2014 Movies : Horror

With James Wan • Annabelle Wallis • Alfre Woodard • Peter Safran • Gary Dauberman • John Leonetti • Ward Horton

Centers on the doll seen in the 1970s Rhode Island-set Conjuring, which starred Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson and was directed by James Wan.

With Luke Evans • Charlie Cox • Sarah Gadon • Dominic Cooper • Michael De Luca • Donna Langley • Samantha Barks • Zach McGowan • Jeff Kirschenbaum • Matt Sazama • Burk Sharpless • Alissa Philips • Gary Shore • Art Parkinson

Follows a young prince who, when the lives of his wife and child are put in danger by a bloodthirsty sultan, risks his soul to save them, and in the process becomes the first vampire.

With Ryan Murphy • Jason Blum • Addison Timlin • Veronica Cartwright • Joshua Leonard • Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa • Travis Tope • Gary Cole • Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

The story centers on a rural Texarkana town that was stalked by a serial killer in 1946. The maniac was never caught and in 2013, he comes back. Addison Timlin plays a young high schooler being raised by her grandmother who’s targeted by the mysterious killer. Travis Tope will play a classmate who befriends Timlin’s character and decides to make a documentary about the search for the killer. Veronica Cartwright will play Timlin’s grandmother who is raising her after her parents die in a car accident. Gary Cole is a deputy who is doggedly pursuing the killer, and Joshua Leonard will play the deputy assigned to protect Timlin and her grandmother.

With Michael Bay • Simon Kinberg • Jason Blum • Evan Spiliotopoulos • Brian Goldner • Brad Fuller • Andrew Form • Stiles White • David Berenbaum • Edward Kitsis • Olivia Cooke • Erin Moriarty • Douglas Smith • Juliet Snowden • Bennett Schneir • Adam Horowitz • Daren Kagasoff • Vivis Colombetti • Ana Coto • Bianca A. Santos

Follows a group of friends attempting to make contact with a recently deceased classmate through a Ouija board who awaken a dark and terrifying presence.

With Brian Steele • Mark Ordesky • Robin Cowie • Gregg Hale • Roger Edwards • Eduardo Sanchez • Jamie Nash • Jane Fleming • Andy Jenkins • Dora Madison Burge • Samuel Davis • Chris Osborn • Denise Williamson • Reed Frerichs

For five friends, it was a chance for a summer getaway— a weekend of camping in the Texas Big Thicket. But visions of a carefree vacation are shattered with an accident on a dark and desolate country road. In the wake of the accident, a bloodcurdling force of nature is unleashed—something not exactly human, but not completely animal— an urban legend come to terrifying life…and seeking murderous revenge.

With James Wan • Leigh Whannell • Cary Elwes • Danny Glover • Oren Koules • Shawnee Smith • Dina Meyer • Tobin Bell • Monica Potter • Ken Leung • Mark Burg • Gregg Hoffman

A young man named Adam (Leigh Whannell) wakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a decrepit subterranean chamber. Chained to the opposite side of the room is another bewildered captive, Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes). Between them is a dead man lying in a pool of blood, holding a .38 in his hand. Neither man knows why he has been abducted; but instructions left on a microcassette, order Dr. Gordon to kill Adam within eight hours. If he fails to do so, then both men will die, and Dr. Gordon's wife, Alison (Monica Potter), and his daughter will be killed. Recalling a recent murder investigation by a police detective named Tapp (Danny Glover), Dr. Gordon realizes he and Adam are the next victims of a psychopathic genius known only as "Jigsaw." With only a few hours left to spare, they must unravel the elaborate puzzle of their fate in the midst of mounting terror. The killer has provided them with only a few clues and two handsaws—too weak to break their steel shackles, but strong enough to cut through flesh and bone...

With Alan McKenna • Julian Barratt • Rodney Ascher • Andy Nyman • Robert Boocheck • Martina Garcia • Ian Virgo

The follow-up to the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived with productions spanning from Nigeria to UK to Brazil and everywhere in between. It features segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. The film is comprised of twenty-six individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death.