It’s safe to say that 2016 was an amazing year for horror movies. From big studio releases like Don’t Breathe and Ouija: Origin of Evil to indie productions such. Stay informed on the latest DVDs to come out & planned DVD release dates. Get ratings, watch trailers & read our exclusive content from our DVD insiders. Check out movies on DVD released on 2015 and get ratings, reviews, trailers and clips for new DVD releases. Our Most Anticipated Horror Movies Of 2. It’s safe to say that 2. From big studio releases like Don’t Breathe and. Ouija: Origin of Evil to indie productions such as The Witch and Beyond the Gates, there was something of high quality to suit every horror buff’s taste. In fact, there’s significant reason to believe that the year will be looked back upon as one of the best in recent times for the genre. Therefore, 2. 01. We think it’s up to the challenge, though. Shaun has seen hundreds of horror movies, these are his 13 favorite horror films from 2013. Read the latest horror movie news, learn what horror movies are on DVD or get the best horror movie posters! JoBlo's Arrow in the Head has got you covered! A lot of intriguing horror movies — including new installments in the Saw and Friday the 1. Below are fifteen such films that have particularly caught our interest, for a variety of different reasons. Some will be great and, in fairness, a couple could end up disappointing. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter – January 2. The Resident Evil series has consistently delivered violence, gore, excitement, and nasty- looking creatures. And let’s not forget about Milla Jovovich playing a kickass heroine — something we don’t get nearly enough of onscreen. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, hitting theaters in January, purports to be the final film in the series, although we all know that, when it comes to horror sequels, never say never. We’re excited for this one because Jovovich’s character, Alice, is set to return to Raccoon City, where she plans to have one final winner- take- all battle against the evil Umbrella Corporation. Some of the Resident Evil flicks have been better than others, but all of them have been building to the moment when Alice goes back to where it all started. The movie’s trailer, which makes great (if choppy) use of Guns N Roses’ “Paradise City,” suggests that the movie understands precisely what fans want and intends to deliver big- time on that count. Amityville: The Awakening – January 6th. Here’s a fact that may blow your mind: there have been sixteen films in the Amityville Horror series so far. The original came out back in 1. The most recent, Amityville: No Escape, was released earlier this year. Truth be told, many of them don’t really have much to do with each other beyond the word “Amityville” in the title. And quite a few of them have, shall we say, failed to grace the inside of a movie theater, going the straight- to- DVD route instead. Perhaps the seventeenth, Amityville: The Awakening, will improve the series’ fate. There are two reasons we’re intrigued by this sequel. One is that it’s been sitting on the shelf for at least two years, having seen several scheduled release dates come and go. In the horror world, that doesn’t always mean disaster. It can also mean a movie is so original that the studio doesn’t know how to market it. For an actor of her caliber to appear in an Amityville Horror sequel suggests that the material has something special going on. We can’t wait to see what this movie has in store. The Bye Bye Man – January 1. A good title can go a long way toward generating enthusiasm for a horror movie, and The Bye Bye Manhas such a title. It’s childish, but in a creepy way. That juxtaposition is what gives it an allure. Once you know that the title refers to a malevolent figure responsible for possessing people and causing them to commit various violent atrocities, the whole thing becomes a little shiver- inducing. Adding to the nightmare fuel is that thinking or saying his name makes the story’s characters vulnerable to his dark influence. This sounds like a promising horror premise. It has a bit of the old- school Candyman vibe, while simultaneously playing on modern fears of random violence. Some interesting talent is attached, too. The title villain is portrayed by Doug Jones, the actor best known for playing creatures of all stripes in many of Guillermo del Toro’s films (including Abe Sapien in the Hellboy flicks). Veteran actress Faye Dunaway is along for the ride, as well. The Bye Bye Man is also notable for having something far too rare in the horror genre: a female director. Seeing what Stacy Title does with this story should be fun. Underworld: Blood Wars – January 6th. The Underworld movies offer something supremely enticing to horror fans, namely the chance to see vampires and werewolves at war with one another. Who could resist that? The latest sequel, Underworld: Blood Wars, finds Selene (once again played by Kate Beckinsale) trying to bring an end to that war. We’re betting that, even if she’s successful, there will be a lot of blood and fur shed before it happens. No one will ever mistake the Underworld movies for high art, but over the course of four previous