At heart a haunted-house flick, this remake of a Japanese hit follows an American (Sarah Michelle Gellar) having trouble adjusting to her new life in Tokyo, where her caregiving job for an older woman involves, among other things, a pale little boy in the closet who meows. At least the theme of cultural dislocation allows

This early horror comedy from Peter Jackson, also known as Braindead, reveals the director’s gonzo tendencies before he reined them in for the Lord of the Rings films. A mama’s boy (Timothy Balme) finds catering to mommie dearest even harder when she turns into a zombie (now it involves gluing slabs of flesh back onto

London has succumbed to a virus that turns anyone infected into a homicidal maniac. Almost everyone has been wiped out – except for a hospitalized bicycle courier (Cillian Murphy) who awakens from a weeks-long coma to find his world irrevocably changed. With his thrilling revisionist zombie movie, director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, The Beach) suggests civilization