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Hit and Run (2009)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Laura Breckenridge, Kevin Corrigan
The film opens as Mary Murdock (Laura Breckenridge), a young student, leaves a lively party at a club in New Jersey one night. She hits a bad bump driving home drunk on a dark road. Later, hearing noises in the garage, she finds a bleeding man, mangled and impaled on her jeep's bumper. Not calling 911, she tries to help, but he suddenly attacks. Panicked, she hits him with a golf club. After that, she buries his body in a shallow grave in the woods off Clover Rd.
, 1h23Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Rape and revenge films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Nate Dushku, Billy Magnussen, Josh Segarra
In 1978, Mary Mattock has her first period, and due to menstrual psychosis, murders her parents with a hatchet. Deemed mentally unfit, Mary is placed in Kings Park Psychiatric Center, where she is raped and impregnated by a guard in 1989. This incident is covered up, and after being told her child was a stillbirth, Mary goes on a rampage through the hospital. The police find Mary wandering the grounds, and open fire on her after she throws the severed head of her rapist at them, ending her killing spree. "Mary Hatchet" subsequently becomes a folklore figure, with local youngsters celebrating the Mischief Night-esque "Blood Night" in her name.
Friday the 13th (2009)
, 1h37Directed by Marcus Nispel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Aaron Yoo, Nana Visitor, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle
On June 13, 1980, a young Jason Voorhees (Caleb Guss) watches as his mother Pamela (Nana Visitor) is beheaded by a camp counselor (Stephanie Rhodes), who was trying to escape Mrs. Voorhees's murder spree around Camp Crystal Lake. Almost 30 years later, a group of vacationing friends—Wade (Jonathan Sadowski), Richie (Ben Feldman), Mike (Nick Mennell), Whitney (Amanda Righetti) and Amanda (America Olivo)—arrive at Crystal Lake on a camping trip to search for marijuana growing in the woods. That night, Jason (Derek Mears), now an adult, begins to kill members of the group, but spares Whitney and abducts her because she resembles Pamela at a young age.
The Collector (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Marcus Dunstan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Josh Stewart, Michael Reilly Burke, Andrea Roth, Juan Fernández de Alarcón, Karley Scott Collins, Daniella Alonso
Larry and his wife return home to find the power is out. They discover a large box upstairs, and are horrified by its contents. They are then attacked by an unseen assailant.
The Last House on the Left (2009)
, 1h50Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Serial killer films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Tony Goldwyn, Michael Bowen, Monica Potter, Garret Dillahunt, Joshua Cox, Spencer Treat Clark
Emma (Monica Potter) and John Collingwood (Tony Goldwyn), and their daughter, competitive swimmer Mari (Sara Paxton), head out on vacation to their lake house. Shortly thereafter, Mari borrows the family car and drives into town to spend some time with her friend Paige (Martha MacIsaac). While Paige works the cash register at a local store, she and Mari meet Justin (Spencer Treat Clark), a teenager passing through town who invites them both back to his roadside motel room to smoke some marijuana. While the three are hanging out in the motel room, Justin's family members return: Krug (Garret Dillahunt), Justin’s father; Francis (Aaron Paul), Justin’s uncle; and Sadie (Riki Lindhome), Krug’s girlfriend.
Halloween II (2009)
, 1h45Directed by Rob Zombie
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Matt Bush, Brad Dourif, Chase Wright Vanek
In a flashback, Deborah Myers (Sheri Moon Zombie) visits her son, a young Michael Myers (Chase Wright Vanek), at Smith's Grove Sanitarium. She gives him a white horse statuette as a gift. Michael says that the horse reminds him of a dream he had of Deborah's ghost, dressed in all white and leading a horse down the sanitarium halls toward Michael, telling him she was going to bring him home. Fifteen years later, after having shot an adult Michael (Tyler Mane), Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) is found wandering around in a state of shock by Sheriff Brackett (Brad Dourif), who takes Laurie to the emergency room. Meanwhile, the paramedics pick up the Sheriff's daughter and Laurie's friend Annie (Danielle Harris) and Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), who are still alive after having been attacked by Michael, and take them to the hospital. Presumed dead, Michael's body is loaded into a separate ambulance. When the driver has a traffic accident, Michael awakens and escapes the ambulance, walking toward a vision of his mother dressed in white and leading a white horse.
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
, 1h41Directed by Patrick Lussier
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsy Rue, Kevin Tighe, Tom Atkins
On the Valentine's Day of 1997, in a small town, a cave-in on the north side of a Hanninger mine trapped six miners. Six days later, rescue teams found five dead miners and the comatose Harry Warden (Richard John Walters), who survived by killing the other miners with a pickaxe, allowing himself to breathe. Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), the mine owner's son, was blamed for the mine disaster because he forgot to vent the methane lines and caused a cave-in, but also Harry Warden for killing the miners.
Coffin Rock (2009)
, 1h32Genres Thriller, Slasher
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Lisa Chappell, Terry Camilleri, Robert Taylor (acteur australien), Geoff Morrell, Jodie Dry
Coffin Rock is a story about a married couple who are trying to start a family without any success. Rob, the husband, is reluctant to seek medical help, which leaves Jessie, his wife, frustrated at being childless. After a drunken night at a bar with her friend, Jessie returns home upset to find a drifter, Evan, is there with a baby kangaroo. This stirs emotions in Jessie, and she turns her affections towards him in a moment of unhappiness. This one time encounter results in brief sex. Though she asks him to stop midway, he continues on.
Deadly Little Christmas (2009)
, 1h20Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Christmas films
Actors Felissa Rose
On Christmas Day, a young boy named Devin Merriman is institutionalized after being found covered in blood and clutching a knife, having apparently murdered his father and the housekeeper after walking in on the two of them having sex. Fifteen years later, Devin escapes, just as a figure in a red mask begins committing a series of seemingly random murders, the victims including two teenagers, an elderly, and a pair of police officers.
HalloweeNight (2009)
Directed by Mark Polonia
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
A school janitor devises an evil scarecrow to exact revenge on those who have tormented him, but then loses control of his fiendish creation.
Skeleton Crew (2009)
, 1h33Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Ghost films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Markku Peltola, Karoliina Blackburn
In the 1970s, a mental institution near the border of Russia and Finland was shut down when it was discovered that main administrator Doctor Andersson (who had taken to calling himself "The Auteur") had filmed himself torturing patients to death. Most of the doctor's films were confiscated, though the rooms in which they were developed and screened were never found.
, 1h20Directed by Chad Ferrin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Serial killer films, Comedy horror films
Actors Ezra Buzzington, Noah Segan, Lew Temple, Vernon Wells, Elina Madison, Trent Haaga
The film follows a group of drug-addled medical school students, Justin, Meg, Sebastian, and Joe, getting targeted by John and Wilma Hopper, a married sexually sadistic serial killer couple from the 1970s who rape their victims to death.
The Stepfather (2009)
, 1h41Directed by Nelson McCormick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley, Amber Heard, Jon Tenney, Sherry Stringfield
The film opens as Grady Edwards (Dylan Walsh) transforms himself in a bathroom. He shaves off his beard, dyes his hair, and removes his brown contact lenses. He goes downstairs with his luggage and fixes himself peanut butter toast and coffee. As he leaves the house, the camera reveals the bodies of his wife and her three children.
Midnight Movie (2009)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Rebekah Brandes, Brea Grant, Michael Swan
Forty years after directing and starring in a slasher movie, entitled The Dark Beneath, centred on a group of friends being killed by a masked killer, Ted Radford (Arthur Roberts) suffers a mental breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. In an attempt to cure Radford, his doctor (Richard Magarey) shows him the movie, despite the warnings of Dr. Wayne (Michael Swan). When Dr. Wayne arrives at the ward the following morning, he discovers evidence of a mass slaughter, however no bodies are to be found.
Basement Jack (2009)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Actors Tiffany Shepis, Lynn Lowry, Noel Gugliemi, Anna-Marie Wayne, Nathan Bexton, Joel Brooks
Karen Cook was a high school student during the night that evil invaded her life. She would soon be known as the lone survivor of a seven-day killing spree perpetrated by a seventeen-year-old boy the world would come to call Basement Jack. For the next eleven years, Karen Cook lived in fear that one day Basement Jack would be released. Then, a court hearing in 2006 found that Jack Riley had not received a fair trial and he was released from a state institution. A year later, murders baring a resemblance to Basement Jack's old mode of operation were occurring around the town of Downers Grove. Karen Cook soon realized that the maniac was hunting her and that the only option left to her was to find Jack and kill him. So the hunt began. And on a stormy night, in the town of Downers Grove (most likely Downers Grove, Illinois), the killer and his prey would find one another and as they hunt one another the citizens would have to fight to survive the blade of Basement Jack.