Orphan
Release Date: 10/27/2009
An outwardly angelic little girl displays an unforeseen devilish streak upon moving into the home of her new adoptive parents in this shocker starring Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga. In the aftermath of a miscarriage, prospective parents Kate (Farmiga) and John (Sarsgaard) find their lives turned upside down; their marriage is falling apart, and the demons of Kate's past begin manifesting themselves in a series of horrifying nightmares. Deciding that the best means of achieving some semblance of no ...
Actor(s): Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman
Director(s): Jaume Collet-Serra
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Infestation
Release Date: 10/13/2009
When hapless cubicle dweller Cooper (Chris Marquette) awakens strung up in a silky cocoon, he finds himself face to face with a swarm of enormous, man-eating insects intent on devouring the entire human race. It was his first day on the job, but as nervous as Cooper was coming in to work, he never imagined that things could get this bad. Breaking free of his slimy prison with no time to spare, Cooper races to unravel his coworkers before they're all sucked dry like human milkshakes. With a small batt ...
Actor(s): Chris Marquette
Director(s): Kyle Rankin
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Drag Me to Hell
Release Date: 10/13/2009
Evil Dead director Sam Raimi takes the helm for this "spook-a-blast" shocker about an ambitious L.A. loan officer who incurs the wrath of a malevolent gypsy by refusing to grant her an extension on her home loan. Determined to impress her boss and get a much-needed promotion at work, Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) lays down the law when mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) literally comes begging for mercy at her feet. In retaliation for being publicly shamed, Mrs. Ganush places the dreaded curse of ...
Actor(s): Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver
Director(s): Sam Raimi
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Children of the Corn
Release Date: 10/06/2009
A Vietnam veteran and his young wife fall prey to a malevolent rural cult comprised of murderous children in this adaptation of the terrifying short story by literary horror icon Stephen King. The year is 1975: Burt (David Anders) and his wife Vicki (Kandyse McClure) are on a cross-country trip when they stumble into Gatlin, Nebraska. Unbeknownst to them, this idyllic farming community has been overtaken by an unspeakable evil. Under the wicked influence of adolescent evangelist Isaac and his sickle- ...
Actor(s): David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey
Director(s): Donald P. Borchers
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Thaw
Release Date: 10/06/2009
A team of ecology students led by a famous environmental advocate discovers that some secrets are better left buried when they unearth the perfectly preserved remains of a frozen wooly mammoth and discover that an ancient parasite has been incubating inside the beast for centuries. Dr. David Krupien (Val Kilmer) is examining a melting ice cap in the Arctic when he unearths a prehistoric specimen the likes of which researchers have never seen. Elated by the possibilities of such a remarkable find, Dr. ...
Actor(s): Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Aaron Ashmore
Director(s): Mark A. Lewis
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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It's Alive
Release Date: 10/06/2009
A happy young couple gives birth to a horrible monstrosity in this remake of Larry Cohen's 1974 killer baby classic. Graduate student Lenore (Bijou Phillips) has put her education on hold in order to have a child with her architect boyfriend Frank (James Murray). They're planning a new life together in the country when their unborn child begins growing at an alarming rate, and doctors are forced to conduct an emergency C-section for Lenore's safety. When every medic in the operating room is brutally ...
Actor(s): Bijou Phillips, James Murray
Director(s): Josef Rusnak
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Book of Blood
Release Date: 09/22/2009
A paranormal expert investigating a brutal murder discovers a house that stands at the intersection of several supernatural "highways" designed to transport souls to the afterlife in this adaptation of an original story by horror icon Clive Barker. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Sophie Ward, Jonas Armstrong, Paul Blair
Director(s): John Harrison
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Albino Farm
Release Date: 09/22/2009
Four college students investigate the disturbing legend of an Ozark Mountain town with a long history of religious fanaticism with predictably terrifying results. Deep in the Ozarks exists a town populated by sadistic, inbred misfits who prey on unsuspecting travelers. For some adventure seekers, the dark stories surrounding the Albino Farm are simply too bizarre to resist. But as a group of nanve students are about to discover, some folklore has roots in reality, and your first trip to Albino Farm m ...
Actor(s): Tammin Sursok, Chris Jericho, Richard Christy
Director(s):
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Grace
Release Date: 09/15/2009
One couple's dream turns into the worst nightmare imaginable when their unborn child is declared dead in utero, and the devastated mother insists on carrying the stillborn baby to term. Madeline Matheson (Jordan Ladd) is eight months pregnant. She's determined to have a healthy child, and as such, she's adapted a pure-body lifestyle and decided to have a natural childbirth. Though her outspoken mother-in-law is adamant that Madeline receives standard hospital care during the delivery, the expectant m ...
Actor(s): Jordan Ladd, Samantha Ferris, Gabrielle Rose
Director(s): Paul Solet
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
Release Date: 09/01/2009
Having admitted to over 300 murders, Henry Lee Lucas was one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Lucas's story has held particular fascination for filmmakers and has been loosely told in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Confessions of a Serial Killer, but director Michael Feifer (who has also made films about Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Richard Speck, BTK, and the Boston Strangler) takes a more factual approach with this disturbing biopic. Antonio Sabato Jr. turns in a chilling per ...
