The “Final Girl” has been a prominent trope in horror since it was popularized in the 1970s in films like...
As a fervent fan of anything Alien (1979), I was initially sceptical about Director Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, Memory: The Origins of Alien. I...
Turning 30 isn’t easy, I’ve been told. It’s less easy when an alien bent on destroying the planet crashes your party. Directed by Stephen Ohl in his feature-length debut, Useless Humans teaches a comedic lesson that it’s never too late to change, especially when you’re faced with impending doom at the...
Every year is a good year for horror. That used to just be a nice thing to say but even...
When you find yourself trapped in a horror movie scenario (as one does), your survival instincts become paramount. From relentless...
Two men go into space but three come back in Egor Abramenko’s atmospheric sci-fi horror Sputnik. It’s an alien invasion film of a different variety, opting to infiltrate Earth by hiding inside one man rather than sending an army of spaceships to decimate our planet one monument at a time....
I’m going to assume you’ve seen Ridley Scott’s Alien, but have you seen Ridley Scott’s Alien reenacted by the bus...
Shark movies. It’s kind of hard to mess them up. You take your camera-happy (or shy, if you’re Steven Spielberg) sharks,...
Break out the Van Buren china and hide the TV. It’s easy to let your imaginations run wild when you try to picture an alien. Maybe you see the sleek, skeletal xenomorph Sigourney Weaver battled on the Nostromo. Or perhaps you picture E.T. hiding among stuffed animals. Now, if I asked you...