30 Scarier Movie Moments Trailers
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30. The Grudge The films title refers to a curse that befalls someone who dies in the grip of a powerful rage. Those who encounter this murderous supernatural curse die and a new one is born passed like a virus from victim to victim. A remake of the japanese horror thriller ju-on. |
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29. Cape Fear Robert De Niro plays a serial rapist released from prison after 14 years. Angry because his appalled attorney made it easy for him to be convicted, this monster is out to hurt Nolte’s character through his wife and daughter. The themes of interlocking guilt and anger between these people suggests a smart film in the making. But the final act, set on a boat with De Niro’s vengeful pervert attacking Nolte and the two women, takes a more unfortunate direction. |
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28. Cabin Fever Five sexy young people go to an isolated cabin where they contract a nasty bacteria that eats their flesh; this, combined with a bad-tempered dog and a party-loving police deputy leads everyone into confusion and bloody chaos. |
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27. Slither The story’s a deliberate monster-mash, borrowing from a dozen other movies with its plot about an invasion of slithery slug-like parasites from outer space, arriving in the redneck town of Wheelsy, South Carolina, where they turn most of the local yokels into flesh-eating zombies. The first victim turns into a squid-like, multi-tentacled host monster and his terrified wife teams up with Wheelsy’s sheriff and mayor to eradicate the alien threat before Wheelsy turns into Slugville. |
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26. Play Misty for Me Dave Garver, a popular radio disc jockey who repeatedly receives on-air phone requests from a sexy female fan to “Play Misty For Me.” When the woman, Evelyn Draper, orchestrates a rendezvous with Dave at his favorite nightspot, the two begin a torrid affair. But when Dave decides to end the relationship, Evelyn’s obsession turns to violence. Soon everything and everyone in Dave’s life becomes a target for Evelyn’s increasingly deadly campaign of terror. |
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25. Red Eye Lisa is trapped on a red-eye flight with creepy villain Jackson Rippner who’s playing middle-man in the plot to assassinate a Homeland Security official. He’s got her father pinned down by a would-be killer, using that advantage to coerce Lisa into phoning the luxury resort where she works and arranging to move the target into a pre-set position. |
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24. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Get ready for edge-of-your-seat excitement with the hit that rocked the nation! In this entertaining thriller, Claire Bartel has the perfect life and family — and exactly what Petyon Flanders desires desperately. But once Peyton deceptively becomes the Bartels’ live-in housekeeper, how far will she really go when the life she wants belongs to someone else? |
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23. Manhunter Witness the birth of evil. This eerie, very intense thriller from writer-director Michael Mann first introduced the world to the cunning, unforgettable serial killer named Hannibal. Joan Allen and Stephen Lang co-star in this dark locomotive ofa film that promises to keep viewers riveted! Former FBI profiler Will Graham reluctantly returns to his old job to track a horrific serial killer known as the ‘tooth Fairy. But in order to get into the mind of this maniac, Graham must face another: Hannibal, the imprisoned psychiatrist whose own insanity almost cost Graham his life and whose insights into the Tooth Fairy could prove as dangerous as the killer himself. |
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22. American Psycho Patrick Bateman is a Wall Street yuppie obsessed with success, status and style, with a stunning fiancé. He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the film offers a sharp satire to the dark side of yuppie culture in the ‘80s, while setting forth a vision that is both terrifying and chilling. |
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21. Dead Alive (Braindead) he movie’s central character is a poor schmuck named Lionel who’s practically enslaved to his domineering mother. But when ol’ Mum gets bitten by a rare and poisonous rat monkey from Skull Island and is turned into a flesh-eating zombie, Lionel has the unfortunate task of keeping Mama happy while fending off all the other zombies that result from her voracious feeding frenzies. |
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20. 2001: A Space Odyssey From the dawn-of-man discovery of crude but deadly tools in the film’s opening sequence to the journey of the spaceship Discovery and metaphysical birth of the “star child” at film’s end, Kubrick’s vision is meticulous and precise. In keeping with the director’s underlying theme of dehumanization by technology, the notorious, seemingly omniscient computer HAL 9000 has more warmth and personality than the human astronauts it supposedly is serving. |
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19. Fear Reese Witherspoon plays Nicole Walker, the unwitting teenager who gets the hots for David McCall. David only seems like a nice guy until he gets upset by the girl’s overly protective father. That’s when hell breaks loose and the love-struck Romeo turns into a deadly threat who just won’t go away. |
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18. Army of Darkness Bruce Campbell, returns as Ash (hero of the first two Evil Dead flicks), a hardware-store clerk who is magically transported–along with his beat-up Oldsmobile and a chainsaw attachment for his severed left forearm–to the brutal battlefields of the 14th century. He quickly assumes power, and unites his band of medieval knights against the dreaded Army of the Dead. |
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17. Christine An eerie, twisted love story of a teenager and his obsessively jealous 1958 Plymouth Fury —- as only Stephen King can tell it! Christine is a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury who seduces 17-year-old Arnie Cunningham. She demands his complete and unquestioned devotion and when outsiders seek to interfere, they become the victims of Christine’s horrifying wrath. |
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16. Saw II The set-up this time is even more preposterous than before, as a rough-and-tumble cop named Eric watches, on video monitors, his son trapped in a house filled with nerve gas and a handful of other victims, all of whom are mysteriously connected. Eric has captured Jigsaw, but the implacable killer refuses to reveal where the cop’s son is being held… unless Eric will play by Jigsaw’s rules. |
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15. The Exorcism of Emily Rose A thrilling horror film about a lawyer who takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl. |
