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20.11.11 # Horror Movies # 80 CommentsThe Raven
Starring: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson
Director: James McTeigue
Released: 9 March 2012
A fictionalised account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, in which the poet (Cusack) teams up with a detective (Evans – Immortals) to pursue a serial killer who’s kidnapped Poe’s fiancé and gone on a killing spree which mimics the writer’s stories. This is from the director of ‘V For Vendetta’ and ‘Ninja Assassin’. The tone of the trailer sits halfway between Downey Jr.’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and Depp’s ‘From Hell’. The imagery too could be from either of those movies – a chance to create something visually unique riffing off Poe’s work has been missed. Looks like a fascinating man reduced to a bog-standard movie. [Critics: 22%] [Public: 6.4] – Mixed Reaction
Silent House
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross
Directors: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
Released: 9 March 2012
A remake of the 2010 Uruguayan movie of the same name, this sees a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of the Olsen twins) trapped inside her family’s lakeside retreat and slowly driven mad by something from the house’s past. The directors of ‘Open Water’ want to “make audiences feel as though the story is happening to them, that they are really experiencing the events leading to these brutal murders”. So, like the original, the movie’s filmed almost entirely in one long take. Which means a lot of in-your-face shaky hand-held camerawork. Which may or may not be a good thing. [Critics: 41%] [Public: 5.1] – Mediocre
Intruders
Starring: Clive Owen, Carice Van Houten, Daniel Brühl, Pilar López de Ayala
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Released: 30 March 2012
Sophisticated chiller in which reality and imagination mingle and overlap. Two children living separate lives in Spain and the UK are visited each night by a faceless intruder, a terrifying being who wants to take possession of them. Think ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ with a darker edge. Clive Owen plays the British girl’s father. From the director of ‘Intacto’ and ’28 Weeks Later’, this should be something worth seeing, but while early reviews say it is effectively atmospheric, they complain the script loses its way and soon becomes too generic. The location team actually wanted to film a scene of this in my dad’s back garden, but he said no because it would mean a lot of noise at night – shame. [Critics: 33%] [Public: 5.3] – Mediocre
The Cabin In The Woods
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Amy Acker
Director: Drew Goddard
Released: 13 April 2012
Written by Drew Goddard (‘Cloverfield’, ‘Lost’) and Joss Whedon (‘Buffy’) this is a tongue-in-cheek exercise that promises a new twist on the classic young-people-stranded-in-the-woods horror trope. All we know is a group of college kids/young professionals spend a weekend at a mysterious cabin in the woods, while Jenkins and Whitford will play white-collar co-workers with a mysterious connection to the cabin. The movie has sat on the shelf now for a couple of years, caught up in the financial mayhem at MGM. Chris Hemsworth looks about 5 years younger here than he does now. Getting comedy-horror right is extremely hard, but word is they nailed it. [Critics: 91%] [Public: 7.3] – See It
Dark Shadows
Starring: Johnny Depp, Chloe Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Tim Burton
Released: 11 May 2012
Based on the somewhat campy gothic soap opera from ABC in the late 60s, this follows noble Barnabas (Depp) and his run-ins with various monsters, witches, werewolves and ghosts. Barnabas is turned into a vampire in 1752 and buried alive by the witch whose affections he rejected. When he’s finally freed in 1972 he returns to his manor to find it’s occupied by his dysfunctional descendants and other residents, all of whom have dark secrets. The movie is familiar tonal territory for Burton and Depp. Perhaps too familiar. [Critics: 38%] [Public: 6.4] – Mixed Reaction
Piranha 3DD
Starring: Katrina Bowden, Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd, Danielle Panabaker, Gary Busey
Director: John Gulager
Released: 1 June 2012
A year after the attack on Lake Victoria by prehistoric piranhas, the creatures begin traveling through the town’s plumbing, gaining access to swimming pools and the newly-opened waterpark “Big Wet”. Alexandre Aja’s ‘Piranha’ made $65m at the worldwide box office, from a $24m budget. It also earned a surprising 75% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. So the producers have rushed out a sequel, real fast. It’s a whole new creative team this time which sees the director of the Feast trilogy joining forces with the writers of ‘Saw’s IV-VII. The producers held a public poll asking which celebrity we’d like to see eaten by fish – and so now David Hasselhoff is in the movie, in his ‘Baywatch’ trunks. With that and the title (‘double D’), this is a classy production all round. [Critics: 13%] [Public: 4.0] – Avoid
The Woman In Black is the one I most want to see. Looks awesome!
