Greatest Horror films from 2000-2007

[Darkandy]

What are the Greatest Horror flicks from 2000 to 2007, and why?. They could be popular or not.. I'd like to know what I haven't seen.. what I'm missin out on.

[bluf!sh96]

This decade's been pretty decent so far with movies like...

28 Days Later (2002)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
High Tension (2003)
1408 (2007)

all of which you may have already seen. But some lesser knowns are...

Venom (2005)
Session 9 (2001)
Frailty (2000)

which are also among the best of this period.

[ZARCULA]

Some of the more recent ones I can mention are.....The Hill Have Eyes..parts 1 & 2,Saw and Saw 3,Underworld and Underworld:Evelution,Rob Zombies HALLOWEEN,Exorcism Of Emily Rose.,Texas Chainsaw Massacre;Beginings,The Grudge,Hostel,The Grudge..Devils Rejects.....just to mention a few

[ZARCULA]

I didnt mean to mention The Grudge twice...sorry

[Darkandy]

Anyone saw Shutter? Was dissapointed... Figured it would be as typical of The Ring and The Grudge, and it was similar but not as good at all. It was slooow, and not scary.. when they were getting to a shocking part, they almost reached it, and pulled back, leaving the viewer disappointed, and had other less than amusing parts...

If anyone else likes it, cool! but it's not making the 2008 Great horror movie cut for me!

[Darryl Mathe]

I didn't like 28 weeks later nearly as much as the first one.

[mikeslasher86]

An Indie film Timber Falls was sick, you guys have to check it out. It's about a couple hiking and end up in the twisted world of a satic couple who form a blood ritual with the couple. Check out the trailer at myspace.com/timberfallsmovie, let me know what you think.

[BlackWidow]

I would say The Grudge, Frailty (definatly my fav for this period), The descent, Wrong Turn (yep I love inbred cannibals), Saw and Behind the mask: the rise of Leslie Vernon.

BW

[The_Thing_82]

Originally Posted by Darkandy

Anyone saw Shutter? Was dissapointed... Figured it would be as typical of The Ring and The Grudge, and it was similar but not as good at all. It was slooow, and not scary.. when they were getting to a shocking part, they almost reached it, and pulled back, leaving the viewer disappointed, and had other less than amusing parts...

If anyone else likes it, cool! but it's not making the 2008 Great horror movie cut for me!

Wow. I liked Shutter alot. I assume you mean the original, not the American remake. If you are, however, talking about the American version, that would make more sense as the original was much better.

[The_Thing_82]

Originally Posted by BlackWidow

I would say The Grudge, Frailty (definatly my fav for this period), The descent, Wrong Turn (yep I love inbred cannibals), Saw and Behind the mask: the rise of Leslie Vernon.

BW

Yup. Frailty was an excellent movie. A pleasent suprise in the new age of crap.....

[Darkandy]

Didn't enjoy Wrong Turn 2 so much.... kinda boring. Saw 4 was kinda confusing... enjoyable but confusing.. need to watch it again.. Hope Saw 5 explains more... Definately want to see it though!

[JohnShaft]

Originally Posted by bluf!sh96

Some lesser knowns are...

Venom (2005)
Session 9 (2001)
Frailty (2000)

Venom I haven't seen, but given the other two you list are among my absolute favourites I think I better look out for it.

I don't know, I think it's tough to list for this decade so far. Certainly I don't think I could offer much outside of what's already been mentioned. Once SESSION 9 is listed my "you probably haven't, but you've GOT TO see this" list is gone.

DOG SOLDIERS is a lot of fun.
DAWN OF THE DEAD remake had no right to be a good film, but it was.
SAW 1 and 2, is all I've seen so far. But I think they deserve a good bit of the kudos they've gotten.
THE EYE (Asian version, natch). Mainly because I think they are some of the creepiest ghosts commited to celluloid.
[REC], if you could dig a zombie movie shot on a handheld camera, and in Spanish. I did. It's short, it's cheap, it starts slow, but there's some pretty effective moments in there.

WRONG TURN, got to say I hated that with a vengeance (sorry BW!). I just found it completely insipid.
Oh and avoid American remakes of Asian horror like the plague. They started "meh" and got worse. Much worse.

I'll have a further think Andy, see if anything else unrattles from my brain.

[BlackWidow]

Originally Posted by JohnShaft

WRONG TURN, got to say I hated that with a vengeance (sorry BW!). I just found it completely insipid.

I love it just because it was the first movie in a while that reminded me of the 70's slasher kind of movie.

BW

[Matthew Williams]

A few that have already cropped up here that I like - The Descent and Dog Soldiers were both very good, I also enjoyed Dawn of the Dead, Wrong Turn and the Saw series of films - A couple that haven't been mentioned here are Madhouse and Whisper (both are pretty good for lesser known films)

Madhouse - Fairly low budget, but nicely done.
Whisper - Similar to the Omen in a lot of ways and it's a decent film.

[JohnShaft]

Originally Posted by BlackWidow

I love it just because it was the first movie in a while that reminded me of the 70's slasher kind of movie.

Yeah I can dig that. It just didn't strike with me. Though I will confess I probably only watched it for Eliza Dushku.

Originally Posted by Matthew Williams

A couple that haven't been mentioned here are Madhouse and Whisper (both are pretty good for lesser known films

We've reviewed MADHOUSE, but I've never seen it.
WHISPER I must confess I've never even heard of. I thought it was a John Travolta film until I saw it on IMDB.