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Welcome to the brand new millennium. The last decade horror got here house to America. The last decade horror went world. Welcome to the 80 Greatest Horror Motion pictures of the 2000s.
If horror films replicate the fears and considerations of a folks, it’s notable that America claimed torture-porn as their de rigueur subgenre. One thing in Noticed and its ilk’s slow-roasted dismantling of human flesh appealed to a nation consumed by post-9/11 paranoia and a bombardment of wartime photos and atrocity. However whereas torture-porn films made a killing on the field workplace, none had been ever notably well-reviewed; solely Hostel arrives right here. Recovering from the ’90s doldrums, the perfect horror films got here from abroad, as digital cameras lowered the price to movie and the rise of the web made information and dissemination of those films so simple as a mouse click on. In actual fact, of the highest 10 films right here (which incorporates the likes of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Host), solely two had been shot in America. Different tendencies seen throughout this decade: Asian originals and occasional remakes (The Ring, Thirst), discovered footage (Paranormal Exercise, Cloverfield), the return of the residing lifeless (Shaun of the Useless, 28 Days Later), and nostalgic throwbacks (Slither, Dying Proof). The one stipulation for a film to be thought-about for this record was a Contemporary ranking from a minimum of 20 critiques.
Time so as to add some scary MIDIs to your MySpace and set AIM standing to away (FOREVER), as a result of right here comes the perfect scary 2000s films!
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