By Amy Renner May. 10, 2016
Top Horror Movies 2005
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The Fog
In Revolution Studio's horror/thriller "The Fog" there really is something out there in the dark. In the small town of Antonio Bay, a terrifying and malevolent force hidden within a thick and eerie fog terrorizes its residents. Shrouded by the fog lies a ghastly secret of merciless revenge, one that the town's inhabitants would do well to unravel—before it's too late.
Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, Derek Dauchy, Dan Kolsrud, Rupert Wainwright, John Carpenter, Debra Hill, David Foster
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Saw II
While investigating the bloody aftermath of a grizzly murder, Detective Eric Mason (Donnie Wahlberg) has the feeling that it is the work of Jigsaw, the notorious killer who disappeared leaving a trail of bodies—and parts—behind.
And Mason is right.
Jigsaw is at work again. But instead of two people locked in a room with only one unthinkable way out, there are eight. Eight strangers—unaware of their connection to each other—forced to play out a game that challenges their wits and puts their lives in jeopardy.
And Mason is right.
Jigsaw is at work again. But instead of two people locked in a room with only one unthinkable way out, there are eight. Eight strangers—unaware of their connection to each other—forced to play out a game that challenges their wits and puts their lives in jeopardy.
Glenn Plummer, Shawnee Smith, Oren Koules, Darren Lynn Bousman, Tobin Bell, Donnie Wahlberg, James Wan, Stacey Testro
Three Extremes
This is a compilation of three different short films entitled 'Cut,' 'Box' and 'Dumplings' by directors from Japan, Korea and China. Each deals with the theme of human monstrosity.
Hasegawa Kyoko, Haruko Fukushima, Hye-jeong Kang, Jung-ah Yum, Lilian Lee, Chan-wook Park, Byung-hun Lee, Miriam Yeung
Curandero
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City.
Bob Weinstein, Robert Rodriguez, Andrew Rona, Harvey Weinstein, Gizeht Galatea, Luz Maria Rojas, Sergio Acosta, Elizabeth Avellan
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognized the demonic possession of a 19 year-old college freshman. Told in terrifying flashbacks, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" chronicles the haunting trial of the priest accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl believed to be possessed. Inspired by true events, the film stars Laura Linney as the lawyer who takes on the task of defending the priest (Tom Wilkinson) who performed the controversial exorcism.
Tom Wilkinson, Beau Flynn, Scott Derrickson, Paul Harris Boardman, Laura Linney, Campbell Scott, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Tripp Vinson
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Venom
A voodoo horror tale set deep in the swamps of Louisiana centered around a group of teenagers fighting for their lives against a mysterious evil force.
Jim Gillespie, Agnes Bruckner, Jonathan Jackson, Kevin Williamson, Bijou Phillips, Jennifer D. Breslow, Scott Faye, Method Man
The Woods
Heather's parents drop her off at a remote, all-girls boarding school deep in the forest. Watched over by sinister headmistress Ms. Traverse and her staff, Heather is tormented by her classmates and is desperate to go home. But when students start disappearing and she begins to have horrifying visions, Heather realizes that things at school are not quite what they seem. She only knows there's something out there in the woods—and it won't be letting her leave anytime soon.
Agnes Bruckner, Rachel Nichols, Lucky McKee, Sean Furst, Bryan Furst, Bruce Campbell, David Ross, Patricia Clarkson
Hellbent
Capturing the essence of the Halloween Carnival, 'Hellbent' follows four young men through a night where flamboyant costumes, beautiful people, drugs, music, dancing and sex are everywhere. Authentic footage from the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival lets filmgoers experience the most exciting night of the year.
Hank Harris, Stephen Wolfe, Josh Silver, Paul Etheredge-Ouzts, Dylan Fergus, Bryan Kirkwood, Andrew Levitas, Matt Phillips
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The Skeleton Key
Set largely in the dark atmospheric backwoods just outside of New Orleans, "The Skeleton Key" stars Kate Hudson as Caroline, a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman's (Gena Rowlands) ailing husband (John Hurt) in their home, a foreboding a decrepit Gothic mansion in the Louisiana delta. Intrigued by the enigmatic couple, their mysterious and secretive ways and their rambling house, Caroline begins to explore the old mansion. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door, she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret.
