The scariest movies of 2008 so far are the ones that have the media buzzing about. Mostly the storylines and the actors are magnificent and they give the picture that special touch that you the horror fan just cannot resist.
There are so many great ones out and due later this year. You do not have to agree with me but those are merely my choices of the best horror movies for 2008.
"I am Legend": a vampire thriller based on the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson. It's a very sad, creepy, horrific and intellectual movie. I don't know where to begin, I fell in love with the storyline, I had to go back and read the book. It's a very deep, unique, sensational horror story. Although, the CGI in it does not make the vampire creatures justice but the storyline will challenge you to ask yourself what would you have done if you were the last man or woman alive against a million or more of vampires?
"Shutter": a Japanese ghost story that will give you more chills than you have ever bargained for. As Japanese movies go, it's always about a ghost seeking revenge. In this one, starring the Aussie actress Rachael Taylor (Transformers) and Joshua Jackson (Dawson's Creek), two very talented photographers, each photograph they take has a ghost in it, what could that mean. Are they being haunted by those ghosts? How can they get rid of them? They are newlyweds, new to the married life and new to the country they are in. Thusly, they are pretty clueless as to how to handle certain situations, especially one that involves the supernatural.
"The Strangers": a house invasion thriller that will make you thank God it's a film...is it really? It's based on true events, meaning you are not excluded from such a misfortune. Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman play a ridiculously beautiful couple who may have found themselves forced to be prisoners in their own home by three masked strangers/perpetrators who will push them to do things beyond their own limit in order to survive the night and this take over.
"Twilight": a vampire movie about a living vampire who falls in love with a very different and unique girl. It's an action-packed, gore-filled, vampire thriller that will make you think if you could live forever, what would you live for? Bella Swan played by Kristen Stewart is not your typical girlie girl, she moves to Forks, Washington to be with her father after her mother remarried. She thought her life was going to stay the same boring one until she met Edward Cullen, a handsome, porcelain-skinned, fast, intelligent young man who is from a line of more beautiful and peculiar people. She soon finds herself falling for Edward. And for Edward she is the soulmate that he has been waiting for over 90 years now. Despite her uncovering the truth about Edward being a vampire she is still much more mesmerized and frantically in love with him. She will risk whatever to be with him. Even her own life for that matter. This is a true modern day Romeo and Juliet fairy tale. But we all know how that usually ends.
"Cloverfield": a monster movie that takes stage in NYC. In which the city is taken over by several gigantic and monstruous creatures that have their minds set on demolishing every one and everything on sight. In the mist of all this, a love story is blossoming. Five friends are throwing a going-away party for their friend on the same night that NYC gets attacked by these ridiculously grotesque creatures. That very same friend played by Michael Stahl-David makes them risk their lives as he goes on a quest to finding his love interest and saving her from those monsters. Even if that means, his friends' lives could be lost or even his in the process. He finds his flame and inevitably all of his friends perished throughout his search for the love of his life. When you think it's over and the survivors would be the ones who are in love. Maybe...the camera is left to tell the story.
"The Happening" also known as "The Green Effect" directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan, is a story about how the world is coming to an end and no one seems to know what caused these apocalyptic events to take place. Mark Walhberg and Zooey Deschanel play the family who are in the run for their lives as the world is litteraly and shockingly coming to an end. Are we to blame, are the military to blame, is it the result of a botched military experiment? The world as we knew it, is ending on June 13th, 2008. (They are purposely showing it on Friday the 13th to get more scare and more reaction from the audience.)
