DISQUS

David G · 10 months ago

Agreed, Splinter was a sleeper and def the best of it's genre this year.

CaptainReg0981 · 10 months ago

Good choices Robert but I would like to say Cloverfield is not really a horror movie more of a sci-fi flick. I do have to say that The Orphanage was a good horror flick considering it is subtitled and it is done by Guilermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth & Hellboy). The scary part was the part when the old woman was run down and then a dead silence the woman tries to grab the necklace and then BOOM!! the old woman grabbed her and I spilled my raisinettes to the floor alright you can laugh. LOL!

Adam_Sweeney · 10 months ago

Guillermo Del Toro produced The Orphanage. Juan Antonio Bayona gets the credit for directing this wonderful film.

CaptainReg0981 · 10 months ago

That's true thanks for the point out.

Trevor · 10 months ago

I guess I'm the only person on the planet who loved The Happening.

Adam_Sweeney · 10 months ago

Yes, you are, my good man.

CaptainReg0981 · 10 months ago

I'm so sorry the bio threat that the plants like to attack a huge group of people and Mark Walhberg? Nope didn't workout for me.

Cole_Abaius · 10 months ago

Now, CaptainReg...I'd be willing to bet that if a film, say, had trees attacking, raping, and killing a young woman, and then the main character from that film went on to lose a hand only to replace it with a chainsaw, you'd love the crap out of it.

Groovy.

CaptainReg0981 · 10 months ago

ROTFLMAO!!! Love it love it go ahead and write it.

DMuff · 10 months ago

Splinter was quite good but I think Eden Lake should of had a place here.

CaptainReg0981 · 10 months ago

Oh yea thats right.

Rob_Hunter · 10 months ago

Uh, no. Eden Lake was lame and populated by idiotic characters. And don't get me started on that ending...

RobertFure · 10 months ago

Eden Lake suffered from a limited release, though it will go wider on DVD in January, which can put it in consideration for 2009. Though Hunter hates it, so maybe not. =)

Davebaxter1989 · 10 months ago

The film that scared me most this year was Funny Games no doubt

sean · 10 months ago

funny games was by far the worst film i have ever seen and to make it worst i took it back late and had to pay double which literally made me feel sick

Davebaxter1989 · 10 months ago

Two words Disaster Movie. three more Meet the Spartans

HempKnight757 · 10 months ago

The Happening was horrible

790 · 10 months ago

Where's High School the Musical 2?
You said best Horror film right. That film scares the shit out of me....

Cloverfield yeah more of a Sci Fi film.

Cole_Abaius · 10 months ago

No Teeth on the list? Anyone with a penis had to have found the concept alone as the scariest of the year. Unless, like Hunter, you're used to dating girls with vagina dentata. Which is Latin for, "HOLY GOD THERE ARE TEETH IN YOUR HOOHA."

RobertFure · 10 months ago

Teeth was a good movie and a great idea, but ultimately it didn't really impact me much, considering my steel Johnson implants.

Kristina · 10 months ago

UGHHH. You have to be kidding me. Midnight Meat Train? That was the largest pile of crap I've seen this year, and this year I watched "The Stink of Flesh." Yeah. IMDB it. I don't care who it was affiliated with, it was implausible, and the ending was so ridiculous I could do nothing but laugh. It was boring, repetitive, and just flat-out BAD. I don't respect that choice. I agree with above poster: Teeth belongs on that list. Not Midnight Meat Train. It sounds like a bad porno, but at least I can enjoy bad porn.

RobertFure · 10 months ago

Considering the subject matter, I don't know if "implausible" can describe something that is supernatural in nature. Also, are you telling me you didn't like seeing Vinnie Jones hitting someone so hard their eyeballs flew out? Or hooking a man in the crotch and slamming him to the ceiling? I dug it.

Kristina · 10 months ago

Actually, I thought that the whole concept of suspension of disbelief was disregarded. I was actually following along with it happily for a while, but then it kind of ....deteriorated. The very end, without revealing spoilers, was utterly ridiculous. I've seen tons of scary movies, and have been okay with disbelief suspension, but this just stretched it past the limit.

Addendum: I do enjoy Vinnie Jones's complete ass-kickery.K

RobertFure · 10 months ago

The ending definitely could have been different. I think that I was ok with it because I'm pretty familiar with Clive Barker and his themes, but they could have easily avoided that bit of twist and ended it differently.

Cole_Abaius · 10 months ago

Get a room already, you two.

RobertFure · 10 months ago

The Coroner's Report is all about love. Love and boobs and killing and boobs and death and blood and love and killing and boobs.

Rylie · 10 months ago

I loved the happening

sean · 10 months ago

simple the happening should never have happened

Davquan · 8 months ago

The happening was based on true events, because after watching it I to wanted to kill myself

DigitalDemolition · 10 months ago

how the hell can you even have cloverfield on the list, it was TERRIBLE!

Omar Nokrashy · 10 months ago

in my opinion, i think QUARANTINE deserves a better ranking

phrenetik · 10 months ago

Why do almost every good horror movie involve scary masked-people?

tpimpiin · 9 months ago

no one is commenting on inside, has no one seen it that s**t is f****d up

asdsadsad · 9 months ago

Rec is better than querantine sucker

arthur · 9 months ago

I'm enjoyed Romero's Diary of the Dead as well as Greg Mclean's Rogue and they deserve placement on the list over Cloverfield and The Strangers.