Actor(s): Antonio Sabato, Jr., Kostas Sommer, John Diehl
Director(s): Michael Feifer
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Frayed
Release Date: 08/25/2009
Thirteen years after being institutionalized for beating his mother to death, a violent sociopath escapes from the asylum and returns to his small town to finished what he started when he was just a young boy. It was September 12, 1994. Police could never have anticipated the horror he would witness when summoned to Sheriff Pat Baker's typical suburban home in Smith Haven, Washington. Eight year old Kurt was acting up at his sister's birthday party when his mother scolded him and sent him to his room ...
Actor(s): Tony Doupe, Aaron Blakely, Alena Dashiell
Director(s): Rob Portmann
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Last Resort
Release Date: 08/11/2009
It all begins so promisingly when a close-knit group of girls heads out on a vacation in the tropics to blow off some steam. But, after a day of sun and a night of drinks and dancing, a terrible accident sets off a series of events that leaves the girls robbed and abandoned in an old, seemingly empty resort. But a supernatural surprise lays in wait that's about to make the atrocities of the real world seem like Disneyland. ~ All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): America Olivo, Paulie Rojas, Marissa Tait
Director(s): Brandon Nutt
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Skeleton Crew
Release Date: 07/21/2009
A horror film shoot in an abandoned mental hospital with a dark history turns terrifying after the cast and crew make a morbid discovery in the bowels of the dilapidated building. Back in the early 1970s, at a mental institution near the Russian border, a crazed doctor violated the Hippocratic Oath in the most repulsive manner imaginable. Consumed by murderous bloodlust, Dr. Andersson assumed the persona of "the Auteur," and began murdering his patients while filming the atrocities with his 8mm camer ...
Actor(s): Rita Suomalainen
Director(s): Tommi Lepola
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Friday the 13th
Release Date: 06/16/2009
A man in search of his missing sister stumbles across a deadly secret in the woods surrounding Crystal Lake as Texas Chainsaw Massacre redux duo Michael Bay and Marcus Nispel resurrect one of the silver screen's most feared slashers -- machete-wielding, hockey mask-wearing madman Jason Voorhees. The last time Clay heard from his sister, she was headed toward Crystal Lake. There, amidst the creaky old cabins and moss-coated trees, an unstoppable force of evil lies quietly dormant, patiently waiting fo ...
Actor(s): Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti
Director(s): Marcus Nispel
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Anaconda 4: Trail of Blood
Release Date: 06/02/2009
A dying mogul wages one last, desperate bid to extend his life, in the process pitting a beautiful herpetologist against the very slithering horror that she helped to create. Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies) is convinced that he can cheat death by drawing on the regenerative power of the elusive blood orchid. But when Murdoch's doctor tests the experimental serum on a baby snake, the tiny serpent grows into an unstoppable monster overnight, devouring the doctor whole before breaking free from the lab and e ...
Actor(s): Crystal Allen, Linden Ashby, Danny Midwinter
Director(s): Don E. Fauntleroy
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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B.T.K.
Release Date: 05/12/2009
The disturbing tale of the depraved serial killer known as B.T.K. (bind-torture-kill) comes to the screen in this true crime shocker starring Kane Hodder. Dennis Rader (Hodder) was a true wolf in sheep's clothing. An upstanding citizen and family man who served as president of his Wichita, Kansas church, Rader was a trusted member of his community who worked as a security officer. But just beneath Rader's carefully crafted, suburban father fatade lurked a malevolent alter ego, a killer without a cons ...
Actor(s): Kane Hodder
Director(s): Michael Feifer
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Grudge 3
Release Date: 05/12/2009
The ghosts of Kayako and Toshio return to spread terror as the Grudge saga continues in this sequel featuring Saw star Shawnee Smith. Jake (Matthew Knight) may have survived the previous supernatural onslaught, though the sheer terror of his harrowing ordeal has rendered him nearly insane. Hospitalized, Jake is haunted by visions of his ghostly attackers as his caretaker Dr. Sullivan (Smith) sets out to investigate his incredible tales. In the midst of exploring Jake's Chicago home, Dr. Sullivan disc ...
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MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Uninvited
Release Date: 04/28/2009
Filmmaking duo Thomas and Charles Guard make their feature directorial debuts as the co-directors of this remake of Kim Jee-woon's 2003 Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters. Produced by Asian horror remake king Roy Lee, The Uninvited tells the story of a young girl named Anna (Emily Browning), who was admitted into a mental hospital following the death of her biological mother. Returning home some time later, Anna is shocked to discover that her father (David Strathairn) has recently gotten engaged to R ...
Actor(s): Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel
Director(s): Thomas Guard
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations
Release Date: 03/31/2009
A man with the ability to leap back and forth though time attempts to help a childhood friend solve her sister's murder, in the process breaking his own golden rule and creating an evil that didn't exist previously. Sam uses his gift to help solve the crimes that leave detectives cold. Though it pains him to know that he can never intervene directly during his leaps, he knows that the consequences could be terrible if he does. Approached by his old friend Elizabeth to help track down her sister's mur ...
