During a battle between Bauhaus and Capitol, the seal which was laid over the Machine, an invader from the space, is broken and the Machine comes back to life, transforming people into mutants. Trying to escape the Machine some people flee to Mars, but most of them remain on earth facing certain death.

Brother Samuel, a man of faith, member of an ancient brotherhood, and believer in the Prophecy, plans a suicide mission to plant a bomb and destroy the machine. He asks for help from the Corporations’ leader, Constantine, assemblies a team and prepares for war, knowing that they are humanity’s last chance of survival. Will they be able to destroy the powerful Machine and save the Earth?

Release Date: April the 24^th, 2009

Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Horror

Cast: Christopher Adamson, Devon Aoki, Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Director: Simon Hunter

Thomas Barnes and Kent Taylor are two secret services agents assigned to protect the president of the United States at the historical world summit against terrorism.

When president Ashton is shot after arriving in Spain, chaos quickly takes over.

Out in the crowd there is also American Howard Lewis, a tourist who was filming the whole event to show it to his kids.

At the same site there is also Rex, an American news producer who is covering all the aspects of the conference.

The truth about the identity of that terrifying killer comes out only after you have watched the perspectives of all those involved on the 15 minutes before the shooting.

Release Date: 22 February 2008

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Edgar Ramirez

Director: Pete Travis

When she loses her farm to the bank, Rene has to make a tough choice, between starting over in her town or in the big city.

When she finally wants to move to the big city, a meteor shower hits the small town of Berkeley, unleashing a terrible infection. The dead people become undead and seem to have only one purpose: to kill the living.

Rene is left to fight the horde of undead, near a small farm, where she finds other desperate survivors.

Release Date: 2005

Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror

Cast:

Felicity Mason (Rene)

Mungo McKay (Marion)

Rob Jenkins (Wayne)

Director:

Michael Spierig

Peter Spierig

A bit later, they will the witnesses of a scene that will determine them to turn back. In a ditch, next to an abandoned church, the boy comes across hundreds of dead bodies, that had been thrown there a long time ago.

He also sees the bodies of some people he knew and who, mysteriously disappeared. The dead bodies has their heads cut and then sewed.

Darius and Trish decide to call the Police, but even them cannot stop the monster that decapitates and devours humans in oder to keep his strength.

Release Date: August 31, 2001

Genre: Horror, Drama, Adventure, Thriller

Cast:

Gina Philips (Trish)

Justin Long (Darius)

Jonathan Brack (the Creeper)

Director: Victor Salva

Nobody lives on Earth, but there are still made trips to Earth. At Camp Crystal Lake, they will find two frozen bodies. One of the bodies belongs to a researcher and the second one, belongs to Jason Voorhees.

Jason is the beast with the face of a hokey player, who will kill everything in his way, after he is defrosted.

Release Date: April 26, 2002

Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror

Cast:

Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees)

Lexa Doig (Rowan)

Director: James Isaac

They get to an ancient temple in the heart of Mexico; for the Maya civilization the 21st of December is the last day in their calendar, and the last day of their existence on Earth.

Even if their race disappeared, for NASA they are still extremely important as they seem to think the Mayans could be holding the key to the entire mystery which is now endangering the future of our planet.

For the scientists, the natural disaster about to happen is caused by the changing of the planet’s poles….for all mankind……it is the Apocalypse.

Release Date: 12 February 2008

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

Cast: Ami Dolenz, Cliff De Young, Dale Midkiff,Matthew Bolton

Director: Nick Everhart

But his world ends when he is forced to assist at the murder of his family by the Nazis. Being the only survivor of his family, Hannibal will grow up in a Soviet orphanage.

As a teenager, he runs away to Paris, looking for his uncle, but he finds there his widow, the beautiful Murasaki.

Hannibal is tormented by the thought of revenge. He wants to find the people who killed his family and punish them.

Release Date: February 9, 2007

Genre: Thriller, Drama, Horror

Cast:

Gaspard Ulliel (Hannibal Lecter)

Li Gong (Lady Murasaki)

Director: Peter Webber

Just a few moments before the execution, the killer starts to dance as if he were possessed, singing the chorus of the song ‘Time is on my side’, of the Rolling Stones.

After this, for Hobbes, the nightmare begins. After another series of investigations, a dark truth comes out: the executed killer wasn’t just a psychopath, but he was the host of the mythical dark angel, Azazel.

Release Date: January 16, 1998

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Cast:

Denzel Washington (John Hobbes)

John Goodman (Jenesy)

Director: Gregory Hoblit

The film tells the story of two young girls, Mari and Paige, who were apparently headed to town to see a concert.

