Much imitated but never equalled, this is the definitive space nightmare. The crew of a commercial spacecraft are stalked by a stowaway, mutating monster of veracious appetite. Weaver puts in a splendidly believable performance as the resourceful Ripley. Taut script and awesome special FX. find out more...

The third installment of Ripley's nightmare. Brilliantly conceived and brave denouement of the Alien trilogy, with Ripley stranded on a prison planet inhabited by psychopathic British actors....and IT. Brutal and cold, the atmosphere is superb, and the lack of guns and bangs only adds to it. And then they made another one... find out more...

An ancient shrine is discovered buried deep within the Antarctic ice, encouraging an elite group of explorers and scientists, under the financial umbrella of a corporate mogul, to investigate its hidden treasures. What the hapless band discover are two alien creatures, one is the ultimate killer, the other is the ultimate hunter…..bugger! This inevitable composite of two of the movies' best intergalactic killers does exactly what you'd expect, yes it stands up badly in comparison to the original find out more...

The long-awaited special extended version of the brilliant sequel to the sci-fi classic "Alien". Containing seventeen minutes of extra footage showing the previously unexplained background of the terrifying planet where the Alien has bred and which Officer Ellen Ripley must now return to. find out more...

You know how before this came out at the cinema there was massive internet hype, a mind boggling disaster, sci-fi, horror, action flick, but bugger all about what the plot actually involved? Well that's because apart from monsters reeking havoc in New York, and some pretty young things trapped in the carnage, there is no plot; nada, zilch, nothing. Cloverfield works so well because it stoutly refuses to offer you anything other than adrenalin fuelled, clammy palmed escapism and filming it throug find out more...

A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople. Displaying a deft talent at balancing thrills with tongue-in-cheek wit, this was Stephen Herek's debut film. He followed it up with the bodacious 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure' and 'Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead'. A superior creature feature, that may have you tucking your feet onto the sofa out of harms way. find out more...

The third part of Romero's zombie triology. A bigger budget than the other two and featuring state of the art zombies. A small bunch of survivors are holed up in a bunker with their hopes resting on a small group of scientists experimenting on the zombies. Tense rather than terrifying, and with a black comic undercurrent, it rests on the bleak observation that, zombies or no zombies, chances are that we, the living, will tear each other apart. Not for the faint hearted. find out more...

A comet hurtles into the earth, but rather than being dead rock it begins to evolve at a fantastical pace (while taking some serious liberties with Darwinism) and only two rather inept college professors seem to have any idea how to stop the alien life form before it takes over the world. Evolution is Si-Fi, action, comedy which concentrates on wit of the lowest common denominator, but as long as you're fine with that, sit back, giggle a bit and enjoy the spectacular special effects. find out more...

After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, Hell on Earth is ready to erupt. An impassioned otherworldly prince, driven mad by man's wanton behaviour, defies his bloodline and begins a quest for the final key that will awaken an unstoppable army. Now, it's up to the planet's toughest, most charmless anti-hero to save an ungrateful humanity from their demise. Rarely is a follow-on better than the original, but however much I enjoyed the fi find out more...

They're around us, everywhere - on TV, in the supermarkets, running corporations, marshalling the army, sitting in government and even starring in movies. They have bug eyes, extending limbs, weird hairdos, webbed feet, several heads and they come in many different varieties, it's just you don't remember much about them 'coz of those snappily dressed Men In Black with their super-dooper weaponry like memory erasers. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones keep a shaded eye on the hundreds of pesky weirdo find out more...