A relaxing weekend turns into a life-or-death struggle for two college students in this screw-tightening, blood-soaked slasher flick. Best friends, Marie (Cecile De France) and Alexia (Maiwenn Le Besco), decide to spend the weekend before exams studying in seclusion at Alexia's parents' farmhouse. With a late-night knock on the door, their plans take a harrowing twist. A sadistic psychopath knifes his way into their hideaway, plunging the girls into a night of chaos and terror. Producer Luc Besson and director Alexandre Aja have created an intense, brutal throwback to raw '70s horror. Filled with stunning twists and a heart-stopping climax, High Tension is a white-knuckle roller coaster of slice-and-dice mayhem that's definitely not made for the squeamish.
Two American friends, Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson), set off to Europe for a backpacking trip filled with the type of mayhem you'd expect a pair of thrill-seeking college buddies to find. They're joined by a third traveler, Oli, an Icelander who's equally bent on creating memories he won't actually be able to remember. The guys learn of a hostel in Slovakia filled with gorgeous women who can't resist American men. When Josh and Paxton arrive and meet Natalya and Svetlana, it seems too good to be true. That doesn't last, as the guys soon find themselves snared in a twisted hive of torture and brutality they'll be lucky to escape alive.
Heavy metal icon Rob Zombie brings his dark and demented style to the big screen with his directorial debut film, House of 1000 Corpses. The usual stranded car premise leaves four innocent travelers stranded in the backwoods and seeking refuge in the creepy Museum of Monsters and Madmen, operated by a disturbing clown named Capt. Spaulding (Sig Haig). The visitors are shown exhibits of past atrocities committed in the town, and before long, they themselves are becoming the next victims of the evil that lives in the museum! Horror movie legend Karen Black plays Mother Firefly, matriarch of the nefarious Firefly clan in town. Other freaks like Otis Driftwood, Tiny, and Dr. Satan inhabit Zombie's bloody world of shock, cheesy humor, suspense, and delightfully elaborate deaths that will have horror fans cheering!
Zombies and the good old-fashioned gore of campy drive-in features are the ingredients that make up Uwe Boll's House of the Dead, based on the popular video game series. In the film, a group of hip and trendy couples hires a boat to a rave happening on an island off the coast of Florida. However, there is a legend about the island that tells of an immortal Spaniard who has been experimenting on the undead there for hundreds of years. When the boat lands, the ravers find everyone else at the party is already a zombie! The captain (Jurgen Prochnow) is an arms smuggler as well, and soon everyone left alive is shooting, hacking, and blasting at everything dead that moves!
In a remake of the 1953 horror classic, six college friends set out on a roadtrip to one of the year's biggest football games. They camp out the night before the game, and, after a confrontation with a trucker, awake to find their car may have been tampered with. Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), Paige (Paris Hilton), and the rest of their friends find themselves stranded in an eerily deserted small town. The town's one attraction is Trudy's House of Wax, home to a collection of remarkably realistic wax figures. The group soon learns that the statues are made from the corpses of townspeople and visitors. Stalked by a pair of twisted brothers, the group must battle to find a way out, or else they'll become permanent additions to the museum's collection.
Get ready for a chilling journey into the heart of terror and the mind of a psychopathic serial killer known only as "Jigsaw," who forces his victims to play gruesome games for their own survival or die trying. A young man named Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) awaken to find themselves chained to opposite ends of a bleak underground room, with a bloody corpse between them and no idea how they got there. Instructions left on a microcassette order Dr. Gordon to kill Adam within eight hours, or else both men will die along with Dr. Gordon's family. Faced with impossible options, mounting terror, and only a few hours to spare, the men must unravel the psychotic puzzle of their fate before it is too late.
The harrowing shocker Saw was a chilling journey into the twisted world of Jigsaw, a psychopathic serial killer who forces his victims to play gruesome games for their own survival or die trying. The villain returns in Saw II for another grueling exercise in psychological and physical terror. Another dead body leads detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) to believe that Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) has struck again. He finds the killer easily, but soon learns that's all part of the madman's latest plan. Jigsaw's locked up a group of victims, including sole Saw survivor Amanda (Shawnee Smith) and Matthews' own son. Trapped in a shelter filled with deadly poisonous gas, the victims must escape or die. Of course, they'll have to survive the traps Jigsaw has waiting for them.
The abandoned town of Silent Hill isn't exactly high on the list of must-see tourist destinations. So when a young mother, Rose (Rhadha Mitchell), travels there bringing her only child with her, you know things are getting desperate. Her daughter's been stricken with a mysterious disease. A psychiatrist concludes the child is doomed to a life in mental institutions. Refusing to let this fate befall her daughter, Rose, against the wishes of her husband (Sean Bean), arrives in the eerie town searching for hope, and an answer. But the fog that envelops Silent Hill shrouds more than just the town, hiding a variety of sinister creatures, creatures made even more disturbing when touched by a living Darkness. If you thought the game was chilling, wait till you see the movie!
In 1974, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre introduced us to one of the silver screen's most infamous psychopaths, the grotesque, chainsaw-wielding Leatherface and his mask of human skin. This update of the '70s horror classic revs up the fear factor all over again. A group of college friends picks up a hitchhiker on a Texas road. When their passenger shoots herself, the friends turn to the locals for help. A response is slow to come, so the friends visit a remote homestead. The nightmare gets worse as they encounter a family of inbred cannibals who begin shredding the group one by one. Erin (Jessica Beil) is the last one standing. She'll struggle to escape Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski) and the harrowing fate that waits at the hands of his roaring chainsaw.
Sam Raimi and acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Shimizu come together to bring you a thrilling horror tale in the tradition of 28 Days Later and The Ring. Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is an American nurse who has traveled to Tokyo as a foreign exchange student. When she goes to work in the home of the elderly woman whose case she has been assigned to, she finds that this modest Tokyo home hides a horrible terror within its walls. A supernatural spirit that possesses its victims, steals their souls, and then passes on its curse to another victim has been spreading a chain of horror. Karen will have to learn the secret of the vengeful curse and break the supernatural spell before it's too late, or else become the next victim of an ancient evil that lives to kill.
Have you checked on your children? Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Jill Johnson (Camilla Belle) is expecting nothing more than a routine night of babysitting. The teenager is looking for some easy money to help pay off a whopper of a cell phone bill. She puts the two kids she's watching to bed, sets the alarm, and settles in for a night hanging out in the nice home of the wealthy family who's hired her. The phone keeps ringing with a series of prank calls. Jill grows increasingly uneasy, and eventually calls the police. In order for them to trace the call she'll need to keep the caller on the line for a minute. Once she does, she gets some frightening news. The calls are coming from inside the house!