This loose remake of the 1953 Vincent Price frightfest features a handful of clueless youths (Chad Michael Murray, Elisha Cuthbert and an extremely bored-looking Paris Hilton) who get stranded in a small town with an old wax museum and a high murder rate. Director Jaume Collet-Serra excels at establishing a consistent mood, so this works

Another chapter in the Chainsaw canon – this one purportedly a remake of the low-budget, 1974 original – this is heavy on gore, torture and dismemberment and light on scares, suspense or even laughs. It’s a macabre mess, though not in the way the filmmakers intend. Once again, a group of kids on the road

This slasher flick, in which four equally vacuous single women are stalked by a crazed killer around Valentine’s Day, begs this question, considering it came out just before that same holiday: Is a movie that only gives itself a shelf life of two weeks really worth 90 minutes of your time?

A gruesome and generic horror movie which denies everything that made The Blair Witch Project 1999’s best film. In catering to those who couldn’t appreciate the daring minimalism of the original – off-screen noises, shaky camera work, long patches of darkness – new director Joe Berlinger offers up a series of horror cliches that would

Pop star Aaliyah reportedly completed all of her scenes before her death in a plane crash, but you wouldn’t know it from the finished film. As the title character, an ancient vampire bent on devouring everyone in sight, she has about 20 minutes of screen time. The rest of this goth-rock take on the vampire

The reliably odd Crispin Glover – who played the fitfully nerdy George McFly in Back to the Future and the hair-sniffing assassin in Charlie’s Angels – gets neutralized by the overwhelming oddness of Willard, a remake of a 1971 horror flick about a social misfit who befriends a colony of rats. By the time the

This low-budget horror flick claims to be based on a true story, but the movie never decides if it wants to go for the sort of documentary-like realism of The Blair Witch Project or the more mythic frights of one of the iconic Jason or Freddy slasher films. The movie follows three casual friends on

Reteaming Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood) on an adaptation of Washington Irving’s prankish ghost story may have sounded like a dream come true, but the result is more akin to a harsh, bloody nightmare. Burton does cast his usual atmospheric spell – this Sleepy Hollow is full of twisted trees