Chernobyl Diaries

Scarlett Johansson leads a mercenary team on a dangerous dinosaur DNA mission in Gareth Edwards' thrilling, critically revitalized franchise reboot. Streaming on Peacock.

"Destroy All Monsters" is a 1968 Japanese science fiction movie directed by Ishirō Honda. It was produced and distributed by Toho Studios, the company behind many kaiju films, including the "Godzilla" series. In the film, an alien race known as the Kilaaks takes control of Earth's monsters, including Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan, and forces them to attack cities around the world. It's up to a team of human scientists to discover the Kilaaks' base and put an end to their invasion.

The directors of Talk to Me return with a devastating A24 horror about a grieving foster mother, played against type by Sally Hawkins. Streaming on HBO Max.

For those conspiracy theorists and urban legend enthusiasts perplexed by the question, "Why has the United States never returned to the moon?" Apollo 18 now offers a frighteningly realistic lost-footage answer. [insert dramatic, suspenseful movie music here]."According to "official" space history, moon missions ended with Apollo 17; and, although an eighteenth mission was scheduled, NASA maintains it scrubbed the launch. Apollo 18 alleges the mission actually went off as planned, and the crew of the ill-fated moon-landing encountered alien life among the craters. Supposedly, investigators recently stumbled upon never-before-released NASA video proving the existence of alien life. Shot by the moonwalkers, the "secret" video documents their encounter with the aliens, and you safely may assume the two parties did not exchange recipes for fish tacos. The very well-crafted trailer for Apollo 18 ostensibly shows you the "lost" footage."Produced by Timur Bekmambetov and directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, Apollo 18 is frequently reminiscent of Ridley Scott's original Alien, but in a good, allusive way, building suspense and genuine terror from intense realism. The voice-over for the trailer says ominously, "What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon."When you have seen the footage, you too may become a conspiracy theorist or fan of urban legends."

Osgood Perkins adapts Stephen King's cursed-toy tale into a gory horror-comedy with Theo James as doomed twin brothers. Streaming on Hulu.

While the beauty of Ontario Canada has been used for much of the footage of Dream House, it is an American film of the horror genre and set in a quaint but fictitious town in New England. Publisher Will Atenton (played by Daniel Craig of Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace) along with wife Libby (Rachel Weisz from The Lovely Bones, The Brothers Bloom) find their perfect Dream House was the scene of a horrific murder of a mother and children supposedly at the hands of the husband/father. Naomi Watts (21 Grams, Mulholland Dr.) also stars as Ann Patterson, a neighbor who may be able to provide clues to the deaths.riters, cast, and crew seem to love taking a peaceful community setting and making it the unsettling scene for murder and mayhem just to keep us, the audience, on the edge of our seats for two hours or so. It sells plenty of tickets and it works!"