After one year in JR Late Night Blogs,
JR Reblogs his All Time Favorite Horror and Thriller Movies
JR's TOP 10:
ALL-TIME FAVORITE HORROR AND THRILLER MOVIES
Summary of the Top 10:
Table of Contents:
1 - Saw 2
2 - Friday The 13th (2009)
3 - The Final Destination
4 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (2009)
5 - Saw 4
6 - The Grudge (2004)
7 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
8 - Psycho
9 - Halloween
10 - Child's Play
1
SAW 2
Tagline: "The Game Continues"
MOVIE DETAILS
Release Date: October 28, 2005
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Worldwide Box Office: $152,925,093
Starring:
1. Tobin Bell (as Jigsaw/John Kramer)
2. Shawnee Smith (as Amanda)
3. Donnie Wahlberg (as Eric Matthews)
4. Erik Knudsen (as Daniel Matthews)
SUMMARY:
Jigsaw returns. The brilliant mastermind behind the cruel identity is back for another round of his terrifically live or die games. When a new murder victim is found with all the signs of Jigsaws hand, Dectective Eric Matthews begins to investigate the full story and apprehends Jigsaw with a minimum lack of effort. Only for Jigsaw, getting caught is only one of the many parts of his plan. Eight more of his victims are already fighting for their lives its time for Eric Matthews to join, as the latest pawn on his vicious chalkboard.
Source: The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432348/)
2
FRIDAY THE 13TH (2009)
Tagline: "Jason Lives. Many Will Die"
MOVIE DETAILS
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Director: Marcus Nispel
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Worldwide Box Office: $91,379,051
Starring:
1. Derek Mears (as Jason Voorhees)
2. Jared Padalecki (as Clay Miller)
3. Amanda Righetti (as Whitney Miller)
4. Danielle Panabaker (as Jenna)
SUMMARY:
A group of young adults set up tent near the abandoned summer camp where a series of gruesome murders are said to have taken place back in 1980. The perpetrator was a grieving mother, driven insane by the drowning of her child, Jason, whom she believed was neglected by the camp counselors. As legend has it, the last survivor of the attacks beheaded the woman. But then Jason came back, and now he is a vengeful and inexorable killer, wielding crossbows, swords, axes and other sharp instruments. The legend proves horrible true, as these campers quickly discover. Six months later, the brother of one of those campers distributes posters of his missing sister. The police believe she took off with her boyfriend; but he knows better. The brother crosses paths with an uptight young rich guy who is having his girlfriend and friends over at his parents' cabin. The brother ends up at the cabin himself just before his sister's attacker sets upon them all.
Source: The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758746/)
3
THE FINAL DESTINATION
Tagline: "On August 28th, Death enters a new dimension: 3D"
MOVIE DETAILS
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Director: David R. Ellis
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Worldwide Box Office: $181,500,000
Starring:
1. Bobby Campo (as Nick O' Bannon)
2. Shantel VanSanten (as Lori Milligan)
3. Nick Zano (as Hunt Wynorski)
4. Haley Webb (as Janet Cunningham)
SUMMARY:
In a car race in McKinley Speedway, the teenager Nick has a premonition of a deadly car crash with many casualties in the audience and convinces his girlfriend Lori and his friend Hunt and Janet to leave the place. They are followed by the security guard; a racist guy; a mother with her children and a mechanic, that are saved from death. When the racist guy and the mother die in mysterious and creepy incidents, Nick and Lori research and find many similar cases in Internet. They try to lure The Ripper to break the chain of deadly events and survive, but destiny does not help them.
Source: The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1144884/)