Lost Souls takes The Exorcist a step further by having a crime reporter (Ben Chaplin) in danger of being possessed by Satan himself. Winona Ryder also is on hand as an exorcism survivor. As the directorial debut of Janusz Kaminski, longtime cinematographer for Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List), this has a lot of

A wry and cerebral horror movie from director Roman Polanski, The Ninth Gate is surprisingly gripping until its devilishly silly ending. Johnny Depp, delightfully eccentric as usual, stars as a rare book appraiser who gets caught up in the world of demonic texts, but even his engaging presence can’t save the film from literally and

As a sequel, this horror flick inherently contains the mythical back story that the flimsy first film lacked, but it still skimps on scares. A few good frights – including an opening daylight attack in a cornfield by the scarecrow or gargoyle or whatever the series’ monster is supposed to be – can’t make up

In this infinitely idiotic horror flick, the population of Backwater, La., consists almost entirely of dumb teenagers, making it just the sort of place a demonic maniac would go fishing. And so one does, with all the ruthlessness, cruelty and utter predictability of hundreds of others in countless slasher films before him. The movie piles

I can’t imagine what the filmmakers did to poor little Dakota Fanning to make her look so wan in this thriller, short of filling her with tequila shots the night before filming. She plays a dour kid who moves with her father (Robert De Niro) after her mother’s suicide to rural New York, where she