A bad ass space alien whose desire is to hunt and skin humans or a bad ass space alien whose desire is to breed and take over which ever planet they may inhabit at the moment; both seem like a good choice. If you can’t make up your mind, you can always watch a movie that includes both.

A satellite detects a mysterious heat bloom beneath Bouvetøya, an island about one thousand miles north of Antarctica. A team of scientists is assembled to investigate the heat source.

As a Predator ship reaches Earth’s orbit, it blasts a shaft through the ice towards the source of the heat bloom. When the humans arrive at the site above the heat source they find the shaft and descend beneath the ice. They discover a mysterious pyramid and begin to explore it, finding evidence of a civilization predating written history and what appears to be a sacrificial chamber filled with human skeletons with ruptured rib cages.

Meanwhile, three Predators land and kill the humans on the surface, making their way down to the pyramid and arriving just as the remaining team unwittingly powers up the structure. An Alien queen awakens from cryogenic stasis and begins to produce eggs, from which facehuggers hatch and attach to several humans trapped in the sacrificial chamber. Chestbursters emerge from the humans and quickly grow into adult Aliens.

It is found out that every 100 years the Predators would visit Earth to take part in a rite of passage in which several humans would sacrifice themselves as hosts for the Aliens, creating the “ultimate prey” for the Predators to hunt. If overwhelmed, the Predators would activate their self-destruct weapons to eliminate the Aliens and themselves. The explorers deduce that this is why the current Predators are at the pyramid, and that the heat bloom was to attract humans for the purpose of making new Aliens to hunt.

The remaining humans decide that the Predators must be allowed to succeed in their hunt so the Aliens do not reach the surface. Alexa and the Predator reach the surface, where they battle the escaped Alien queen.

A Predator ship uncloaks and several Predators appear. They collect their fallen comrade and retreat into space.

I’ve left out a lot because I didn’t want to ruin anything in case you haven’t seen it. If you haven’t, go out and rent it right now, you should see it for yourself. It’s an action packed SCI-FI fest giving every SCI-FI junky what they want; some space aliens and lots of cool effects. While you’re at it, you could dress up as your favourite one.

Director Sam Raimi and good friend Bruce Campbell set out to make a real scary movie…although filmed on 16mm, The Evil Dead is good enough to be your next nightmare and a hell of a lot better than your run of the mill slice and dice. Campbell plays Ash Williams, one of five college friends set out to have a wild weekend in the woods. Two guys…three girls journey to a remote cabin, of course in the middle of the woods. And the woods whisper “Join Us”. The group stumbles upon a book and a tape recorder belonging to the previous inhabitants, warning of evil spirits lurking in the woods. When the dead come out to play, the newest victims turn into horrid ghouls. Ash, who at heart is a cowardly pansy, turns out to be the macho, macho man to the rescue. It takes courage, a shotgun and a chainsaw.

When the flesh-eating demons start their attack, the blood doesn’t just ooze; it splatters, gushes and flows by the bucketful. And there is the scene where one of the girls is beckoned into the woods only to be attacked and raped by a…tree?! Cheap special effects galore decorate this vacation to a little north of Hell. The comedy was unintentional. It is a product of bad acting by actors with little or no experience. But still, Raimi as writer and director has stumbled upon something here. The Evil Dead more than deserves its youth restricted rating.

Born in 1899, Henry Jones Jr. is scholarly and learned in a tweed suit, lecturing on ancient civilizations. But at the opportunity to recover important artifacts, he transforms into “Indiana,” a near superhero image he has concocted for himself. Indiana is well known for his Brown Fedora and Bullwhip, which play small but important parts in his travels to recover lost artifacts. In this first adventure, he is pitted against the Nazis, traveling the world to prevent them from recovering the Ark of the Covenant. He is aided by Marion Ravenwood and Sallah. The Nazis are led by Jones’s archrival, a Nazi-sympathizing French archaeologist named René Belloq, and Arnold Toht, a sinister Gestapo agent.

His second adventure took the character into a more horror-oriented story, skipping his legitimate teaching job and globe trotting, and taking place almost entirely in India. This time, Jones attempts to recover children and the Sankara Stones from the bloodthirsty Thuggee cult.

In his Third adventure and last for almost 19 years, he is shown teaching  at Barnett College, the globe trotting element of multiple locations, and the return of the infamous Nazi mystics, this time trying to find the Holy Grail. The film’s introduction, set in 1912, provided some back story to the character, specifically the origin of his fear of snakes, his use of a bullwhip, the scar on his chin, and his hat; the film’s epilogue also reveals that “Indiana” is not Jones’s first name, but a nickname he took from the family dog.

We were finally given his Fourth and long awaited adventure, set in 1957, it pits an older, wiser Indiana Jones against Soviet agents bent on harnessing the power of a crystal skull discovered in South America by his former colleague Harold Oxle. He is aided in his adventure by an old lover, Marion Ravenwood, and her son—a young greaser named Mutt Williams, later revealed to be his biological child Henry Jones III. It is also revealed that Jones was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (a predecessor department to the CIA) during World War II, attaining the rank of Colonel and running covert operations with MI6 agent George McHale on the “Reds”, which could mean the Soviet Union.