Horror Movies for 2012

Here is a list of The 30 Best New Horror Movies (2012) 

source: Movie Moron

- JANUARY -

The Devil Inside
Starring: Fernanda Andrade, Suzan Crowley, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth
Director: William Brent Bell
Out: 6 January 2012 (U.S. Dates)

A daughter travels to see her mother in an Italian hospital for the criminally insane, to find out why she brutally killed three people 20 years earlier. There she recruits two young exorcists to use unconventional methods of science and religion in an effort to rid her mother of the powerful demons possessing her. The trailer is fairly effective, but I don’t trust the director of video-game horror movie Stay Alive to deliver a finished product that feels authentic. Also, this was filmed way back in December 2009, and such a delay is almost always a bad sign. The exorcism genre in particular can’t escape the fact it was all done much better 38 years ago.

Underworld: Awakening
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Sandrine Holt, Michael Ealy, India Eisley
Directors: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Out: 20 January 2012

After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene (Beckinsale) learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter, Eve, and when she finds her, they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all. The line between this and Resident Evil is getting increasingly blurred – whether it’s BioCom, the action, or the look of the lead females. The directors of this 3D installment made Shelter, which has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Underworld franchise has a very loyal following, but so far this movie does not look good. For fans only.

The Grey
Starring: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, James Badge Dale, Nonso Anozie
Director: Joe Carnahan
Out: 27 January 2012

Killer-wolves movie about an oil drilling team who struggle to survive after their plane crashes in the frozen Alaskan wild. Soon they are being hunted by a deadly pack… Liam Neeson is the star and his A-Team director is behind the camera, but the tone here is tense and desperate. Looks like The Edge with a high body count. For those who say the premise is totally unrealistic, a woman was killed by wolves in Alaska in 2010, and attacks have become more common. But what everyone’s most interested in is Neeson’s broken bottle knuckles, which he uses for self defense. The movie looks gruelling, entertaining and Neeson has basically got better and better with age.

- FEBRUARY -

The Woman In Black

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer

Director: James Watkins (Eden Lake)

Out: 3 February 2012

My favourite play, and TV movie, is being turned into a theatrical movie. And from the footage so far, they’ve nailed the look of it. Daniel ‘Potter’ Radcliffe plays a lawyer who’s ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, he begins to uncover tragic secrets, and glimpse a freaky mysterious woman dressed only in black. Radcliffe’s well suited to this role, if a little too young. Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass, Stardust) adapted the ’83 novel. Can’t wait.

The Innkeepers
Starring: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, George Riddle
Director: Ti West
Out: 3 February 2012

The last two employees of a supposedly haunted hotel count down the final days before the hundred year old business goes bankrupt. Mysterious guests check in, including a former TV actress turned psychic (Kelly McGillis) and an old man insistent on staying in room 353. As several strange occurrences begin to add up, the employees must decided whether or not to believe in the supernatural rumours. Director Ti West’s previous horror The House of the Devil became something of a cult hit. He says this will be “scarier”, with more jokes, and more mainstream. Hopefully he’ll continue to put atmosphere before quick edits and jump scares.

Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ciarán Hinds, Idris Elba, Johnny Whitworth, Christopher Lambert
Directors: Neveldine/Taylor
Out: 17 February 2012

The filmmakers claim they are shifting this toward horror, away from the 2007 movie. “He’s not really a superhero. His superpower is that he sucks out your soul.” Physically Ghost Rider will be more frightening this time, including a jacket that bubbles like tar, and a mouth that spews fire. The story sees Johnny Blaze (Cage) in self-imposed exile in Eastern Europe, convinced that his powers are a curse. There he’s approached by a monk (Elba), seeking a protector for a mother and son who are being pursued by ‘Blackout’ (Whitworth) – someone with a detailed knowledge of the Ghost Rider and his different identities over the centuries. The directors of Crank have slumped horribly, so expect dreck. Good to see Christopher Lambert back anyway.

Gone
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Stan, Wes Bentley
Director: Heitor Dhalia
Out: 24 February 2012

When her sister disappears, Jill (Seyfried) is convinced that the serial killer who, she claims, kidnapped her two years earlier has returned. The police don’t believe her, so she sets out to pursue the truth. Is she just mentally ill? Or is she somehow responsible? The trailer hints at a predictable and pretty dull plot – If the killer isn’t one of the cops I’ll eat my hat. From the writer of Underworld Awakening and Untraceable. The director is new to the genre. Looks like a rental at best.

- MARCH -

The Raven

Starring: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson

Director: James McTeigue

Out: 9 March 2012

A fictionalised account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, in which the poet (Cusack) teams up with a detective (Evans – Immortals) to pursue a serial killer who’s kidnapped Poe’s fiancé and gone on a killing spree which mimics the writer’s stories. This is from the director of V For Vendetta and Ninja Assassin. The tone of the trailer sits halfway between Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes and Depp’s From Hell. The imagery too could be from either of those movies – a chance to create something visually unique riffing off Poe’s work has been missed. Looks like a fascinating man reduced to a bog-standard movie.

Silent House

Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross

Directors: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau

Out: 9 March 2012

A remake of the 2010 Uruguayan movie of the same name, this sees a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of the Olsen twins) trapped inside her family’s lakeside retreat and slowly driven mad by something from the house’s past. The directors of Open Water want to “make audiences feel as though the story is happening to them, that they are really experiencing the events leading to these brutal murders”. So, like the original, the movie’s filmed almost entirely in one long take. Which means a lot of in-your-face shaky hand-held camerawork. Which may or may not be a good thing.

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