Capturing the teenage experience in a movie is a daunting task, but 1980s Hollywood seemed to nail it. The Breakfast Club, Say Anything, Sixteen Candles, and countless other high school movies each told their own tale of that turmoiled period of adolescence, but a new subgenre rose from that trend: the twisted high school movie; sci-fi or darkly comedic movies like Heathers, Weird Science, and even Back to the Future.

More than 40 years later, Lisa Frankenstein, the sparkling directorial debut of Zelda Williams, proves that she not only harbors a deep understanding of how to portray a teen romance on screen, but how the classic 1980s movies that came before this understood it too. The result is a dark, neon-tinged sci-fi tale that combines a classic romance with a vengeful teen story so authentic it could be pulled from a diary with a novelty lock.

The Stone Age faces no lack of on-screen representation, from 10,000 B.C. to The Flintstones to Year One, but there’s never been a straightforward Stone Age horror flick — until now.

Andrew Cumming’s Out of Darkness crosses uncharted territory: a Paleolithic and human-focused take on Pitch Black meets Predator (or more appropriately, Prey). It’s certainly not a far-fetched concept — everyday existence for Earth’s prehistoric ancestors sounds like a primitive survival thriller. Defend yourself from unknown creatures and Mother Nature’s fury with pointy sticks and heavy rocks! That’s the anxious energy writer Ruth Greenberg brings to a nomadic story in perpetual motion.