The film that invented the summer blockbuster and the three sequels that came after it, ending in the Bahamas.
A couple trick Alan Grant into flying over Isla Sorna to look for their son; the Spinosaurus replaces the T. rex.
Spielberg's sequel, with the trailer over the cliff and a T. rex in San Diego.
A young great white gets inside SeaWorld Orlando and its mother comes after it; shot for cardboard 3-D glasses.
Ellen Brody decides the shark is hunting her family and follows her son to the Bahamas; the worst reviewed film in the series.
A second shark off Amity and a police chief nobody believes twice; the best regarded of the three sequels.
A monster from the Han river takes a girl and her family goes after it; Bong's creature feature.
Guillermo del Toro's lifelong dream with Oscar Isaac as Victor and Jacob Elordi as the Creature.
Godzilla attacks a defeated Japan in 1947; the $15 million film that beat Hollywood's effects.
A family lives in silence because the monsters hunt by sound; John Krasinski's horror.
Schwarzenegger's commandos hunted by an invisible alien in the jungle; "get to the chopper".
The original, a black-and-white elegy for Hiroshima in the shape of a monster.
An Antarctic base and a shape-shifter; Rob Bottin's effects and the paranoia of the blood test.
Boris Karloff's flat-headed monster, the first of the Universal horrors.
Whale's camp, sad and better sequel, with the monster learning to speak.
Stop-motion Kong on the Empire State Building; the monster movie that invented the blockbuster.
Yahtzee monsters smash each other for control of the city.
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