2000s Horror

2000s Horror

14 Episodes

The first decade of the early 2000s saw a chilling resurgence of horror cinema, with a wave of low-budget films proving that atmosphere, imagination, and thematic intelligence could produce profound dread with the most minimal of resources. Featuring unsettling new takes on the classic haunted-house movie (WHAT LIES BENEATH, THE OTHERS), innovative found-footage nightmares ([•REC], LAKE MUNGO), visceral shockers (TROUBLE EVERY DAY, TOOLBOX MURDERS), intense psychological mind-benders (MAY, TRIANGLE), and more, this survey of DVD-era cult favorites finds both veteran masters and provocative new voices pushing the genre toward edgier, more disturbing extremes.

Programmed by Clyde Folley

2000s Horror
  • 2000s Horror Teaser

    Episode 1

  • What Lies Beneath

    Episode 2

    Directed by Robert Zemeckis • 2000 • United States
    Starring Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid

    In Robert Zemeckis’s tense and twisty supernatural thriller, Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer play a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a secret so disturbing it threatens to ...

  • Ghosts of Mars

    Episode 3

    Directed by John Carpenter • 2001 • United States
    Starring Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Pam Grier

    Dispatched to an abandoned Martian mining town to capture a serial killer (Ice Cube), a squad of space cops make a horrifying discovery: a phantom force that turns victims into goth-like zombies. R...

  • The Others

    Episode 4

    Directed by Alejandro Amenábar • 2001 • Spain, United States, France
    Starring Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan

    A remote manor; hushed, candlelit atmosphere; and shivery, supernatural menace. With his first English-language feature, Chilean Spanish writer-director-composer ...

  • Dahmer

    Episode 5

    Directed by David Jacobson • 2002 • United States
    Starring Jeremy Renner, Artel Great, Matt Newton

    Based on one of the most shocking true crime stories of the twentieth century, this deeply unsettling tale of real-life terror explores the truth of a man many called an abomination of nature: Jeff...

  • The Descent

    Episode 6

    Directed by Neil Marshall • 2005 • United Kingdom
    Starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid

    Brilliantly exploiting our innate fears of the dark and the unknown to maximum nerve-shredding effect, this intense journey into the void is among the most frightening horror films of the twen...

  • May

    Episode 7

    Directed by Lucky McKee • 2002 • United States
    Starring Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris

    By turns disturbing, darkly humorous, and curiously moving, this slasher take on the Frankenstein myth follows misunderstood misfit May (Angela Bettis) as she attempts and continuously fails to connec...

  • Toolbox Murders

    Episode 8

    Directed by Tobe Hooper • 2004 • United States
    Starring Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Juliet Landau

    Horror legend Tobe Hooper (THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE) brings his flair for the gruesome to this (very loose) remake of the notorious 1978 slasher of the same name. At the Lusman Arms, a once-luxur...

  • [•REC]

    Episode 9

    Directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza • 2007 • Spain
    Starring Manuela Velasco, Ferrán Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano

    Perhaps the scariest found-footage horror film of all time, this unrelentingly intense Spanish shocker begins as TV reporter Ángela Vidal (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman ar...

  • Rogue

    Episode 10

    Directed by Greg McLean • 2007 • Australia
    Starring Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington

    The old-school creature feature gets a new twist in this ferociously entertaining Australian killer-croc shocker that favors precision-controlled suspense over explicit gore. When American travel ...

  • Stuck

    Episode 11

    Directed by Stuart Gordon • 2007 • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
    Starring Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby

    A shocking twist of fate brings two strangers together in a grisly fight for survival in this darkly comic, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller from RE-ANIMATOR director Stu...

  • Lake Mungo

    Episode 12

    Directed by Joel Anderson • 2008 • Australia
    Starring Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger

    One of the finest of the faux-documentary horror films that proliferated in the 2000s, this profoundly unnerving exploration of loss, grief, and family secrets convincingly assumes the form of a tele...

  • Triangle

    Episode 13

    Directed by Christopher Smith • 2009 • United Kingdom, Australia
    Starring Melissa George, Michael Dorman, Rachael Carpani

    Something like THE SHINING at sea, this surreal psychological puzzle follows single mother Jess (Melissa George) as she sets out on a boating trip from the coast of Florida w...

  • Trouble Every Day

    Episode 14

    Directed by Claire Denis • 2001 • France
    Starring Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle

    Claire Denis’s poetic take on the body-horror genre is an atmospheric reverie of blood and lust that lays bare the filmmaker’s core artistic concerns around power, desire, and delirium. Newlyweds Shane...