They somehow end up in a house situated on the bank of a lake, where they are taken prisoners by a band of runaway convicts.

Thinking they have killed Mari, Paige leaves her friend behind and runs to the house of John and Emma, Mari’s parents, the only place she thought would be safe.

Ironically, the kidnappers also seek refuge in that house, seeing it as safe. When the girl tells them all about the horrors they have gone through, the parents will make sure the kidnappers will deeply regret everything they did.

Release Date: 2009

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Cast: Sara Paxton, Monica Potter, Garret Dillahunt, Martha MacIsaac, Tony Goldwyn, Riki Lindhome

Director: Dennis Iliadis

Suffering from amnesia, he cannot remember his identity, how he got there and what happened to the dead man that lies in the mud, next to him.

After Tolbiac finds out about the existence of a heavenly community called Eden Log, he sets on a journey full of danger and unknown situations.

He discovers that he is not the only one trapped in this underground labyrinth and abandoned laboratories.

Tolbiac is chased by hungry for human meat creatures. Eventually, he finds out that he is involved in a project, which threatens the existence of the entire humanity.

Release Date: February 2009

Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Horror

Cast:

Clovis Cornillac (Tolbiac)

Vimala Pons

Director: Franck Vestiel

A secret governmental agency launches a deadly chemical virus which is supposedly meant to bring back the dead.

The first place where this virus ends up is in a small-town Nebraska striptease bar called “Rhino’s”.

One of the strippers gets infected and she turns into a supernatural zombie stripper with an urging need to become everybody’s favourite.

She finally becomes the star of the striptease club and the question is whether the other girls will be able to resist the temptation of being just like her, although they are aware of the risks.

Release Date: 18 April 2008

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Cast: Jenna Jameson, Robert Englund, Roxy Saint y Shamron Moore

Director:  Jay Lee

The movie goes beyond the murderer’s atrocious crimes, all the way to the impact they have caused on the victims, on their families and friends, and even on the communities they were a part of.

The police detective Matt Parish and his son Johnny, who is obsessed with the Zodiac’s crimes, are going back on the killer’s trace and are trying to find as many clues as possible related to his real identity.

What they seem to be ignoring is that, during this headhunt, they are not only jeopardizing their lives, but also the one of their relatives as well.

Will that stop their search?

Release Date: 17 March 2006

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery,Thriller

Cast: Justin Chambers, Robin Tunney, Rory Culkin, Philip Baker Hall, William Mapother, Brad William Henke, Rex Linn

Director: Alexander Bulkley

He has fought mythical creatures that came out of the shadows of the night, and he has won; but that brought him the loss of his friends. He is a solitary man and those who cannot understand his work call him a murderer.

Van Helsing has a cursed past that he cannot leave behind or forget and he has to complete the missions he is given.

For the latest one he has to go to Transilvania, a region dominated by the eternally seductive Count Dracula; coincidentally, he is Van Helsing’s target.

Luckily, he will have the help of Anna Valerious, the last member of a blue blood family whom the Count has killed generation after generation.

She and Gabriel unite their forces in order to be able to defeat this Empire of Evil, but they will discover a terrible secret that they will have to face.

Release Date: 7 May 2004

Genre: Action, Adventure,Horror,Fantasy,Thriller

Cast: Elena Anaya, Samuel West, Robbie Coltrane, David Wenham, Kevin J. O´Connor, Kate Beckinsale, Alun Armstrong, Richard Roxburgh, Hugh Jackman, Shuler Hensley, Will Kemp, Silvia Colloca, Josie Maran.

Director: Stephen Sommers

Pan

Winner of three Oscars, ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ presents Spain, in the year of 1944. Spain is no longer a safe place for anybody , especially for Carmen, a single woman who already has a child named Ofelia, and is expecting another baby.

After Franco’s victory, Carmen goes in the North of the country, with her new husband Vidal, an extremely cruel captain from Franco’s army.

Ofelia, aged 13, discovers one night the ruins of a labyrinth. Here she meets a fairy that tells her that she is the princess long awaited. Ofelia escapes in a captivating fantasy world.

In order to get back to her magic kingdom, Ofelia has to pass three critical challenges, in an adventure in which reality and magic go together.

Release Date: December 29, 2006

Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Horror, Thriller, War

Cast:

Ariadna Gil (Carmen)

Ivana Baquero (Ofelia)

Sergi Lopez (Vidal)

Director: Guillermo del Toro

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

This movie has it all: suspense, crime, dead bodies, mystery and the F.B.I. involved.

