Kilómetro 31 (2007)

Kilometre 31 (Kilómetro 31 or km 31) is a 2007 Mexican horror film, written and directed by Rigoberto Castañeda. The film is inspired by the Crying Woman legend (La Llorona) and legends about highway ghosts.

Following a horrible street accident Agata is in a coma – and Catalina begins to experience the pain and terror that her unconscious sister is going through… Catalina must try to solve the mystery of her twin sister’s accident at ‘Km. 31’ and discovers a local legend that tells of malignant spirits that prowl the highway ‘Km 31’ and who are said to prey on travellers… Following a series of terrifying events, Catalina realizes that their link is growing stronger and that her sister Agata is screaming for help from her unconscious state. With the help of Nuño, Agata’s long time friend and Omar, Agata’s boyfriend, they soon discover that not only is Agata in a coma, but she is also trapped between life and death, between reality and a terrible netherworld of evil spirits and ancient legend.

Location: Mexico

Director: Rigoberto Castañeda 

Producer: Billy Rovzar, Fernando Rovzar, Julio Fernández
Writer: Rigoberto Castañeda 

Cast: Iliana Fox, Adrià Collado, Raúl Méndez, Carlos Aragon

Vacancy (2007)

Vacancy is a 2007 American horror/thriller film, starring Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale. It was distributed by Screen Gems and was released on April 20, 2007. Production was scheduled to commence in August 2006 with Nimród Antal signing on to direct it.

Early in the film's development, it was thought that Sarah Jessica Parker was going to be in the film. A September 2006 article in The Hollywood Reporter announced that Kate Beckinsale had signed on to replace Parker.

A couple, David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale) take a wrong turn on a remote mountain road. When their car breaks down, they realize they are in a cell phone dead zone, with no reception. They then decide to check into a completely isolated motel in a rural area with a strangely off-putting manager called Mason (Frank Whaley)...

Location: United States
Director: Nimród Antal
Producer: Hal Lieberman
Writer: Mark L. Smith
Cast: Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley

Ghost Ship (2002)

Ghost Ship is a 2002 horror film directed by Steve Beck. The film was shot in Queensland, Australia and Vancouver, Canada. It stars Gabriel Byrne and Julianna Margulies. It was produced by Dark Castle Entertainment. Despite the title, it is not a remake of the 1952 film of the same name.

In May 1962, dozens of wealthy passengers enjoy dancing in the luxurious ballroom of an Italian ocean liner, the Antonia Graza, while a beautiful Italian woman (Rettondini) sings "Senza Fine." Away from the party, a hand presses a lever that unravels a thin wire cord from a spool. Suddenly, the spool snaps and the wire slices across the dance floor like a blade, bisecting the dancers. Only little Katie (Browning) — who is dancing with the Captain — is spared, thanks to her small stature and to the captain leaning protectively over her. She looks up at the Captain's face, which splits open at mouth level as the top of his head falls off. Katie screams and the film cuts to the present day.

Location: Australia, Canada, United States
Director: Steve Beck
Producer: Joel Silver, Gilbert Adler, Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Mark Hanlon, John Pogue
Cast: Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isiah Washington, Alex Dimitriades, Karl Urban, Emily Browning and Gabriel Byrne

The Unborn (2009)

The Unborn is a 2009 American supernatural horror-thriller film written and directed by David S. Goyer. The film stars Odette Yustman as a young woman who is tormented by a ghost (a dybbuk) and seeks help from a rabbi (Gary Oldman). The dybbuk seeks to use her death as a gateway to physical existence. The film is produced by Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes. It was released in American theaters on January 9, 2009, by Rogue Pictures.

Casey Beldon has nightmarish hallucinations of strange-looking dogs and an evil child with bright blue eyes. While babysitting Matty, her neighbor's son, she finds him showing his infant sibling its reflection in a mirror. Matty attacks Casey with the mirror and tells her, "Jumby wants to be born now."

Casey's friend Romy tells her of a superstition that newborns should not see their reflections for at least a year because otherwise they will die soon. Casey's eyes begin to change color; a doctor asks if she is a twin, and explains the change as tetragametic chimerism and heterochromia. Her neighbor's infant dies, supporting the superstition.

Location: United States

Director: David S. Goyer

Producer: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller

Writer: David S. Goyer

Cast: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good, James Remar, Rhys Coiro, Carla Gugino with Jane Alexander and Idris Elba

Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Thirteen Ghosts (also known as Thir13en Ghosts or 13 Ghosts) is a 2001 American horror film directed by Steve Beck. It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name by William Castle. It follows the remake of another one of Castle's films, House on Haunted Hill.

Ghost hunter Cyrus Kriticos (F. Murray Abraham) and his neurotic psychic assistant Dennis Rafkin (Matthew Lillard) lead a team on a mission to capture a spirit, called the Juggernaut, in a junkyard. Several of the men are killed during the ensuing fight, including Cyrus himself. However, the team is able to catch the ghost.

Location: United States
Director: Steve Beck
Producer:  Robert Zemeckis, Joel Silver, Gilbert Adler
Writer:  Robb White, Neal Marshall Stevens
Cast: Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Adam Kaminski, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth, Alec Roberts, Rah Digga and F. Murray Abraham

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 American horror film, directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter and Jeffrey Combs.

The film was followed by a sequel, Return to House on Haunted Hill, which was released in both rated and unrated editions on DVD in 2007.

The film is set in an abandoned asylum, the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane, where numerous murders were committed in the past, mainly the 1930s. The head of the facility, Dr. Richard B. Vannacutt (Jeffrey Combs), performed grotesque experiments and medical procedures on the patients, killing many in the process. The hospital was closed when some of the so-called "patients" escaped, killing almost the entire staff and burning the hospital. Vannacutt had rigged the building with numerous iron gates, activated by cranks and levers, to serve as barriers to keep patients from leaving the building, should they escape; some of these were controlled by huge, clock-like timers that wouldn't open for twelve hours. During the fire, he released these gates, keeping the inmates, employees and the fire itself contained. After several unexplained deaths during reconstruction of the facility, it was dubbed "The House on Haunted Hill".

Location: United States

Director: William Malone

Producer:  Robert Zemeckis, Joel Silver, Gilbert Adler, Terry Castle

Writer:  Robb White (Story), Dick Beebe

Cast:  Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Bridgette Wilson , Jeffrey Combs, Max Perlich, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan

Rest Stop (2006)

Rest Stop: Dead Ahead is the first direct-to-video horror film released by Warner Studios' "Raw Feed" imprint on October 17, 2006. The plot involves a girl who is terrorized by a deranged serial killer while on a cross country road trip to California.

A girl named Nicole makes a rest stop. Little does she know that her convenience break will be fatal as she becomes the victim of a demented serial killer who drives a yellow truck. Nicole soon becomes aware that the rest stop is haunted by the killer's previous victims or they are simply delusions of Nicole's hysteria. The origin of the killer's psychopathy are unknown other than the fact it may have to do with a demented family in a Winnebago and soon enough things go horribly wrong

Location: United States

Director: John Shiban

Producer: R. J. Louis

Writer: John Shiban

Cast: Jaimie Alexander, Joey Mendicino, Nick Orefice, Deanna Russo, Joey Lawrence

The Messengers (2007)

An ominous darkness invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon family is torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and murder.

Directors: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Writers: Mark Wheaton (screenplay), Todd Farmer (story)
Casts: Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller and Kristen Stewart

Hostel (2005)

Hostel is a 2005 horror film written, produced and directed by Eli Roth, starring Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Jennifer Lim, Eythor Gudjonsson and Barbara Nedeljáková. Roth's original script was developed by Quentin Tarantino, who also acted as producer on the movie. Due to the graphic nature of this film, its showing has been restricted in certain countries. The sequel, Hostel: Part II, was released on June 8, 2007.

Director:  Eli Roth

Producer:  Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Boaz Yakin 

Writer: Eli Roth 

Cast: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eyþór Guðjónsson, Barbara Nedeljáková, Rick Hoffman

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 2003 American remake of the 1974 horror film of the same name. The 2003 film was directed by Marcus Nispel and produced by Michael Bay. It was also co-produced by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper, co-creators of the original 1974 film.

This film has also been a milestone for Hollywood in terms of remaking classic slasher/horror films. This film is the first of many horror remakes to come from Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company which also remade The Amityville Horror, The Hitcher, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Location: United States
Director: Marcus Nispel
Producer: Michael Bay, Mike Fleiss
Writer: Scott Kosar
Narrator: John Larroquette
Cast: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, R. Lee Ermey

Ju-on: The Grudge 2

Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (呪怨2) is a 2003 Japanese "J-Horror" film, the fourth in the horror series written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film was released in Japan on August 23, 2003.

Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (呪怨 2) is the fourth in a series of 'Ju-On' horror films, written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. The series follows the curse due to the grudge held by a woman who was murdered by her husband in her house. The curse falls on any who enters the house where these events took place. Everyone connected with the house since then has met a terrible fate.

The baseline story in this movie follows a popular horror TV variety show called Heart-Stopping Backgrounds. The show director hears about the cursed house & how everyone connected to that house over a period of time has met with mysterious death, and decides to feature it on the show. To attract a larger audience for the episode he plans to rope in a popular Horror-movie actress [the character Kyoko] and shoots the episode in the house with the TV crew. While not starting off with these scenes, it all follows the story of a cast and crew of a TV show that filmed in the house and leads ultimately to their demise. This story follows the same non-linear path as its predecessor does. Events will weave in and out at different points and will overlap here and there where characters are running into each other.

Location: Japan

Director: Takashi Shimizu

Producer: Taka Ichise

Writer: Takashi Shimizu

Cast: Noriko Sakai, Chiharu Niiyama, Kei Horie, Yui Ichikawa, Shingo Katsurayama, Emi Yamamoto

The Amityville Horror (2005)

The Amityville Horror is a 2005 horror film directed by Andrew Douglas. It is a remake of the 1979 film of the same name which in turn was based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Jay Anson, which documents the alleged experiences of the Lutz family after they moved into a house in Long Island which had been the scene of a mass murder committed by Ronald DeFeo, Jr. who shot six members of his family there in November 1974.

Location: United States
Director: Andrew Douglas
Producer: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller
Writer: Scott Kosar, Sandor Stern (screenplay), Jay Anson (novel)
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Philip Baker Hall

The Exorcist (1973)

The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty and based on the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her daughter through an exorcism conducted by two priests. The film features Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair,Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Lee J. Cobb, Jason Miller, and Mercedes McCambridge. The film is one of a cycle of 'demonic child' movies produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Rosemary's Baby and The Omen.

The film became the most profitable horror film of all time and one of the highest earning movies in general, grossing $401,400,000 worldwide (and a further $112,053,066 for the Director's Cut re-release in 2000), and at the time of release briefly became the highest-grossing film of all time, until being surpassed one year later by Steven Spielberg's Jaws. The film proved a huge effect on popular culture. The film earned ten Academy Award nominations—winning two, one for Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay, and losing Best Picture to The Sting. Along with the novel on which it was based, Blatty's script has been published several times over the years. The Exorcist was commercially released in the United States by Warner Bros. on December 26, 1973, and re-released on March 17, 2000, with a restored version released on September 22, 2000. It was named the scariest movie of all time by Entertainment Weekly and Movies.com and by viewers of AMC in 2006, and was #3 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

Location: United States

Director: William Friedkin

Producer: William Peter Blatty, Noel Marshall

Writer: William Peter Blatty

Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb, Mercedes McCambridge

The Cave (2005)

The Cave is a 2005 horror film, directed by Bruce Hunt. It stars Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian, Morris Chestnut, Marcel Iureş, Lena Headey,Rick Ravanello, Piper Perabo and Daniel Dae Kim.


Location: United States 
Director: Bruce Hunt
Producer: Richard S. Wright, Andrew Mason, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi
Writer: Michael Steinberg, Tegan West
Cast: Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian, Morris Chestnut, Lena Headey, Rick Ravanello, Piper Perabo, Daniel Dae Kim

The Abandoned (2007)

An American woman searching for her birth parents find outs she has inherited a house in the middle of a forest in a remote area of Russia. It is the house where she was born. 
Abandoned and uninhabited for 40 years, it rests in total disrepair and neglect. What she finds is more than an old house. She meets a mystifying man who claims to be her brother, a twin she never knew. Together they find the house holds secrets to a past they don't remember. Together they are forced to relive a series of horrifying events and shocking murders that occurred just after they were born, in the place they were supposed to die.

Director: Nacho Cerda
Producer: Julio Fernández, Carlos Fernandez, Alexander Metodiev
Cast: Karel Roden, Jordanka Angelova, Kalin Arsov, Paraskeva Djukelova, Valentin Ganev