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Films: Creature

Horror films, old and new: what each one is, who made it and how scary it gets.

Film · 2018

A Quiet Place

A family must live in near total silence to survive creatures that hunt by sound alone.

Film · 1979

Alien

A commercial crew answers a distress call and finds they are not alone on their own ship.

Film · 2017

Alien: Covenant

The crew of a colony ship find a planet that isn't on any of their charts, and a discovery no one expected.

Film · 2019

It: Chapter Two

The Losers Club returns to Derry twenty seven years on to face what they never quite outran as children.

Film · 1975

Jaws

A seaside town faces a great white shark, and its police chief joins the hunt before more beachgoers are hurt.

Film · 1933

King Kong

A giant gorilla, a woman in danger and a monster story with room for a little sadness.

Film · 1987

Predator

A rescue mission in a rainforest turns into a fight against an extraterrestrial hunter.

Film · 1963

The Birds

Ordinary gulls turn on a small coastal town, and nobody can say why.

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The After Dark Top 40

Forty horror films counted down like the charts, from silent classics to new favourites, picked by Erin and sent the moment you join.