The title kinda says it all, really.
This will be a list of 25 horror movies that have been released since the year 2000. The list is made up of independent, foreign, or studio films that received, at best, a limited theatrical release. I'll be posting the list 5 movies at a time, for the next 5 days (starting later today). And because I don't believe in traditional timing, I'll be starting this list on Halloween and moving away, rather than leading up to it. Suck it, conventional thinking!
But before I get started with the list, a couple Honorable Mentions.
Dog Soldiers (2002)
A group of Scottish soldiers find themselves trapped in a remote house, under siege by a pack of werewolves. A very enjoyable hybrid of Predator and Night of the Living Dead, but with werewolves in the place of the alien/zombies. This filmed launched the career of director Neil Marshall (new horror classic The Descent and the batshit crazy Doomsday), but has a bit too large of a cult following for me to include it in my list proper. If you have yet to see this movie, you should pop yourself a big bowl of popcorn and check it out.
May (2002)
Almost made the list, but leans a little bit too far towards indie drama to really be called a "horror" movie. Features an incredible lead performance by indie actress Angela Bettis as the titular character, a social wallflower with a lazy eye and strange interests. She develops a crush on pretentious film student Jeremy Sisto (Clueless, TV's Law & Order), who initially dates her but grows uncomfortable with some of her weird questions and tries to move to greener pastures. She also befriends a ditzy bisexual sorority girl (a never-better Anna Faris), who may or may not have ulterior motives. The movie only really becomes "horror" in its third act, and even then is fairly muted. But as a character study of a disturbed young woman, it is a smashing success.
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