Welcome to the website. In this post we’re taking a look at horror movies released in 2008 and we’re going to rank these bad boys.

5-Star Ranking – Best of the Best

• Let the Right One In – The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a strange child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s. Directed by Tomas Alfredson.

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4-Star Ranking – Top 10 Worthy

• Quarantine – It follows a reporter and her cameraman assigned to a pair of Los Angeles firemen who follow a distress call to an apartment building where they discover a deadly mutated strain of rabies spreading among the building’s occupants. Directed by John Erick Dowdle.
• Dead Space: Downfall – Set aboard the planet mining ship USG Ishimura, it details the events following the transportation of an extraterrestrial artifact leading to the deaths of nearly everyone on board as a result of the Marker’s influence creating monsters dubbed “Necromorphs” from human corpses. Directed by Chuck Patton.
• Cloverfield – The plot follows six young New York City residents fleeing from a massive monster and various other smaller creatures that attack the city during a farewell party. Directed by Matt Reeves.
• The Children – The story centers around a virus that turns all children into blood-thirsty monsters during a winter vacation. Directed by Tom Shankland.
• The Burrowers – It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, but they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below. Directed by J. T. Petty.
• Bone Eater – A sheriff must stop a Native American monster from destroying his town. Directed by Jim Wynorski.

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3-Star Ranking – Good Entertainment

• The Ruins – The story follows a pair of couples on vacation in Mexico who join a tourist to visit a remote Mayan ruin, that unfortunately is inhabited by a carnivorous vine growth. Directed by Carter Smith.
• The Eye – A blind violinist who has a cornea transplantation and starts to see dead people after the operation. Directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud.
• Vacancy 2: The First Cut – Three young people check into the Meadow View Inn for a night’s rest, fully unaware of the inn’s sick-minded employees and their nefarious intentions. Directed by Eric Bross.
• Prom Night – A masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously at a high school prom. Directed by Nelson McCormick.
• Splinter – Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror. Directed by Toby Wilkins.
• Shutter – Its story follows newlywed couple Ben and Jane who have just moved to Japan for a promising job opportunity. After a tragic car accident that leads to the death of a young girl, Ben begins noticing strange blurs in many of his fashion shoot photographs, which Jane suspects is the spirit of the dead girl that they killed. Directed by Masayuki Ochiai.
• The Happening – It revolves around an inexplicable natural disaster causing mass suicides. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
• Saw V – The plot follows FBI Agent Strahm investigating the murders committed by the Jigsaw Killer but as he delves deeper into the case, he realizes that the murders are part of a larger, more intricate plot. Directed by David Hackl.
• Dark Floors – A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters. Directed by Pete Riski.

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2-Star Ranking – Could’ve Been Better

• Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon – Its plot concerns a group of people who, after crashing their plane into the Himalayan Mountains, encounter the Yeti. This encounter sends them into a fight for survival. Directed by Paul Ziller.
• The Strangers – The film follows Kristen and James whose stay at a vacation home is disrupted by three masked criminals who infiltrate the home. Directed by Bryan Bertino.
• Day of the Dead – The film sees a virus outbreak that causes people to turn into violent zombie-like creatures. Directed by Steve Miner.

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1-Star Ranking – Total Trash

• ThanksKilling – A homicidal turkey axes off college kids during Thanksgiving break. Directed by Jordan Downey.
• Monster – After a massive earthquake in Tokyo, two American filmmakers document the true cause of the destruction. Directed by Eric Forsberg.
• Anaconda 3: Offspring – A mercenary-for-hire accepts a mission from a billionaire to capture a dangerous snake that could possibly help cure a terminal illness. Directed by David Olson and Nicholas Davidoff.
• Alone in the Dark II – Former witch-hunter Abner Lundberg is forced to come back to fight his old nemesis, a century-old dangerous witch out on the prowl again. Directed by Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer.

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