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

Borrowing its concept from 1998’s Ringu, a hit in its native Japan, The Ring follows a journalist (Naomi Watts) investigating a videotape that supposedly kills anyone who watches it. The movie’s narrative is a bit patchy at times, but there are enough genuine scares to keep your teeth clenched. And the malevolently open-ended finale, like

The Ring left its sequel a great setup, but The Ring Two quickly abandon’s the cursed videotape premise of the original – as well as the true original, Japan’s Ringu – in favor of a demonic possession plot. This time the avenging ghost of the tape tracks down the reporter from the first film (Naomi

If you’re going to give Gothika a chance, you’ll have to get over a lot more than Halle Berry in the role of a criminal psychologist who begins to question her own sanity. There’s a lot of silliness here, but also some genuine scares, thanks mostly to the way the movie gets you inside a