One of those grisly shockers that protests far too much, this French import spends most of its running time trying to provoke even the most hard-core of horror fans. Don’t give it the chance. Cecile De France and Maiwenn Le Besco play a pair of college girlfriends who are stalked by a leering, heavy-breathing killer

Credit rocker turned horror director Rob Zombie with this: he can film a bloody, naked corpse like no one else. This sequel to Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses has its own distinctive flair, specifically rooted in the grindhouse exploitation flicks of the 1970s. With impulsive freeze-frame shots and a retro, country-rock soundtrack, the movie stands

A thriller that can’t decide who the bad guy should be: the upscale urbanites (Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid) who buy a country estate for cheap or the working-class former owner (Stephen Dorff) who couldn’t make his mortgage payments. As their showdown grows increasingly ridiculous, eventually resembling the intelligence of a Friday the 13th flick,

Slow-burn horror films can be a refuge of sorts for talented actresses in search of a lead role. Just as Jennifer Connelly anchored the excellent Dark Water, Kate Hudson headlines The Skeleton Key, a clever little thriller under the spell of Louisiana voodoo. As Caroline, a hospice worker who goes to work for a stroke

In this remake of the 1977 horror flick from Wes Craven, an extended family traveling through the desert of New Mexico is beset by a horde of bogeymen. Rape, torture and dismemberment ensue, all to the delight of French director Alexandre Aja (High Tension). Despite a prologue suggesting the attackers are the deformed victims of

Flickers of macabre creativity can be found in Cabin Fever, but they face stiff competition from every horror-movie cliche known to man. The film follows five college friends holed up in a remote cabin, where a gruesome, highly contagious virus arrives in the form of an infected hunter. The debut of writer-director Eli Roth.

In this zombie installment from genre godfather George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead), human survivors have quarantined themselves in a high-rise shopping center, trying to rebuild their consumerist lifestyle. But outside the undead have begun to evolve – communicating with each other and even learning to use basic tools. Romero’s social-critic tendencies make

Though it never lives up to the ghost story that serves as its prologue – about a vengeful spirit who attacks kids the night they lose their last baby tooth – Darkness Falls remains serviceably creepy throughout. The main story follows one of the ghost’s former victims – now a predictably disheveled adult – as