The Snakebite team have been trailing through a year of horror films for their top 10 best horror films, but i have to say it has been slim pickings this year. ,My turn....

10. Night Fare

Taxi Drivers can be a real bitch if you don't pay your taxi fare. Another film out of Film4 Frightfest in 2015 and an interesting little tale. well shot well written.

9. Stage Fright

NAILED IT! way back in January we saw the release of Glee meets Friday the 13th as we headed off to camp. A hilarious musical comedy horror  which will make you burst out with laughter with every musical number.

8. SINISTER 2

A slightly different take to the Sinister story as Bughuul returns to prey on a family on the run from a violent husband/father. Not as amazingly good as the original however the story is solid and I found this a very entertaining sequel which could hold it on its own.

7. Maggie

Zombies don't have to be rushing around ripping out your throat or eating the intestines of unexpecting victims.  Maggie shows that the zombie genre can do a thought provoking drama with a very emotional performance from Arnie which was a very good suprise.

6. Nina Forever

What is worse than getting romantic with a man who has lost his long term girlfriend? Having her new boyfriend's dead ex turn up during a hot steamy sex session would probably be at the top of that list. This is an odd little British film this on but with the dark humour and truly messed up story arch Nina Forever is a definite watch.

5. Night of the Living Deb

It is the american take on films like Shaun of the Dead. Night of the Living Deb is a quirky Zombie Rom-Com. As zombie comedies go NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEB ticked all the boxes, and there are so many awful zombie films about now that seeing this has reignited my faith in the zombie genre.

4. Late Phases 

Finally Late Phases found it self being released in 2015. Annoyingly it was renamed Night of the Wolf: Late Phase for some good awful reason. Late Phases breathes life into the overly stale werewolf genre, with a tough old blind bastard leading the fight and some good old fashioned werewolf design it goes to show someone cares in the world of horror enough to make a decent werewolf film.

3. Emelie

A twisted tale this one. You don't see many babysitter horror/thrillers anymore but Emelie takes a knife and stabs it to the heart of the rest of the tripe in 2015. It is rare to find a film like this. Raw, gritty and moments and pretty much a perfect film throughout. Great acting from the kids in this film. Lets hope it gets a good reception when it is released in 2016 in the UK.​

2. What We Do In The Shadows

Vampires get a bad rap nowadays, with films like Twilight so popular during its run and a slurry of teen vampire films that followed in its wake I was very happy to be given this hilarious vampire horror comedy to try back in mid 2015.  What We Do In The Shadows does what all other horror comedies fails to do...it is actually laugh out loud funny. You MUST buy this if you have not already got your hands on it.

1. Body

This may shock a few people. A little film that came out of Frightfest 2015, The Body was my highlight of the festival. It isn't in your face, it isn't over the top, it is just a good old fashioned Horror/Thriller that i have been craving for years. 2015 has been full of disappointing horror films but The Body just came out of no where and surprised the hell out of me in a good way. Great performances from all involved. 

10. CLOWN

​Killer clown movies!  The gore is muted, but that’s understandable as the victims are strictly kiddies.  Not as creepy as All Hallow’s Eve, but it makes up for it with its performances and character.

9. IT FOLLOWS 

An interesting concept, if a little nonsensical.  It’s the movie’s execution that saves it from becoming a pile of bollocks, from the acting to the cinematography to its throwback soundtrack. 

8. STARRY EYES

​Another down-on-her-luck starlet.  This fright flick sheds an eery light on the pressures of making it on Hollywood, and how far people are expected/forced to go to achieve stardom.  The deterioration of the lead actress is not too dissimilar to that of the lead in Contracted: Phase I, but we are treated to one hell of a finale.

7. EAT 

​This won’t be everyone’s taste.  Truth be told, it’s not usually mine.  A struggling Hollywood actress – is there any other kind? – starts cannibalising…herself!  The soundtrack’s cool.  The special effects are gross.  This is what happens when we have flicks like Anthropophagus out there, corrupting and inspiring the budding talent.

6. SUMMER OF BLOOD

​Very funny, very dry movie.  The lead’s apathy and selfishness is second to none.  It really shows how far vampires have fallen down in terms of being respected horror movie monsters.  

5. SPRING 

​Usually the hero tries to kill the monster, not fall in love with it!  One of the more unusual love stories of our time.  Set in idyllic Italy, this is an Indie romance with a slippery twist.

