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1.
The Cell
(2000)
An FBI agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim. (107 mins.)
Director: Tarsem Singh
2.
Dagon
(2001)
A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring. (95 mins.)
Director: Stuart Gordon
3.
Session 9
(2001)
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back. (100 mins.)
Director: Brad Anderson
4.
The Devil's Backbone
(2001)
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover. (106 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
5.
Ichi the Killer
(2001)
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of. (129 mins.)
Director: Takashi Miike
6.
In My Skin
(2002)
A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident. (93 mins.)
Director: Marina de Van
7.
Bubba Ho-Tep
(2002)
Elvis and JFK, both alive and in a nursing home, fight for the souls of their fellow residents as they battle an ancient Egyptian Mummy. (92 mins.)
Director: Don Coscarelli
8.
28 Days Later...
(2002)
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. (113 mins.)
Director: Danny Boyle
9.
The Ring
(2002)
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it. (115 mins.)
Director: Gore Verbinski
10.
Gozu
(2003)
A yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience. (129 mins.)
Director: Takashi Miike
11.
High Tension
(2003)
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror. (91 mins.)
Director: Alexandre Aja
12.
A Tale of Two Sisters
(2003)
A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family. (115 mins.)
Director: Kim Jee-woon
13.
Dumplings
(2004)
In Hong Kong, Aunt Mei is a cook famous for her home-made rejuvenation dumplings, based on a millenarian... (91 mins.)
Director: Fruit Chan
14.
Three... Extremes
(2004)
An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors. (118 mins.)
Director: Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike
15.
Shaun of the Dead
(2004)
A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living. (99 mins.)
Director: Edgar Wright
16.
Saw
(2004)
Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there or why, and soon discover they are pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer. (103 mins.)
Director: James Wan
17.
Dawn of the Dead
(2004)
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall. (101 mins.)
Director: Zack Snyder
18.
Strange Circus
(2005)
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear. (108 mins.)
Director: Sion Sono
19.
Haze
(2005)
A man wakes up to find himself locked in a cramped concrete maze of corridors, in which he can barely move. He doesn't remember why he is there or how he got there. He has a terrible stomach injury and is slowly bleeding to death. (49 mins.)
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
20.
Lunacy
(2005)
A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted. (118 mins.)
Director: Jan Svankmajer
21.
The Descent
(2005)
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. (99 mins.)
Director: Neil Marshall
22.
The Devil's Rejects
(2005)
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape a vengeful police force which is not afraid of being as ruthless as their target. (107 mins.)
Director: Rob Zombie
23.
Asudem
(2007)
The reverse writing of "Medusa" indicates a surreal story of a woman (Yangzom Brauen) in the woods, where she meets Satan experiencing a heavenly vision after consuming hallucinating mushrooms. (90 mins.)
Director: Daryush Shokof
24.
The Hills Have Eyes
(2006)
A suburban American family is being stalked by a group of psychotic people who live in the desert, far away from civilization. (107 mins.)
Director: Alexandre Aja
25.
Paranormal Activity
(2007)
After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence. (86 mins.)
Director: Oren Peli
26.
1408
(2007)
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror. (104 mins.)
Director: Mikael Håfström
27.
The Mist
(2007)
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. (126 mins.)
Director: Frank Darabont
28.
Planet Terror
(2007)
After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release. (105 mins.)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
“ See No. 85: 'Grindhouse'-(2007). ” - martindean
29.
[Rec]
(2007)
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying. (78 mins.)
Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
30.
Inside
(2007)
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby. (82 mins.)
Director: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
31.
Martyrs
(2008)
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity. (99 mins.)
Director: Pascal Laugier
32.
Drag Me to Hell
(2009)
A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point. (99 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
33.
Dead Snow
(2009)
A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies. (90 mins.)
Director: Tommy Wirkola
34.
Thirst
(2009)
Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways. (133 mins.)
Director: Chan-wook Park
35.
I Saw the Devil
(2010)
A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases. (141 mins.)
Director: Kim Jee-woon
36.
The Crazies
(2010)
About the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply. (101 mins.)
Director: Breck Eisner
37.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
(2010)
Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are attacked by a group of preppy college kids. (89 mins.)
Director: Eli Craig
38.
Confessions
(2010)
A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death. (106 mins.)
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
39.
Bug
(2006)
An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation. (102 mins.)
Director: William Friedkin
40.
Funny Games
(2007)
Two psychopathic young men take a family hostage in their cabin. (111 mins.)
Director: Michael Haneke
41.
Ricky 6
(2000)
Based on the true story of drugs, satanism, and murder in the upper class town of Northport, Long Island in 1984. (111 mins.)
Director: Peter Filardi
42.
The Atrocity Exhibition
(2000)
A university professor is fascinated with humankind's history of violent self-destruction. (105 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Weiss
43.
Maléfique
(2002)
In a penitentiary, four prisoners occupy a cell: Carrère, who used his company to commit a fraud and... (90 mins.)
Director: Eric Valette
44.
Dark Water
(2002)
A mother and her 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water. (101 mins.)
Director: Hideo Nakata
45.
May
(2002)
A lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her is sent into a murderous tailspin. (93 mins.)
Director: Lucky McKee
46.
The Eye
(2002)
A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realized she could even see ghosts. (99 mins.)
Director: Pang Brothers, Pang Brothers
47.
Ju-on: The Grudge
(2002)
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides. (92 mins.)
Director: Takashi Shimizu
48.
Dead End
(2003)
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life. (85 mins.)
Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa
49.
House of 1000 Corpses
(2003)
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers. (89 mins.)
Director: Rob Zombie
50.
Suicide Club
(2001)
A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides. (99 mins.)
Director: Sion Sono
51.
Noriko's Dinner Table
(2005)
A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS... (159 mins.)
Director: Sion Sono
52.
Slither
(2006)
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters. (95 mins.)
Director: James Gunn
53.
The Host
(2006)
A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches. (120 mins.)
Director: Joon Ho Bong
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Amer
(2009)
Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana's life. Her carnal search sways between reality and... (90 mins.)
Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
56.
Them
(2006)
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night. (77 mins.)
Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
57.
Insidious
(2010)
A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further. (103 mins.)
Director: James Wan
58.
Fido
(2006)
In an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting... (93 mins.)
Director: Andrew Currie
59.
All About Evil
(2010)
A mousy librarian inherits her father's beloved but failing old movie house. In order to save the family... (98 mins.)
Director: Joshua Grannell
60.
Wrong Turn
(2003)
Six people find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by "cannibalistic mountain men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding." (84 mins.)
Director: Rob Schmidt
61.
Trick 'r Treat
(2007)
Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his match with a demonic, supernatural trick-or-treater. (82 mins.)
Director: Michael Dougherty
62.
Eden Lake
(2008)
Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences. (91 mins.)
Director: James Watkins
63.
Battle Royale
(2000)
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act. (114 mins.)
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
64.
Noroi: The Curse
(2005)
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba." (115 mins.)
Director: Kôji Shiraishi
65.
Reincarnation
(2005)
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago. (96 mins.)
Director: Takashi Shimizu
66.
Zombieland
(2009)
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. (88 mins.)
Director: Ruben Fleischer
67.
Spider Forest
(2004)
A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. (112 mins.)
Director: Il-gon Song
68.
Shutter
(2004)
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past. (97 mins.)
Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom
69.
Taxidermia
(2006)
Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer. (91 mins.)
Director: György Pálfi
70.
Tokyo Gore Police
(2008)
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers. (110 mins.)
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura
71.
7 Days
(2010)
A doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who raped and murdered his young daughter. (105 mins.)
Director: Daniel Grou
72.
Bedevilled
(2010)
A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out. (115 mins.)
Director: Chul-soo Jang
73.
Absentia
(2011)
A woman and her sister begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances, including that of her own husband. (87 mins.)
Director: Mike Flanagan
74.
Julia's Eyes
(2010)
The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister. (118 mins.)
Director: Guillem Morales
75.
Kidnapped
(2010)
Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards. (85 mins.)
Director: Miguel Ángel Vivas
76.
Pickman's Muse
(2010)
An artist, Robert Pickman, becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church. (77 mins.)
Director: Robert Cappelletto
77.
Rabies
(2010)
A brother and sister who run away from home find sanctuary in a deserted nature reserve. When the sister falls into the trap of a psychopathic killer... (90 mins.)
Director: Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado
78.
The Cottage
(2008)
In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central... (92 mins.)
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
79.
Pontypool
(2008)
A psychological thriller in which a deadly virus infects a small Ontario town. (93 mins.)
Director: Bruce McDonald
80.
Dr. Hell
(2007)
Doc Hell, famous gynecologist, wants to control the entire world. His plan: to heal the humanity using a miraculous medicine... (84 mins.)
Director: Paco Limón
81.
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
(2007)
In an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York murder investigators uncover hundreds of tapes showing decades of a serial killer's work. (86 mins.)
Director: John Erick Dowdle
82.
My Name Is Bruce
(2007)
B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Oregon. (84 mins.)
Director: Bruce Campbell
83.
The Orphanage
(2007)
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend. (105 mins.)
Director: J.A. Bayona
84.
Kaidan
(2007)
Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river... (115 mins.)
Director: Hideo Nakata
85.
Frontier(s)
(2007)
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis. (108 mins.)
Director: Xavier Gens
86.
Severance
(2006)
During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one. (96 mins.)
Director: Christopher Smith
87.
Happy End: Every Story Needs an End
(2005)
"Happy End" is about a young writer who moves into an old suburban house because of his writing blockade... (102 mins.)
Director: Daniel Stieglitz
88.
Next Door
(2005)
John has just been left by his girlfriend Ingrid. That day he allows himself to be seduced into a mystical and scary world, where it is impossible to separate truth from the lies (75 mins.)
Director: Pål Sletaune
90.
Dog Soldiers
(2002)
A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness. (105 mins.)
Director: Neil Marshall
91.
The Others
(2001)
A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted. (101 mins.)
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
92.
Final Destination
(2000)
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one. (98 mins.)
Director: James Wong
93.
28 Days Later...
(2002)
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. (113 mins.)
Director: Danny Boyle
“ An introductory film, which I consider as, one of the greatest horror films of the new millennium. Director Danny Boyle, really does a great job of reinventing the 'Zombie Film'. Yet, staying loyal to that which makes this sub-genre great. This film appears, once again, under the relevant date. ” - martindean
94.
Shadow of the Vampire
(2000)
The filming of Nosferatu is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible. (92 mins.)
Director: E. Elias Merhige
95.
The Uninvited Guest
(2004)
In the dark corridors of Félix's house, an intruder is hiding. Is he real, or is he a manifestation inside the obscure maze of his mind? (90 mins.)
Director: Guillem Morales
96.
Masters of Horror
(2005 TV Series)
Episode: John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns (2005)
With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane. (60 mins.)
“ Feature-length. Made for TV. ” - martindean
97.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
(2006)
Zombified chickens attempt to kill the fast-food workers that cook them in a restaurant built on an ancient burial ground. (103 mins.)
Director: Lloyd Kaufman
98.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(2007)
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, AKA Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical. (116 mins.)
Director: Tim Burton
99.
Grindhouse
(2007)
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the 60s and 70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them. (191 mins.)
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth
100.
Antichrist
(2009)
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. (108 mins.)
Director: Lars von Trier
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