Movies in the Horror genre
The Ninth Gate has two modes: tedious and moronic, with the two not being mutually exclusive. Then, one-hundred minutes into this seemingly interminable movie (which clocks in at about 2:10), things take a turn for the worse and The Ninth Gate spi...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-03-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Frank Langella, ...
If there’s one adjective I overuse when discussing Blumhouse movies, it’s “uneven,” and I’m going to apply it again with Nocturne, a horror film that grafts a Faustian plot element onto a story about sibling rivalry. Take away the su...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-10-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Horror
Director: Zu Quirke
Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Madison Iseman, Jacques Colimon, ...
Vampire. It is perhaps one of the few words capable of raising the hackles on the necks of both grownups and children alike. Tales of the un-dead date back centuries, but the most famous vampire of all was not born until the late 1800s (1897, to ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: HORROR/SILENT
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Max Schreck, Greta Schröder, Gustav von Wangenheim, ...
Like Shakespeare's Hamlet and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of those stories that is re-made on a fairly consistent basis. If you don't like the latest incarnation of the count, wait a few years and there will be anothe...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Mature Themes)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, ...
For a horror movie, Oculus is surprisingly lean on the scares. It's more interested in playing tricks with perception and bending reality. Ambitious material for director/editor Mike Flanagan (expanding from his award-winning short) and, if he does...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-04-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Mike Flanagan
Cast: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, ...
Warning: This review contains general spoilers. Although these have been revealed in the film’s trailer, they may provide more information than some readers prefer.Sometimes the worst thing that can happen to a filmmaker is to have an unexpe...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-07-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Science Fiction/Horror
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Eliza Scanlen, Nolan River, ...
The Omen is regarded as a horror classic, although I have never been able to figure out why Richard Donner's second-rate exploitation flick has been accorded such a lofty status. Since the 2006 re-make is almost identical to its predecessor (even ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-06-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: John Moore
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, David Thewlis, ...
One Missed Call is yet another PG-13 horror movie adapted from a Japanese source. Taken in concert with The Ring, one has to wonder if these productions illustrate some subconscious fear of technology felt by the Japanese. First, they're being me...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-01-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Eric Valette
Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancon, ...
Putting aside a needlessly grotesque dream sequence that opens the movie, Orphan looks for a few fleeting moments like it might be a clever psychological thriller - the kind in which the audience is never quite sure whether the events on screen are...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-07-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER/HORROR
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, ...
The Orphanage is an effective mixture of horror and fantasy, with the supernatural bleeding into dreams that teeter on the brink of reality. It employs a similar, although not identical, approach to the one that marked 2006's late-year success, Pa...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: J.A. Bayona
Cast: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, ...