Watch The Lost World: Jurassic Park

A couple trick Alan Grant into flying over Isla Sorna to look for their son; the Spinosaurus replaces the T. rex.

Spielberg brings the dinosaurs roaring to life (1993).

Balboa Park, the zoo, La Jolla sea lions and the best year-round weather in the country.

Stop-motion Kong on the Empire State Building; the monster movie that invented the blockbuster.

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.

Schwarzenegger's commandos hunted by an invisible alien in the jungle; "get to the chopper".

A family lives in silence because the monsters hunt by sound; John Krasinski's horror.