When After Dark Films, in association with Lions Gate Films, released the 8 Films to Die For last year, I'll admit that, while hoping for something good (and maybe even scary) from these films, I was mostly reticent about seeing them. It seems these days that the most one can expect from a horror film in American theaters is either bloody gore or nearly stock footage by now of a stained wall where someone has been pulled over to the other side or something having to do with some sort of mistreatment and perhaps murder in the past to be avenged by the spirit of the deceased—not limiting itself to simple revenge but spreading the destruction far and wide into the path of anyone who happens to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. Directed By: Nacho Cerdà Written By: Karim Hussain Production: Castelao Producciones MPAA: Rated R For the most part, my reticence proved not to be unfounded, a good measure of the eight films proving to be mediocre at best, some just plain awful. One or two of the more low-budget and independent films reached for the mark, and though they may have missed it, I couldn't help but ...