Best Foreign Horror Movies of the '00s

There's nothing like seeing the usual suspects -- psychos, vampires, zombies -- through an unfamiliar lens. Rank these foreign fright flicks.

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1 Let the Right One In
A lonely vampire girl befriends a bullied adolescent in this melancholy Swedish horror movie. 134 320

2 [REC]
The inspiration for Quarantine: A Spanish lifestyle reporter stumbles onto a zombie plague. 81 247

3 High Tension
French student takes on a ruthless serial killer in this white-knuckle thriller. 68 244

4 Martyrs
Envelope-pushing horror from France that mixes torture, transcendence and philosophizing. 39 217

5 Brotherhood of the Wolf
Intrigue, martial arts, sexy spies and shape-shifting menace all collide in this period horror romp from France. -5 171

6 Thirst
A gentle priest finds himself a vampire in Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook's shocker. -8 160

7 Pontypool
Zombies meet Beat-era metaphysics in this trippy, scary movie from Canada. -10 168

8 Calvaire
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Belgiums desolate Fagnes region in this backwoods shocker. -26 134

9 Imprint
An American journalist in 19th-century Japan uncovers betrayal and grotesque secrets as he investigates his lover's death. -31 141

10 The Substitute
Danish middle-schoolers suspect there's something wrong with their substitute teacher, and they're right. -38 118

11 Invisible
Stranded between life and death, a privileged but unhappy teen reasssses his life. -46 120