installments, the series has created a fairly extensive mythology. Seeing where this fifth installment takes that mythology should offer some rewards for fans. Kate Beckinsale remains an additional selling point; a gifted actress who brings a touch of class to the proceedings. Underworld: Blood Wars, like The Bye Bye Man, was directed by a woman. Anna Foerster is a former cinematographer on pictures like White House Down and Anonymous, and this marks her feature film debut. It would appear that 2. Annabelle 2 – August 1. Annabelle began life as a prequel/spinoff to The Conjuring. It tracked the history of the possessed doll that eventually found its way into a secure glass case belonging to paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. The movie was a big hit, earning over $2. In the inevitable sequel Annabelle 2, a dollmaker and his wife take in a nun and several little girls who have been displaced from an orphanage. That act of kindness is negated by the dollmaker’s creation, which proceeds to torment the guests. One guess who that is! Doll- based movies are a staple of the horror genre for two reasons. One, dolls are inherently creepy anyway, and two, any time you’re dealing with something that has fake eyes, it’s hard not to imagine it watching you. The doll in Annabelle is especially spooky. Even if you didn’t care for the original, you probably got a chill or two from that thing. With an intriguing twist on what was set up the first time around, this sequel seems to have the possibility of being even bigger than its predecessor. Split – January 2. M. Night Shyamalan has had quite a perplexing career. After winning the hearts of audiences and critics alike with smart chillers like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs, he promptly drove his career over a cliff. The Village was middling, and he followed that up with the absolutely disastrous one- two- three- four punch of The Lady in the Water, The Happening, The Last Airbender and After Earth. Certainly not a run of pictures any director would envy. That said, Shyamalan got a little bit of his mojo back with 2. The Visit. It was no classic, but it was certainly more interesting than anything he’d directed in a long time. That’s why we’re kind of psyched for his new one, Split. James Mc. Avoy – an actor worth watching in just about anything – plays a man with twenty- four different personalities who kidnaps three young women. The movie got largely good notices following an early screening at Fantastic Fest this past Fall, which brings hope that Shyamalan will be back to the top of his game in this one. Rings – February 3rd. The Ring is one of the most genuinely unsettling horror films of the last twenty years, thanks in part to Naomi Watts’ haunting lead performance and the ominous tone director Gore Verbinski brought to the story. The sequel, 2. 00. The Ring Two, unfortunately proved unable to sustain the effect, causing the franchise to come to a screeching halt. But it always seemed that there were still places for the concept to go, and with any luck, Rings will bring evil Samara back out of her well to jump start the series in grand fashion. It’s admittedly a little concerning that this new sequel has had its release date pushed back a number of times. Still, the theatrical trailer suggests that there are some much- needed upgrades. And check out the capper where Samara’s video is blasted onto every video monitor in an airplane. Now that’s creepy! Our fingers are crossed that Rings recaptures some of the dark magic that made the original get under moviegoers’ collective skin. The Belko Experiment – March 1. Before gaining mainstream acclaim as the writer/director of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn worked extensively in horror. He wrote a bunch of stuff for Troma, including Tromeo and Juliet, and later went on to make the wonderfully disgusting Slither for Universal Pictures. Gunn returns to the horror genre as the writer of The Belko Experiment, which is directed by Wolf Creek. The combination of Gunn’s offbeat perspective and Mc. Lean’s take- no- prisoners style promises something fresh and original. There’s a cool cast here, including Michael Rooker, Tony Goldwyn, and Melonie Diaz. The story concerns several dozen American citizens who are locked in a Columbian high- rise and forced against their will to participate in a deadly game run by a menacing voice on the intercom system. That’s the kind of plot that should suck you right in, especially given Gunn’s penchant for inserting quirky humor into his horror. With any luck, The Belko Experiment will be scary and darkly funny in equal measure. Insidious: Chapter 4 – October 2. No one thought Insidious would spawn a franchise when it was released in 2. It was just a smartly- executed, old- fashioned ghost story. Nonetheless, screenwriter Leigh Wannell found a way to successfully continue exploring the paranormal world introduced in the original. Insidious: Chapter 2 and Insidious: Chapter 3 came up with new ways to make audiences jump, and Insidious: Chapter 4 should do the same. Not too much is known about the specifics of the movie yet, although there are some tantalizing clues. Series regular Lin Shaye