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/)
4
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2009)
Tagline: "Never Sleep Again"
MOVIE DETAILS
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Director: Samuel Bayer
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Worldwide Box Office: $115,407,296
Starring:
1. Jackie Earle Haley (as Freddy Krueger)
2. Kyle Gallner (as Quentin Smith)
3. Rooney Mara (as Nancy Holbrook)
4. Katie Cassidy (as Kris Foules)
SUMMARY:
Death stalks the dreams of several young adults to claim its revenge on the killing of Freddy Krueger. Chased and chastised by this finger-bladed demon, it is the awakening of old memories and the denials of a past of retribution that spurns this hellish vision of a dreamlike state and turns death into a nightmare reality.
Source: The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179056/)
5
SAW 4
Tagline: "You Think It Is Over... But The Games Have Just Begun"
MOVIE DETAILS
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Worldwide Box Office: $134,528,909
Starring:
1. Tobin Bell (as Jigsaw/John Kramer)
2. Costas Mandylor (as Detective Hoffman)
3. Scott Patterson (as Agent Strahm)
4. Betsy Russell (as Jill Tuck)
SUMMARY:
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.
Source: The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0890870/)
6
THE GRUDGE (2004)
Tagline: "It Never Forgives. It Never Forgets."
MOVIE DETAILS
Release Date: October 22, 2004
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Worldwide Box Office: $187,281,115
Starring:
1. Sarah Michelle Gellar (as Karen)
2. Jason Behr (as Doug)
3. William Mapother (as Matthew)
4. Clea DuVall (as Jennifer)
SUMMARY:
Karen Davis is an American Nurse moves to Tokyo and encounter a supernatural spirit who is vengeful and often possesses its victims. A series of horrifying and mysterious deaths start to occur, with the spirit passing its curse onto each victim. Karen must now find a way to break this spell, before she becomes its next victim.
Source: The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391198/)
7
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Tagline: "What You Know About Fear... Doesn't Even Come Close."
MOVIE DETAILS
Release Date: October 17, 2003
Director: Marcus Nispel
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Worldwide Box Office: $107,071,655
Starring:
1. Andrew Bryniarski (as Thomas Hewitt/Leatherface)
2. Jessica Biel (as Erin)
3. Jonathan Tucker (as Morgan)
4. Erika Leerhsen (as Pepper)
SUMMARY:
Driving through the backwoods of Texas, five youths pick up a traumatized hitchhiker, who shoots herself in their van. Shaken by the suicide, the group seeks help from the locals, but their situation becomes even more surreal when they known on the door of a remote homestead. It's quickly apparent the residents are a family of inbred psychopaths, and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives. In hot pursuit is a disfigured, chainsaw-wielding cannibal known as Leatherface.
Source: The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324216/)
8
PSYCHO
Tagline: "The Classic Story of a Boy and His Mother"
MOVIE DETAILS
Release Date: December 4, 1998
Director: Gus Van Sant
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Worldwide Box Office: $37,141,130
Starring:
1. Vince Vaughn (as Norman Bates)
2. Anne Heche (as Marion Crane)
3. Julianne Moore (as Lila Crane)
4. Viggo Mortensen (as Samuel 'Sam' Loomis)
SUMMARY:
Marion Crane steals a lot of cash from a man whom her boss is in business with. On the way to see her boyfriend, she stops off by an old motel, run by the odd Norman Bates. She is murdered in the shower. Her sister, boyfriend, and a private investigator try to find out where she is, while we learn more about Norman Bates.
Source: The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155975/)
9
HALLOWEEN
Tagline: "The Face Behind The Mask"
MOVIE DETAILS
Release Date: August 31, 2007
Director: Rob Zombie
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Worldwide Box Office: $80,253,908
Starring:
1. Tyler Mane (as Michael Myers)
2. Malcolm McDowell (as Dr. Samuel Loomis)
3. Scout Taylor-Compton (as Laurie Strode)
4. Sheri Moon Zombie (as Deborah Myers)
SUMMARY:
The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr. Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?
Source: The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373883/)
10
CHILD'S PLAY
Tagline: "Andy Barclay has a new playmate who's in no mood to play."
MOVIE DETAILS
Release Date: November 9, 1988
Director: Tom Holland
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Worldwide Box Office: $44,196,684
Starring:
1. Brad Dourif (as Charles Lee Ray/Chucky)
2. Catherine Hicks (as Karen Barclay)
3. Alex Vincent (as Andy Barclay)
4. Chris Sarandon (as Mike Norris)
SUMMARY:
When Charles Lee Ray needs to get quick escape from cop, Mike Norris, he takes his soul and buries it into playful, seemingly good guy doll Chucky. Little does he know a little boy by the name of Andy Barclay will be the new owner of him soon-to-come. Charles confides in Andy while he commits numerous murders. Once the adults catch up to Andy's story as truth, it's too late.
Source: The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094862//)
END OF JR'S TOP 10 ALL-TIME FAVORITE HORROR AND THRILLER MOVIES
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October 30 2010 (11PM)
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