Actor(s): Chris Carmack, Rachel Miner, Melissa Jones
Director(s): Seth Grossman
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Quarantine
Release Date: 02/17/2009
Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, and Johnathon Schaech star in this remake of Jaume Balaguer= and Paco Plaza's successful, Spanish-language horror film [REC], which follows a television reporter and her cameraman as they fall under a mysterious quarantine issued on an inner-city apartment building. Television reporter Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and her trusty cameraman (Steve Harris) were documenting a night in the life of a Los Angeles fire station crew when the firefighters were summoned to a nearb ...
Actor(s): Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Jay Hernandez
Director(s): John E. Dowdle
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Lodger
Release Date: 02/10/2009
Waiting for Dr. MacGuffin director David Ondaatje takes his love for the "Master of Suspense" to the next logical step with this updating of the 1926 Alfred Hitchcock classic which shifts the action from turn-of-the-century London to contemporary Los Angeles. Adapted from the same Marie Belloc Lowndes novel that inspired the early Hitchcock effort, Ondaatje's thriller follows a mysterious lodger suspected of being a vicious copycat killer. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Shane West
Director(s): David Ondaatje
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Killer Movie
Release Date: 02/03/2009
Writer/director Jeff Fisher, who cut his teeth directing episodes of such popular reality shows as The Simple Life and The Real World/Road Rules Challenge, make his feature directorial debut with this slasher satire about a television crew being stalked by a murderous psychopath. Up and coming television director Jake Tanner is out of a job. The reality show he was working on, "Back to the Ranch," has been cancelled, and now his agent has landed him a job as replacement director on yet another realit ...
Actor(s): Paul Wesley, Kaley Cuoco, Gloria Votsis
Director(s): Jeff Fisher
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Saw V
Release Date: 01/20/2009
Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) might be dead, but his traps live on in this fifth Saw entry, which finds the series' production designer David Hackl at the helm for his debut directing gig. Costas Mandylor reprises his role as Hoffman, the detective whose involvement in the string of grisly murders turns out to be more than meets the eye. Picking up where the fourth entry left off, Hoffman is revealed to be a hidden accomplice in Jigsaw's grisly games of death, which look to be continued by the lawman. The plot ...
Actor(s): Tobin Bell, Julie Benz, Meagan Good
Director(s): David Hackl
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Vacancy 2: The First Cut
Release Date: 01/20/2009
Murder by Numbers star Agnes Bruckner headlines this sequel to the tense, 2007 horror thriller about a lonely motel that's wired for terror. When Caleb, his new fiancTe Jessica, and their wisecracking friend Tanner checked into the Meadow View Inn, they thought their scariest thing about their stay would be the tacky dTcor. But folks who check into this motel are never heard from again, because the sadistic Mr. Smith and his murderous accomplices have a habit of murdering their guests on camera and t ...
Actor(s): Agnes Bruckner, David Moscow, Arjay Smith
Director(s): Eric Bross
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Mirrors
Release Date: 01/13/2009
Kiefer Sutherland stars as an NYPD detective-turned-security guard who discovers something sinister lurking in the mirrors of a fire-damaged department store in Haute Tension writer/director Alexandre Aja's menacing study in the origins of evil. It's been just about a year since mercurial police detective Ben Carson (Sutherland) was suspended from the NYPD for the fatal shooting of an undercover officer, and ever since that fateful day he's been locked in a self-destructive spiral of anger and alcoho ...
Actor(s): Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart
Director(s): Alexandre Aja
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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My Bloody Valentine
Release Date: 01/13/2009
It's Valentine's Day in the tiny mining town of Valentine's Bluff, Nova Scotia, and for the first time in two decades the residents are planning a holiday dance. The long hiatus is due to the tragic events of 20 years earlier, when a pair of mining supervisors were too busy enjoying themselves at the dance to prevent an accident from killing a large contingent of their workers. The lone survivor, Harry Warden, took his revenge the next year by removing the hearts of his bosses and promising similar c ...
Actor(s): Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck
Director(s): Georges Mihalka
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Alphabet Killer
Release Date: 01/06/2009
Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt takes the helm for this thriller inspired by the grim true-life exploits of an alphabet-obsessed New York serial killer and starring Timothy Hutton, Cary Elwes, Eliza Dushku, and Michael Ironside. When Rochester, NY-based police investigator Megan Paige (Dushku) discovers that ten year old Carla Castillo was brutally raped and murdered in nearby Churchville, she becomes convinced that the department is dealing with a serial killer. Paige is a driven detective whose dev ...
Actor(s): Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes, Timothy Hutton
Director(s): Rob Schmidt
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Darkwalker
Release Date: 09/23/2003
Danny Draven's horror film Darkwalker concerns seven teenagers making a few bucks working at a supposedly haunted amusement park. As members of the group start meeting grisly fates, those that are left behind try to uncover what horrible creature seems to be hunting them down. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide ...
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Genres: Horror, Feature
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