Top 13 on the 13th: Scariest movies ever

Movie List


Chicken Little

  • October 30, 2005
  • Mark Dindal
  • The movie picks up where the classic fable ends, namely after our pint-sized hero has caused big-time havoc when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky. In the wake of the "unfortunate acorn incident" Chicken Little's name is mud in his hometown of Oakey Oaks. Down but not out, he...

Madagascar

  • May 27, 2005
  • Eric DarnellTom McGrath
  • This movie focuses on four residents and "stars" of the Central Park Zoo in New York City who are also best friends: a lion (Stiller), a zebra (Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer) and a pregnant hippo (Smith). When one of them goes missing, the other three break out of the zoo looking for him, and...

Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro)

  • June 10, 2005
  • Hayao Miyazaki
  • When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.

Valiant

  • August 19, 2005
  • Gary Chapman
  • A comedy-adventure tale of a brave-but-undersized pigeon named Valiant (voiced by Ewan McGregor), who dreams of joining the elite Royal Homing Pigeon Service (RHPS), and serving crown and country during World War II. Despite his small stature, Valiant's ambitions are enormous as he keeps a stiff...

Cars

  • March 14, 2006
  • John LasseterJoe Ranft
  • Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson), a hotshot rookie racecar driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. En route across the country to the big Piston Cup...

Happy Feet

  • November 17, 2006
  • George MillerWarren ColemanJudy Morris
  • Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

Corpse Bride

  • September 16, 2005
  • Tim BurtonMike Johnson
  • Set in a 19th century European village, this stop-motion, animated feature follows the story of Victor, a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride, while his real bride, Victoria, waits bereft in the land of the living. Although life in the Land of the...

Open Season

  • September 29, 2006
  • Roger AllersJill CultonAnthony Stacchi
  • A deer buddies up with a domesticated grizzly bear when the two animals are alone in the woods during hunting season. Meanwhile, Beth, a forest ranger who raised the bear, embarks on a desperate search to find her friend.

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

  • October 5, 2005
  • Steve BoxNick Park
  • It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a...

Curious George

  • February 10, 2006
  • Matthew O'Callaghan
  • Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment bring "Curious George", the original "monkey see, monkey do" chimp, to the screen in an all-new animated adventure based upon the beloved tales that have been enchanting readers for more than 60 years. George, the inquisitive little primate transplanted...