John Hurt, Daniel Bobker, Peter Sarsgaard, Iain Softley, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Ehren Kruger, Kate Hudson
Undead
Peaceful, rustic Berkeley is a charming fishing community where life is sweet and the people friendly. All that is about to change. After losing her childhood farm to the bank, local beauty Rene decides to leave town and head for the big city. Suddenly, an avalanche of meteorites races through the sky, bombarding the town and bringing an otherworldly infection. Departing is going to be much more difficult than she had planned. The living dead are awakened and Rene is now caught in a nightmare of zombies hungry for human flesh. She manages to find salvation in a small isolated farm house owned by the town loony, Marion. There she is met with four other desperate survivors. Together they battle their way through a plague of walking dead and discover that there is more transpiring than just an infection.
Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, Felicity Mason, Mungo Mckay, Rob Jenkins, Lisa Cunningham, Dirk Hunter, Emma Randall
Dark Water
Dahlia Williams is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. But when the strained separation disintegrates into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment--dilapidated, cramped, and worn--seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a puzzling and mystifying pursuit to find out who is behind the endless mind games. As Dahlia frantically searches for the links between the riddles, the dark water seems to close around her. But one thing trumps all others in Dahlia's world: no matter what it is that's out there, she'll stop at nothing to find it.
Roy Lee, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Dougray Scott, Walter Salles, Rafael Yglesias, Camryn Manheim, Pete Postlethwaite
The Devil's Rejects
Sequel to "House of 1000 Corpses" is set some months later with the Texas State Police making a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for the 1,000+ murders and disappearances of the past several years. But three of the family members escape, including Otis, Baby Firefly and Baby's father Captain Spaulding. The evil trio go on a road trip, leaving dozens of mangled bodies in their wake. Evading a massive Texas Rangers dragnet as well as a group of equally murderous bounty hunters led by Ken Dwyer (the brother of a policeman Mamma Firefly killed in 'House of...') who's obsessed with finding the deadly killers, the surviving Firefly clan gather at a run-down amusement park owned by Captain Spaulding's half-brother, Charlie Altamont, whom offers them shelter and a new base of operations for their killing spree as Sheriff Dwyer, the Texas Rangers, the FBI and others slowly close in.
William Forsythe, Rob Zombie, Danny Trejo, Marco Mehlitz, Michael Paseornek, Andy Gould, Bill Moseley, Mike Elliott
Night Watch
Set in contemporary Moscow, "Night Watch" revolves around the conflict and balance maintained between the forces of light and darkness—the result of a medieval truce between the opposing sides. As night falls, the dark forces battle the super-human "Others" of the Night Watch, whose mission is to patrol and protect. But there is constant fear that an ancient prophecy will come true: that a powerful "Other" will rise up, be tempted by one of the sides, and tip the balance plunging the world into a renewed war between the dark and light, the results of which would be catastrophic.
Sergei Lukyanenko, Timour Bekmambetov, Konstantin Ernst, Anatoly Maximov, Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Maria Poroshina, Galina Tyunina
High Tension
The film centers on two teen girls who settle in for a relaxing weekend at a country farmhouse, unaware that a violent intruder is speeding toward them to transform their dreams into a relentless, bloody nightmare.
Cécile De France, Franck Khalfoun, Andrei Finti, Grégory Levasseur, Maïwenn Le Besco, Philippe Nahon, Oana Pellea, Marco Claudiu Pascu
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
In this new tale, George Romero creates a harrowing vision of a modern-day world where the walking dead roam an uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead "normal" lives behind the walls of a fortified city. A new society has been built by a handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the hard-scrabble existence on the streets below. But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving. Inside, anarchy is on the rise. With the very survival of the city at stake, a group of hardened mercenaries is called into action to protect the living from an army of the dead.
Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Mark Canton, Steve Barnett, Dennis Hopper, Bernie Goldmann, Peter Grunwald, George Romero
War of the Worlds
A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells's seminal classic, the sci-fi adventure thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it.
