A direct sequel to Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (and the only film in the “millennium series” to carry any continuity) Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (also known as Godzilla vs. Mothra vs. Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.) starts with an injured Godzilla somewhere in the ocean and a damaged Mechagodzilla in the shop. As politicians fret, the twin fairies from
Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992)
A meteor strike both wakes Godzilla and uncovers Mothra’s egg. It is also the final straw for Battra, who heads toward Japan to wreak havoc. A poor Indiana Jones stand-in, his ex-wife, and a salaryman head to Infant Island to check out the egg, and end up recreating as many Indiana Jones scenes as could
Godzilla (2014)
In 1999, a Japanese nuclear reaction accident, tied to the discovery of giant monster fossils in The Philippines, killed nuclear engineer Joe Brody’s (Bryan Cranston) wife. Now, Brody is obsessed with discovering the secret of what really happened, a secret that involves a giant monster known as a MUTO. Brody’s son, Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) gets
The Black Scorpion (1957)
After a volcanic eruption, people living near an isolated Mexican village begin to disappear. A pair of geologists, one American (Richard Denning) and one Mexican (Carlos Rivas), on their way to study the volcano, find a damaged police car, dead officer, and abandoned baby. They soon find themselves in the middle of the mystery given
The Ghoul (1932)
The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Secretive professor Norman Boyle (Paolo Malco) and his unstable wife Lucy (Katherine MacColl) move into a strange old house, along with their deeply annoying son (Giovanni Frezza) who sees a ghost girl that tells him not to go. The house had been inhabited by a colleague who was doing some unusual research when he killed
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1932)
Truth or Dare (2018)
Olivia (Lucy Hale), Markie (Violett Beane), and their college friends go for a final wild spring break in Mexico. There, another partier (Landon Liboiron) tricks them into a game of truth or dare. The game is “possessed” and they are then forced to continue playing or die, where the “truths” are terribly upsetting and the
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
A serial killer is murdering women with “imperfections” and everyone agrees that Helen (Dorothy MCGuire), mute from a childhood trauma, is in danger, such that the good and rather pushy new Dr. Perry (Kent Smith) insists she leave town with him. The night of the most recent murder, Helen returns from the silent movies to
The Crying Woman {La Llorona} (1933)
Maniac (1934)
Dr. Meirschultz (Horace B. Carpenter) is a mad scientist. Make that a wacky scientist. He yells and leaps around and yells some more. He’s also working on serum for raising the dead. Helping him, due to a combination of debt and blackmail, is Don Maxwell (William Woods), a vaudeville performer with top makeup skills who
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to Musgrave Manor to look into an attempted murder. The wealthy Musgrave family has allowed part of their mansion to be used as a convalescence home for injured soldiers, so living on the property are multiple family members, servants, soldiers, and the medical staff. Soon, in