Seven Best Modern Horror Movies I got this link from IMDB, but makes a good read.  From the LA Times Seven Best Modern Horror Movies.

Interesting, though that there is only one movie from the last 20 years.

I don't think that there has been many good horror movies in the last 5 years.  I didn't care for either the Devil's Rejects or Hostel.  Land of the Dead was okay, but somewhat disappointing considering how long we have waited for Romero's followup.

Personally, I liked the American version of the Ring.  28 Days Later was good, if not classic horror.  The Devil's Backbone (out of Mexico) was also very good.  I liked the Others and Skeleton Key as well, but those are more suspense than horror.  Audition was good, but from 7 years ago.  Below was an underrated horror movie.  Dog Soldiers was effective for a low budget horror, as was Blair Witch, but only if you saw Blair Witch before the hype got out of hand.

Sorry, a bit stream of conscience there.

Off the top of my head I cant think of any that really struck a cord with me in the last 5 years or so. Maybe the Dawn of The Dead remake, but nothin else beyond that. I think its a shame coz no-one really seems to push the boundries in the horror genre anymore. I saw Hostel and was really hoping to be blown away givin the amount of "gore" and "intensity" it was supposed to have. All I'm gonna say is I hope theres an un-rated dvd release, because what I saw was neither gory or intense. I suspect heavy censoring, so I await the dvd release before I pass judgement.
The Exorcist, now there was a horror movie, The Thing, and I'll even go out on a limb and say The Entity (it scared da c**p outta me as a kid!) the Evil Dead, man, they sure dont make em like they used to............

The closest to classic real horror films we've gotten in the last 5 years:
A Tale of Two Sisters
Three Extremes
Land of the Dead
and had it not been for the twist, Haught Tension

No Tony, no. The Red Dragon was not a horror movie.

And it was pretty bland IMHO....then I kind of hated the Chainsaw and Ring remakes...

I thought Dawn of the Dead was a solid remake that used the same themes in it's own way and developed on its own (which is saying something because I wanted to hate it with every fiber of my being). Though there are differences, the Chainsaw and Ring remakes felt like sort of moot monetary updates. Both were well made, but I didn't see the point in either. However, you're comments are valid, and I can appriciate your opinion here, it bugs me when youg'uns just hate the originals because they're 'old'.

I can't believe that people really liked High Tension and to a lesser extent Hostel.

I was so p**sed off after watching High Tension.  If it was made as a straightforward horror movie, it would have been one of the best horror movies made in the last 5 years.  (It would have even made up for the fact that my theater was showing it dubbed.  There isn't a lot of dialogue and most of it occurs with the characters not looking at the camera, so you don't get the audio/visual synchronization problems of most dubbed films.)  But no.  They had to put a twist in.  A twist that is patently impossible and defies all reason.  Ugh!

I've got Tale of Two Sisters on the DVR from IFC.  I'm looking forward to seeing it, though I have been disappointed with most Japanese horror that I have seen lately.

Anyone seen Ghost Actress (aka Don't Look Up).  It's been awhile since I've seen it, but from what I remember I loved it.  The only disappointing thing is that it is only 75 minutes long.

Remake mania continues as they are remaking both Black Christmas and Don't Look Now.  I'm not opposed to remakes.  The remakes of Dawn of the Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre were both enjoyable.  The others, like Amityville Horror, were just as bad as the originals, but what can you expect.  As long as they don't take good source material and make a bad movie out of it.

Mal wrote: Adrian wrote: I've got Tale of Two Sisters on the DVR from IFC.  I'm looking forward to seeing it, though I have been disappointed with most Japanese horror that I have seen lately.
A truely excellent film, although bear in mind it's Korean, not Japanese.

Oops.  

I agree that Haute Tension was undone by the twist and said so in my review here. As a reviewer who's covered both Artsmagic and Tartan Asia Extreme releases, I'm burned out on Asian horror to the freaking max. That said, Tale of Two Sisters was still a wonderful film.

I don't know how long you all have been reading the site, but last year I did a piece on my picks for most disturbing films here, and I plan on doing a follow up this Halloween.

What did I say about Halloween? I LOVE Halloween!

I was trying to explain to one of the young'uns why he didn't think it was a scary film. Halloween lost it's power to frighten me a long time ago, but Carpenter's technical prowess makes it a film I can still enjoy to this day.

Anyone check Slither? I know it's a comedy, but I thought it was a great movie. I agree with pretty much everything else that was mentioned.

F13 will be out this year.  NOES won't be out til next year at the earliest.

I liked quite a few of the horror films mentioned above, but I think I'm a bit partial to the Final Destination movies.  

Matt wrote: Well, you can mark Silent Hill off that list; saw a preview screening Thursday evening and came out of it with the conclusion that it's neck and neck with Sony's other turkey, The Pink Panther, for worst movie of the year.
Really? That bad? I absolutely refused to see Pink Panther, but was looking forward to Silent Hill. So far from other reviews, they tend to agree that it's a better movie if you played the games. I havn't played any of the games myself, so now I'm a bit worried. What didn't you like about it?