Burton/Depp *yawn*
Live footage movies can be done tastefully and entertaining. Even smart, but most tend to be sh*tty.
I have seen both Woman in Black and The Devil Inside. While I liked the Devil Inside, The Woman in Black was much more kind of an edge of your seat movie. I caught myself jumping, and i never jump…lol
Sinister – Scariest movie of 2012 (period).
I REALLY want to see Woman in Black- any reason really. And Dark Shadows- Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, and directed by Tim Burton. It’s gotta be good.
Yeah Woman In Black is one of the best horror movies of 2012, but Dark Shadows is the worst film I’ve ever seen.
I was really disappointed with Dark Shadow. I love Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter and Tim Burton. When they work together its magic, Dark Shadow didn’t have that.
Woman in Black was ok, basic ghost story. I wasn’t aware Abe was a vampire hunter, but I did like the movie.
It look me a while to realise there is more than one page LOL I see there are many horror movies in 2012 that have been made in Spain or at least with Spanish directors and or/actors. I’m very curious about this, they have a great horror film festival in Sitges (Barcelona), I wonder if this trend comes from there?
please provide me the updates of new horror movies. thanx
I’ve watched more films in the last 7 – 8 months since finding this site than I have in any previous year.
It’s great you’ve been pointed towards some movies you might not have seen otherwise. Well, if they were any good, because if they were rubbish we’ve wasted your time.
Ermm . . . some of the films have been interesting. It’s also the direction from the accompanying comments that helps too. Sends me rummaging through the dark and dusty aisles for something I’ve never heard about before.
The only 2012 horror movie that sounds interesting is The Woman in Black, I really enjoyed the play (it’s the longest running play in the UK history if I remember correctly). It’s great they got Jane Goldman to write the script! Radcliffe is suited for the role because this takes place in XIX century, so a lawyer in his twenties makes sense, specially because in the play you see the character when he is older remembering the story of this time when he was much younger. This makes the return of Hammer films, I’m very excited about this, if someone knows how to make horror films that’s them!
Anyone who hasn’t read Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter should totally seek it out. It is a VERY good book, and very innovative. I am really excited for the film adaptation.
What do you mean real history. Abe was a great vampire slayer. OK. the stuff about him being president is a bit far fetched, but at least he’s being shown some respect. I watched Nixon and it was so stupid. The so called film makers didn’t even mention the whole watergate, illuminati thing. Let alone the were-wolf problem in Washington at the time. But that’s youngsters for you. They don’t care about history unless it’s spiced up with outtakes from the Wire or something.
John Major defeated the creature from the black lagoon. He used his glasses to create a focal point with the sun and set it alight.
WHAT ABOUT SILENT HILL REVELATION??? they dismissed that movie and its going to be one of the best horrors of 2012 .. perhaps the decade. S I L E N T H I L L R E V E L A T I O N ! ! !
Yo awesome list! I want to see a lot of these flicks! THE INNKEEPERS, PIRANHA 3DD, THE WOMAN IN BLACK, PROMETHEUS, CABIN IN THE WOODS, THE COLLECTION, ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE KILLER and so many other ones! Some of my other most anticipated horror flicks are actually for next year – LORDS OF SALEM by Rob Zombie, AMERICAN MARY by the Soska Twins and YOU’RE NEXT directed by Adam Wingard. All of these flicks are going to be insane. AMERICAN MARY has a sweet cast, awesome story and special effects by the master Todd Masters. YOU’RE NEXT went crazy at TIFF, won best picture and went into a crazy distribution bidding war among some of the bigger companies with Lionsgate winning. LORDS OF SALEM is going to be epic.
Personally, I think the best horror movies of 2012 will be: Silent Hill Revelations 3D – I love the game franchise, and the fact that it’s loosely based on Silent Hill 3 gives it a lot of brownie points. The first was enjoyable for sure, though I coulda done without the tentacle r*pe scene
V/H/S – This one looks fun. Love the haunted house sequence I saw on the previews. Looking forward to it for sure.
REC 3 Genesis – I’m a sucker for foreign horror. ‘Nuff said.
I loved the movie “Gone” it was Amazing in my opinion
Innkeepers is well worth a look.
there realy isnt anything exciting or new about 2012′s horror movies, where do you go from good films such as Grave Encounters and Episode 50???? we need new ideas new creatures to give us nightmares…..in my opinion the only movie worth a look is the Woman in Black.
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