returns as the psychically- gifted Elise. Bloody Disgusting - The best horror movies, news, videos, and podcasts. Horror Films. Horror Filmsare unsettling films. Horror films effectively. The fantasy and supernatural film. Horror films are also known. See also Scariest. Film Moments and Scenes (illustrated) - from many of the. Greatest Horror Films ever made, Best. Film Death Scenes (illustrated), and Three Great Horror. Film Franchises. Introduction to Horror Films Genre: Horror films go back as far as the onset of films themselves. From our earliest days, we use our vivid imaginations. Watching a horror film gives an opening. Weird as it sounds, there's a very real thrill. Horror films, when done well and with less reliance on horrifying. Of necessity, the earliest horror films were Gothic in style. Their main characters have included . Oscar Wilde's 1. 89. Faustian tale The Picture of Dorian Gray and H. G. Wells' 1. 89. 6 story of The Island of Dr. Moreau were adapted into early film versions. In many. ways, the expressionistic German silent cinema led the world in films of horror. Many. of the early silent classics would be remade during the talkies era. The Earliest Horror Films: Vampires (Vamps), Monsters, and. More The vampire character has been one of the most ubiquitous. Dark, primitive, and revolting characters. At first, bloodsuckers (leeches). Demonic or supernatural possession was often juxtaposed with. Many religions, myths, folk- tales and. Vampires began to emerge in popular fiction of the. Anglo- Irish writer Bram. Stoker's 1. 89. 7 vampire novel Dracula was written. It has. become the most popular, influential and preeminent source material. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1. Carmilla came. a close second to Stoker's writings. Stoker's seminal book hatched. Count who vied for their prey, and a vampire hunter with garlic to. It appeared that Quasimodo, from Victor Hugo's Notre- Dame. Paris 1. 83. 1 novel, became the first horror figure in the 1. Alice Guy titled Esmeralda (1. Fr.), and soon after was seen in the full- length horror. Notre- Dame De Paris (1. Fr.) (aka The Hunchback of. Notre Dame). In the French silent film. Les Vampires (1. 91. Fr.). (aka The Vampires) by director/writer Louis. Feuillade, subversive vampire thieves sucked the blood out of sleeping. Parisian society, and stole their jewels. The villainous. leader of the vamps was Irma Vep (Musidora), an anagram for VAMPIRE. One. of the more memorable and influential of the early films was Germany's. Das Kabinett des. Doktor Caligari (1. Ger.) (aka. The Cabinet of Dr. The shadowy, disturbing, distorted, and dream- nightmarish. Caligari,' with twisted alleyways. It was brought to Hollywood in. This made the film. Francis) dream, thereby diluting the subversive nature of the. Early Vampire Films: Female vamps made an appearance in Robert Vignola's melodramatic The Vampire (1. Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1. The. earliest significant vampire film was director Arthur Robison's German silent film Nachte. Grauens (1. 91. 6, Ger.) (aka Night of Horror) with strange, vampire- like. Until recently, the lost Hungarian film Drakula halala (1. Hung.) (aka The Death. Dracula), was widely assumed to be the first adaptation of Anglo- Irish writer Bram Stoker's. Dracula, and featured cinema's first Drakula. The first genuine vampire picture. European filmmaker - director F. Murnau's feature- length Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1. Ger.) (aka Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des. Grauens). Shot on location, it was an unauthorized film adaptation of Stoker's Dracula with Max Schreck in the title role as the screen's first vampire. Count Graf Orlok living in the late 1. German town of Bremen. Because of copyright problems, the vampire. Nosferatu rather than Dracula, and the action was moved from Transylvania. Bremen. In the film's. Nina. (Greta Schroder) into remaining past daybreak, so Orlok met his fate by. German. director Werner Herzog's faithful shot- by- shot color remake Nosferatu the Vampyre (1. Klaus Kinski as the nauseating Count Dracula and beautiful Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker. Producer/director Augusto Caminito's sequel was Vampire in Venice (1. It.) (aka Nosferatu a Venezia) with Kinski as Nosferatu and Christopher Plummer as inept vampire hunter Professor Paris Catalano. At the turn of the century, Shadow of the Vampire. John Malkovich. as obsessive director F. W. It asked the question: . Wegener directed the first. Golem legend by Gustav Meyrinck - Der. Golem (1. 91. 4, Ger.) (aka The Monster of Fate), and then remade it a few years. Der Golem Und Die Tanzerin (1. Ger.) (aka The Golem and the Dancer) - notably the first horror film sequel. He remade the film a third time. Karl Freund as cinematographer, again titling it Der Golem (1. Ger.). (aka The Golem: or How He Came Into the World). The expressionistic film. Central European myths and influenced later 'Frankenstein'. The Golem, played by Wegener, was an ancient clay figure from. Hebrew mythology that was brought to life by Rabbi Loew's magic amulet to. Jews from a pogrom in the 1. Rudolf II of Habsburg. The earliest horror pictures were one- reel or full length features. US from 1. 