Dir. L.Q. Jones
Feat. Don Johnson; Intriguingly subversive film about a youth and his telepathic canine friend who scour the post–holocaust landscape in search of civilisation.…
Jaws (1975): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw; Brilliantly executed, famously scary Spielberg pic about a killer fish. Spawned three forgettable sequels (also available!) and dozens of imitations.
Chosen Survivors (1974): Dir. Sutton Roley
Feat. Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel…; Sci–fi horror about a group of people who have been flown to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, after being chosen at random to survive…
Land That Time Forgot, The (1974): Dir. Kevin Conner
Feat. Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon; After ending up on a German submarine in WWI several Americans stumble across an undiscovered South American island, which holds adventure in the…
Phase IV (Phase 4) (1974): Strange structures are appearing in the desert. Scientists are shocked to find that they are the work of super intelligent ants with sinister motives.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Severn Darden; Tired final film in the saga is a chronological prequel to the original that also tries to patch up loose ends of the other chapters. Still…
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Roddy McDowall; The fourth in the series prefaces the original as enslaved Apes revolt against the humans. Worthwhile for those wishing to fill in the gaps of the…
Frogs (1972): Dir. George McCowan
Feat. Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark; Swamp critters exact revenge on wildlife predator Ray Milland in this enjoyable schlockfest. Bonus film with PREMATURE BURIAL.
Legend of Boggy Creek, The (1972): Dir. Charles B. Pierce
Feat. Vern Stierman; Giggle inducing 'documentary' examines the mysterious happenings in lil' ol' Fouke Arkansas where some big ape creature has been stirrin' up folk…
Night of the Lepus (1972): Dir. William Claxton
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun; One of the most incredibly lame (and strange and entertaining) horror films of all time, in which giant mutant rabbits terrorize a small community in…
Blue Water, White Death (1971): Dir. Peter Gimbel
Feat. Tom Chapin, Phil Clarkson, Valerie Taylor…; Groundbreaking and slightly campy doco featuring two shark experts Valerie and Ron Taylor as they attempt to 'de–mystify' the Great White…
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971): Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter; Second sequel brings the Apes back in time to contemporary LA, where the dominant human race exploit the simians. The gimmick makes it hard to…
Willard (1971): Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine; Superb persecuted–teen–gets–revenge picture about a young nerd who identifies more with rodents than people. The sequel, BEN, is…
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970): Dir. Ted Post
Feat. James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans; First and arguably the best of the sequels continues the set up of the original with James Franciscus burrowing underground to discover a mutant…
Planet of the Apes (1968): Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall; Classic sci–fi is a perfect blend of high entertainment and thought–provoking allegory. Charlton Heston and his band of…
Blood Beast Terror, The (1967): Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Peter Cushing; In Victorian rural England, Peter Cushing's murder enquiries uncovers a beastly weremoth and the gruesome experiments of a crazed entymologist.
Birds, The (1963): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy…; Hitch's masterful rendering of Daphne Du Maurier's novella contains some of his most memorable set pieces, as the population of a seaside resort come…
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell…; Quite possibly the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, with Cushing in the lead, investigating the horrors of the Baskerville killings. The 'Hammer'…
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957): Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Michael Landon; A cool Michael Landon scored a big hit in his film debut – a hilarious mishmash of horror and juvenile delinquency dramas.
Tarantula! (1955): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll…; One of the best B–movie directors of the 1950s crafts an effective tale of a manic scientist (Carroll) whose experiments unleash a gigantic and…
Naked Jungle (1954): Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer…; Charlton Heston battles the Marabunta soldier ants that threaten to take over his South American jungle plantation. Eleanor Parker provides some…
Them! (1954): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn; Mutated giant ants run amok after a nuclear test in the New Mexico desert. Atomic parable is a major studio '50s creature feature that benefits from…
Track of the Cat (1954): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Tab Hunter…; Claustrophobic allegorical western finds a feuding family snowbound and under siege from a less than benevolent panther. Certainly something of a…
Thing, The (The Thing From Another World) (1951): Dir. Christian Nyby
Feat. Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite; Howard Hawksian macho men in leather tussle it out with men in cardies over how to protect themselves from the abomidable alien outside in the snow.…
Mighty Joe Young (1949): Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong…; Worthy successor to KING KONG, reunites many of the cast and crew, with a compellingly different slant on the 'Giant Ape' premise. Here, Armstrong…
Curse of the Cat People (1944): Dir. Gunther V Fritsch, Robert Wise
Feat. Simone Simon; Sequel of worth to the original Val Lewton psychological chiller, again with the feline Simone Simon, here haunting the imagination of a small girl…
Leopard Man, The (1943): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dennis O'Keefe; The final Val Lewton–Tourneur horror collaboration concerns an escaped leopard (apparently) running amok in a small New Mexico town. A slim…
Cat People (1942): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Simone Simon, Jack Holt, Kent Smith…; Producer Val Lewton's most celebrated low–budget horror evokes a disturbing atmosphere of repression and menace with shadows, music and the…
Wolf Man, The (Wolfman) (1941): Dir. George Waggner
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains; Universal horror classic has Lon Chaney Jnr. bitten by werewolf Bela Lugosi among the foggy glades of Alpine–set English villages.
King Kong (1933): Dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong; An iconic classic of cinema that literally smashed new ground in terms of special effects, and must have had unwitting audiences of the day…

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