In 2001, police in Poughkeepsie New York, make a shocking discovery: they find ten bodies buried in the backyard of a residential house.

Inside the house, the police discover over 800 videotapes showing detailed footage of a murderer, who filmed himself from the first moment stalking his victims, to their last second alive. The videotapes show torture and some of the cruelest ways of killing.

The F.B.I. himicide detectives start examining the videotapes, they interview criminal experts and the testimony of the only victim ever rescued alive.

The authorities realize that they are dealing with a serial killer. The discovery of the videotapes raises many other questions like: Did the killer leave the tapes intentionally? Do the tapes include hidden clues? Is the killer still active?

Release Date: 2009

Genre: Horror, Crime and Mystery, Thriller

Cast:

Stacy Chbosky

Ben Messmer

Samantha Robson

Director: John Eric Dowdle

The holidays have passed and since we’re all sick of Christmas and family movies, now we can get back to our normal lives and watch a normal horror movie.

2009 brings on the big screen a mixture between horror and action movie: ‘Red Sands’. If I were to capture the film in just one sentence, that would be: Spirits take no prisoners.

‘Red Sands’ tells the story of a group of US soldiers, who are in a mission in the Middle East.  During this mission in the Middle East, the soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom.

The next day, the soldiers are visited by something strange and unusual. Can you guess what that is?..

Release Date: February, 2009

Genre: Action, Horror

Cast:

Shane West (Jeff)

Leonard Roberts (Marcus)

Aldis Hodge (Trevor)

Director: Alex Turner

2009 brings on the big screen a horror western movie.

‘GallowWalker’ tells the story of a cursed gunman, named Aman. He is the son of a nun who gives up on God in order to ensure Aman’s survival.This act of Aman’s mother, the nun, brings a curse upon him.

All those that die by Aman’s gun, return from the dead to hunt him.

Very soon he is hunted by a gang of his former victims, who return as zombies. This fight against Aman is led by the vicious Kansa.

Aman recruits a young warrior, named Fabulos, to fight by his side against the zombies.

Release Date: 2009

Genre: Western, Thriller, Horror, Action

Cast:

Wesley Snipes (Aman)

Riley Smith (Fabulos)

Kevin Howarth (Kansa)

Director: Andrew Goth

The Strangers Poster

Kristen and James are in a happy relationship; all things go well until the day they come back from a friend’s wedding.

After that, things start being really strange: everything around them is really bizarre, and three masked unknown men start harassing them and terrorizing them at 4 o’clock in the morning.

Being trapped in a holiday home away from the city, they have to start fighting for their lives and in order to survive they have to face and overcome their limits and their greatest fears, something they never thought they would ever manage.

The film is inspired from real events which took place at the holiday home of the Hoyt family on the 11th of February of 2005, and the mystery of what happened there is stull unsolved.

Release Date: 30 May 2008

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Cast: Alex Fisher, Peter Clayton-Luce, Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler, Glenn Howerton

Director: Bryan Bertino

The Jacket

Compared with the movie ‘The Butterfly Effect’, John Maybury’s film, ‘The Jacket’, has a great advantage: actor Adrien Brody is the protagonist.

As we all know actor Adrien Brody, he embodies an amazing expression.

In the movie ‘The Jacket’, he plays next to the British actress, Keira Knightley.

The themes of this film are very well known as amnesia and trying to change the future. Although popular, the themes of the movie, are treated in a very authentic manner.

Release Date: March 4, 2005

Genre: Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Cast:

Adrien Brody (Jack Starks)

Keira Knighthley (Jackie Price)

Director: John Maybury

Halloween Poster

After having killed his family on a Halloween night, young Michael Myers, who is only 10 years old, is committed in a maximum security psychiatric facility.

He spent his last 17 years there, following the treatment of  Dr Samuel Loomis, a specialist doctor who understands the nature of his psychopathic character.

Now he has managed to escape and has decided to terrorize the town of Haddonfield and get revenge for all the years he lost; all that, on Halloween, of course.

In 1978 John Carpenter released the Halloween movie that later became one of the myths of the terror genre. Well, 30 years after, the story of Michael Myers still manages to keep the public coming to the theater to see this remake.

Release Date: 31 August 2007

Genre: Horror

Cast: Danny Trejo (Ismael Cruz), Brad Dourif (sheriff Brackett), Malcolm McDowell (Dr. Samuel Loomis), Tyler Mane (Michael Myers), Sheri Moon Zombie (Deborah Myers),  Scout Taylor-Compton (Laurie Strode)

Director: Rob Zombie