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

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

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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

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David and Amy decide to go on one last trip together, before getting a divorce.

Unfortunately for them, their car breaks down and they are forced to spend the night in a motel. There they find Mason, the motel owner, who seems to be much more interested in watching horror movies than in helping them fix their car.

The couple get settled in a dark, dirty room and they find some tapes which were apparently filmed in that exact room and which show some quite realistic murders. Soon enough, they realize they might be the next victims if they do not work together in order to escape.

The script of the film was basically inspired by those highway motels which always seem to be hiding terrible secrets and seem to have been the setting for terrible and violent events.

Release Date: 20 April 2007

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Cast: Ethan Embry, Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley, Scott G. Anderson, Mark Casella

Director: Nimród Antal

Mum and dad

‘Mum’ and ‘Dad’ have two adopted children, called Birdie and Elbie; so far, nothing special, one might think.

The thing is all the four members of the family work at the airport; they live of the things they can find amongst the merchandise people forgot and from what they sometimes receive from the workers who populate the airport.

When Lena, a young and naive Polish girl, becomes friends with Birdie, she is unknowingly drawn into a world of nightmares, torture, horrible crimes and perversity.

She is drawn into the family’s suburbs house of horrors, she has only two options: she can join their madness and be ‘Mum’s little girl’ or she can die trying to ecape.

The film is partially inspired from the true story of serial killers Fred and Rosemary West.

Release Date: 26 December 2008

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ainsley Howard, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori y Perry Benson

Director: Steven Sheil

Due to another failed experiment, an army of savage humans attack the city and there is nothing but chaos and barbarism everywhere.

Jason Bishop and other five survivors realize the fact that they have no chance whatsoever of leading a normal life and they seek refuge in a forest situated far away from the main roads.

Unfortunately, they start getting the feeling that they are not safe there either, as they find a dead man in one of the forest houses, or a dying man tied to a tree. When they meet Todd and his sister, who offer to take them to a safe place, away from the blood thirsty savages, Jason and the others feel more relaxed.

The only problem was Todd and his sister got killed by the savages and Jason’s group is in danger of sharing their faith.

Jason is twice as miserable; Amanda, one of the refugees, whom he was involved in a relationship with, was caught and killed. Jason feels lost again and is uncertain whether there will even be a tomorrow.

Release Date: 2009

Genre: Action, Drama, Horror

Cast: Calum Worthy, John Tench, Juan Riedinger, Kwesi Ameyaw

Director: Laurent Piche

2-13

“2:13″ is a terrifying thriller who tells us the story of Russell Spivey, a middle aged homicide detective.

He has just returned to work, after a period of absence during which he underwent therapy; his childhood traumas and his daily job became too much for him, so he needed to have some rest.

Once he gets back to the office, Russell Spivey is back in business. He gets a new case, and he has to work with the beautiful fellow detective Amanda Richardson to catch and take to justice a serial killer who tortures his victims and covers their faces with horrifying masks.

Haunted by nightmares caused by the new case he is working on, but also by the memory of a mother who committed suicide and a father who died several years after due to alcohol abuse, Russell Spivey needs to overcome his inner demons and the serial killer in order to survive.

Release Date:  2008

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Cast: Mark Thompson, Mark Pellegrino, Teri Polo

Director: Charles Adelman

Giallo

The whole Italy is shocked by the horrifying deeds of a serial killer who was raised in an orphanage and is known under the nickname of ‘Giallo’.

He chooses his victims out of the most beautiful women in the country, he kidnaps them, he tortures them in the most sadistic ways possible; then he kills them and dumps their bodies.

When an American flight attendant called Linda gets to Torino, she starts to get worried because she has not heard from her sister in quite a while; Celine is a successful supermodel who participates in the Milan fashion week.

Scared by the thought that her sister may have been captured by the serial killer, who had just killed an Asian student, Linda appeals to the help of Italian detective Enzo Avolfi.

Linda and Enzo start a time race in order to find Celine before the psychopath gets the chance to torture her like he did with the other victims.

Will they make it?

Release Date: 2009

Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Cast: Adrien Brody, Elsa Pataky, Emmanuelle Seigner

Director: Dario Argento

I Am Legend

As a consequence of a deadly plague caused by some failed experiments with a man-made virus, scientist Robert Neville is the only human survivor in New York.

