Horror Movies

A fractured gang of kidnappers are stalked by a mysterious creature while hiding out in an abandoned school as dissent grows amongst their ranks. It was the perfect crime -- abduct the daughter of a wealthy socialite, and simply lie low until the ransom is delivered. But as the criminals hole up in a derelict school and guilt sets in, a creature that emerges on the first day each spring to seek a sacrifice stalks the hallways in search of an offering. A.J. Bowen and Anessa Ramsey star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

You better watch out, because Saint Nick is coming town and he has some scores to settle in this horror story from the Netherlands. It's December, and Dutch youngsters are awaiting the arrival of Sinterklaas, aka St. Nicholas, who brings gifts to children who have been good all year. Meanwhile, Sophie (Escha Tanihatu) is a teenage girl who uses a letter from Sinterklaas as a way to beak the news to her unfaithful boyfriend Frank (Egbert-Jan Weeber) that they're over, and classmate Lisa (Caro Lenssen) makes some pocket money babysitting as the adults party and Frank impersonates one of Sinterklaas's helpers at a celebration for children. However, Goert (Bert Luppes), a local police officer, knows something the kids don't -- Sinterklaas is real and has a nasty disposition, rising each year to wreck bloody revenge for an act of terrible violence centuries before. Sint (aka Saint) received its North American premiere at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A man goes through a terrifying metamorphosis while recovering from injuries inflicted by a flesh-eating clown. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Vacationing college students fight a shiver of sharks after traveling to an island getaway and being surrounded by the ferocious man-eaters in this sun-soaked shocker from director David R. Ellis (Final Destination 2, Snakes on a Plane). The moment Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends arrive at her parent's Louisiana lake house, the party is in full gear. Everyone is swimming in the salt-water lake and having a blast until Malik (Sinqua Walls) loses his arm in what initially appears to be a tragic wake-boarding mishap. Determined to get him to the nearest hospital as quickly as possible, Malik's friends fire up the speedboat and hit the water full throttle. It isn't until they're far from shore that the reality of the situation finally dawns on them -- the lake is teeming with hungry sharks, and a tiny speedboat isn't about to stop them from getting their next meal. Suddenly, a severed arm is the least of their worries. As the feeding frenzy begins, Sara and her pals realize that their only hope for survival is to swim for their lives and reach the beach without becoming fish food. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

When a young woman (Adelaide Clemens) loses her father (Sean Bean) to mysterious supernatural forces, she must descend into the bowels of hell to find him and discover her true identity in this follow-up to the 2006 adaptation of Konami's Silent Hill video-game franchise. Solomon Kane's Michael J. Bassett directed from his own script. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

A struggling true-crime novelist stumbles into a grim supernatural mystery that threatens the lives of his entire family in this nightmarish horror yarn from director Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Day the Earth Stood Still). Ellison (Ethan Hawke) is seeking inspiration for his latest book when he moves his wife and children into a home where an entire family perished under gruesome circumstances. Terror soon hits closer to home, however, when the writer discovers a box of old family movies in the attic of his new house, and watches in horror as images of various families being murdered flicker before his eyes. Now the deeper Ellison investigates the disturbing case, the more he begins to fear he has stirred an ancient evil that won't rest until it has claimed his entire family. Vincent D'Onofrio and James Ransone co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A young woman tests the urban legend about a murderous maniac who can be conjured from the Internet, and begins to fear that her sanity is slipping away in this slasher thriller starring Magic Mike's Caitlin Gerard. Somewhere in the deepest recesses of the World Wide Web, a killer waits to strike. Ashley (Gerard) thought Smiley was nothing more than an online myth. But Smiley is real, and he won't rest until she's proven wrong in a pool of her own blood. Roger Bart, Keith David, and Liza Weil co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

SNOW (Shanley Caswell) was stunned when her FATHER (Eric Roberts) remarried. Still hurt and reeling, Snow began a cycle of bad behavior. Resentful of the tension Snow has caused in the house, her stepmother LINDA (Maureen McCormick), convinces her father to send Snow away to a discipline camp. Snow learns that the camp has a history. There had been a murder there years prior and the prime suspect, one of the campers, disappeared into the woods never to be found again. When Snow starts to suspect that someone is watching from a distance& stalking them& she wonders if the killer may have returned. Soon, campers start dying off. Snow's stepmother uses the camp's troubled history as an excuse to get Snow out of the picture. She's been killing the campers one by one and now Snow is next!

Giant spiders from outer space attack New York City, sending a health inspector and a subway worker on a frantic race to save their daughter and prevent the queen from hatching an army of colossal arachnids that could take over the entire world. Patrick Muldoon and Sydney Sweeney star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

An explosion at a small-town chemical factory transforms the unsuspecting locals into ravenous flesh-eaters, leaving a small number of survivors with little choice but to try and fight their way out of the quarantined area without being consumed by the growing zombie horde. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Four unsuspecting Londoners find themselves stranded at a storage facility and stalked by an otherworldly predator in this independent sci-fi horror opus from director Johannes Roberts (F, Forest of the Damned). When an Air Force cargo plane carrying a mysterious cache crashes in the heart of the London, the entire city is placed in quarantine. Meanwhile, heartbroken Charlie (Noel Clarke) and his best mate Mark (Colin O'Donoghue) are en route to the local storage facility to gather up some personal items following a bitter break up between Charlie and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes). Upon arriving, Charlie and Mark are greeted by an electrician who's working to open the front gate following a power outage. Eventually they manage to get in, only to find Shelley sorting through the unit with help from Nikki (Laura Haddock) and Chris (Jamie Thomas King). Later, as the lights in the storage facility flicker on and off, the foursome realize they are trapped inside with a killer creature of unknown origin. With the help of eccentric divorcee David (Ned Dennehy), who has recently moved into his unit to escape the wrath of his crazy ex-wife, the terrified group realizes that their only hope for survival is to find a means of escaping a building designed specifically to keep its treasured contents completely secure. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A man eager to make amends with his ex-girlfriend stumbles upon a bizarre torture cult in this thriller from Argentinean director Adrian Garcia Bogliano]. After going through a bad breakup, a twenty-something man feels bad about how things ended, and wants to talk with his ex. However, finding her turns out to be difficult and she doesn't answer his messages, so he asks one of his best female friends to lend a hand. Using the IP address from her computer, the friends discover the woman was corresponding with a handsome man and appears to have arranged to meet him at a large house on the outskirts of town. However, a visit to the house makes it clear things were not as they seem from the outside; the home belongs to a pair of aging political radicals who have a large cache of old, decaying dynamite and are putting it to use on a number of unsuspecting young women. Sudor frío (aka Cold Sweat) received its American premiere at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Tyler (Devin Clark) and his family move into a new house, but he has a bad feeling about the home's dark past. It soon becomes clear that there are evil forces residing there and they plan to drag the unwitting residents into hell. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi