Top 10 Best Scary Horror Movies of 2008
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In the aftermath of the ever so popular top 10-list: 10 funniest comedy movies of 2008 that has received 21, 312 visitors (18,401 unique ones) the last few months to date, it is now time to follow the trend and list my favorite scariest horror movies of 2008.
Now, I have taken the user-rating in IMDB.com in consideration when listing these movies. However, seeing as the Hollywood productions and large budgeted ones are exposed to a larger audience, thus getting more votes, I have mixed it up with some independents and niched projects. Enjoy!
1. Let The Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Writer: John Ajvide Lindqvist
IMDB votes: 12,513
Based on the swedish best-selling novel Låt Den Rätte Komma In by John Ajvide Lindqvist about a girl, Eli, who one day appears with a strange older man in the Stockholm neighborhood of Blackeberg. Living nextdoor is the boy, Oskar, who lives a miserable life with his mother, being bullied at school. One night out on the playground Oskar and Eli meet and slowly become friends. But there is something about Eli that isn’t quite right. She is only out during night and that man she is living with seems to more of a servant than a father-figure.
The dark and cold winter surroundings and depressing landscape of the swedish suburb during the 60’s creates a perfect and ultimate scary set for this horror movie. A must-see, even if you’re not convinced by my poor description.
Ps. The book is also 10 times better than the movie, so if you think the movie is scary, get a hold of the book and you will get all the nastiest details.
2. The Strangers
Director: Bryan Bertino
Writer: Bryan Bertino
IMDB votes: 23,777
Inspired by true events, The Strangers takes place in a summer house out in the middle of no where. A couple is spending the night there after celebrating their friends wedding. But they are not alone. A knock on the door, a girl asking for someone who does not live there. Another knock. Now they’re in the house.
Inspired by true events, the director Bryan Bertino has really managed to keep this horror movie as real as possible. No zombies, no extra terrestials, just a house between the tall dark trees and three intrutors in masks.
3. Saw V (5)
Director: David Hackl
Writer: Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan
IMDB votes: 17,709
As the last in the classic Saw-series, Saw 5 basically consists of the same thing as the rest of them. And it’s brilliantly horrific. Some may argue that sequals never can earn up to the original. Perhaps thats true. But compared to all the horror movies that has been done this year, Saw 5 is far from the worst of them. Always scary and always very uncomfrtable. Just how I like it. Hope you like it too 
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4. Quarantine
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Writer: Drew Dowdle
IMDB votes: 8,201
While making a new documentary of a New York Fire Department, a female reporter and her camera man gets to come along for what initially seems like any other 911-response. In an old apartment building downtown NY one of the residents has been reported acting strange by her neighbors. Before they know it the building has been ceiled off, executing anyone trying to get in or out. It’s a virus and there are infected everywhere.
Trying to find a way out, the female reporter and fire man and the camera man navigates higher and higher in the building, fighting off infected in the pitch darkness.
5. Trailer Park of Terror
Director: Steven Goldmann
Writer: Timothy Dolan
IMDB votes: 703
Despite the poor amount of votes TPT got at Internet Movie Database, and the obvious slasher-movie stamp all over it, Trailer Park Terror is one scary movie. And what would a scary movie top-list be without the attempt to bring you over to the dark side of slasher-fans.
6. Cloverfield
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Drew Goddard
IMDB votes: 109,687
I wouldn’t go as far as to say this is a great “horror” movie. However it sure is scary. The whole Godzille plot is not what makes it scary though. It’s the hand-camera filming. The shaky, unfocused amateur filming. One of my favorite scary movies are 28 days later, a movie that used similar technique and camera methods to create a feeling of isolation. I added this more as a tribute to the alternative way of shooting scary movies, that also do not include famous actors/actresses in their casts. For example, Jessica Alba is the main reason The Eye didn’t make on this list.
7. Farm house
Director: George Bessudo
Writer: Daniel P. Coughlin
IMDB votes: 195
They look harmless, like any normal couple growing crops out on the countryside. Husband and wife, around their late 30s that are seemingly hospitable with pictures on their walls on other passersby. That’s when the visiting couple, that after a car accident has found the farmhouse and been invited to sleep overnight before heading back to town, get the feeling that all is not right with their hosts. And yes, something truly wrong with them.
8.The Ruins
Director: Carter Smith
Writer: Scott B. Smith
IMDB votes: 16,589
It’s Mexico, it’s holiday, it’s all good. Until the trip takes a turn to an archaeogical dig in the jungle. A dig for something that doesn’t want to or should be found. The ruins of an old Maya-looking temple holds a dark secret, something truly evil that will destroy anybody who awakes it.
9. Mirrors
Director: Alexandre Aja
Writer: Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur
IMBD votes: 14,471
One particular scene made me comvinced that this was a movie for this top-list. The plot is simple; a retired cop, Keifer Sutherland, takes on a night-shift as a guard in an old shopping center that years before had a tragic fire, burning everybody inside. Inside the large building are large mirrors that reflects the faith of all those burned in people.
So enough of the story, let’s get back to that scene. The character of Sutherland is temporary crashing at his sister’s place due to problem with his wife. As the sister is taking a bath her reflection in the mirror starts pulling her yaw. In panic she can only watch it happen and before you know it her yaw is stretched out to the limit, ultimately being torn off and creating a bath tub full of blood. I actually had to turn the movie off for a minute to check myself in the mirror. Horrible stuff!
10. Prom Night
Like I know what you did last summer, Prom Night is not to be underestimated due to it’s seemingly cheesy plot. The fear factor is present throughout the most part of the movie and I can’t understand why anybody hasn’t come up with the idea of making a horror movie about a prom night before. It’s perfect, the happiest day of a teenager’s life, or at least the popular ones, turn to the worst. An obsessive maniac killer out for a 16 year old girl and all her friends. But this time he does not have a rain coat and a fish hook.
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