Still capable of rousing moppets into a fist-clenched frenzy of cheers, Toho’s multi-cultural match of the titans, KING KONG VS. GODZILLA, is still—in this cynical age of computer-generated “perfection”—a funny and exciting epic adventure… at least the original Japanese version is.

An alien invades L.A. where it begins mutilating and decapitating anyone that stands in its way in THE DARK, a limp sci-fi/horror mash-up with a low body count and a lot of dull exposition.

When residents of the “Spud Capital of the World” start missing and a cyclopic, mutated monster goes on a tear, it’s a fairly safe bet that all that pesky radioactive waste haphazardly dumped into the water table is to blame.