4. NIGHT OF THE WOLF: LAST PHASES 

​Awesome werewolf special effects?  Check.  Excellent performances?  Check.  Great storyline?  Check.  Possibly the best werewolf movie I’ve seen in I don’t know how many years.

3. STAGE FRIGHT

​This one reared its head in the festivals of 2014, and very nearly had some of the most hardcore horror fans dancing in the aisles!  That said, it was the first decent horror movie to emerge this year all the way back in January.  It’s funny, it’s bloody, it’s catchy, and you can sing-along to it.  Why didn’t Disney think of it first?!!

2. WE ARE STILL HERE 

​Paying homage to the king of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci, this supernatural ‘monsters in the basement’ movie has great gore, and one kick-ass climax.

1. COHERENCE 

​Headed by Nicolas Brendon, this Rubik’s Cube of alternate realities crashing into one another quickly becomes unnerving as passing comet changes everything.  With subtle twists and turns, the tension builds as our characters and their doppelgangers must find their way back to their own reality before the night is up, or risk blinking out of existence.

10. BLACKWOOD

This is just one in a blur of highly boring British supernatural house in the country movies.  Nothing new to see here.  Utterly forgettable.  It’s not even interesting enough to diss with dry expletives.

9. GHOSTBOAT

​This movie has almost all of the tell-tale signs on how not to make a movie on a budget.  Not only is the acting terrible, but the film never loses that feeling of not actually knowing what it is or where it’s going.  If the makers ran out of script and just started making up shit as they went along, it really shows.

8. THE CUTTING ROOM

This is one of those perplexing moments where the UK tries to get in on the found footage fun.  This is also one of those moments where the UK realises why it shouldn’t bother.  Surprisingly enough the teenagers are better at acting than the adults.

7. THE EXORCISM OF MOLLY HARTLEY

​Everything about this movie is just wrong.  Least of all is why Gina Holden is still trying to make her career actually happen.  Devon Sawa just isn’t, and never could be a credible ‘man of the cloth’.  The possessed makeup is naturally reminiscent of Regan from The Exorcist, but unfortunately it differs just enough to make her look like an inbred backwoods hillbilly cannibal.  And don’t get me started on her voice.  I don’t really care for text-speak abbreviations but WTF…  As in, WTF were they thinking???

6. OUIJA

​It’s amazing what they’ll green-light sequels to, let alone produce in the first place.  A very bland story that would have been better off released back when American rip-offs of Japanese ghost girl movies were still in fashion.  This is the 2nd appearance of Olivia Cooke on the wrong side of one of my Top 10 lists.  That said, her saving grace is that her co-star Bianca Santos has to be one of the worst actresses I’ve ever seen. 

5. HUMAN CENTIPEDE 3

​I don’t care if it’s satirical.  I don’t care if it’s self-parodying.  I don’t even care if it’s meta.  It’s the movie that nobody wanted and it doesn’t even deliver on the promised spectacle.  Believe me, or don’t believe me, but the end result/execution of a prison made out of a great human centipede is actually hugely disappointing, not to mention boring as fuck.

4. TOOLBOX MURDERS 2

​I don’t know about you, but a Brian Krause credit is usually a good sign that what I am about to watch is going to be an extreme turd.  And what do you know, I was right!  There’s just no point whatsoever to this movie.  Completed almost a decade after its original, does anyone even care anymore?

3. DEMONIC

​Because of its terrible execution this movie turns out to be dull as dishwater, despite having more than enough elements to keep things thoroughly interesting.  There is no pace, no tension, nothing.

2. THROWBACK

​Never mind the Aussie humour that only people who watch Home & Away or Neighbours understand.  Just about everyone on the planet should have got the memo that we are decades past movies where the monster is clearly a stuntman in a shitty Halloween costume.  The climax is a pathetic school playground-style chase sequence.  Sometimes you can get away with saying your project is meant to be tongue-in-cheek.  But in this case it’s a cheap way of saying you’ve produced a steaming pile of ineffective crap and it’s too late to change it now.

1. HOUSE ON THE HILL

​If you need to ask why this movie is the worst horror of 2015, I can only surmise that you have been fortunate enough never to have witnessed it.  It’s badly-made, badly-acted, badly everything.  Generally an all-round sad and sorry piss-poor hour and a bit of humiliation and torture.  And that’s just for the viewer!  All I can say to its makers is, “Fuck off back to film school and get a refund!”