A fundamental feature of a horror film is the fear, which is realized on the screen by plot twists, scaring events, images, etc. The scaring effect is realized in the midst of some fantastic events or psychopathological actions, natural disasters, violence, especially when human entrails and blood are visible, etc. A good horror movie is a poetic image of fear. But like any genre, the horror movie genre didn’t avoid a mass production of low quality films, where the poetic image is lost in the banality of the plot and trite events.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild
Skeleton Lakes plot synopsis: Six ruthless bank robbers encounter someone far worse. Six bank robbers become stranded in a off the grid forest when their vehicle goes missing during the planning of their escape from the police... »
Genres: Horror
Starring: Lindsay Leese, Arly Jover, Ted Lewis, Don Puglisi, Charlene deGuzman
Donner Pass has a well-known and macabre history - the place where George Donner and his party got stuck in the winter of 1846 and were forced to resort to cannibalism to keep from starving. But what if it wasn't just history?
Genres: Horror
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Ian Wilmoth, Jackson Warris, Douglas Brooks West, John Considine
In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Cecil Kellaway, Alex Gibney, Beau Sia, Leslie Mann, Corey Large
When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrioress Selene leads the battle against humankind.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Anne Joyce, Joe Sachs, Conroe Brooks, David Aldridge, Cinda Adams
Fiona Wagner is studying for a master's degree in journalism and still grieves for her mother Samantha who committed suicide at the Crescent Hotel three years ago. Her father, Detective Tom Wagner, is investigating the brutal death of lawyer Elliot Vincent, who was murdered by his teenager daughter. His daughter was forced to choose between killing him or having her mother, little brother and herself killed by a sadistic criminal that had broken in their house. When pianist Simon Campbell is forced to choose between losing his fingers or his hearing, Tom realizes that a deranged serial-killer is attacking people. Meanwhile, Fiona is contacted by the criminal through the codename ISO_17. Fiona recalls that her mother had mentioned something about choice in her suicide note and she decides to investigate the sadistic man further.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Spike Lee, Adam Cagley, Jean Schlegel, Peter Sykes, Christopher Wicking
Recently separated from her husband and seeking to start a new life in the city, single doctor Juliet Hillary Swank rents a spacious apartment in Brooklyn and finds herself beset on all sides by a mysterious, unseen force of evil. Is there a rational explanation behind the unsettling events unfolding all around Juliet, or could it be that she is being pursued by forces beyond human comprehension From acclaimed horror studio Hammer Films Let Me In, The Woman in Black comes this unrelentingly tense thriller co-starring Christopher Lee and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. ~
Genres: Horror
Starring: Ron Gabriel, Roy T. Anderson, Antoni Pawlicki, Marek Kasprzyk, Katarzyna Figura
Michael, the son of a funeral director grows indifferent to his father and joins a Seminary. On his way to the course completion, he is overwhelmed by a strong lack of faith. His religious beliefs are further jolted when he sees a young girl haplessly dying in a road accident for whom he reluctantly performs the ritual to absolve her sins. His mentor still believes in him and urges him to go to Italy to take an exorcism course hoping that he it would strengthen his faith in Christianity. In Italy he attends a session from Father Xavier who soon becomes aware of his skepticism. As a result he sends him to an eminent Jesuit exorcist, Father Lucas, whose ways though questionable are quite effective. He witnesses the exorcism of a sixteen year old girl but still seems unconvinced. Father Lucas explains him that it takes multiple sessions over a long stretch of time to completely free a victim from the omen...
Genres: Horror
Starring: Thomas Guard, Amy Margolis, Grant Doyle, Nestor Carbonell, Sarah Lafleur
Amanda Seyfried stars in this dark retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fable, set in a medieval village where a werewolf has been terrorizing the citizens. Though the night has become a more and more dangerous time for the villagers, who never know when the beast will leave more bodies strewn in its wake, Valerie is a girl on the brink of womanhood, and is so preoccupied with her love and lust for an orphaned woodcutter that she risks leaving herself vulnerable -- both literally and figuratively. Meanwhile, the townspeople hire a werewolf hunter Gary Oldman to track down the monster and kill it before it wreaks more bloody havoc. But as suspicions brew, the people of the once peaceful town begin to turn on each other, letting the innocence of their formerly happy community fall further and further into the past. ~
Genres: Horror
Starring: Joey Mendicino, Ignacio Serricchio, Sawyer Church, Tony Hughes, Daniel Toland
PRIEST, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller, is set in an alternate world -- one ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest from the last Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled by the Church. When his niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on a quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece's boyfriend, a trigger-fingered young wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess who possesses otherworldly fighting skills.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Vincent Riotta, Jennice Fuentes, Lucy Honigman, Katarzyna Glinka, Malgorzata Socha
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Karen Conrad, John Quade, Alan Reed, Marie Laurin, Robert Jaffe
Three months have passed since a viral outbreak wiped out 99.9% of the world's population, turning its victims into flesh-eating living dead. In the UK, a surviving band of soldiers and civilians have taken refuge at a rural military barracks. Life in this new world is tough and brutal, but hope appears when a high level communication is received from a military base on the coast, telling of sanctuary elsewhere in Europe... But just as salvation appears to be in reach, the base suffers an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the living dead! The surviving handful of troops and civilians must now make their way to the coast to uncover the truth behind the message. Their perilous journey takes them across a now treacherous, death-ravaged landscape, where the living dead are vast in number and wandering bandits impose their own malicious sense of law and order. What follows is a journey into hell and a desperate battle against all odds for the very survival of the human race.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Lin Shaye, Pamela Cuming, Vladimir Kolev, Nicola Cunningham, Jay Kerr
"ChromeSkull" is the sequel to the 2009 horror hit "Laid to Rest." It brings back ChromeSkull, who barely escaped death in the first movie and is hell-bent on continuing where he left off... and forging a new path of terror and destruction.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Miriama McDowell, John Lee Hancock, Gloria Steinem, Ira Steck, Brett Matthews
TIM and ALLIE seek shelter in a remote desert compound after becoming lost and stranded. A strange Manson-like character, PREACHER (Drago), reluctantly allows them inside with strict orders to be gone by morning and not wander "where you are not invited." At first, Preacher and his mail-order wife OKSANA (Nedeljakova) deny the faint screams and cries that emanate from one of the crumbling outbuildings. When Allie sneaks outside to investigate, she discovers that she and Tim have stumbled onto a bizarre cult worshiping an entity that may -- or may not -- dwell inside a haunted little boy.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Jim Beaver, Jay Oliva, Tony Kayden, Edward M. Valenta, Gerald Paetz
A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Darrell Foster, Rob Brown, Lauren Lee Smith, Sgt. Slaughter, Marie-France Robitaille
When a successful country lawyer captures and attempts to "civilize" the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, he puts the lives of his family in jeopardy.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Jerald Garner, Addison Powell, Patrick Horgan, Sidney Armus, Astrid Heeren
Follows a group of friends that decide to go snowmobiling during their winter break. They make a "wrong turn", getting lost in a storm, and seek shelter in an abandoned sanatorium. They are completely isolated by the storm and are thankful they can get out of the elements. But the sanatorium has a troubled past, and some of its former patients still reside there and are not happy about the intrusion. In a deadly game of cat and mouse, the college kids must fight to survive the night.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Sam Cotton, Anita Motz, Peter Sweeney, Graham Kosakoski, Nancy Lee Andrews
In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Wendy Wessberg, Ezra Barnes, Joey Mendicino, Kathy Gardiner
Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying way...
Genres: Horror
Starring: Miguel Rodarte, Miguel Rodarte, Per Christian Ellefsen, Lawrence Diller, Tom Insel
Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his mother in a bleak housing project. He works the night shift as a security guard in an equally grim and foreboding underground parking complex. To escape his dreary existence, Martin loses himself in the fantasy world of the cult horror film , fetishizing the meticulous surgical skills of the gifted Dr. Heiter, whose knowledge of the human gastrointestinal system inspires Martin to attempt the unthinkable.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Takeshi Garcia, Takeshi Garcia, Elijah Kelley, Annie O'Donnell, Khaled Hosseini
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson. While Dr. Halvorson keeps to his research, Kate partners with Sam Carter, a helicopter pilot, to pursue the alien life form.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Gordana Vukres, Lou Carbonneau, Kimberly Lynn Campbell, Curtis Hanson, Jim Gallien
A remake of the 1985 original, teenager Charley Brewster (Yelchin) guesses that his new neighbor Jerry Dandrige (Farrell) is a vampire responsible for a string of recent deaths. When no one he knows believes him, he enlists Peter Vincent (Tennant), a self proclaimed vampire killer and Las Vegas magician, to help him take down Jerry.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Carey Feehan
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was A Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Justin Colvin, Dieutinh
The new town sheriff moves into a large creepy old house with his family. It seems that in the town of Salem there's a special house for the sheriff to live in gratis. Unfortunately it's haunted by witches that have a strong craving for sheriff's blood.
Genres: Horror
Starring: Jay Taylor, Jay Taylor, Len Kabasinski
John Ajvide Lindqvists celebrated vampire novel makes the leap to the big screen once again with the second feature adaptation in so many years Tomas Alfredsons critically acclaimed 2008 hit Let the Right One In, being the first. The sensitive target of vicious bullying at school, 12-year-old Owen Kodi Smit-McPhee is a social misfit from a broken home. By day Owen dreams about laying waste to his classroom tormentors; by night his attentions turn to his reclusive neighbors in their austere apartment complex. One evening, as Owen takes out his pent-up aggressions on a tree, his new neighbor Abby Chloë Grace Moretz appears over his shoulder. A young girl wise beyond her years, Abby just moved in next door to Owen with her stoic caretaker Richard Jenkins, who seems to harbor a sinister secret. Compelled by Abbys apparent imperviousness to the harsh winter elements, her frail disposition, and the fact that shes nowhere to be found before the sun falls, Owen senses a kindred soul, and strikes up a friendship with the girl, despite her repeated attempts to maintain an emotional distance. Simultaneously, their community grows vigilant following a series of vicious murders, and Abbys caretaker vanishes without a trace. Later, as Abby begins to grow vulnerable, her bond with Owen strengthens. By the time Owen begins to suspect that his evasive new friend is something other than human, it starts to seem as if Abby could use a good friend after all. Given that his bullies are growing more emboldened by the day, so too could Owen. ~
Genres: Horror
Starring: Clifford W. Stewart, Samantha Bailey, Steven Lee Allen, Elijah Runcorn, Rajendranath Zutshi
While attending a bachelor party in Las Vegas, four friends are enticed by two sexy escorts to join them at a private party way off the Strip. Once there, they are horrified to find themselves the subjects of a perverse game of torture, where members of the Elite Hunting Club are hosting the most sadistic show in town.
As many other genres of cinema the classic horror movie is a picture of the struggle between good and evil, realized as an opposition “butcher –victim”, where the butcher can be personified by a monster or another otherworldly force, nature element, a human with deviation (mad, psychopaths, freaks, killers, etc.). But in horror films it’s not always good that wins.