Movies in the Horror genre

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Escape Room

[This review could be considered “spoiler-ish.” No specific reveals, but a lot of general hints.]For roughly the first 75 minutes of Escape Room, I thought I had uncovered the rarest of rare finds: a good January movie. Alas, the film isn’...

Run Time: 1:48
U.S. Release Date: 2019-01-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Adam Robitel
Cast: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, ...
Eternal

From the first scene, Eternal seems like a made-for-Cinemax soft porn vampire movie, with one crucial exception. It has the cheesy music. It has the wooden acting by thespians whose names are not destined to top many A-movie marquees. It has the ...

Run Time: 1:47
U.S. Release Date: 2005-08-26
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Wilhelm Liebenberg, Federico Sanchez
Cast: Caroline Néron, Conrad Pla, Victoria Sanchez, ...
Evil Dead

It's tempting to look at the 2013 reincarnation of Evil Dead as yet another pointless remake of an '80s horror film. Haven't there been enough of these? One glance at the credit list reveals that both director Sam Raimi and star Bruce Campbell (o...

Run Time: 1:31
U.S. Release Date: 2013-04-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Fede Alvarez
Cast: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, ...
Evil Dead II, The

What do you get when you cross George Romero with The Three Stooges by way of the director of A Simple Plan and The Gift? Something offbeat, to be sure. Something grotesque, without a doubt. Something... groovy. Evil Dead II can be seen as ...

Run Time: 1:25
U.S. Release Date: 1987-03-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, ...
Evil Dead Rise

Evil Dead Rise, the fifth big-screen outing for Sam Raimi’s Deadites (they also had a three-season run on cable TV) tries to answer the question of whether The Evil Dead are strong enough on their own right to engage the viewer without the domin...

Run Time: 1:39
U.S. Release Date: 2023-04-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Lee Cronin
Cast: Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Gabrielle Echols, ...
Evil Dead, The

Long before Scream came along to simultaneously parody the horror genre while participating in it, there was Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy (the third entry into the series, Army of Darkness, was released in 1993). Equal parts suspense, camp, comed...

Run Time: 1:25
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NC-17" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, ...
Exorcism of Emily Rose, The

The Exorcism of Emily Rose is being sold as the latest PG-13 horror movie, albeit one that deals with demonic possession instead of ghosts. In reality, however, it's a courtroom drama with a twinge of the supernatural (most of which occurs during fl...

Run Time: 1:53
U.S. Release Date: 2005-09-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, ...
Exorcist, The

During the cold months of the winter of 1973-74, the release of a horror film called The Exorcist became a national phenomenon. Would-be viewers stood outside for hours in bad weather to get a ticket, and the lines in New York City were said to ci...

Run Time: 2:02
U.S. Release Date: 1973-12-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, ...
Exorcist, The: Believer

SPOILERS ahead…David Gordon Green got Halloween. When the celebrated indie director embarked on the project of creating a trilogy of disconnected direct sequels to the original 1978 film, he displayed a sure-handedness that surprised many people...

Run Time: 1:51
U.S. Release Date: 2023-10-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Disturbing Images, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast: Leslie Odom Jr., Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, ...
Eye, The

The Eye is another PG-13 ghost story adapted from an Asian original, and that probably says all that needs to be said about it. Want more evidence of why is may not be the best choice for an evening's entertainment? It stars one of the most attra...

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Release Date: 2008-02-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Cast: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey