Twilight The Next Harry Potter With A Horror Twist?

Breaking Dawn, the last book in the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer hit shelves earlier in August and has caused quite an uproar among fans looking forward to the movie, and those who are skeptical about the movie being shown to the young audience it is intended for. Admittedly the subject matter is no more controversial than wizards and magic, which the Harry Potter books are famous for, so we could have a new behemoth in the world of Tween movies, this time bearing a “horror” moniker.

The story follows the protagonist of the books, Bella Swan, who is sent to live with her father in dreary Forks, Washington after her mother remarries. Once there, she’s fascinated with one Edward Cullen, who’s stark white appearance isn’t the only startling thing about him and the rest of his family. Bella soon finds out Edward, along with the rest of his “family”, is a vampire and becomes enthralled with Edward, not only because he is her soul mate, but simply because she loves him. While this isn’t the first time someone has fallen in love with a vampire, if the movie stays true to the books, fans will have lots to expect.

Quarantine (2008)

Director John Erick Dowdle brings you the terrifying tale of a news story gone wrong. Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) have been coupled up with the Los Angeles Fire Station for the night. During their stay, a 911 call is made, bringing them to a small apartment building with the police already at the scene. Blood curdling screams from one of the apartment units has started to scare the other residents.

The crew finds out a little too late that a rare strain of the rabies virus is the cause behind this, leaving the completely locked in by the CDC under quarantine. Things start to go horribly wrong as the residents start getting viciously attacked. All communication to the inside has been completely cut off, leaving those inside wondering what exactly is attacking everyone and why no official information is being relayed in to them.

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Max Payne (2008)

While not necessarily horror, the story of Max Payne is definitely one to keep you on the edge of your seat. The movie adaptation of Rockstar Games epic story is set to hit theaters October 17^th nation wide.

Mark Wahlberg takes the lead role as Max Payne, a unlucky cop who is still trying to get over the death of his family. As a detective, work doesn’t stop for family troubles, so Payne is force to stay on task and continue his investigation of several murders around town. Things begin to heat up as a deadly assassin looking for revenge (Mila Kunis) is loose in the same exact city.

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Mirrors (2008)

Ben Carson (Kiefer Sutherland) hasn’t quite been the same since he left the police department. After killing another policeman during an undercover operation, Ben finds himself drowning away his guilt in alcohol. To support his family, he takes up a position as a security guard at a New York City department store that had been shut down five years ago due to a terrible fire that had killed and injured many individuals.

What he doesn’t realize is that the mirrors within this abandoned building are looking for vengeance and can reach out through the many mirrors left within the building to get it. Even worse, these spirits attach themselves to Ben, allowing him to bring them home and endager the people he loves. Will his sister Angie (Amy Smart), estranged wife Amy (Paula Patton), and their two kids Micahel (Cameron Boyce) and Daisy (Erica Gluck) survive the horrors that Ben has brought home for them to face?

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Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008)

Jack Brooks (Trevor Matthews) has had a very traumatic life and it’s just about to get worse. After Jack witnessed the brutal murder of his family, he had found himself with a blood lust and fury that he has to constantly fight to maintain his composure. If watching the death of your parents isn’t traumatic enough, now Jack has found himself as a struggling local plumber and a failing boyfriend to Eve (Rachel Skarsten).

After attempting to turn his life around and end this downward spiral, Jack takes on a job to fix the old rusty plumbing that plagues the house of Professor Crowley (Robert Englund). But as Jack’s luck would have it, he has just awoken an ancient evil. The weak willed Professor Crowley is no match for the demonic powers, quickly overtaking him through the monstrous black heart that it has taken the form of. As Professor Crowley slowly succums to the beating black heart buried deep inside his chest, his transformation into a gruesome beast is beginning to be much more visible.

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The X-Files: I Want To Believe

Fans of the X-Files franchise have been waiting a long time for another reunion of the extraordinarily popular award winning television series, The X-Files. The film reunites the two stars of the series, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, with the shows creator Chris Carter. Carter co-wrote the screenplay for the new film with Frank Spotnitz and both have kept the storyline under wraps to keep the typical X-Files secretive feel.

What is known about the film is that it is a complete stand-alone story in the same fashion that some of the older episodes of the show had managed to do. Much time has passed since the ending of the series, leaving Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) in completely different places. Mulder hasn’t given up his search for truth and no matter what Scully does, it doesn’t look like she can find herself left out of these pursuits. The story had to do with a new file that has some how drawn these two back together yet again.

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The Dark Knight Is A Box Office Smash

The follow-up to director Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, The Dark Knight places actor Christian Bale behind the mask once again as Gotham’s favorite vigilante.

The Dark Knight brings the already dark story of Batman into an even more gruesome and suspenseful movie. Fighting crime has never been harder for Batman, but he has received some help from Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), his technological mastermind Luscious Fox (Morgan Freeman), his ever faithful butler Alfred (Michael Caine), and the criminally unpopular District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart).

As Gotham attempts to recover from the damage caused by Ra’s Al Ghul, a new criminal mastermind enters the scene calling himself The Joker (Heath Ledger). Bringing together Gotham’s underground was the easy part, now taking on Batman? That will be the Jokers true challenge.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Oscar nominated director Guillermo del Toro brings the epic story of Hellboy back to the big screen in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Having done amazingly visual and terrifyingly artistic work in movies such as Pan’s Labyrinth and the original Hellboy, del Toro brought the Hellboy series into a much darker and more evil world, releasing creatures never before dreamed of.

An ancient truce between mankind and the wold of elves and goblins has been broken, leaving nothing but disaster as a possibility for the future. The invisible realm’s new leader has defied his bloodlines wishes and taken full control of an unstoppable army laid to rest a long time ago. Only one group of paranormal superheroes has what it takes to stop this menace, but when the people of the world turn on them for being different, which side is truly where they belong?

The B.P.R.D. line-up chosen to defend the Earth this time, includes: the demon Hellboy (Ron Perlman), the pyrokinetic Liz (Selma Blair), the aquatic empath Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), and the protoplasmic mystic Johann.

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening

There were no warning signs. Nothing to let anyone know that it was coming. But in just a few short minutes, death and destruction reign down throughout major cities. Nobody knows exactly what is causing this complete breakdown of the human mind. Could it be terrorist attacks? Biological experimentation gone wrong? We can’t be certain…

High School Science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) has decided that staying put is not the right decision. With his marriage to Alma (Zooey Deschanel) on the rocks, the two of them attempt all methods of travel to get as far away from where they were as possible. Along the way they meet up with Julian (John Leguizamo), a Math teacher friend, and his 8 year old daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez). The four head further into Pennsylvania in an attempt to evade this horrible experience, only to find out that nowhere is safe. But Elliot may just have discovered a glimpse of hope in this bleak future awaiting the whole human race.

The Happening is directed by M. Night Shyamalan.