“If we don’t stop it, there won’t be a home to go back to.”
October 1
Anaconda may be silly and scientifically dubious, but it’s still a lot of fun. It’s basically a slasher movie starring a giant snake, which should tell you if it’s for you or not.
October 1
The Cradle of Life sets Lara Croft on a globe-trotting adventure to find the mythical Pandora’s box. It doesn’t offer much more than a worldwide sightseeing tour, but at least it does that well.
October 1
Resident Evil: Retribution offers what the series always has: cartoonish CGI and a plot so baffling it’ll make you constantly think you’ve missed something. For the right audience, those are both good signs.
October 1
The prequel to John Carpenter’s masterpiece of the same name, The Thing was doomed by a late-in-production switch from practical effects to CGI. Otherwise, it’s a competent but familiar homage to the original.
October 16
It’s all in the title. When a bunch of alien varmints arrive on Earth in 1873 for an interstellar gold rush, it’s up to a posse of cowboys to wrangle them back where they came from.
October 3
Prometheus tells the pre-history of the Alien franchise that no one was asking for. While its connection to the sci-fi horror classic is tenuous, its atmospheric worldbuilding makes it stand on its own.