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Starring Jesse EisenbergWoody HarrelsonAbigail Breslin
By Ruben Fleischer, 2009.
In this outrageously over-the-top comedy, chronically frightened Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) hooks up with wisecracking, skull-busting Tallahasee (Woody Harrelson) to fight for survival in a world swarming with flesh-hungry zombies. As the pair slays scores of the undead, they join two other...
- The Shining
Starring Jack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny Lloyd
By Stanley Kubrick, 1980.
On the wagon and out of lucrative work thanks to his alcoholism and family troubles, aspiring novelist Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) accepts a position as the off-season custodian at an elegant but eerie hotel so he can write undisturbed. But shortly after Jack, his wife (Shelley Duvall) and his...
- Shaun of the Dead
Starring Simon PeggKate AshfieldNick Frost
By Edgar Wright, 2004.
Thirty-something slacker Shaun (Simon Pegg) has no clue what to do with his life or with his relationship with girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield). But when the unthinkable happens and zombies begin to roam the streets of London terrorizing residents, including his beloved and his mother, Shaun realizes...
- Alien
Starring Sigourney WeaverTom Skerritt
By Ridley Scott, 1979.
Sigourney Weaver shines as the most stalwart crewmember of a space freighter that inadvertently takes on an unwanted visitor. As the bloodthirsty beast stalks the crew (including Tom Skerritt, John Hurt and Yaphet Kotto), they begin to realize they're pitted against a malevolent monster that's...
- American Psycho
Starring Christian BaleWillem DafoeJared Leto
By Mary Harron, 2000.
With a chiseled chin and an iron physique, Patrick Bateman's looks make him the ideal yuppie -- and the ideal serial killer. That's the joke behind American Psycho, which follows a killer at large during the 1980s junk-bond boom. Bateman (Christian Bale) takes pathological pride in everything from...
- Sleepy Hollow
Starring Johnny DeppChristopher WalkenChristina Ricci
By Tim Burton, 1999.
Washington Irving's timeless tale of murder and intrigue is told through the eyes of director Tim Burton in this 1999 screen adaptation. Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is a New York detective sent to the town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths.
- The Ring
Starring Naomi WattsMartin HendersonBrian Cox
By Gore Verbinski, 2002.
It sounded like just another urban legend: a videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly 7 days. Newspaper reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) was naturally skeptical of the story -- until four teens died mysteriously one week after...
- Dawn of the Dead
Starring Sarah PolleyVing RhamesJake Weber
By Zack Snyder, 2004.
Based on the George Romero 1979 gore classic, this remake takes place as the United States is overrun (after a plague) by millions of corpses who walk the earth as cannibalistic zombies. A small group of survivors, including a nurse (Sarah Polley) and a police officer (Ving Rhames), try to find...
- The Exorcist
Starring Ellen BurstynMax von SydowLee J. Cobb
By William Friedkin, 1973.
If this horror classic doesn't terrify you, maybe you need a shrink. Movie actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) realizes an evil spirit may possess her daughter (Linda Blair). Against formidable odds, two priests (Max von Sydow and Jason Miller) try to exorcise the demon.
- Psycho
Starring Anthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera Miles
By Alfred Hitchcock, 1960.
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer.
- Scream
Starring Neve CampbellCourteney CoxDavid Arquette
By Wes Craven, 1996.
Not your average slasher flick, Scream distinguishes itself with a cast of attractive up-and-comers and a self-parodying sense of humor. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campell) is terrorized by a murderer intent on paying homage to the teen horror classics (Halloween, Prom Night) by offing everyone Sidney...
- Saw
Starring Leigh WhannellCary ElwesDanny Glover
By James Wan, 2004.
Would you die to live? That's what two men, Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Gordon (Cary Elwes), have to ask themselves when they're paired up in a deadly situation. Abducted by a serial killer, they're both holed up in a prison constructed with such ingenuity that they may not be able to escape before...