Dakota Fanning, Steven Spielberg, Paula Wagner, Tom Cruise, Rick Gonzalez, Josh Friedman, Tim Robbins, Daniel Franzese
Dominion: A Prequel to the Exorcist
Paul Schrader's initially scrapped prequel to "The Exorcist" focuses on a young Father Merrin and his first encounter with Satan.
Stellan Skarsgard, Paul Schrader, Antonie Kamerling, James G. Robinson, William Wisher, Caleb Carr, Gabriel Mann, Eddie Osei
The Amityville Horror
On November 13, 1974, police received a frantic phone call that led them to a grisly crime scene at the DeFeo residence in Amityville, Long Island—an entire family had been slaughtered in their beds. In the days that followed, Ronald DeFeo confessed to methodically shooting his parents and four siblings while they slept. He claimed voices in the house drove him to commit the murders. One year later, George and Kathy Lutz and their children moved into the house thinking it would be their dream home. But shortly after settling in, bizarre and unexplainable events began to occur – nightmarish visions and haunting voices from an evil presence still lurking within the house. 28 days after moving in, the Lutzes abandoned the home, lucky to escape with their lives. Now, 30 years after the shocking real-life events that inspired one of the most popular horror stories of all time, return to the house that started it all: "The Amityville Horror".
Ryan Reynolds, Ted Field, Jimmy Bennett, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Bay, Andrew Douglas
The Ring Two
Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts reprises the role of investigative reporter Rachel Keller in "The Ring 2", the sequel to the horror hit "The Ring
Hideo Nakata, Roy Lee, Simon Baker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Naomi Watts, Sissy Spacek, Meagen Fay, Walter F. Parkes
Boogeyman
A young man, emotionally traumatized by memories of terrible things he experienced in his bedroom as a little boy, decides to return to the house he grew up in after the tragic death of his father to try to face his fears of that bedroom; fears of a mysterious being that could merely be a figment of his imagination that the experience might help him work out. Unless, of course, the Boogeyman is real...
Charles Mesure, Stephen Kay, Sam Raimi, Juliet Snowden, Darren Lemke, Emily Deschanel, Robyn Malcolm, Lee Foreman
Cursed
It is a moonlit night in Los Angeles, when something lurking in the shadows causes their car to suddenly swerve off the road, a teenaged brother and his career-driven sister emerge relatively unscathed, but forever changed by the accident. Suddenly, the siblings find themselves blessed with increased physical strength, heightened sensibilities and undeniable allure to everyone around them. But, what if what happened to them that night wasn't just an accident and what seemed like fate was really something more? It is only a matter of time before Ellie (Christina Ricci) and Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) can no longer control these impulses because their newfound power comes with a price that they never expected to pay and a mystery that only they can solve.
James Brolin, Judy Greer, Joshua Jackson, Michael Rosenbaum, Mandy Moore, Wes Craven, Scott Foley, Corey Feldman
Alone in the Dark
You wake up in the middle of the night with the feeling someone is in the room with you. You get a flash of panic as you fumble for your bedside lamp. But when you turn on the light, no one is there. You might feel safe…but just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there. Watching. Waiting. Existing at the fragile boundaries of our perception. There is a world around us, a world most of us never see - or never want to see. As a child, Edward Carnby was given irrefutable proof of that world. He hasn't slept well since. Now, twenty years later, Edward is a paranormal investigator. When the irrational and the inexplicable become undeniable, he is there. He is not out to change your mind. But he may be the only one who can save your life. Now, the greatest mystery of Edward's past is about to become the most dangerous case he has ever faced. Nineteen people have disappeared, and they have only one thing in common—each one grew up in the same orphanage as Edward. Looking for answers, Edward learns that an ancient artifact of considerable power has been discovered in a long-lost shipwreck. Amidst mounting danger, he turns to Aline Cedrac, a brilliant anthropologist who's also his ex-flame - and the only person he really trusts. In a world of ancient evils, lost civilizations, shadowy government conspiracies, and deadly paranormal threats, Edward and Aline come together to confront a supernatural enemy unlike anything they've ever seen before…one whose very existence could threaten all humankind.
Christian Slater, Uwe Boll, Daniel Cudmore, Stephen Dorff, Elan Mastai, Peter Scheerer, Tara Reid, Mark Acheson