Eastwood · 9 months ago

I enjoyed The Happening as well. From the first body-drop, I was hooked. tpimpiin, you ain't the only one that saw Inside. On all-time greatest film list. (Background: I went to a 24-hour horror fest that Clive Barker was at--screening MMT--and when someone asked him what horror films out there were the best, the only one he gave up was Inside. I went home, dusted it off [had it, but hadn't gotten to it yet], and liked it so much, made sure everyone I knew--with a tough stomach--checked it out.)

Alora · 9 months ago

The Mirrors most deffinately should have been up there.

Steve · 9 months ago

Saw every film on the list (including the Honorables) except Seed (House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark put me off Uwe Boll FOREVER). It's pretty good and I hope horror fans catch it for some excellent recommendations.
But personally I would put Inside ahead of Splinter. My OMFG's started early and every time I thought, OK, that's as far as they can go with this . . . well, the movie kept exceeding my shock limit until the very twisted and very satisfying end. I'd also bump Let the Right One In to the #2 spot -- while less shocking and bloody than Inside, the mood and acting were near perfect, and the character-driven story never flagged in pacing or engaging the audience while providing some creepy moments (yikes! the cats!) and shocks along the way.
But I'd like to give a Top Ten plug to Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds -- mostly for the Baby Rescue scene, which earned a permanent spot in my Unforgettable Horror Moments -- but on the whole, for being more thoroughly insanely perverse, gory, and flat out fun than most horror movies even try to be.

Eastwood · 9 months ago

Steve, you hit all the right notes. I'd have to agree with your 1-2 punch, as well as agree somewhat with Feast 2. (FYI: If y'all haven't seen Feast 3: Heppy Endings, it might be even better than Feast 1 and 2; though they were all enjoyable.)

P.S. In regards to Let The Right One In, I had no real idea what the film was about, which I think made it even better. So, if it hasn't soaked in (what film is all about), then I urge you to not read into it anymore and take our word that it's easily one of the best films (not just horror) of last year.

Brittanie · 8 months ago

I liked it! But I don't really think it was horror, more sci-fi. I don't understand why it was rated R, but I guess that's why my friend and I got in even though we're only 14.

waqas · 8 months ago

awesome collection and research
seed was too good

Rey · 8 months ago

i agree eden lake was great

gameshed · 8 months ago

Agreed, Splinter was the best horror movie in '08. The movie is an unstoppable creepfest in the vein of The Evil Dead with sprinkles of The Thing and The Blob. At 82 minutes, things move fast and furious, and within 3 minutes of the film starting you know this is going to be a great ride.

seanwantsrevenge · 8 months ago

First of all, we all know The Happening was terrible. We knew it before we walked in the theater to make fun of it and we knew it afterwards when we were mouth washing the vomit taste from our mouth with acid.

That being said, Quarantine does NOT deserve a place on this list. At least do the original filmmaker a favour and replace it with [REC] which was FAR superior than this Americanized remake.

Bob jammed · 8 months ago

The Mirrors rightly deserved a place in top ten !!!!

Eastwood · 7 months ago

I'm not understanding this Mirrors fan-base I keep reading about all over the place. I thought that movie was utter crap...and I've seen much crap in my day. But this crap we call Mirrors? I thought this was easily at the top of said Crap list. Easily.

jose · 6 months ago

Teeth was pretty cool and scary it should have at least placed a rank in there somewhere

khan g · 6 months ago

i know u r jocking its all funny movies i know

enkpyn · 5 months ago

Hello! anybody heard of Martyrs?By far one of the best.

Victor · 5 months ago

Midnight meat train and the messenger better than Inside? yeah right.....

Eastwood · 5 months ago

Yeah, as good as Midnight Meat Train was--some of the best bloody scenes I've ever seen--I thought Inside killed it in overall quality. I think it's because it felt more terrifying. More possible, perhaps...

fsffddf · 4 months ago

I agree beacuase i dont agree .

Alfiano Tinangon · 3 months ago

i like Splinter

lulu · 3 months ago

i luv scary movies!!!

jamesflynn · 3 months ago

Nice selection of movies very well written movies in my opinion.

tim420 · 2 months ago

are you kidding me cloverfield was fucking horrible

Steve · 1 month ago

just watched seed. i know this list is old. but i have to say it was one of the worst horror movies i have ever seen. slow and boring, ultimately pointless. incredibly poorly written, directed and acted. the hammer scene almost reached comical levels to where i was almost laughing. its hard for me to take any other consideration into the other picks. midnight meat train was okay, but if those two movies are on a top ten, 2008 was a sad year for horror.

jeremyfreisler · 1 month ago

As for the movie "Inside". I have never saw a movie where every character is completly ignorant. Total morons. The cops dont call for back up when they walk into a blood bath and find their partners dead. His main concern is turning the circuit breaker back on when all he needs to do is get the girl out of the house. The list of stupidity just goes on and on. It amazes me that no one told the writer how stupid the script was.