Subscribe RSS
Comment RSSHorror Movies 2010 – Guide
7.12.09 # Movie Releases # 61 Comments
It’s time to look at the potentially great horror movies of 2010. The line-up features the usual mix of sequels (Resident Evil: Afterlife), remakes (A Nightmare On Elm Street), sequels to remakes (Friday The 13th: Part 2), and original fare (Daybreakers). Japanese horror and torture porn have gone. Big name old school slashers are back in business, as are cheesy 80’s remakes, and 3-D. But overall the horror movie genre is still in flux, waiting for the next big trend.
So here’s Movie-Moron’s definitive guide to the best new horror movies, 2010:
Case 39
Release Date:
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Ian McShane, Jodelle Ferland
Director: Christian Alvart
A social worker (Zellweger) takes in a troubled 10 year old after her parents try to kill her, only to discover the girl may not be an innocent as she seems. The movie has been sitting on the shelf for two years. Expect it to please no one.
Daybreakers
Release Date: 8 January 2010
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill
Directors: Peter and Michael Spierig
In 2017 a plague transforms most of the world into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the vampires farm the remaining humans and look for a new system to continue their existence. Meanwhile a secret team of vampires, including Ethan Hawke, uncovers a way to rescue the human race. While this is from the directors of the not-particularly-impressive Undead, Daybreakers does star three of the most underrated actors around and early reviews are very good.
Legion
Release Date: 22 January 2010
Starring: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson
Director: Scott Stewart
And lo the battle between the angels and mankind will be decided at a truck stop diner. So said the Bible, somewhere. In the midst of a terrifying biblical apocalypse, a group of strangers unwittingly become humanity’s last line of defence when they discover the diner’s young waitress is pregnant with the messiah. Paul Bettany plays an angel who’s come down to give them an assist. Sounds like the Christian version of The Terminator, with Bettany in the Kyle Reese role. Dennis Quaid’s in there somewhere too with his magical touch of mediocrity.
Psych: 9
Release Date:
Starring: Sara Foster, Cary Elwes, Michael Biehn, Gabriel Mann
Director: Andrew Shortell
Whodunit horror-thriller about an unstable woman working alone in a recently closed hospital, while the ‘NightHawk’ serial killer embarks on a murder spree in the surrounding area. Cary Elwes plays a sympathetic doctor, Michael Biehn the investigator on the case. Elwes is always good value and why Biehn never became a Hollywood star is one of the biggest mysteries of the 20th century.
The Wolfman
Release Date: 12 February 2010
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Art Malik, Hugo Weaving
Director: Joe Johnston
Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker
The Wolfman got rid of its original director at the last minute (One Hour Photo’s excellent Mark Romanek) and replaced him with the bland Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III). The fact that the release date has been pushed back so many times, and that it recently hired a new editor, is not a good sign at all. But it has a strong cast, a screenwriter capable of greatness, and make-up effects by the maestro Rick Baker, so hopefully it will surprise us. And it’s set in the 1880s, which is a brave choice.
The Crazies
Release Date: 26 February 2010
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell
Director: Breck Eisner
In this remake of George Romero’s 1973 chiller, a plane crash spills a biological weapon into the water supply of a small Kansas town, causing the inhabitants to turn murderously insane. Imagine a small town version of 28 Days Later. Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell are capable actors, but can the director of Sahara do horror?
Posted by 
Splice and Ravenous were the two movies I was REALLY looking forward to in 2009, and they got pushed!
Damn false hope!
I’m upset they’ve changed the title of Burning Bright to Ravenous. Don’t they know that name is already taken?
Splice and Ravenous are ones Im really looking forward to. Also Scream 4, and a Nightmare On Elm Street. They might not be award winners, but I’m pretty sure they’ll be good. I always thought that the original Nightmare On Elm Street was a bit lacking if I’m honest, its a great idea, but when I seen it as a kid I wasn’t scared, I remember thinking it looked like some sort of bad puppet show in the dream scenes. As for Freddie looking too much like a real burn victim…well, I’m pretty sure that that was the idea xD
Oh I’m sure that was the idea. I’m saying there will probably be people out there, once it hits the mainstream press, who will complain it’s portraying burns victims as monstrous, because of how realistic it is.
I’m pretty sure Ravenous will end up being fairly terrible (it’s hard to make a tiger in a house scary – it’ll just look like an overgrown cat), but it should be a great one for watching with friends and a six pack of beer. Snakes On A Plane-ish.
Scream 4, Ravenous and George A Romero.
If we all think hard enough, we can make Paul WS Anderson’s head explode and stop production of Resi…
I don’t hate everything Paul WS Anderson does, but I’m amazed the series continued after Resident Evil: Apocalypse – have you seen that movie?!?
By the way, my most anticipated horror movies 2010 are:
1. Scream 4
2. Predators
3. A Nightmare On Elm Street
Predators could rock. All they need to do is do ‘Aliens’ but with Predators. And no Danny Glover punching one in the face.
I have suffered all the Resi films and the best one is ‘Degeneration’, which is absolutely brilliant.
Woh woh woh, I saw Degeneration this week, it’s certainly not absolutely brilliant. The second half makes no sense. I enjoyed it as a fan of the games, and it looks great in high def, but the script and the plotting left much to be desired.
…Just like the games! My point stands. Basically, it’s probably the best game-to-film adaptation in existence at the moment.
I was looking foreword to wolf-man, but I’ve seen the trailers.
Splice looks interesting.
Inexplicably I loved the Friday the thirteenth remake. It was the dumbest, crudest, thing. I hope the sequel isn’t all pseudo-suspenseful and boring. I demand more boobs, more death, more power ballads, worse jokes, and even more slip-shod illogical editing.
Nightmare on Elm Street will also suck in that Micheal Bay way, but will lack the 13ths peculiar charm.
Is shutter Island a horror film?
Piranha in 3D is a must. My Bloody Valentine 3D was a blast on a big screen. Piranha has killer fish, man! Killer fish eating people in 3D! This is why I go and see schlock. Really, who wants to see some smurf eco computer geek drama in any number of dimensions when you can watch Killer fish flying out of the screen
Daybreakers is the one I’m looking forward to the most. Finally, an original take on Vampires
am waiting for the wolfman…i hope it will be as am expecting
Great list.
My most anticipated are:
1. After Life
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
3. Ravenous
Personally i’m not a big fan of Rodrigeuz films so I’m dreading the influence he’s going to have on Predators.
Tucker and Dale V Evil looks like an amusing take on the backwoods rural massacre school of horror.
The list I’ve waited is the Splice..