Britt Ekland

Scream | Official Trailer (HD) - Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Drew Barrymore | MiramaxBack in 1996, the best a hit high-school slasher movie with a bitingly clever, self-referential script (directed by a genre legend in Wes Craven) could hope for was dominating the MTV Movie Awards. But if franchise-starter Scream was released today, especially now that Oscar has expanded the real estate on its Best Picture nominee list, who’s to say this nominated-for-nuthin’ title wouldn’t have claimed one of those 10 spots? Stream on…

High Tension - Official TrailerMay means springtime and rebirth, or if you’re Shudder, it means “time to add some key New Extremity titles to the library.” Alexandre Aja (who went on to make the Hills Have Eyes remake, Piranha 3D, and alligator home-invasion flick Crawl, among others) added major juice to that nausea-inducing early-2000s trend with 2003 French slasher High Tension. Almost as impressive as its levels of gore is its twisty plot, which famously pulls the rug out from under the viewer with a jaw-dropping…