Neville was the one who lead the investigation meant to stop the plague, but he could not save his family and maybe the rest of the human kind.

He spends years sending radio messages to possible survivors and although he does not receive any message, he knows he is not alone; the infested victims who did not die transformed into nocturnal blood-thirsty mutants. Neville is totally convinced that he is the one who has to find the antidote.

Will Smith continues on the same line marked in “I, Robot” and “Independence Day”, hence he is again in the role of a man confronted with a life or death situation and who is called out to be a hero.

Release Date: 14 December 2007

Genre: Drama,  Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Cast: Will Smith (Neville), Salli Richardson (Ginny), Alice Braga (Anna), Paradox Pollack (Alpha), Charlie Tahan (Ethan)

Director: Francis Lawrence

Plague Town

An American family is hiking across Ireland in search of the family roots. There is also a Brit amongst them (James Warke), the recent boyfriend of eldest daughter Jessica (Erica Rhodes).

She’s quite a pain, and he’s a bit too cocky. Her younger sister Molly (Josslyn DeCrosta) is on the defensive, the father (David Lombard) is a stiff, rational pedagogue, and the step-mother (Lindsay Goranson) is sadly saddled with all this family drama.

In ‘Plague Town’ somebody has obviously been playing with the genetic code of all the inhabitants of a small Irish town, and all rational logic will be justifiably discarded.

The young inhabitants hold masks up to their deformed faces in fleeting gestures of vanity, but their dominant instincts are homicidal.

And the members of the family are quickly killed in the wake of such unexpected behavior.

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Horror

Cast: Josslyn DeCrosta (Molly Monohan), Erica Rhodes (Jessica Monohan), David  Lombard (Jerry Monohan), Lindsay Goranson (Annette Rothman), James Warke (Robin).

Director: David Gregory

he died and even found a successor. Tobin Bell is obviously, still the main actor…will he be doing this all his life, we wonder…..

So…in this sequel, we have John’s body at the morgue, officer Rigg severely injured, agent Perez recuperating in a hospital and agent Strahm missing for the room we last saw him held prisoner. The news reports keep announcing that the terrible game is still going on and that detective Hoffman is nowhere to be found….

Like in all previous sequels, the motto is the same….live or die, it is your choice….

Release Date: 24 October 2008

Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Cast: Tobin Bell (Jigsaw), Costas Mandylor (Hoffman), Scott Patterson (agent Sthram)

Director: David Hackl

There are several stories in the film: that of Oskar, that of a young girl with a very strange incurable disease and that of an old serial killer coming close to the end of his existence. There are also the abusive classmates, the man who wants to

get revenge for his best friend, a woman bitten by a weird animal….

All the death scenes in the film are memorable, because there aren’t that many in fact. Violence appears when you least expect it and in a very realistic context that makes you think it could all be real.

What makes this horror movie different from all others is that in this case the vampire actually asks the victims to accept him…..after all it is called “Let the right one in”….

Release date: 24 October 2008

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance

Cast: Kare Hedebrant (Oskar), Lina Leandersson (Eli)

Director: Tomas Alfredson

In the Dark Ages, a young Lycan called Lucian (played by Michael Sheen) is the powerful leader of the werewolves. He rises up against Viktor (played by Bill Nighy).

Viktor is the cruel vampire king who enslaved the Lycans.

In his fight against the Death Dealer army, Lucian is sustained by his secret lover Sonja (played by Rhona Mitra). Lucian struggles and fights for the Lycans’ freedom.

Five people were trapped; four of them died and another fell into a deep coma. Nonetheless, Harry Warden wanted revenge, so one year later, on Valentine’s day he woke up and brutally killed 22 persons before being killed by the police.

Then years later;

Tom Hanniger comes back to Harmony, on Valentine’s Day, still haunted by what had happened.

He struggles to face his past and his on-going feelings for his ex-girlfriend, Sarah (Jaime King), who is now married with his best friend, Sheriff Axel (Kerr Smith).

Tonight, after years of peace, something form Harmony’s dark past comes back. A character wearing a coalminer mask is a killer on the loose.

As he gets closer and closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel are terrified at the thought that it might be Harry Warden, coming back for the ultimate revenge.