Saturday, June 27, 2009

Top 20 Horror Movies

The horror movies scare, thrill, and scream people.


According to Wikipedia, Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain.
Early horror movies are largely based on classic literature of the gothic/horror genre, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
More recent horror films, in contrast, often draw inspiration from the insecurities of life after World War II, giving rise to the three distinct, but related, sub-genres: the horror-of-personality Psycho film, the horror-of-armageddon Invasion of the Body Snatchers film, and the horror-of-the-demonic The Exorcist film.
conitnue reading at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film


For me the Top 20 horror movies of all-time include:
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Friday the 13th (2009)

Friday the 13th (2009)
Directed by Marcus Nispel, starring Jared Padalecki and Danielle Panabaker. Synopsis: A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

My Bloody Valentine (2009)

My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Directed by Patrick Lussier, starring Jensen Ackles and Jaime King. Synopsis: Tom (Jensen) returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, however, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one will believes he's innocent.

The Uninvited (2009)

The Uninvited (2009)
Directed by Charles Guard and Thomas Guard, starring Emily Browning and Ariel Kebbel. Synopsis: Anna Rydell (Emily) returns home to her sister (and best friend) Alex (Arielle) after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother, aloof father, and the presence of a ghost in their home.

The Eye (2008)

The Eye (2008)
Directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, starring Jessica Alba and Alessandro Nivola. Synopsis: The remake of the Hong Kong film "Jian Gui", a woman who receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world.

Prom Night (2008)

Prom Night (2008)
Directed by Nelson McCormick, starring Brittany Snow and Scott Porter. Synopsis: Donna's (Brittany) senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

One miscall (2008)

One miscall (2008)
Directed by Eric Vallette Josh Ohman, starring Edward Burns and Shannyn Sossamon. Synopsis: Shannyn is terrified by the deaths of four friends, three of which she personally witnessed, after they received chilling phone calls apparently from themselves in the future, showing the exact time of their deaths.

The Strangers (2008)

The Strangers (2008)
Directed by Bryan Betino, starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman. Synopsis: A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.

I know What you did last summer(2007)

I know What you did last summer(2007)
Directed by Jim Gilespie, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Synopsis: Four teens are in great danger one year after their car hits a stranger whose body they dump in the sea.

Dawn of the Dead (2004 Ultimate Edition)

Dawn of the Dead (2004 Ultimate Edition)
Directed by George A. Romero, starring Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames. Synopsis: A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

The Grudge (2004)

The Grudge (2004)
Directed by Takashi Shimizu, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar,Jason Behr and William Mapother. Synopsis: An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
Directed by Scott Derreickson, starring Laura Linney and Tom Wilkson. Synopsis: A lawyer (Linney) takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest (Wilkinson) who performed an exorcism on a young girl.

Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)

Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
Directed by Christopher Gans, starring Samuel Le Bihan and Vincent Cassel. Synopsis: The movie begins during the French Revolution with the aged Marquis d'Apcher (Jacques Perrin) as the narrator, writing his memoirs in a castle, while the voices of a mob can be heard from outside. The film flashes back to the mid 1760s when a mysterious beast terrorized the province of Gévaudan and nearby lands.

Scream 3 (2000)

Scream 3 (2000)
Directed by Wes Craven, starring Liev Schreiber and Beth Toussaint. Synopsis: Sidney visits the set of "Stab 3," after pictures of her mother become the clue to a series of murders around Hollywood.

Bless the Child (2000)

Bless the Child (2000)
Directed by Chuck Russell, starring Kim Basinger and Jimmy Smits. Synopsis: Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's (Kim) well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home.

Scream 2 (1997)

Scream 2 (1997)
Directed by Wes Craven, starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Omar Epps. Synopsis: It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives, and are currently both students at Windsor College.

Scream (1996)

Scream (1996)
Directed by Wes Craven, starring David Arquette and Neve Campbell. Synopsis: A psychopathic serial killer is stalking a group of teens just like in the movies!

Dracula (1992)

Dracula (1992)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. Synoposis: This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe.

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Directed by Tom Savini, starring Tony Todd and Patricia Tallman. Synopsis: The unburied dead return to life and seek human victims.

ChildPlay (1988)

ChildPlay (1988)
Directed by: Tom Holland, starring Karen Barclay and Mike Norris. Synopsis: Young Andy Barclay gets the doll he wanted. However, he did not know it was alive!

Children of the Corn (1984)

Children of the Corn (1984)
Directed by Fritz Kiersch, starring Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton. Synopsis: A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted.