To celebrate the first Friday the 13th of 2026, here is a list of 25 old-school favorites, influential giants and hidden gems worth a watch before that creepy girl who crawled out of the TV kills you.

Trapped somewhere between the big ideas of "2001" and the fun of a galaxy far, far away, this 1979 movie is a true space oddity.

The time-travel action-thriller The Terminator fundamentally transformed the landscape of its genre. Before its release, high-quality science fiction was often categorized as either slow-burning ...

A 90s cult classic sci-fi movie ripped off Ridley Scott's Alien with a scene that has an even longer legacy than that.

Alien, Apocalypse Now, and All That Jazz are all among the very best movies of 1979 that can be called masterpieces.

There’s a moment in the film Deep Blue Sea that is known for making audiences jump out of their seats. If you’ve seen it, you ...

Thanks to the prequel's controversial changes to Alien's canon, Ridley Scott's most divisive franchise entry left some major ...

I'm a Gen Z cinephile who loves classic cinema, and when it comes to horror, I can't get enough of certified bangers like Nosferatu and The Exorcist.

We hope you enjoyed that very brief warm up earlier this week because Syracuse will soon find itself locked back into a sub-zero freezer for a third consecutive weekend. The short burst of slightly ...

When cave biologist Hazel Barton ventured into the pitch darkness, the last thing she expected to find were organisms harnessing energy from light. This new understanding of photosynthesis in the dark ...