Horror Movies

In Gustavo Hernandez’s La casa muda, or en inglés The Silent House, audiences are treated to a movie with a single, 79-minute take – a gimmick, yes, but an ambitious gimmick nonetheless. Unfortunately, as with so many movies based on a gimmick, the filmmakers forget the basic rule of film: entertain the audience.

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Ghost movies have officially made a comeback. Paranormal Activity was a fluke. Its sequel was a continuation of that fluke. But with Insidious, the third downright scary – and highly profitable – ghost story to hit theaters in the last year and a half, it’s clear horror is trending back to the supernatural.

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Vampires never get old. Unless they’re sparkly and romantic. Thankfully, in the new indie thriller Stake Land, the vampires are bloody, nasty and pissed off – just like they should be. Even better, the movie is surprisingly good, if not particularly original.

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When it was first released, Scream was considered an original and refreshing take on the slasher genre. By Scream 3, some of the shine had worn off as it turned inwards to parody itself. Ten years later, Wes Craven and his surviving cast return for a fourth entry in the series, and by and large it’s a bloody success.

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After more than 10 years away from theaters, the Scream franchise returned in the form of Scream 4, reuniting stars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette with director Wes Craven and a new lineup of young pretty things to be splattered, gutted and witticismed to a spot six feet underground.

Box office winner, right?

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Insidious, in theaters Friday, April 1, is the terrifying story of a family who shortly after moving discover that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma.  Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to discover that it was not their house that was haunted.

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Easily one of the most brutally violent films I’ve seen in years, I Saw The Devil pulls no punches in its portrayal of revenge come full circle. Korean director Kim ji-Woon, who created another one of my favorite Asian imports, A Tale of Two Sisters, shows he has improved with age as the film’s direction pushes it way beyond the typical revenge-torture film.

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Just when you think you can’t stand yet another horror movie retread, along comes the unrated thriller I Spit on Your Grave, a brutally graphic remake of the brutally graphic 1978 original. Directed by Steven R. Monroe, the movie is well done and violent. Whether it’s a pleasant viewing experience is another matter.

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It’s a tried and true premise: combine some good looking girls, very little clothing and some bad guys looking to kidnap them and you have an effective thriller. And Soon the Darkness brings together two of today’s hottest actresses – Amber Heard and Odette Yustman – and nearly does just that.

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Demons run amok – but always out of sight – in 2011′s obligatory exorcism movie, this one called The Rite. Starring Colin O’Donaghue and Anthony Hopkins, the brooding thriller maintains a measure of tension but still manages to be one of the more boring exorcism movies in recent memory.

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Hatchet II picks up right where the original Hatchet ended: The quiet but hot-tempered Marybeth (Danielle Harris, Halloween) barely escapes the clutches of the mysterious Crowley (Kane Hodder, Friday the 13th), who has already murdered all of Marybeth’s friends and other vacationers in New Orleans swamp country…

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