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Sator (2019): Dir. Jordan Graham
Feat. Michael Daniel, Rachel Johnson, Aurora Lowe; A critically–lauded, brooding horror film that doubles as a disturbing meditation on family bonds and mental illness, based on the…
Alien: Covenant (2017): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Billy Crudup…; The alien resurrection continues with director Ridley Scott returning once again to the sci–fi blockbuster franchise for another…
Bad Milo! (2013): Dir. Jacob Vaughan
Feat. Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Mary Kay Place; A mild–mannered accountant with bowel problems discovers that a pint–sized demon has moved into his intestinal tract. Though this…
Willow Creek (2013): Dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
Feat. Alexis Gilmore, Bryce Johnson; A little bit of Bobcat Goldthwait's genius rubs off on this backwoods horror centred on the Bigfoot legend. While no huge surprises in its makeup, it…
Grabbers (2012): Dir. Jon Wright
Feat. Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey; A very Irish sense of humour permeates throughout this daffy, if highly entertaining horror comedy, about a mutant strain of creatures who descend on…
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (2010): Dir. Samuel Bayer
Feat. Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Clancy Brown…; Stylish, shallow reworking of the classic 80s slasher movie (replete with a music video director at the helm) reins in the smirk and aims for a…
Troll Hunter (2010): Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Otto Jespersen; Three college kids who set out to make a documentary about illegal bear hunters encounter more than bargained for in this thrilling Norwegian…
Chaw (2009): Dir. Jeong-won Shin
Feat. Jeong-hwa Eom; Dorky, RAZORBACK–inspired monster mash, in which a misfit hunting party – including a master huntsman, hotshot cop, and foolhardy ecologist…
Alien vs. Predator 2 - Requiem (AVPR) (2007): Dir. Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Feat. Robert Joy; On–the–cheap follow–up to AVP observing the warring Alien and Predator races as they draw battle lines on either side of a small…
My Name Is Bruce (2007): Dir. Bruce Campbell
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Ted Raimi…; Cult favourite B–grade actor Campbell is kidnapped by a misguided fan who expects him to save the world from very real monsters in this…
Boogeyman (2005): Dir. Stephen Kay
Feat. Barry Watson, Emily Dreschanel, Lucy Lawless; Haunted by his father's death, a young man (Watson) quests to discover the identity of the monstrous 'boogeyman' killer, who may in fact be a figment…
Alien vs. Predator (AVP) (2004): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner…; A loud and slime–lacquered clash of the sci–fi titans, the enticing prospect of two classic bogeymen going monstrous…
Dagon (2001): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño; The director of RE–ANIMATOR returns for another good crack at an H.P. Lovecraft story, this one adapting the novella "The Shadow Over…
Jeepers Creepers (2001): Dir. Victor Salva
Feat. Justin Long, Gina Philips; A brother–sister couple take a rural back road home, but make an ill–advised roadside stop where urban mythology becomes gross–out…
Relic, The (1997): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore; A dormant microbe mutates and runs amok! ALIEN–in–a–museum is the concept for this well regarded B–picture that spends most…
Tremors 2 (Tremors 2 Aftershocks) (1996): Dir. S. S. Wilson
Feat. Fred Ward, Christopher Gartin, Helen Shaver…; Sequel to the outrageous tongue–in–cheek creature feature TREMORS (1990), with supersucking desert worms returning to terrorise the oil…
Brain Scan (1994): Dir. John Flynn
Feat. Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T.Ryder Smith; Gimmicky horror flick in which teen horror fan Edward Furlong buys a virtual reality CD–ROM game promising the 'ultimate experience in…
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes; Ingenious post–script to the tired NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. franchise in which castmembers of the previous films (playing themselves), too, become…
Tommyknockers, The (1993): Dir. John Power
Feat. Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton…; Stephen King mini–series cut down to a two–hour feature, shot on location in Northland, N.Z. The incoherent, watery thrills can be…
Basket Case 3 (1992): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Annie Ross; Completing the trilogy, this installment sees Belial separated from his able–bodied Siamese twin, getting married and fathering a gaggle of…
Candyman (1992): Dir. Bernard Rose
Feat. Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley…; Virginia Madsen's research about a 'mythical' Candyman leads to gruesome murders with a bloodied knife in her hand! A blood–curdling portrait…
Doppelganger (1992): Dir. Avi Nesher
Feat. Drew Barrymore; Drew Barrymore plays an innocent who moves in with a budding horror scriptwriter – ultimately providing him with plenty of source material.…
Basket Case 2 (1990): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Judy Grafe, Annie Ross; Emulating the sublimely grimy flavour of the original, this commendable sequel sees Belial the basket–dweller return with friends of a…
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover; This commendable sequel sees the little critters take the mayhem to gargantuan proportions, attempting to take over the entire city of New York.
Tremors (1990): Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross; Exciting tongue–in–cheek horror flick in the tradition of 50s 'Creature Features' has Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward among the desert yokels…
Nightbreed (1989): Dir. Clive Barker
Feat. Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg; Novelist Clive Barker's follow–up film to HELLRAISER is again saturated with fantastic monsters and bone–crunching visuals. A dark adult…
Nightmare On Elm Street 5: Dream Child, A (1989): Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Robert Englund; Fourth sequel milks the wise–cracking dream–demon premise to the point of exhaustion. Still, the franchise continues to provide a handy…
Blob, The (1988): Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Kevin Dillon; Effects–laden remake of the 50's classic sees Kevin Dillon get into some very sticky situations. Infamous for its…
Child's Play (1988): Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent…; 'Chucky', the possessed cabbage–patch kid, goes on a murderous rampage in this clever consumerist parable. Tightly scripted and imaginatively…
Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master, A (1988): Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Robert Englund; The franchise, now in full commercial flight, but bereft of new ideas, resorts to self–parody with Freddy Pizza Face Krueger having a riot…
Pumpkinhead (1988): Dir. Stan Winston
Feat. Lance Henriksen; Trashy directing debut for f/x expert Winston, with Lance Henrikson summoning up a vengeful demon.
Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (1987): Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Robert Englund, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne…; Improving on the perfunctory Pt. 2, this ups the ante on the gross–out special effects as Freddy wreaks further havoc on the kids he's helped…
Critters (1986): Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Zane; A gang of teeth–knashing alien fur–balls who have escaped from 'space prison' invade smalltown Kansas and terrorize the locals, cutting…
Rawhead Rex (1986): Dir. George Pavlou
Feat. David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Lora Lunny; Scripted by cult novelist Clive Barker, a demonesque monster runs riot in an Irish village where an American historian is staying with his family.
Chiller (1985): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Paul Sorvino, Beatrice Straight, Dick O'Neill…; Wes Craven's follow–up to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, is a detached thriller about an entrepreneur who requests to be frozen and…
Ghoulies / Ghoulies 2 (1985-1987): Dir. Luca Bercovici, Albert Band
Feat. Lisa Pelikan, Jack Nance, Royal Dano; GREMLINS–inspired comic horrors from the mid–1980s in which a young couple unwittingly let loose half a dozen nasty little critters and…
Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A (1985): Dir. Jack Sholder
Feat. Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Clu Gulager…; More of the same special f/x–assisted mayhem from Freddy Krueger and the helpless adolescent residents of Elm Street. Just ask Mom and Dad to…
Troll (1985): Dir. John Buechler, Drago Floyd
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Sonny Bono, Shelley Hack…; Barrel–scrapingly hilarious, this GREMLINS knock–off sees a hairy troll turning an apartment block into a "garden of ancient evil", by…
Gremlins (1984): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Hoyt Axton, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates…; Comedy–horror gold just mild enough for the kids, about a boy's new pet that spawns a legion of furry, unruly monsters.
