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Some of the best horror movies in 2009 in no particular order. Some are listed with another year but were released in 2009. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 50 titles. 1. 13B: Fear Has a New Address (2009) Not Rated | 146 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller. 7.3. Rate.
- The Exorcist
- Hereditary
- The Conjuring
- The Shining
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- The Ring
- Halloween
- Sinister
- Insidious
- It
You may not agree that The Exorcistis the scariest movie ever, but it probably also isn’t much of a surprise to see it at the top of our list — with a whopping 19% of all the votes cast. William Friedkin’s adaptation of the eponymous novel about a demon-possessed child and the attempts to banish said demon became the highest-grossing R-rated horror...
Writer-director Ari Aster made a huge splash with his feature directorial debut, a dark family drama about the nature of grief couched within a supernatural horror film. Toni Collette earned a spot in the pantheon of great Oscar snubs with her slowly-ratcheted-up-to-11 performance as bedeviled mother Annie, but the movie’s biggest shock came courte...
James Wan has staked out a place among the modern masters of horror, directing films like Saw, Dead Silence, Insidious, and this inspired-by-true-events chiller based on the experiences of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. The Warrens, best known for their work on the strange case that inspired the Amityville Horror movies ...
Literally dozens of Stephen King’s novels and stories have been adapted for the big screen, and several of those films are considered classics today, like Carrie, Misery, and Pet Sematary (and that doesn’t even account for non-horror stuff like The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me). But the mother of them all is easily Stanley Kubrick’s adaptat...
While the top four movies on this list collectively garnered 42% of the total votes counted, they were followed by six films that all earned around 3% of the vote each. In other words, these last six films were separated by no more than 60 votes. The first of them is this low-budget slasher directed and co-written by Tobe Hooper, very loosely inspi...
It’s always a tricky proposition to take something that works well for one culture and try to translate that formula successfully for another, but Gore Verbinski managed that with The Ring. A remake of Japanese director Hideo Nakata’s acclaimed thriller about a cursed videotape, Verbinski’s take kept the original film’s striking visual imagery — th...
Coming in at the seventh spot on our list is the film that introduced the world to all-time scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis and put John Carpenter on the map. Halloweenis frequently cited as one of the earliest examples of the slasher genre as we know it today, and while it may not feature the same kind of realistic gore we’ve come to expect of films...
For those who didn’t read the “scientific study” mentioned at the top, we’ve finally come to the film it crowned the scariest. Before he joined the MCU with 2016’s Doctor Strange, director Scott Derrickson had racked up a few horror films, a couple of which earned cult followings. One of them was this small-scale haunted house/possession story abou...
James Wan has already appeared higher on this list, but before he and Patrick Wilson made The Conjuring, they worked together on this supernatural thriller about a young boy who falls into a coma and begins to channel a malevolent spirit. The bare bones of the story weren’t the most groundbreaking, but frequent Wan collaborator Leigh Whannell infus...
The fear of clowns is a very real thing, even if it’s become so commonplace to announce it that it feels disingenuous. If you needed any further evidence, we direct you to the box office haul of 2017’s IT, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, which went on to beat The Exorcist’s 44-year record as the highest-grossing horror film ever. ...
Oct 30, 2009 · WINNER: Paranormal Activity. Influences. Stylistically and thematically, The Shining nods to both Carl Dreyer's Vampyr and Hansel And Gretel, two stories that have frightened for generations....
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- The Loved Ones (2009) Score: 8.2/10 IMDB: 6.6/10. Director: Sean Byrne. Stars: Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton, Richard Wilson, Victoria Thaine.
- Thirst (2009) Score: 7.68/10 IMDB: 7.1/10. Director: Chan-wook Park. Stars: Kang-ho Song, Hee-jin Choi, Dong-soo Seo, Hwa-ryong Lee, Mi-ran Ra.
- Zombieland (2009) Score: 7.63/10 IMDB: 7.6/10. Director: Ruben Fleischer. Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard.
- Cropsey (2009) Score: 7.57/10 IMDB: 6.3/10. Directors: Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman. Stars: Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio, Bill Ellis, Dorothy D''Eletto, Geraldo Rivera.
Zombieland (2009)89%. #52. Critics Consensus: Wickedly funny and featuring plenty of gore, Zombieland is proof that the zombie subgenre is far from dead. Synopsis: After a virus turns most...
Oct 20, 2021 · By 2009, online horror communities were buzzing about Paranormal Activity, calling it the scariest movie in decades. In October of that year, the film got its wide release. Shot in the found-footage style, the movie chronicled a couple's battle against a demonic haunting.
Aug 23, 2022 · 36. The Witch (2015) A24 Films. It's 1630 and there's something deeply sinister in the wintry woods of New England. Director Robert Eggers ' ye olde slice of Pilgrim horror (a genre that...
