13. WARM BODIES: This youth skewing zombie romance gets a bad rap. It's actually a pretty clever spin on the whole undead genre. And it's perfect for the red holiday. It's light on gore but Palmer and Hoult's chemistry is great and the movie has a fare amount of laughs and creative scares.
12. THE FLY (1986): Cronnenberg's now classic remake features Jeff Goldblum as a scientist obsessed with perfecting his teleportation device. Along the way he falls for a rambunctious journalist played by Geena Davis. But after a terrible accident he begins to transform into a fly/human hybrid. Oozing with spectacular gruesome graphic practical effects that hold up the film also features a strong love story between the two leads and they have great chemistry. It all ends in goretatsic tragedy that will leave bloody tears streaming from your ducts.
11. MY BLOODY VALENTINE (1981): I hate even including this because it's such an obvious choice but there is no doubt that it fits perfectly on this list. Following the Friday the 13th slasher craze at the time. "Valentine" set it's gruesome events on the title holiday as a group of silly teens come up against a local town legend about a killer who targets people on V day.Set in a mining town the killer dons a gas mask and a big pickaxe. With the combination of unintentionally funny romantic melodrama and gory death setpieces "Valentine" is a whole lot of fun!
10. THE LOVED ONES: Taking Brutal obsession to this extreme this criminally underseen gorefest is right up V day's alley. The film centers on a young man who is kidnapped by his obsessed stalker and her father. Who torture him so that he can fulfill her high school dreams . It culminates to syringes filled with windex and a lobotomy with a drill as well as a disturbing secret that comes to light. After you see it you will never forget it! Perfect for a reminder of how good you have it whether it be single or dating someone not quite as psychotic as Lola.
9. VALENTINE: This stinker of an attempt to make a new horror franchise is flat in almost every facet but one. It's so bad that it's good. The unintentional funnies run freely as a cupid masked serial killer brutally murders people on the red holiday. Katherine Heigl (pre fame), Denise Richards, Marley Shelton and David Boreanaz embarrass themselves in goofy performances. Roses are red, Violets are blue. They are going to dental records to identify you. Classic.
8. SLITHER: If you missed this grotesque Night of the Creepesque creature feature. Rush out now and see one of the goriest, creative, funny creature features ever released. Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker and Nathan Fillion shine as an alien species arrives on earth and begins infesting people mutating them and making them very, very hungry.
7. ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE: This disturbingly real foray into the teen slasher sub genre. It centers around the innocent Mandy Lane portrayed by the world's hottest woman Amber Heard. She's the envy of all the boys at school and one's willing to kill to make her his. This twist is a kicker and fantastically brilliant!
6. MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D: Superior remake amps up on the fun and blends the melodrama along with some of the craziest use of 3D in a horror film I've ever seen. Still the best experience with the format I've had in the theater. The setup is the same as a gas masked killer targets a town on V day with gruesome results. Jamie King, Sexy Jensen Ackles and Kerr Smith star. The movie starts of strong and only gets better as it goes along. A perfect treat for the red holiday. Fun and bloody!
5. NEAR DARK: This Little Vamp love story comes courtesy of Oscar Winning director Kathryn Bigelow and features a cast of genre all stars Jeanette Goldstein, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Adrian Pasdar and Jenny Wright. This a grimy, dirty little horror flick with a strong gooey love story at it's center is a prime pic for V day. The combination of dark humor, gritty violence, vampires and romance has never been repeated successfully.
4. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1989): The Director of Fan fave Halloween 4 blessed horror fans with this gory little seen adaptation of the famous story. Robert Englund is mesmerizing as the Phantom and Jill Schoelen is perfect as Christine. The music, the cinematography and the dark execution are perfect and much needed for the material. A real cinematic gem and a must see for fans of practical effects!
3. RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3: This undead spin on the whole Romeo and Juliet theme was one of my favorite movies growing up. It has a thick campiness running throughout it as well as some romantic melodrama but what's most impressive is the practical effects on display especially of the main zombie after she's mutilated herself. The movie is a fun, gory, romantic tragedy filled with lots of blood and guts.
2. BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992): Francis Ford Coppola's lush reinvention of the famous book is a visually striking, powerful dramatic horror romance. Coppola brings to life every facet of the gothic novel in a film that as horrific as it is emotionally resonant. Featuring now iconic performances by Gary Oldman as the Count. Anthony Hopkins as the Van Helsing and Winona Ryder as Mena. Sexy Keanu reeves , Cary Elwes, Sadie Frost and Monica Belluci also star. Gorgeous cinematography, wondrous costumes, and award winning makeup fill this seductive cinematic gothic horror masterpiece!
1. DEAD ALIVE: Most people would forget that cinema's goriest film ever made is also a powerful love story. Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame (yes LOTR) directs this goofy gorefest about a strain of zombie virus that hits a small town. It infects a mean Old Woman whose very possessive of her only son Lionel whose in love with a bodega clerk. Blood, Guts, body parts, and lots of gore and vomit explode throughout the film along with zombie babies, horny zombies and a priest whose trained in martial arts and fights for the lord. It all culminates with a spectacular, chaotic, cartoonish gorefest as the zombies descend upon a party. All the while Lionel does anything he can to protect the girl of his dreams but only if he can get past Mother and being sucked back into her womb literally.
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