Nightmare On Elm Street, A (1984): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp…; The maiden nightmare of the razor–fingered dream–demon Freddie Krueger, who went on to become the pre–eminent horror icon of the…
Basket Case (1982): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner; Sleazy and cheesy horror–comedy about a gawky teenager and his mutant siamese twin, Belial, who has a penchant for caneware and murder.
Swamp Thing (1982): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise; Wes Craven's tongue–in–cheek film version of a popular D.C. comic book character, makes no apology for its cheesy make–up and…
It Lives Again (It's Alive 2) (1978): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd; Three mutant babies embark on a murderous rampage in this schlocky sequel to Larry Cohen's cult hit, with fangs and claws care of effects supremo…
Count Dracula (TV Mini-series) (1977): Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon…; Faithful 70's adaptation of the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker, this critically–acclaimed BBC version utilises London's Highgate Cemetery…
King Kong (1976): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges; Much–maligned remake of the 1933 classic, is typical De Laurentis fantasy fare – high in concept, broad in character, cardboard in…
Monster Squad (TV Series) (1976): Feat. Fred Grandy; Short–lived kids show has wax museum figures Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein come to life to help young mortal Fred Grandy (Gopher from THE…
Queen Kong (1976): Dir. Frank Agrama
Feat. Robin Askwith; One of several knock–offs timed to coincide with the 1976 remake of KING KONG, this lamentable spoof imagines a gender reversal on the 'Kong'…
Beast Must Die!, The (1974): Dir. Paul Annett
Feat. Peter Cushing, Calvin Lockhart, Charles Gray…; A rich sportsman (Lockhart) invites a number of guests to his house with the knowledge that one of them is a werewolf. The film features a novel…
It's Alive (1974): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. John Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan; A mutant child is born and goes on a murderous rampage while the parents try to come to grips with their 'baby'. With just enough…
Horror Express (1972): Dir. Gene Martin
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Inspired gothic yarn with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing travelling on the Trans–Siberian express with what could be the missing link.
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (Blood of Frankenstein) (1971): Dir. Al Adamson
Feat. J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney, Anthony Eisley; J. Carrol Naish plays a mad scientist in a wheelchair who conspires with Dracula to resurrect Frankenstein, in this C–grade horror that finds…
Day of the Triffids (1963): Dir. Steve Sekely
Feat. Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey; Harmless plants mutate into giant man–eaters after a strange meteor blinds those who witnessed it. From John Wyndham's famous novel.
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959): Dir. Bernard Kowalski
Feat. Yvette Vickers; A 'rubber–suited' swamp thing lurks in a Florida bayou. Even B–movie aficianados shouldn't get suckered by this one. 'Stars' Yvette…
How To Make A Monster (1958): Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Robert Harris; A Hollywood make–up artirst (Harris) is sacked by his studio and decides to enact brutal revenge on the management layer with the help of two…
Monster That Challenged the World, The (1957): Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson…; Campy 50's sci–fi creature feature in which an underwater earthquake in California's Salton Sea causes a crevice to open, releasing an army of…
Creature Walks Among Us, The (1956): Dir. John Sherwood
Feat. Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason; Second sequel to THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON this time focusing on a group of scientists on a mission to capture Gill Man and put him on show…
Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956): Dir. Dan Milner
Feat. Kent Taylor; Dredged from the darkest depths of B–Movie hell, this quaint 50s horror concerns a murderous underwater creature produced by leaking uranium.
Revenge of the Creature (1955): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield…; Follow–up to the cult hit CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, with poor, harassed Gill Man captured in the Amazon this time round and brought back…
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Patric Knowles, Ilona Massey…; Unique 'dual sequel', following both THE WOLF MAN and GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN. In this episode, the hairy Chaney seeks out the Doctor for a cure, but…
Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein (1939): Dir. Rowland V Lee, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi…; A double feature of horrors from Universal Studios, the third and fourth films respectively in the FRANKENSTEIN series. Son of Frankenstein (1939)…

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