Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Beatrice Boepple, Roseanne Barr, Johnny Depp
Directed By: Wes Craven, Jack Sholder, Charles Russell, Renny Harlin, Stephen Hopkins

More of a supercharged revamp than a remake, Rob Zombie's take on John Carpenter's Halloween expands the back story of masked killer Michael Myers in an attempt to examine the motivation for his first deadly attack, as well as some reasons for his longevity as a horror icon. Zombie's Myers is a blank-eyed teen (played by Daeg Faerch) whose burgeoning mental problems are left unchecked in ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Danielle Harris, Sheri Moon, Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Tyler Mane
Directed By: Rob Zombie

Manufacturer: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Starring: Pamela Springsteen, Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Brian Patrick Clarke
Directed By: Robert Hiltzik, Michael A. Simpson

While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of The Sixth Sense into the smart-alec sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X Files veteran James Wong, who co-wrote the screenplay with long-time creative partner Glen Morgan, Final Destination is an often entertaining thriller marked by an unsettling sense of ...

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Tony Todd, Kristen Cloke
Directed By: James Wong

With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the mouldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan
Directed By: Wes Craven

Halloween is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (Friday the 13th parts 2 and 3, House), won't displace John Carpenter's original but it might help you forget the films in between. Miner certainly has: the film ...

Manufacturer: Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Williams, Adam Arkin, Adam Hann-Byrd, Janet Leigh
Directed By: Steve Miner

The 2003 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre adheres to the pure-and-simple slasher-movie formula: introduce a gaggle of sexy young people, make vague gestures to distinguish them--Jessica Biel wants to get married and doesn't like pot, so she's our moral compass--then start hacking them to pieces one by one. The visual palette includes grimy crucified dolls, fly-specked pig carcasses, ...

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour
Directed By: Marcus Nispel

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Marianne Hagan, Mitch Ryan, Kim Darby
Directed By: Joe Chappelle

Fully aware of its status as the sequel to the surprise hit thriller of 1996, this lively follow-up trades freshness for familiarity, playing on our affection for returning characters while obeying--and then subverting--the "rules" of sequels. Once again, movie references are cleverly employed to draw us into the story, which takes place two years after the events of Scream, at a small Ohio ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy
Directed By: Wes Craven

No matter how many sequels they've made or how big a hit it was in 1980, it's difficult to view the first Friday the 13th as anything but a quickie designed to cram in as many elements from horror movies that had been hits in the late 1970s--most obviously, Halloween and Carrie--while adding as little as possible to the formula. Director Sean S Cunningham has an archetypal ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, Kevin Bacon
Directed By: Sean S. Cunningham