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14. Scanners When a rogue Scanner of unparalleled power wages a bloody war against the normals, young empath Cameron Vale is recruited to trackhim down. But Vale is inexperiencedand a battle with another Scanner could mean a grisly death…or worse. Can Vale vanquish his insanely violent, power-mad adversary? |
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13. Dawn of the Dead Romero’s indictment of mega-mall commercialism is lost, so Snyder and screenwriter James Gunn compensate with the same setting–in this case, a Milwaukee shopping mall under siege by cannibalistic zombies in the wake of a devastating viral outbreak–a well-chosen cast, some outrageously morbid humor, and a no-frills plot that keeps tension high and blood splattering by the bucketful. Horror buffs will catch plenty of tributes to Romero’s film, and shocking images are abundant enough to qualify this Dawn as an excellent zombie-flick. |
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12. Wolf Creek When a hip twenty-something guy, Ben Mitchell, and two hippie-ish girls, Cassandra and Kristy, take a road trip and their car breaks down, they have no choice but to accept help from Mick, an eccentric rural Aussie, who, like a spider, tows them into his nightmarish lair. Mick hunts kangaroos and hates tourists, translating his fetish for knives, shotguns, and other torture devices into a need to kill humans as if they’re vermin infesting his majestic landscape. Ample blood and gore leave the viewer feeling nearly as sick as the girls who are forced to watch each other die. |
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11. The Stepford Wives Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones. The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces–not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. |
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10. Children of the Corn While driving through Nebraska en route to a new job, medico Burt and his wife Vicky nearly run over a mutilated boy who staggers from the cornfields. Seeking help, they enter the town of Gatlin, whose under-20 residents have butchered their parents per the decree of junior-grade holy roller Isaac, who preaches the word of a being called “He Who Walks Behind the Rows.” |
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9. Open Water Chris Kentis’s expertly made thriller is about a yuppie couple stranded in the Caribbean after they are mistakenly abandoned on a scuba-diving excursion. The handheld camerawork and no-budget ocean settings combine for an unflinchingly realistic ordeal. Kentis drifts his two more-than-game actors farther and farther out to sea, into shark-infested waters, and the suspenseful, anything-can-happen moments are unrelenting. |
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8. Land of the Dead Zombies (also known as “stenches” for their rotting odor) are the dominant population, and they’ve begun to show signs of undead intelligence and gathering power. The wealthiest survivors live comfortably in a luxury high-rise within a barricaded safe zone, ignoring the horrors of the outside world while armed scavengers stage raids in the zombie-zone to gather much-needed food and supplies. |
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7. The Devil’s Rejects The Devil’s Rejects reunites the homicidal members of the Firefly family, tracing their bloody flight from an outlaw sheriff hell-bent on revenge… Ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men, the Firefly family wakes up one morning with guns blazing - yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding out in a backwater motel, the wanted siblings wait to rendezvous with their errant father, Captain Spaulding, killing whoever happens to stand in their way. But as the body count mounts higher, Sheriff Wydell decides to take the law into his own hands, paving the way for one of the most depraved and terrifying showdowns in cinematic history. |
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6. Vertigo James Stewart plays a retired police detective who is hired by an old friend to follow his wife whom he suspects of being possessed by the spirit of a dead madwoman. The detective and the disturbed woman fall in love and…well, to give away any more of the story would be criminal. |
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5. Oldboy Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is abducted and locked up in a strange, private prison. No one will tell him why hes there and who his jailer is and his fury builds to a single-minded focus of revenge. 15 years later, he is unexpectedly freed, given a new suit, a cell-phone and 5 days to discover the mysterious enemy who had him imprisoned. Seeking vengeance on all those involved, he soon finds that his enemys tortures are just beginning. |
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4. Videodrome James Woods stars as the operator of a low-budget cable-TV station who accidentally intercepts a mysterious cable transmission that features the apparent torture and death of women in its programming. He traces the show to its source and discovers a mysterious plot to broadcast a subliminally influential signal into the homes of millions, masterminded by a quasi-religious character named Brian O’Blivion and his overly reverent daughter. Meanwhile Woods is falling under the spell, becoming a victim of video, and losing his grip–both physically and psychologically–on the distinction between reality and television. |
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3. Saw Adam wakes up in a dank room across from Dr. Lawrence Gordon and the body of a guy who has blown his own brains out. Not a happy place, obviously, and it gets worse when both men realize that they’ve been chained and pitted against one another by an unseen but apparently omniscient maniac who’s screwing with their psyches as payment for past sins. |
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2. A Clockwork Orange Malcolm McDowell delivers a clever, tongue-in-cheek performance as Alex, the leader of a quartet of droogs, a vicious group of young hoodlums who spend their nights stealing cars, fighting rival gangs, breaking into people’s homes, and raping women. We watch Alex transform from a free-roaming miscreant into a convict used in a government experiment that attempts to reform criminals through an unorthodox new medical treatment. The catch, of course, is that this therapy may be nothing better than a quick cure-all for a society plagued by rampant crime. |
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1. Hostel Hostel follows two randy Americans and an even randier Icelander as they trek to Slovakia, where they’re told beautiful girls will have sex with anyone with an American accent. Unfortunately, the girls will also sell young Americans to a company that offers victims to anyone who will pay to torture and murder. |
