The first 42 minutes of this ostensible sci-fi movie are a high-concept voiceover intro about aliens needing to test AI to mine gold on earth, and then people individually waking up in an abandoned futuristic medical facility and wandering around it and encountering occasional jumps scares from a cat.

That's it.

I don't know if there's any more than that because I turned it off then. There was still an hour left to the movie. I didn't want to see it.

Indie flick. Billed as sci-fi but I didn't see that. Drug addicts or something. I couldn't follow it.

Nicely shot but very pretentious and tediously slow movie about a family falling apart. Oh, yeah, maybe the last 30 minutes are a horror movie.

A stressed woman goes to a coworkers secluded vacation home and her ex-boyfriend terrorizes her. Fairly by the numbers except there's a single time-loopy "twist" that doesn't even actually affect the outcome of the story, it's just there to be cool, I guess. Fairly well made but a little too predictable by the time it gets to the end, and, well, basically, it's a movie about a woman being terrorized. Doesn't rise above the pack like a movie about that trope needs to.

Rather violent but somewhat OK captivity/pursuit thriller. A couple goes to their marriage counselor's remote cabin in the woods to work through their grief at their young daughter's disappearance, but all is not as it seems. Vaguely watchable, in that nothing about it sucks too terribly badly, if you for some reason find this kind of plotline appealing. Nothing memorable about it, either.

I wish I could like this movie. A zero-budget indie tries hard to be a paranoid UFO invasion/conspiracy thriller, and as the movie goes on and they give her some room to act, the lead actress proves to be better than you often see in these. But it just isn't what it wants to be, and can't escape the obvious influence of some very obvious sci-fi influences. It suffers from a typically amateurish zero-budget heavy-handedness with plodding writing and a lot of overly familiar tropes.

Also, at least the first part of the movie appears to be all studio-overdubbed dialogue, which is jarring.

A not terrible but mostly forgettable updating and downgrading of the original, to include smartphones and LCD TV (which somehow still have horizontal scan lines and white noise static—the TVs and cell phones both) and which is a downgrade primarily due to the idea that the original didn't benefit very strongly from the involvement of both Spielberg (who I find among the least consistent of the greats, but Poltergeist was one of his better moments) and heavy-hitter Tobe Hooper.

I can see what they were trying to do, and in some ways they succeeded—they came up with new and interesting visuals, and a number of new ideas for things to put the family through, and many of the visual effects are pretty good, something the original occasionally lapsed in. It even had some isolated moments and individual shots that were quite good: In this one, when the souls of…

Paint-by-numbers supernatural thriller. Family brings home a haunted artifact, in this case a door they found in the woods, and must call in a psychic to rescue their young son when it abducts him into an unspecified other realm.

Actually fairly well-acted for a zero-budget thriller, but too talky and contrived for what story there is to really work. A young husband and expectant father does drugs and passes out at a neighbors party, and wakes up to have his life fall into convoluted chaos, including lots of talking and talking and talking. Pacing, people. Come on.

Gorgeous young mother suffering from postpartum depression left alone to watch the baby for a few days while husband is on a business trip hallucinates that Every Bad Thing thing happens to the baby, which mostly somehow adds up to a nonevent. By the end you don't care what's real and what's not. Production values are ok and gorgeous lead actress gives it her best, but nothing can save this poorly written non-thriller. Skip it.

Horror/crime thriller. People are addicted to an opiate made from the blood of infected humans, which turns overdose victims into zombies, when a kid winds up deep in debt to his dealer. Despite the absurd premise—and the loads of violence—plays more like a down-to-earth crime thriller than you'd expect, which, while it's still not that good movie, isn't as bad as you might expect, for what it is. Can't really recommend it, per se, because, well, it's about people getting high off each others' blood, but, it's more watchable than you'd expect from that description.

Supernatural flick starts pretty interesting and then totally loses the thread. A man who feels responsible for the car crash that kills his wife discovers a triangular and apparently bottomless pit that the locals have been throwing their trash into for decades. He decides to explore, sending down, over the course of the first half of the movie, just a rope, then a block of ice, a dead fish, and a live pig, with increasingly bizarre results each time.

It's just interesting enough to command some attention. The prominent presence of local religious fanatics, played as typical over-the-top movie religious fanatics, is a bad sign, and none of the things that happen, while cool enough on their own, add up to much of a story, or even make much sense. There's a lot of fridge logic here.

But then, when it really goes wrong is when he goes…