i think at the very least we all can agree that it is brooke shields best movie since
endless love
Hell no, Den. You need to see FREEWAY, my friend. (hell, even FREAKED is better, not to mention MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN). Anyways, MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN was painfully bad, poorly acted and obvious drivel. Its splatter effects were tiresome. Ryûhei Kitamura is the biggest hack of J-Horror. I think I might have only rented it because one of you clowns mentioned it here as a better horror film of 2009. That and TRICK R TREAT, which was also awful (but at least somewhat fun to watch).
forgot about muppets
and my slight like for SPEED ZONE
I only like the 2nd freeway and prob only cuz of natasha lyonne
Idk, I thought Trick ’r Treat was tons of fun! What was it that you all disliked about it?
Definitely In My Skin/Dans ma peau. And Denis’ Trouble Every Day.
TRICK ‘R TREAT had potential but once I got over the whole "let’s use a PULP FICTION-esque structure of overlapping and interconnecting characters and narratives with a fractured chronology in a horror film" novelty – an interesting gambit, I admit – the film because really tiresome. Each of the payoffs were terrible!
The payoffs are the BEST!
the payoff with the bus story was pretty sweet
Going to keep doing this til I get it right.
1. Let The Right One In
2. The Orphanage
3. Three: Extremes
4. The Devil’s Backbone
5. A Tale of Two Sisters
6. The Ring
7. The Host
8. 1408
9. Paranormal Activity
10. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Samantha, I dunno. I felt all of those reversals and twists were telegraphed a thousand miles ahead. The director had a nice visual style though.
RUMPLESINK – one more try please with PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE removed.
But I kind of liked those two Ari. Actually, I think I’m happy with this list, such as it is. I think I’ll leave it at that.
isn’t there ten that u more than kind of liked rump
i think every genre has a number of great films in it
people act as tho horror films are the one exception but
i dont think that is the case
>>I think I might have only rented it because one of you clowns mentioned it here as a better horror film of 2009.<,
I was probably that clown.
And I stand by my opinion that it is an excellent film – is it possible you’re just not a Clive Barker person?
Given that the protagonist [[SPOILER!!] takes the place of the killer, I was fascinated by how, as he begins stalking the guy, he is increasingly pictured in similar poses. And giving the name Jurgis (the same name as the protagonist in that Sinclair Lewis novel about the meat-packing industry) suggests there’s a lot more going on that might be readily apparent. This isn’t hack-work.
Den – ‘isn’t there ten that u more than kind of liked rump’
Not from this decade, no.
i guess that happens sometimes
I couldnt come up with 10 westerns this decade
1408? You must be joking.
I can come up with five Westerns, maybe…
- Tears of the Black Tiger
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Open Range
- The American Astronaut
- The Proposition
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Appaloosa
Okay, eight. Haven’t seen the last two. Any good?
Could Ravenous count as a horror Western? Too bad it just missed the noughties.
ravenous might count, why not
appaloosa is okay
310 not so much
Aww, I’ll give some love to Trick ’r Treat. I thought it was loads ’o fun. Not scary but fun. And I second the repulsion for 1408! I thought that movie was awful!
Paranormal Activity made me very uneasy when I realized how much money I forked over to see that little turd.
I’m not going to make a list yet but I will give two extended thumbs skyward for the western Sam mentioned, Tears of the Black Tiger.
Great minds…
if u are giving love how about some for brooke shields
mention earlier on this site
she could use some ):
I’m in agreement with whoever said that Trick r’ Treat was shite. I mean, god, it’s like they were using a cliche checklist for every scene. And I mentioned Midnight Meat Train as one of “less than great” horror films of the decade, so yeah, I agree with that, I mean it’s Clive Barker for god’s sake.
And Ravenous would certainly qualify as a horror film (and a great one at that), but I think it was released in the late ’90s.
No particular order:
The Devil’s Backbone
Stuck
Teeth
Deadgirl
Let The Right One In
Severance
that’s all I can think of right now..
i can’t keep them in order, but…
30 days of night
28 days later
tale of two sisters
let the right one in
cannibal(2006 Marian Dora)
inside
1408
haute tension
battle royale
Nochnoy dozor (night watch)
i think these were the only holy crappers of the decade for me.
I’d agree with most of what people have pointed out here, though I’d have to throw in Neil Marshall’s “Dog Soldiers” over “The Descent”. It was more fun and fresh when I first saw it in a theatre in Vancouver, and so it resonates with me more.
Also, “Blade II” by Guillermo del Toro. Visually very cool, some great horror scenes, and with all that fantastic action (though with some obvious CGI), it still kicks ass. The opening scene where Blade jumps out of a 4th story door that leads out to a fire escape (which he obviously doesn’t need to use), twists in the air (camera following all the way), and lands hard on the ground, pulls out his gun and shoots one of the vampires from a distance…blew my mind when I saw it in a theatre. I just wish he could’ve returned for the third film, but alas…
Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me To Hell”. Thanks God Raimi doesn’t have to return to the Spider-Man franchise, cause if he can take the time to do another horror film as good as this one, what with its EC Comics edge, then we’ll be all the better for it.
I’m going to third the Diary of the Dead defense. It’s not a very popular movie by any means, but I really enjoyed watching it.
“Ryûhei Kitamura is the biggest hack of J-Horror.”
I recently saw Versus, and I agree. The man can shoot an action scene, fine, great, good job. Be a choreographer and let someone else step in and tell a damned story! That movie should have been fifteen minutes long, the bad story stretched it to forty minutes, and then the action stretched it to two hours.
—PolarisDiB
Haneke anybody? Is that horror? More so than The Prestige at least.
1 Antichrist
2 Cache
3 Let the Right One In
4 Insomnia
5 28 Days Later
6 The Orphanage
7 The Decent
8 The Eye – Hong Kong, not the Jessica Alba one
9 Shaun of the Dead
10 Twilight, New Moon
Insomnia was ‘97, scratch that one add Red Dragon just barely above Twilight. Ralph Fiennes makes for a great villain, and adding Ed Norton always makes things creepy, even if he’s supposed to be the good guy.
These are my more recent favorites (in no particular order):
1. Pandorum
2. Mulberry Street
3. The Last Winter
4. Tooth and Nail
5. Feast 1-3 (is that cheating?)
6. Martyrs
7. Let The Right One In
8. Drag Me To Hell
9. Home Video
10. The Midnight Meat Train
I hope someone gets some use out of this list.
I’m not sure I’d use the term useful (the presence of Martyrs and The Midnight Meat Train on your list leads me to conclude that we have irreconcilable differences of opinion), but I’m curious to hear a defense of why Pandorum is the best horror film of the decade (assuming we’re talking about that Dennis Quaid/Ben Foster film that came out earlier this year). I like the whole “in space nobody can hear you scream” horror subgenre, but the preview looked dire and the reviews were even worse.
Harry Long
We disagree.