Horror Movies | Ranker Tier List | 2009

Who doesn’t love a good horror movie. Or series of horror movies. Well, we’re taking a look at 2009 and ranking the horror films.

5-Star Ranking – Best of the Best

  • Coraline – The film tells the story of its eponymous character discovering an idealized alternate universe behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that it contains something dark and sinister. Directed by Henry Selick.

4-Star Ranking – Top 10 Worthy

  • Friday the 13th – The film follows Clay Miller as he searches for his missing sister, Whitney, who is captured by Jason Voorhees while camping in woodland at Crystal Lake. Directed by Marcus Nispel.

3-Star Ranking – Good Entertainment

  • Carriers – Four survivors of a viral pandemic attempting to stay alive amid the looming threat of becoming infected. Directed by Alex and David Pastor.
  • Daybreakers – The film takes place in a futuristic world overrun by vampires, and centers around a vampiric corporation which sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a substitute for human blood. Directed by The Spierig Brothers.
  • The Final Destination – The film follows a group of people after they escape a deadly accident during a stock car race, with Death stalking and killing them one by one. Directed by David R. Ellis.
  • Case 39 – The film revolves on a social worker who attempts to protect a girl from her violent parents but finds that things are more dangerous than she had expected. Directed by Christian Alvart.
  • The Descent Part 2 – Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits. Directed by Jon Harris.
  • The Uninvited – Anna returns home after a stint in a mental hospital, but her recovery is jeopardized by her cruel stepmother and ghastly visions of her dead mother. Directed by The Guard Brothers.
  • Drag Me to Hell – Focuses on a loan officer who is cursed by an elderly woman, after three days of escalating torment, will plunge her into the depths of Hell to burn for eternity. Directed by Sam Raimi.
  • The Fourth Kind – Follows a psychologist who uses hypnosis to uncover memories of alien abduction from her patients and finds evidence suggesting that she may have been abducted as well. Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.
  • The Last House on the Left – The film follows Mari Collingwood, a teenager who is abducted, raped, and left for dead by a family of violent fugitives. When her parents learn what was done to her, they seek vengeance against the family, who have taken shelter at their summer home during a thunderstorm. Directed by Dennis Iliadis.
  • Pandorum – Two crew members are stranded on a spacecraft and quickly – and horrifically – realize they are not alone. Directed by Christian Alvart.
  • Saw VI – The plot follows an insurance executive who must complete a series of deadly “games” set up by the Jigsaw Killer in order to rescue his employees. Directed by Kevin Greutert.

2-Star Ranking – Could’ve Been Better

  • Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever – The film is about a high school prom that descends into chaos when a deadly flesh-eating bacteria spreads via a popular brand of bottled water. Directed by Ti West.
  • Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead – When their transfer bus crashes in a West Virginia Forest, a group of convicts and one a corrections officer meets a rafter who is on the run from cannibalistic hillbillies who have murdered her friends. Directed by Declan O’Brien.
  • Sorority Row – It follows a group of sorority sisters who cover up the accidental death of a fellow sister after a prank goes horribly wrong. Eight months later, a masked killer begins stalking and murdering the girls on the night of their graduation. Directed by Stewart Hendler.
  • Halloween II – The story follows Laurie Strode as she deals with the aftermath of the previous film’s events, Dr. Loomis who is trying to capitalize on those events with a new book, and Michael Myers as he seeks to reunite with his sister. Directed by Rob Zombie.
  • The Loved Ones – The film follows a teenage boy who finds himself at the mercy of a classmate’s demented party after he declines her offer to attend the school dance. Directed by Sean Byrne.
  • My Bloody Valentine 3D – The film focuses on the residents of a small town that is plagued by a serial killer in mining gear on Valentine’s Day. Directed by Patrick Lussier.
  • Survival of the Dead – The story follows a group of AWOL National Guardsmen in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Directed by George A. Romero.
  • Underworld: Rise of the Lycans – The plot focuses primarily on the origins of the characters and the events that led up to the Vampire–Lycan war. Directed by Patrick Tatopoulos.

1-Star Ranking – Total Trash

  • Against the Dark – In a post-apocalyptic world, destroyed by a disease, which turns humans into infected strongly resembling vampires, a squad of ex-military vigilantes attempt to find and rescue a group of survivors trapped in a hospital. Directed by Richard Crudo.

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