10 Nastiest Horror Films Since 2000

31 is Rob Zombie’s first crowdfunded film, but even though he’s working with slender resources, that doesn’t mean he’s decided to make a found footage movie about two people who film themselves sleeping. If anything, it’s even grimmer than House Of 1000 Corpses, which really is saying something.

The movie even tells a similar story: one Halloween night in the late 1970s, a group of not particularly sympathetic characters are kidnapped and forced to participate in 31, where the name of the game is to stay alive for 12 hours and outrun some chainsaw-wielding sickos in clown makeup. Think The Running Man with a retro look, multiple deaths by chainsaw (including a great decapitation) and a Nazi midget, and you’re in the right ballpark.

Best of all is Richard Brake as Doom-Head, who has a shot at being the coldest, most twisted sumbitch in any Zombie movie to date. Given to grinning like a shark when he’s not carving up his victims, he also gets all of the film’s best lines. “You may think you see a grease-painted performer sitting before you,” he says in an opening monologue. “But trust me – I am not here to brighten your dismal day. I am here to end your miserable life.”