Horror History: Tuesday, December 25, 2007: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem was released in theaters

In Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever – in our own backyard.

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Horror History: Friday, October 19, 2007: 30 Days of Night was released in theaters

Cross over to the dark side in this bone-chilling adaptation of the cult-hit graphic novel. In a small Alaskan town, a growing band of bloodthirsty vampires thrust the living into a deadly game of cat and mouse and screams.

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Horror History: Tuesday, October 9, 2007: Wrong Turn 2: Dead End was released direct-to-video

Several participants in the pilot for a reality show set deep in the forest in west virginia are stalked by a cannibal mutant hillbilly family. The last two survivors manage to blow up the family and escape.

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Horror History: Friday, September 21, 2007: Resident Evil: Extinction was released in theaters

Milla Jovovich is back to kill more zombies in the third chapter of the hit Resident Evil franchise! An action/horror film filled with huge special effects and edge-of-your-seat terror! Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice (Jovovich) joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.

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Horror History: Friday, August 31, 2007: Halloween was released in theaters

From acclaimed musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses) comes an entirely new take on the highly successful and terrifying Halloween legacy that began in 1978.

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Horror History: Friday, June 8, 2007: Hostel: Part II was released in theaters

Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it when they are sold to the highest bidder whose fondest wish is to kill them slowly.

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Horror History: Friday, May 11, 2007: 28 Weeks Later was released in theaters

28 Weeks Later, the follow-up to the hugely successful 28 Days Later, picks up six months after the rage virus has annihilated Mainland Britain. The US army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin.

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Horror History: Friday, April 20, 2007: Vacancy was released in theaters

A suspenseful, classic thriller, in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, starring Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale, that will keep you on the edge of your seat and your heart pounding! A married couple on the brink of divorce is forced to stay at a roadside motel when their car breaks down. Inside their room, the couple finds a stack of snuff films which were filmed in the very room they’re stay..

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Horror History: Friday, April 6, 2007: Grindhouse was released in theaters

Death Proof

For Austin’s hottest DJ, Jungle Julia (Sydney Tamiia Poitier), dusk offers an opportunity to unwind with two of her closest friends, Shanna and Arlene (Jordan Ladd and Vanessa Ferlito). This three fox posse sets out into the night, turning heads from Guero’s to the Texas Chili Parlor. Not all of the attention is innocent: Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), a scarred, weathered rebel who leers from behind the wheel of his muscle car. As the girls settle into their beers, Mike’s weapon, a white-hot juggernaut, revs just feet away…

Planet Terror

Robert Rodriguez, co-director of Sin City, brings you Planet Terror, a retro-futuristic vision of horror that’s been weathered, stripped, and aged to perfection. In Planet Terror, married doctors William and Dakota Block (Josh Brolin and Marley Shelton) find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by gangrenous sores and a suspiciously vacant look in their eyes.

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Horror History: Friday, March 23, 2007: The Hills Have Eyes II was released in theaters

The Yuma Flats Training and Testing Facility in New Mexico is big. Sixteen hundred square miles of forbidding desert and mountains used by the U.S. military to test everything from weapons to men. It’s there that our central characters, National Guard soldiers barely halfway through their basic training, are given a routine mission that will change their lives forever.

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Horror History: Friday, March 16, 2007: Dead Silence was released in theaters

From the writers and director of Saw comes this relentless thriller about the terrifying legend of Mary Shaw and the chilling reason why when you see her, you should never, ever scream.

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Horror History: Friday, March 16, 2007: Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon was released in US theaters

The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo.

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Horror History: Thursday, February 22, 2007: Diary of the Dead was released in theaters

When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discovers that the dead have begun to revive, they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them, creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear.

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Horror History: Friday, February 9, 2007: Hannibal Rising was released in theaters

In Red Dragon we learned who he was. In Silence Of The Lambs we learned how he did it. Now comes the most chilling chapter in the life of Hannibal Lecter – the one that answers the most elusive question of all – why?

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Horror History: Friday, January 19, 2007: The Hitcher was released in theaters

A road trip takes a deadly turn in this terrifying thriller about a young couple (Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton) tormented by a psychotic hitchhiker (Sean Bean) who forces them to face their fears head-on.

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Horror History: Monday, December 25, 2006: Black Christmas was released in US theaters

A group of six sorority sisters – Kelli (Katie Cassidy), Dana (Lacey Chabert), Lauren (Crystal Lowe), Megan (Jessica Harmon), Heather (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Melissa (Michelle Trachtenberg) and their house mother (Andrea Martin) are settling in for Christmas Break. Their seasonal serenity and good cheer is defiled by unsettling and threatening phone calls. Then, one of their own goes missing and the girls are soon being slaughtered one by one.

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Horror History: Friday, December 1, 2006: Turistas was released in theaters

After a terrifying bus accident maroons them in a remote Brazilian beach town, a group of young tourists slowly discover that the white sand beaches and lush jungles are concealing a darker, unsettling secret?

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Horror History: Friday, October 13, 2006: The Grudge 2 was released in theaters

Acclaimed producers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Taka Ichise have re-teamed with director Takashi Shimizu and screenwriter Stephen Susco to present this heart-stopping sequel to the smash-hit thriller, The Grudge.

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Horror History: Friday, October 6, 2006: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning was released in theaters

Four friends on a road trip get into a car accident. The deranged sheriff arrests them and brings them to his house of sadistic and insane cannibals in a trip of horror and gore.

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