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

Another Americanized version of a horror film from the Japanese Ring factory, this is one of those unsettling thrillers that could be taking place entirely within the main character’s head. Jennifer Connelly stars as a recently divorced mother trying to prove that she can raise her young daughter on her own. When a few highly

This remake of the seminal 1978 zombie flick – the one set in the mall – jettisons the consumerist satire of the original in favor of straight-ahead scares, which is fine by me. The first Dawn was so heavy-handed it had enough satire for four movies. This time, a larger cast of characters hides out

An extremely odd serial-killer exercise, all the more so for being the directorial debut of regular-guy actor Bill Paxton (Titanic, Twister). Paxton also stars as a father who teaches his two young boys to murder people he believes to be demons, a bizarre tale told in flashback by one of the grown boys (Matthew McConaughey).

“It’s just the wind,” goes the attempt at reassurance in your average haunted-house story. In Below, a clever horror flick set aboard a World War II submarine, the men tell each other, “It’s just the water.” Ably directed by genre specialist David Twohy (Pitch Black), Below combines the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with

For awhile, there are enough good scares and gonzo stunts to make this adaptation of the zombie-fighting video game fun – a highlight is when star Milla Jovovich drop-kicks a zombie Doberman pinscher. But by the time the movie hauls out the requisite computer-generated creature for its last act, the overblown action and cheapo effects

A sequel to the 2002 video-game adaptation that was most notable for introducing the concept of the zombie dog, this seems to be based on an entire video-game arcade. It’s so random and haphazard, watching it feels like jumping from one arcade game to the next without ever finishing on any of them. Milla Jovovich