90. 9 to the early 1. Many of them are now- forgotten . The first Frankenstein monster film in the. US was Frankenstein (1. J. Searle Dawley, a 1. Edison Studios and starring Charles Ogle as the monster. In this early. version, the Monster was created in a cauldron of chemicals rather than by a bolt of lightning. Two other silent. Frankenstein films were Joseph W. Smiley's Life Without Soul (1. German film Homunculus (1. Before the 1. 93. Hollywood was reluctant to. Instead, the studios took. The Miser's Conversion (1. The Miser's Reversion) was the first film to depict a screen transformation by using a series of dissolves with footage of the character's different stages of makeup, rather than a single jump- cut. This was later used to great effect in many films including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1. The Wolf Man (1. 94. In the film, the title character miser (Sidney Bracey), 7. John Grisley, obsessed with the idea of evolution, acquired a rejuvenation serum that transformed him into a 4. To intensify the effect, he drank the entire bottle of serum and reverted into an ape. Man of a Thousand Faces - Lon Chaney: The First. American Horror Film Star. One. actor who helped pave the way for the change in outlook and acceptance of. Lon (Alonso) Chaney, Sr., known as . He was soon to become the first American horror- film star and Hollywood's first great character actor. His first grotesque character role as a fake cripple (a contorted figure named the Frog), his breakthrough role, was in The Miracle Man (1. Chaney's films, collaborating with director Tod Browning on ten feature films over a decade, included these examples of lurid melodrama (and horror) and crime: Universal's The Wicked Darling (1. Chaney's first film partnering with Tod Browning, portraying a thief named Stoop Connors Universal's Outside the Law (1. Chaney in a dual supporting role as Black Mike Sylva and Ah Wing. MGM's The Unholy Three (1. Chaney as a criminal ventriloquist named Professor Echo; it was later remade by MGM in 1. Jack Conway (again with Chaney) - it was Chaney's first and only talkie before he died of throat cancer MGM's The Blackbird (1. Chaney portrayed the dual roles of Dan 'The Blackbird' and The Bishop. MGM's The Road to Mandalay (1. Chaney took the role of Singapore Joe MGM's London After Midnight (1. Browning's first Hollywood vampire film (a lost film) in which. Chaney starred as a sunken and dark- eyed vampirish character. MGM's The Unknown (1. Chaney portrayed Alonzo the Armless Knife- thrower, a circus performer, with an obsession for a carnival girl (Joan Crawford in an early role) in its tale of a love- triangle MGM's West of Zanzibar (1. Chaney was cast as English magician named Phroso, now crippled and bald- headed and known as 'Dead- Legs' in . This film was a technical achievement. Technicolor 'Bal Masque' sequence, the falling chandelier. Its dark expressionistic tones helped set the. Its most famous scene was ingenue Christine's. Mary Philbin) unmasking of Lon Chaney's mask - revealing a hideous skull- face. Arthur Lubin. Universal's Technicolored version with Claude Rains as the title character. Nelson Eddy as Raoul, the Phantom's rival. Christine's (Susanna Foster) love. The Phantom of the Opera (1. Terence Fisher. with Herbert Lom (of Pink Panther fame) in a UK Hammer Films production. Professor Petrie/the Phantom and Heather Sears as Christine Charles. The Phantom of the Paradise (1. Brian De. Palma. a rock- opera musical version (and cult favorite) starring Paul Williams. Svengali impresario named the Swan. The Phantom of the Opera (1. Robert Markowitz. TV movie starring a miscast Jane Seymour and Maximilian Schell. Phantom, set in Budapest. The Phantom of the Opera (1. Andrew Lloyd Webber theatrical musical show, featuring Sarah Brightman The Phantom of the Opera (1. Little. with Robert Englund (horror movie villain Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare. Elm Street series) as the Phantom and Jill Schoelen as Christine. The Phantom of the Opera (1. Tony Richardson. a two- part NBC- TV mini- series, with Burt Lancaster starring as the Baron. Phantom's father (in one of his final film appearances), Teri Polo. Christine, and Charles Dance as the Phantom. The Phantom of the Opera (1. Darwin Knight. a theatrical musical created by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopil and filmed. David Staller and Elizabeth Walsh. Il Fantasma Dell'Opera (1. It.) (aka The Phantom. Opera), d. Dario Argento, a loose adaptation with daughter Asia. Argento as Christine and Julian Sands as the nameless Phantom (without a. Ennio Morricone. The Phantom of the Opera (2. Joel Schumacher. with Gerard Butler as the lead character, and starlet Emmy Rossum (a trained. Christine; also with Minnie Driver and Miranda Richardson . Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Films: There were a few very early renditions in the 1. Robert Louis. Stevenson's story . Jekyll and Mr. Jekyll and Mr. The first filmed version was also the first American horror film - director Otis Turner's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1.
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