Movies in the Horror genre

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Friday the 13th (1980)

For those steeped in the lore of what Friday the 13th would become, watching the first movie can be a little surprising. Many of the long-running series' staples are either absent or toned down from where they would evolve. The gore is surprising...

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, ...
Friday the 13th (2009)

Sometimes I wonder if there's a point to reviewing something like this. Then again, if I shared my thoughts about Sex and the City, why not Friday the 13th? Let's get this out of the way at the start: If all you're looking for is breasts, blood, ...

Run Time: 1:38
U.S. Release Date: 2009-02-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Marcus Nispel
Cast: Jared Padalecki, Ryan Hansen, Arlen Escarpeta, ...
Fright Night

Tom Holland's 1985 Fright Night was as much a love letter to horror fans weaned on Creature Double Feature as a legitimate genre entry - an imperfect yet entertaining vampire yarn that combined shocks, gore, camp, and humor into a whole. Some 26 ye...

Run Time: 1:46
U.S. Release Date: 2011-08-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, David Tennant, ...
Frighteners, The

The Frighteners isn't a bad film, but it is a disappointment. Following director Peter Jackson's powerful, true-life matricide tale, Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners falls short of expectations by being just one of many in the long line of 19...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: 1996-07-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, ...
From Dusk Till Dawn

It's great fun, but certainly not great art. From Dusk Till Dawn, a special effects blood-and-gore extravaganza from director Robert Rodriguez, follows in the footsteps of such cult classics as Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series, thumbing its nose at con...

Run Time: 1:48
U.S. Release Date: 1996-01-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, )
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, ...
Funny Games

Note: It is difficult to present a meaningful discussion of Funny Games without giving away major plot points. As a result, there are two reviews. This is the non-spoiler review, which limits spoilers to a bare minimum. For a more full discussio...

Run Time: 1:48
U.S. Release Date: 2008-03-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/HORROR
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Devon Gearhart, ...
Funny Games (spoilers)

Note: You have reached the spoiler review for Funny Games. Click here for the non-spoiler review. We've seen the set-up before: a nice middle-class family held captive by a pair of psychopaths. This time, however, things aren't going to turn o...

Run Time: 1:48
U.S. Release Date: 2008-03-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/HORROR
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Devon Gearhart, ...
Get Out

Get Out is a horror film but it’s not like any horror film that has reached theaters in a long time. To begin with, it’s rated R, and the R-rated horror film has become something of an endangered species in this era of PG-13’ing everything. The...

Run Time: 1:43
U.S. Release Date: 2017-02-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, ...
Ghost House

Ghost House is a generally well-made but ultimately unsurprising excursion into the supernatural. Although more interested in psychological terror than a high body count, the film touches enough of the expected tropes that horror fans will be ...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 2017-08-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Horror
Director: Rich Ragsdale
Cast: James Landry Hebert, Scout Taylor-Compton, Michael S. New, ...
Ghostbusters

Let me begin this review of the 2016 Ghostbusters remake by pretending there was no 1984 iteration. How enjoyable would the film be if it didn’t have such enormous baggage, if it didn’t emerge under the long shadow of a beloved predecesso...

Run Time: 1:56
U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Horror Action/Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Comedy/Horror
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, ...