Fandango Halloween Horror Movies and Articles

These are the most anticipated horror films for the Fall & Winter season, according to Fandango filmgoers in a recent online poll. In ascending order, they are….

Stephen King’s The Mist envelops an ensemble of character actors.
(© 2007, The Weinstein Company)

5. Stephen King's The Mist – Opening November 21

Screenwriter-director Frank Darabont, the man who successfully brought to the screen those classic Stephen King stories, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, now crafts this new spooky King adaptation. This one concerns an atmospheric fog that enshrouds a small town Maine supermarket and the creepy bug-monsters that emerge from the mist. The stars include Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden, Thomas Jane and Darabont's stock company of character actors like William Sadler (a killer in Shawshank), Laurie Holden (the ingenue in The Majestic) and Jeffrey DeMunn (Harry the jailer in Green Mile).
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Bloodthirsty in Barrow, Alaska with 30 Days of Night.
(© 2007, Columbia Pictures)

4. 30 Days of Night – Opening October 19

Vampires visiting Alaska in darkness of winter? What better place for creatures who can't handle the glare of the sun? Spider-Man director Sam Raimi produces a tale of a very long winter with 30 days of darkness (awfully convenient for the special effects guys, as effects always look creepier in the dark). Based on the cult graphic novel and starring Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, and Ben Foster, this horror flick should be a boon for travel to the Great White North.
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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is 2007’s
most anticipated grudge match.
(© 2007, 20th Century Fox)

3. Alien vs. Predator: Requiem – Opening December 25

Not since King Kong vs. Godzilla have two movie monsters been so well-matched. The Brothers Strause, the visual effects wizards behind 300, X-Men: The Last Stand and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, present this big-budget splatterfest, predicted to deliver the R-rated gross-out chills that fans had expected with the first Alien vs. Predator grudge match.

2. Resident Evil: Extinction – Now Playing

Let's see – the second Resident Evil movie was subtitled Apocalypse, and so you would have thought that was the end of the trail. But you'd be forgetting about Extinction - and what better place to locate the end of humanity than in the shifting sands of a dilapidated Sin City? The Las Vegas-based installment of the popular video game movie series stars the beloved ultra-skinny heroine, Milla Jovovich, in her continuing fight to eliminate the Umbrella Corp's nasty virus while blowing away thousands of zombies and a gaggle of new creatures. 
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1. Saw IV – Opening October 26

They Saw, they came, and they conquered the box office – it's the franchise that established a new horror standard and it's back just in time for Halloween. As Jigsaw moans in the trailer, "you think it's over, but the games have just begun…" And what grisly games they are! The FBI is hot on the trail of everyone's favorite sick puppy. Several clues lead them to Jigsaw's ex-wife, played by Betsy Russell (glimpsed briefly in a Saw III flashback). Moviegoers who grew up in the 80s might remember Miss Russell for her amazing talent in such classics as Private School, Avenging Angel and Tomboy. 
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