What about horror movies?

2010:  “Hatchet 2”

In the first installment of the “Hatchet” series, a group of tourists is duped into taking a tour through a swamp, where a deformed, super-strong crazy man lives and kills people for the hell of it. He’s played by Kane Hodder—the go-to guy for super-strong deformed crazy men. The end of the movie leaves itself wide open for a sequel, and four years later, one finally came.

In the sequel, the main female lead assembles a crew to go back and finish off Kane Hodder. Let’s get this straight: “Hatchet 2” is not supposed to be a good movie. It’s supposed to be an out-and-out bloodbath where everyone is killed and chopped up. Sometimes, Hollywood just needs it.

2009: “Martyrs”

If the Academy also had a category for “grossest film,” this would probably take that award home as well. “Martyrs” follows two women, one of whom escaped from a torturing facility when she was very young, and is now haunted by a mysterious creature wherever she goes. She believes she has to kill the people responsible before the hallucination can go away.

Her vengeful search for her captors leads her to an innocent-looking family’s house, where she kills them all. After still being haunted by the creature, however, it is clear that the evil responsible lurks elsewhere.

This movie will make you shudder. There’s no way to sugarcoat that. There’s a scene where someone is skinned alive. Watch at your own risk.

2008: “Let the Right One In”

Sweden gives us meatballs, cheap furniture, black metal and blonde women. In 2008, they gave us “Let the Right One In,” one of the slickest vampire movies since…ever.

The movie follows two childhood friends, one of which is a vampire.  The story woven by this movie is one of intense friendship, with blood all over the place. Some people are bitten, become vampires and burst into flames; others are dismembered in a swimming pool. While these are very powerful plot devices, they are used to convey very real human emotions of love and friendship, which will leave you internally

conflicted like no other horror movie of 2008. ?