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The Fly (1958)
D: Kurt Neumann (1958) 94m

A brilliant scientist invents a molecular disintegration machine and a fly gets stuck in the gizmo with him. Later, he is found dead with his head and arm crushed in a hydraulic press. His wife confesses to the crime, but she refuses to provide a motive, and begins acting strangely. The scientist's brother (Vincent Price playing a good guy for once) tries to sort things out.

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Night of the Living Dead
D: George A. Romero (1968) 96m

A low-budget cult classic of dubious genre credentials that critic John Clute explains is sci-fi "...in the guise of horror". Zombies reanimated by radiation from Venus go on a rampage while setting up a few moral dilemmas in the process. Criticised on release for its excessive gore, the film was eventually deemed important enough to make it into the U.S. National Film Registry.

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Aliens
D: James Cameron (1986) 137m

A rare sequel that manages to outdo the original, which is a fine film also. Sigourney Weaver is again terrific as Ripley, the only one left alive after the original 1979 Alien movie. A squadron of Marines heads off to the home planet of the nasty aliens, intent on wiping them out. Winner of Academy Awards for both Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects, out of seven nominations overall.

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The Fly
D: David Cronenberg (1986) 100m

Gross-out master David Cronenberg delivers a remarkably effective remake of the original 1958 classic. An affable but slightly off-beam scientist (Jeff Goldblum) tests a genetic matter transporter and ends up morphing into a human fly. Geena Davis plays his romantic interest and it becomes obvious that love doesn't conquer all. Largest commercial success of Cronenberg's career.

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28 Days Later
D: Danny Boyle (2002) 113m

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs... and it's absolutely impossible to contain. Sounds familiar.

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Upgrade
D: Leigh Whannell (2018) 100m

Grey Trace, a mechanic, lives with his wife Asha who works for Cobolt, one of the companies contributing to human-computer augmentations. Grey asks Asha to help him return a refurbished car to his client Eron Keen, a renowned tech innovator. When Grey, a self-labelled technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant.

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A Quiet Place
D: John Krasinski (2018) 90m

Over three months in 2020, most human and animal populations have been wiped out by sightless extraterrestrial creatures that originated from a meteor shower impacting Earth. The creatures, attacking anything that makes noise, have hypersensitive hearing and indestructible, armored skin. An unusually engaging horror film loaded with love and featuring a delectably ironic climax.

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The Invisible Man (2020)
D: Leigh Whannell (2020) 124m

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see. Only loosely based on the H.G. Wells story of the same name, but a capable update one the original story that is sure to send shivers up the spine.

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Prey
D: Dan Trachtenberg (2022) 100m

Set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719, Naru, a Comanche warrior out to prove herself, takes on an alien Predator and French fur traders who are killing the buffalo her tribe relies on for survival. The film is the fifth in the Predator franchise and is a prequel to the first four films. Some scenes were shot in the Comanche language and the entire film was dubbed into Comanche.