The 2000s were a strange decade to love horror. The remake machine ran nonstop, J-horror imports arrived by the crate, Saw and Hostel kicked off years of arguing about torture porn, and found footage crept in underneath all of it. It was also the last decade when discovery was physical. You walked down a shelf, picked something up because the box looked cool, and took your chances.

With that much product moving, good stuff got flattened. Some movies caught reviews they did not earn. Some got dumped by studios that had stopped caring. Some opened next to something bigger and vanished.

None of these are secret masterpieces. A few are genuinely great, several are a mess, and every one of them deserves to be judged on its own terms instead of against whatever trend it happened to land in. You will disagree with at least three. Good.

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Really good horror films are tough to come by. Especially coming out of Hollywood. Good cosmic horror, despite a recent increase in popularity, is even rarer. I get it. It’s really a niche subgenre and it’s not easy to conceptualize, let alone figure out how to show it visually. Cosmic horror can absolutely be disturbing and gruesome. But at its core, it’s about the cerebral elements. Not that there’s a murderer stalking your house or angry ghosts haunting your house. It shows you how absolutely fragile the human mind is and what can happen if your understanding of reality itself is flipped upside down. Or how truly alien a thing from the deep reaches of space can be.

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• Sound from the Deep
• Upheaval
• Eldritch Dreams
• Eldritch Code
• The Gate
• Zygote
• While Mortals Sleep
• Peephole
• Portrait of God
• It Stares Back

Arrow in the Head has revealed the trailer and artwork for Beyond the Horizon of Madness: The Horrors of Sam Neill, a new documentary from Mike Gencarelli centered on John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness and Paul W.S. Anderson’s Event Horizon.

Neill, who died July 13 at the age of 78, left behind an incredible genre legacy that stretched from playing the adult Damien Thorn in Omen III: The Final Conflict and starring opposite Isabelle Adjani in Possession to Dead Calm, In the Mouth of Madness and the sci-fi horror cult classic Event Horizon. And, of course, there’s a little movie called Jurassic Park, which remains one of the most breathlessly exhilarating theatrical experiences of my lifetime.