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Top 10 Best Zombie Movies Ever Filmed

July 4, 2016 By Toby Isaacson Leave a Comment

Anything zombie related used to be the spice and pepper of media during the genre’s peak of glory. At the time when movies with this theme being were released, around the 1960’s, they represented a new form of horror that, unfortunately, ended up being exploited to the point it became predictable, clichéd, and mostly morose and boring. But the best zombie movies managed to break the pattern and to bring a refreshing take to the table. In case you’re looking to have your undead movie flame ignited again, these are the Top 10 Best Zombie Movies Ever Filmed that you need to make sure you’ve seen.

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#1 Night of the Living Dead

It’s impossible not to give the top pick to the movie that actually started it all. George A. Romero’s indie movie from 1968 became, in time, a definite cult classic thanks to its capacity to give us the first believable scenario of dead rising and seeking to spill blood. It wasn’t just the zombie action that made this flick memorable, but also the heavy social undertones that poignantly pointed out issues of racism and sexism.

#2 28 Days Later

Just like we’ve established, the best zombie movies know how to breathe fresh life into the tropes and genres. 28 Days Later is one of them. It had all of the starter elements of a standard zombie flick, but manages to completely surprise everyone by shifting the focus on exploration of human nature and deep meanings.

#3 Dawn of the Dead

Although we’re mostly referring to Romero’s 70’s classic, it’s worth mentioning that Zack Snyder’s 2004 remake is just as much of a worthy entry on this list. The original follows two SWAT team members who take refuge in a mall as the world falls prey to the wrath of the undead, sharing its setting with the modern version.

#4 Shaun of the Dead

How else could you refresh the zombie genre if not through a lot of humor and memorable quotes? It was this formula that turned Shaun of the Dead into one of the best zombie movies, a flick which shows what we would all really do when the apocalypse hits – worry about everything else and scream a lot.

#5 Zombieland

The movie has its definite flaws and not much of it makes sense, but it’s this very seeming lack of direction and uncanny casual tone amid chaos that made it such a hit with audiences. Starring a stellar cast, Zombieland is one of those movies that managed to bring a new perspective to an old genre.

#6 Dead Snow

If you ever thought that the concept of dead rising from their graves and hunting to consume flesh is crazy, then you haven’t seen anything. Dead Snow thought that this trope was outdated and decided to give it a fresh twist by making even crazier. Therefore, we now have a movie about flesh-eating Nazi zombies instead.

#7 Braindead

Can you make gore funny? Peter Jackson delivered us in his pre Lord of the Rings era a zombie splatter flick that was as odd as it was eerily entertaining. It took the premise of a murderous undead mother and made it unique and memorable.

#8 The Return of the Living Dead

The main reason for this movie’s inclusion on this list is that it was the first to establish brains as the preferred gourmet choice of the undead, thus earning its spot among the best zombie movies. It has everything from action to uniqueness and a fitting deathpunk soundtrack.

#9 Zombi

Zombi picked up on the success of Night of the Living Dead and decided to make it its own. There’s some zombie action going on an island and a lot of graphic images and gore, so don’t watch it on a full belly.

#10 [REC]

This Spanish flick earned its place among the best zombie movies thanks to the inspiration it provided for the movie Quarantine, its American remake. But it stands its ground perfectly, managing to instill in our hearts the dread we should all feel in a scenario where the dead are walking.

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The Best Horror Movies Based On Real Stories

May 9, 2016 By Theresa Carrion Leave a Comment

People have various attitudes towards horror movies, but it’s undeniable that the moment a text that says “based on a true story” pops up on the screen, some sort of uneasiness instantly washes over us. Not only is it going to be, very likely, pretty harrowing, but it allegedly happened in real life too? The most terrifying thing about these films is that they’re often exaggerated for dramatic purposes, so how can you know where the line between reality and fiction is? Here’s a list of the best horror movies that have been inspired by real events.

#1 The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

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This is one of the most famous cases of reality turned fiction, and it’s been haunting us ever since its release. The movie was inspired by the real-life case of Anneliese Michel, a girl supposedly possessed by a demon and whose exorcism was so difficult that it lasted a whole year. Keep that in mind when you decide to put on the movie.

#2 The Amityville Horror (1979)

The movie established itself as a staple of the horror genre. The most unsettling thing was that the idea wasn’t wholly fictional, as it took strong inspiration from the book written by George and Kathy Lutz, the inhabitants of a horror-filled haunted house. Some people believe it, some people don’t.

#3 Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

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One of the films that’re part of the holy group of classic slasher films, Texas Chainsaw Massacre was loosely inspired by the case of a gruesome killer named Ed Gein. Similarly to the, uh, beloved Leatherface character, he would create masks out of the skins of his victims. Ed Gein served as inspiration for other horror flick characters, including Norman Bates (Psycho) and Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs.)

#4 The Conjuring (2013)

Considered to be one of the scariest movies in recent years, The Conjuring tells a story that had been previously shared with the world by Ed and Lorraine Warren, two famous paranormal investigators. They said that the case presented in the movie was one of their toughest and who can blame them?

#5 Child’s Play (1988)

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Every kid’s biggest nightmare, Chucky, allegedly tormented for real author Robert Eugene Otto. He claimed that a nurse had placed a curse on him, which resulted in transforming one of his favorite childhood dolls into a relentless murder machine of mayhem and terror. That’s nice. Don’t play with dolls again, kids.

#6 The Strangers (2008)

The writer of this movie combined a terrifying childhood memory with the real-life case of a serial killer named Charles Manson. He remembers a group of strangers knocking on his door and asking for someone who doesn’t live there. Later on, he found out that these people broke into the house if they got no answer.

#7 The Girl Next Door (2007)

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If you think that a movie about a girl getting tortured and then killed sounds like it’s too much to swallow, then don’t watch it. You have all the more reasons to now that you know that this was a case that actually happened and it shook Indiana forever.

#8 A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

We can’t prove that Freddy Krueger really existed, but he was created in the aftermath of some real-life events that were eerily similar to the movie’s plot. Several people had reportedly died because of the torments of their nightmares, with doctors not having been able to detect anything wrong with them physically.

#9 The Exorcist (1973)

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Oh, great! As if The Exorcist wasn’t scary enough, now it’s inspired by true events, too? The case behind the movie was of a boy called Roland Doe, whose exorcism was supposedly so frightening that several books have been written by witnesses.

#10 The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

Tired of the same horror movie cliché involving a family moving into a big, suburban, and haunted house? Try this movie to press rewind on the trope, as it was inspired by the real case of Al and Carmen Snedeker, a couple who was tormented by the terrors of their haunted house.

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5 New Horror Movies You Probably Don’t Know Yet

July 28, 2014 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

Today, the horror movie genre seems to be kind of forgotten, at least compared to how popular it used to be 25 to 20 years ago. Back in the 90s (and raise your hand if you’re a 90s kid too), movies like The Exorcist (1973), The Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) or Halloween (1978) or The Shining (1980) would, sometimes literally, take our breath away. Don’t even get me started on the whole Poltergeist series – it fascinated and scared me for months after seeing it. But our receptivity to horror movies seems to have dwindled away somewhat ever since the rise of fantasy movies with magic and dragons and all that jazz. Sure, it could be argued that not even fantasy movies are as popular as they were 10 or 5 years ago, that the world kind of had its fill of Harry Potters and Frodos. But if we are considering the popularity still enjoyed by the universes created by Terry Pratchett and George R. R. Martin, I don’t think the theory stands at all.

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Horror movies, on the other hand, seem to be definitely not that popular anymore, and even though new ones still come out every now and then, declaring yourself as a fan of the genre is becoming more and more an indie move, cool only (or mainly) in its obsolete charm. You definitely don’t see as many popular culture musings over them, as many fan clubs or reenactments inspired by them, or any thematic festivals. On this note, let’s bring into light a few nice recent horror movies which deserve a shot. Who knows, maybe you’ll actually like them and give the entire genre another sot afterwards.

Rigor Mortis (Hong Kong, 2013)

In this movie, a broke and washed-up artist moves into a haunted apartment building, feeling quite desperate and suicidal. To make things even worse, the building he moved into is populated by ghosts and ghost hunters and Taoist exorcists and things just seem to be getting weirder and weirder. What’s interesting about this one is that, unlike most horror movies who need to be very bloody and gory to produce any effect, this one manages to scare the living bajeesus out of you through mostly psychological hints and suggestions.

Wolf Creek 2 (2013)

This Australian movie is actually a sequel to the first Wolf Creek and features a serial killer and demented torturer called Mick, who kidnaps tourists in the wild and murders them. It’s a classic suspense and tension-ridden flick, almost as good as they used to make them in the good old days of horror movies.

Carrie (2013)

A remake of the Stephen King classic, Carrie is actually a horror which has every chance of conveying a deeper social meaning regarding bullying. Or at least bring this sad phenomenon more into mainstream consciousness. Only that anti-bullying campaigns are definitely more mainstream than horror movies seem to be lately, so on second thought, perhaps not.

We are what we are (2013)

Another movie which is a bit more on the subtle side, actually, and these seem to be the best. There’s nothing wrong in enjoying a simple slasher every now and then, but the horror movies that seem to make a deeper impression on us are still the ones where the actual horrific details are implied or guessed rather than shown in full light. This one is centered on a family history ripe with dark secrets and with the internal struggle after the young daughters attempt to make a clean break with tradition.

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Last, but not least, this little gem of a horror movie (pictured all the way up) definitely deserves a spot on our list. To all nostalgic 90s kids reading this post, Chucky is back! The movie wasn’t a compilation of the old ones, as some fans suspected, but it was actually a continuation of the story, to the delight of many of us. If only for the cult icon value, this is definitely a movie you should try watching, with good company and plenty of popcorn.

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5 Common Things Cinema Made Terrifying

January 28, 2014 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

In this world, there are basically two types of horror movies: the ones that scar you for life (or at least give you a freaking scare to remember the next day), and the ones that are so lame, they become B rated comedies that sometimes are so poorly executed, they don’t even make you laugh. And then, there are the classics. Some of them are not completely scary, while some of them led to people developing mass hysteria and phobias, some of them were not lacked of suspense and thrill, while some, following very simple recipes, gave us nightmares for years on end.

Horror movies are meant to horror us, right? Now if we take a look back into the archives, we can see that many of the classic or at least very successful horror and thriller movies played with our emotions and turned harmless, common things into symbols of fear and terror. It’s not like the ghosts, the monsters from the great beyond, dead corpses or mutant beings are not scary. They are. We are supposed to be afraid of them. But were we ever supposed to be terrorized by our TV sets? Let’s take a look at 5 common things cinema made terrifying.

4. Clowns

This is dead serious. Clowns were supposed to be funny and entertain kids. Some are still trying their best. But boy, did Stephen King nailed the clown with his IT novel – later turned into movie! You might say that the clowns have something scary about them, as, come on, there has to be something wrong with a person’s mind to look like that, but IT made it very clear that clowns are not only very disturbed people, they are also serial killers.

3. Dolls

Children play with dolls all the time. Even adults, but this is not the place to further discuss this matter. And then, Chucky made his entrance and the world of puppets, dolls and toys was never the same again. The theory goes that the unlikely the subject of fear is, the higher the horror becomes. Now if they brought a real – live T – Rex borrowed from Jurassic Park, it would have been obvious that bad things would eventually happen. But they brought in a doll that was so stubborn to not die, it terrorized the dreams of people for a long time in that age.

2. Bees

You know, we were very close to talk about spiders and ants as common things cinema made terrifying, but when the movie title is Arachnophobia, what do you expect? A romantic comedy? So creepy crawlers actually are creepy enough to make a decent horror movie and with so many people fearing these pests and being disgusted by them, there’s a horror show going on in every house at some point. But bees, they are not commonly seen as horror – bringers, as they are healthy insects that do a lot of healthy things. We like them. And thanks to the X Files series and Movie Number One, we fear them. As we knew they sting. But what do they sting us WITH? For those who grew up in that age, bees were as creepy as any other horror’s favorite terrifying insects.

1. Kids

Yeah well, they are not things, but they are not normal either, if you ever dare studying child psychology as described by horror movies. Remember The Omen? Yes, the old one, which looks like a parody if you watch it now, but hey, it was 1976. But that kid wasn’t the only one. Remember The Grudge? Yes, the original! Want more? The Grady twins in the Shining, the children in The Brood, the ones in Children of the Corn, not to mention The Ring, The Exorcist and many others more. Insidious, anybody? Now that will teach you to say kids are cute and harmless. Some of them would even have made IT run away in fear. And you know what the problem with kids is? They’re everywhere! 

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Houses

Old mansions, cabins in the woods, lake houses, mountain villas, old cottages, hunting huts, houses with basements, houses with basements and attics, new houses in residential areas. Apartments, entire apartment buildings. Everything with a roof. Everything you can live in is a horror movie set. Everything inside is meant to get you. Houses are the quintessence of things cinema made terrifying.

Build your own nuclear shelters, people, always have bugs repellents around, and remember, if you’re going on a group – trip to the mountains, the blonde bimbo dies first! If there happens to be children around, RUN!

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Best of the Horror Movie Killers

May 31, 2013 By This Blog Rules Guest Leave a Comment

In the world of Horror, you will probably be faced with tripping and falling, screaming, hiding and getting caught, seeing a mouse, being chased by a mutated figure that won’t talk even though you are asking them why they are doing this, meeting friends at a secluded part of the woods at a cabin owned by one of the groups parents who are out of town, and finally, certain death.

Horror movie killers have many different backgrounds. From supernatural beings to just a regular human being who wants revenge on those who he considers wronged him. These killers also have distinct personalities from the other. One may be a stalking mute (Jason Vorhees), while the other may be an outgoing playboy (American Psycho). One thing is for sure, the killing style and body count are what draws people in to their world. No one will invest their time into a killer who doesn’t want to kill. The more brutal death scene the better. Blood is what the spectator wants and with this list of killers, they will surely get what they want.

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