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Briefly: we’ve got new posters for several upcoming horror/suspense releases: Daniel Radcliffe’s The Woman in Black, the adaptation of the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter…
2011 wasn’t the best year for horror/suspense movies, but there were few downright awful wide releases (ahem, Season of the Witch). Here are my choices for the 11 best horror/suspense movies of 2011 that received wide theatrical releases. (See my Best Horror Movies of 2011: Limited Release/Direct-to-Video list for smaller films.)
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Except for a select few elite franchises, most horror movie sequels end up going the direct-to-video route by the time the third entry rolls around. Now, after a pair of wide theatrical releases, it’s Hostel‘s turn. And for better or worse (mostly worse), it’s going to Vegas, baby! Read about it in my review of Hostel: Part III.
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Perhaps because of Summit’s decision to schedule The Darkest Hour at Christmas, a time typically reserved for blockbusters and critical darlings, I had high hopes for the alien invasion movie. But alas, it struggles to attain even the level of last year’s similar Skyline.
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This week, a pair of entertaining foreign genre films make their TV debut on Thursday, December 29: the Belgian horror-comedy “mockumentary” Vampires airs at 1:05 AM ET/PT on the Sundance Channel, while the Uruguayan “single shot” chiller The Silent House (La Casa Muda) (which already has an American remake lined up to release this year) airs at 4:20 AM ET/PT on HBO Latino.
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A few weeks ago, a trailer for Ridley Scott’s eagerly anticipated Alien semi-prequel Prometheus leaked online, only to be quickly shut down by Fox, but now we finally get a look at the official trailer — with the studio’s blessing. From what I can recall, it looks similar, but not identical, to the leaked trailer — of course, with much clearer video quality than the grainy bootleg.
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A few weeks ago, a trailer for Ridley Scott’s eagerly anticipated Alien semi-prequel Prometheus leaked online, only to be quickly shut down by Fox, but now we finally get a look at the official trailer — with the studio’s blessing. From what I can recall, it looks similar, but not identical, to the leaked trailer — of course, with much clearer video quality than the grainy bootleg.
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David Fincher’s remake of the Swedish film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (or, if you prefer, his adaptation of the book of the same name) is gripping, mysterious, picturesque and…pretty much the same as the original movie. Read about it in my review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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Year in and year out, if you want to see the best horror movies, skip the big multiplexes in favor of smaller theaters showing limited-run films, or just go to your local video store to scour the direct-to-video fare. With that in mind, here are my choices for the best limited release and direct-to-video horror movies of 2011.
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