- Halloween
Starring Jamie Lee CurtisDonald PleasenceNancy Kyes
By John Carpenter, 1978.
The first flick in the trilogy from director John Carpenter, Halloween almost single-handedly invented the 1980s slasher genre. Escaped lunatic Michael Myers (no, not the Austin Powers actor) goes on a murderous baby-sitter-slaying rampage on Halloween.
- Poltergeist
Starring Craig T. NelsonJoBeth WilliamsBeatrice Straight
By Tobe Hooper, 1982.
A high-voltage spectacle boasting impressive (for the time) special effects, Poltergeist is a must-see horror classic. Life is very pleasant for the close-knit Freeling family until a host of otherworldy forces invades their peaceful suburban home. Before long, their house is transformed into a...
- The Others
Starring Nicole KidmanFionnula FlanaganChristopher Eccleston
By Alejandro Amenábar, 2001.
Writer-director Alejandro Amenabar manipulates viewers' psyches in this bone-chilling thriller. Staunchly religious Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), have a rare sensitivity to light -- but the...
- Misery
Starring James CaanKathy BatesLauren Bacall
By Rob Reiner, 1990.
Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) rescues her idol, romance novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan), after he crashes his car during a fierce blizzard. But when she finds out he plans to kill off the heroine in his next volume, Annie morphs from nurturing caregiver to sadistic jailer.
- Friday the 13th
Starring Kevin BaconBetsy PalmerLaurie Bartham
By Sean S. Cunningham, 1980.
Jason Voorhees drowns at Camp Crystal Lake while nearby camp counselors are neglecting their duties and participating in lascivious behavior. Years later, Camp Crystal Lake is being reopened but the new owner and several new counselors find themselves surrounded by a series of grisly murders and a...
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Starring Gunnar HansenJim SiedowMarilyn Burns
By Tobe Hooper, 1974.
Director Tobe Hooper's horror classic is a gruesome reminder that a movie need not be complicated to scare the daylights out of viewers. Sally (Marilyn Burns), her wheelchair-bound brother (Paul A. Partain) and their friends travel to a vandalized graveyard to see if their grandfather's remains are...
- Night of the Living Dead
Starring Duane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl Hardman
By George A. Romero, 1968.
Director George Romero's low-budget horror classic continues to inspire heebie-jeebies, in part because of the randomness of the zombies' targets. As dead bodies return to life and feast on human flesh, young Barbara (Judith O'Dea) joins a group of survivors in a farmhouse hoping to protect...
- The Omen
Starring Gregory PeckLee RemickDavid Warner
By Richard Donner, 1976.
Staid American ambassador Robert Thorne (Gregory Peck) and his wife (Lee Remick) adopt a newborn baby boy in place of their stillborn infant … and live to regret it. All's well till the boy's nanny commits hara-kiri -- in front of the guests at the child's fifth birthday bash.
- Rosemary's Baby
Starring Mia FarrowJohn CassavetesRuth Gordon
By Roman Polanski, 1968.
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbours are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman Rosemary meets in...
- Drag Me to Hell
Starring Alison LohmanJustin LongLorna Raver
By Sam Raimi, 2009.
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend (Justin Long) is skeptical.
- Hostel
Starring Jay HernandezDerek RichardsonEythor Gudjonsson
By Eli Roth, 2006.
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them. Watch for a cameo by Takashi Miike.
- Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Starring Bruce CampbellSarah BerryDan Hicks
By Sam Raimi, 1987.
Stranded in a cabin in the woods, Ash (Bruce Campbell) and his girlfriend accidentally invoke a spell that causes the Evil Dead to rise and kill! As a lone man pitted against hordes of walking corpses, can Ash survive until the safety of sunrise? Director Sam Raimi's whip-crack direction and...
- The Devil's Rejects
Starring Sid HaigBill MoseleySheri Moon
By Rob Zombie, 2005.
Texas sheriff John Wydell (William Forsythe) seeks vengeance against his brother's creepy murderers in this Western-flavored sequel to Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses. Wydell enlists the aid of two vigilante brothers, and the posse heads out to the Firefly homestead to take down Otis, Baby...
- The Descent
Starring Shauna MacDonaldAlex ReidSaskia Mulder
By Neil Marshall, 2006.
A pleasure caving trip turns frightful in this horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. Six girlfriends, led by thrill seeker Juno (Natalie Mendoza), go spelunking a year after a tragic incident. But when they get trapped under the earth, all rationale escapes them as they start to suffer...
- Ju-on: The Grudge
Starring Megumi OkinaMisaki ItoMisa Uehara
By Takashi Shimizu, 2003.
A house with a terrifying secret is the setting for this Japanese horror film. A young nurse arrives at the house to find that two brutal murders have taken place there, and now the house is cursed, set to exact revenge on any and all who set foot inside it.
- Trick 'r Treat
Starring Brian CoxDylan BakerLeslie Bibb
By Michael Dougherty, 2008.
The usually boisterous traditions of Halloween turn baleful, and everyone in a small town tries to survive one night in pure hell in writer-director Michael Dougherty's fright fest. Several stories weave together, such as a loner fending off a demented trick-or-treater's attacks, kids uncovering a...
- Frankenstein
Starring Colin CliveBoris KarloffMae Clarke
By James Whale, 1931.
Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley 's classic tale of tragedy and horror, Frankenstein made unknown character actor Boris Karloff a star and created a new icon of terror.
- Frailty
Starring Matthew McConaugheyBill PaxtonMatthew O'Leary
By Bill Paxton, 2002.
Director Bill Paxton's gripping thriller has evil at its core -- and a family in the crossfire. FBI agent Wesley Doyle (Powers Boothe) is trying to track down "God's Hand," a notorious murderer who's resurfaced years after terrorizing a Texas town. The Meeks family -- Fenton, Adam and their dad ...
- Ginger Snaps
Starring Emily PerkinsKatharine IsabelleKris Lemche
By John Fawcett, 2000.
The teenage years prove especially difficult for sisters Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger (Katharine Isabelle), who have an unexplained fascination with Goth and death. On the night of Ginger's first period, she's bitten by a werewolf and quickly develops several new traits -- including an...
- Dead Alive
Starring Diana PenalverIan WatkinElizabeth Moody
By Peter Jackson, 1992.
Although it's easy to admire the maniacal glee of director Peter Jackson's bloodfest, Dead Alive is nonetheless intense and profoundly disturbing (edit - or simply ridiculous, over the top and downright hilarious, depending on your perspective). When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's...
- Bubba Ho-Tep
Starring Bruce CampbellOssie DavisReggie Bannister
By Don Coscarelli, 2003.
Elvis Presley is an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home; seems he switched identities with an impersonator years before his "death" and then missed his chance to switch back. The King teams up with Jack, a fellow nursing home resident who thinks he's John F. Kennedy, and the two old codgers...
- The Host
Starring Hie-bong ByeonKang-ho SongHae-il Park
By Joon-ho Bong, 2006.
In Seoul's River Han, a giant mutant creature has developed as a result of toxic chemical dumping. When the squidlike monster scoops up the teenage granddaughter of humble snack-bar owner Hie-bong (Hie-bong Byeon), he races to track down the murderous beast.
- Suspiria
Starring Jessica HarperStefania CasiniFlavio Bucci
By Dario Argento, 1977.
This horror gem follows Susan (Jessica Harper), a naïve young American girl whose talents have brought her to an illustrious European ballet school. But once she gets there, she realizes there's something strange going on as she's faced with a cluster of freaky happenings, from a shower of maggots...
- The Last Man on Earth
Starring Vincent PriceFranca BettoiaEmma Danieli
By Ubaldo Ragona, 2007.
Vincent Price gives an atypically restrained performance as the sole survivor of a worldwide plague that revives its victims as bloodthirsty vampires. During the day, he canvasses his abandoned hometown, tracking down and stalking his former friends and neighbors, always making sure to return...
