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Also ranks #4 on Which Horror Movie Isn't As Scary As Everyone Says? 13 30 Days of Night Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston 112 votes In the chilling horror thriller 30 Days of Night, Barrow, Alaska's northernmost town, plunges into a month-long darkness. Sheriff Eben Oleson ...
Along with her ex-husband, Ryuji (Hiroyuki Sanada), Reiko finds the tape, watches it -- and promptly receives a phone call informing her that she'll die in a week. Determined to get to the bottom of the curse, Reiko and Ryuji discover the video's origin and attempt to solve an old...
It makes sense now, since Origin of Evil's director Mike Flanagan has gone on to mesmerize us with The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher. But in 2016 this movie hit as a shock — the best kind. ...
Why it’s scary: It’s love or hate time with this divisive movie, but lose yourself to The Witch and suddenly everything is scary and you can’t put your shaking finger on exactly why. Every perfectly constructed shot of the family attempting to survive in the wilderness is cranked into...
If these visions can’t be trusted, then what of the murders she commits? The slow unraveling of her mind set the template for so many hallucinatory imitators, from “The Babadook” to “Black Swan.” Great horror plays with our minds, which is often a scary enough place to be already...
This is the origin story of Gotham’s supervillain, the Joker, played by Joaquin Phoenix. It’s a dark tale of the struggles surrounding mental health, loneliness, and bullying, and how there’s only so muchsomeonecan endure before they snap. ...
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers: Directed by Dwight H. Little. With Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, George P. Wilbur. Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Hadd
Twilight Zone: The Movie: Directed by Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller, Steven Spielberg. With Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath. Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a ne