Veronica Cartwright

The Birds (1963)

The Birds (1963)
Rating: ★★★★½
Mar 6, 2000Birds Attack Humanity
Alfred Hitchcock's classic film inspired a series of Nature's Revenge films throughout the 1970s. Expectedly, Hitchcock creates masterful set-pieces but the most effective thing the film does is to remove explanations creating a work of anxious uncertainty
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Rating: ★★★★½
Jun 25, 2010Alien Duplication and Takeover
An excellent remake of the Cold War classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which has been retooled for the 1970s and slots perfectly into the Me Generation era with paranoia perfectly intact
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Alien (1979)

Alien (1979)
Rating: ★★★★★
May 2, 1999Alien Nasty on a Spaceship
One of the most influential films on this site, producing a host of sequels and making the careers of all involved. At heart, a simple monster on a spaceship film, it is made into a classic through Ridley Scott's relentless suspense and H.R. Giger's design work
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The Right Stuff (1983)

The Right Stuff (1983)
Rating: ★★★½
Aug 26, 2002Story of the True Life Space Mission
Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book about the astronauts of the Mercury Space Program comes out halfway between admiration of the sheer ballsiness of the astronauts and buying into the flag-waving nationalism the Space Race represented.
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Flight of the Navigator (1986)

Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 17, 2002Alien-Abducted Child Returns
Smart and intelligent Disney film where Joey Cramer play a kid who goes missing and reappears some years later unaged, only to realise he has been abducted by aliens and can control a spaceship
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The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Rating: ★★★★
Jun 19, 2003Witches vs the Devil/War of the Sexes Comedy
Deliriously frothy and enjoyable George Miller film with Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer as three witches who conjure forth Devil figure - Jack Nicholson in full barnstorming mode
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In/Sight (2011)

In/Sight (2011)
Rating: ★★
Mar 2, 2017Clairvoyance Thriller
There are few fantastic themes more tired than the clairvoyant thriller – it is no more than a standard murder mystery where the Sherlock Holmes figure psychically intuits all their deductions and no more than that. Apart from a couple of interesting twists at the end, this is no different
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 31, 2018Modern-Day Copycat of The Phantom Killer
Not a remake but a sequel to the cult true-crime film The Town That Dreaded Sundown with a series of copycat killings influenced by the film occurring in the present-day. Directed with a bravura stylishness that makes you jump out of your seat in joy
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