Hello, WORLD!! This morning, reading the Chicago Red Eye, I saw one of my favorite journalist issue a challenge (See the nature of the challenge here: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/kyles-files/2010/10/kyles-files-scare-dare-2-in-3d.html). Here's my emailed response:
Hey, Kyra! Now you KNOW movies is my deparrtment and I love a great horror movie! Have you seen Mulholland Drive? While not really a horror movie, it certainly scares the hell out of me! Seriously it's pretty good. I know your time is limited so I'll make this a quick list of ten good ones from within the last 10 years:
1. Feast (2005): This movie is in the vein of Scream (makes plenty fun of the horror cliches, characters & the genre itself) but with actually monsters! Funny & scary.
2. Dead Silence (2007): While mainly just a so-so movie, the twist of this movie puts it over the top into a decent horror movie.
3. The Skeleton Key (2005): See my comments on the movie above? Copy and paste those here.
4. House of the Devil (2009): This movie is a throwback in every sense of the word! It has an 80's feel to it. The end is quiet but efficent.
5. The Mist (2007): Stephen King is my idol! He is the reason I write today. To bad his movies are never better than the books...until this one. The ending here is actually better than in the book!
6. Audition (1999) (JAPANESE): I'm cheating here; this is more than 10 years old. I still get chills everytime I think of "Ki Ki Ki Ki". No details here, just watch it. Speaking of cheating...
7. Don't Look Now (1973): I know right:1973? Trust me on this. When I was a kid it scared me for the normal reasons. Now that I really understand it, I scares me more. With Donald Sutherland.
8. Nine Dead (2010): Not really a horror movie; more like the first Saw. 9 strangers are chained in a room by a man who plans on killing them, unless they figure out how they are all connected.
9. Martyrs (2008)(FRENCH): For YEARS, we have looked to Japan for great horror movies. This French movie is about 2 tortured women. It's not how they're tortured, but why that scares!
10. Inside (2007)(FRENCH): A pregnant woman is stuck inside her house because a demented woman is trying to kill her. This movie has some of the most surprising scenes I've ever seen.
I hope I listed a few movies you haven't seen yet and if so, I hope you enjoy them. That was a great question though because it had me thinking hard of the best horror movies I've seen in recent years. Thanks Kyra!
(BTW: I turned your question and my response into one of my blog posts. I hope you don't mind.)
Smokkee Singleton
