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Cocaine Bear (2023): Dir. Elizabeth Banks
Feat. Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Christian Convery…; An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after…
Black Phone, The (2022): Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Ethan Hawke; The phone is dead. And it’s ringing. Director Scott Derrickson (“Sinister”) returns to his terror roots and partners again with both Ethan…
Bones And All (2022): Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance…; A captivating, sincere horror–romance from the director of CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis. Set in the late…
Pearl (2022): Dir. Ti West
Feat. Mia Goth, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland; The prequel to X (2022), set in 1918, when a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in her desperate attempt to escape the drudgery,…
Scream (2022): Dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Feat. Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega…; The fifth installment in the SCREAM series of slasher films, acting as a direct sequel to 2011's SCREAM 4, and the first to be made without the late…
Skinamarink (2022): Dir. Kyle Ball
Feat. Lucas Paul, Dali Rose Tetreault, Ross Paul…; Following a bizarre accident, a six year old girl and her four year old brother wake up to discover all the doors and windows inside of their house…
Smile (2022): Dir. Parker Finn
Feat. Sosie Bacon, Kyle Gallner, Jessie Usher…; A sharp and effective horror film about trauma that manifests as a viral entity that wears a sinister smile. What it might lack in story…
Studio 666 (2022): Dir. BJ McDonnell
Feat. Dave Grohl, Whitney Cummings, Taylor Hawkins…; Rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock'n'roll history to record their 10th album in this horror–comedy that…
X (2022): Dir. Ti West
Feat. Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow…; A first–rate 70s–retro horror that sees the plans of a group of young filmmakers to make an adult film in backwoods Texas thwarted by…
A Quiet Place Part II (A Quiet Place 2) (2021): Dir. John Krasinski
Feat. Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds…; Highly anticipated sequel to the inventive horror movie A QUIET PLACE, about parents (played by director John Krasinksi and real–life spouse…
Candyman (2021): Dir. Nia DaCosta
Feat. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett…; Sequel to the legendary 1992 Clive Barker horror of the same name, and the second film from talented director Nia DaCosta (LITTLE WOODS),…
Gaia (2021): Dir. Jaco Bouwer
Feat. Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Dick Van Dyke…; Visually striking South African eco–horror about an injured forest ranger on a routine mission who is saved by two off–the–grid…
Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021): Dir. Jason Reitman
Feat. Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace…; The fourth Ghostbusters movie with much of the original cast reappearing alongside fresh young faces, directed and co–written by Jason Reitman…
Hatching (2021): Dir. Hanna Bergholm
Feat. Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen; Hanna Bergholm's feature debut has finally put Finland on the horror film map – an enchanting pubescent allegory about a 12–year–old…
Last Night in Soho (2021): Dir. Edgar Wright
Feat. Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith…; Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor–Joy star in this latest dizzying concoction from precocious British director Edgar Wright, a…
Malignant (2021): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young…; The latest fright–fest from director James Wan (THE CONJURING, INSIDIOUS) is a polarising horror following a woman who starts having murderous…
Old (2021): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell…; Thriller from director M. Night Shyamalan (THE SIXTH SENSE) about a family on vacation at a luxury resort who discover that the secluded beach…
Silent Night (2021): Dir. Camille Griffin
Feat. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Roman Griffin Davis…; A grinch of a Christmas movie that on the surface looks like LOVE ACTUALLY but has a premise as black as coal. A bunch of…
Antebellum (2020): Dir. Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz
Feat. Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone…; A provocative psychological horror in which a modern day African American writer finds herself trapped in a 19th Century Southern slave plantation. A…
Craft: Legacy, The (2020): Dir. Zoe Lister Jones
Feat. Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone…; Sequel to the 1996 film THE CRAFT, following four high school students who form a coven of witches. After the original's all–male creative…
Empty Man, The (2020): Dir. David Prior
Feat. James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Stephen Root…; Supernatural horror set in a small Missouri town, where an ex–cop is investigating the disappearance of a missing girl and comes across a…
Fantasy Island (2020): Dir. Jeff Wadlow
Feat. Michael Pena, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale…; Supernatural horror film adaptation of the classic TV series FANTASY ISLAND, from Blumhouse Pictures. A group of five people travel to a tropical…
Freaky (2020): Dir. Christopher Landon
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Katie Finneran…; Christopher Landon (HAPPY DEATH DAY) directs this big hearted and hilarious teen comedy slasher with loving nods to classics of the genre, especially…
How To Deter A Robber (2020): Dir. Maria Bissell
Feat. Vanessa Marano, Benjamin Papac, Abbie Cobb; Endearing horror comedy set in a desolate town in Northern Wisconsin at Christmas, where a stubborn young woman and her sweet but naive boyfriend…
Hunt, The (2020): Dir. Craig Zobel
Feat. Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Betty Gilpin…; Craig Zobel (Z FOR ZACHARIAH) directs this outrageous satirical horror about the extreme political divide between the left and the right in America.…
Invisible Man, The (2020): Dir. Leigh Whannell
Feat. Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid…; Strikingly original science fiction horror which revitalises the classic tale about a predatory man by H. G. Wells into a feminist exploration of…
Lovecraft Country (TV Series) (2020): Feat. Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Jonathan Majors; Examining racism in America's past through an unexpected genre, this HBO horror series follows a young black man across a segregated 1950s United…
New Mutants, The (2020): Feat. Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton…; This thirteenth and final installment in the X–Men film series follows five young mutants fighting to save themselves while being held in a…
Night House, The (2020): Dir. David Bruckner
Feat. Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Stacy Martin…; Powerful psychological horror from adventurous director David Bruckner (2007's THE SIGNAL), with Rebecca Hall playing the widow of a recently…
Possessor (2020): Dir. Brandon Cronenberg
Feat. Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland…; Brandon Cronenberg (ANTIVIRAL) wrote and directed this sci–fi horror about an assassin (Andrea Riseborough) who assumes control of other…
Psycho Goreman (2020): Dir. Steven Kostanski
Feat. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Steven Vlahos; A nostalgia–soaked Creature Feature that is a commendably light–hearted yet ultra–violent slice of cosmic comedy/adventure about an…
Relic (2020): Dir. Natalie Erika James
Feat. Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, Bella Heathcote…; Australian psychological horror about an elderly, widowed matriarch whose dementia has manifested as a supernatural presence in her house, as her…
Rent-A-Pal (2020): Dir. Jon Stevenson
Feat. Wil Wheaton, Brian Landis Folkins, Amy Rutledge; Thriller set squarely in the VHS era, following a lonely bachelor who finds a mysterious tape called Rent–A–Pal while using a video…
Reunion (2020): Dir. Jake Mahaffy
Feat. Julia Ormond, Emma Draper, John Bach…; Beautifully–lensed NZ horror shot in a grand old mansion in Lower Hutt, following an academic studying black magic (Emma Draper, DAFFODILS) who…
She Dies Tomorrow (2020): Dir. Amy Seimetz
Feat. Kate Lyn Sheil, Jane Adams, Kentucker Audley…; Extraordinary arthouse horror in which a young woman's traumatic feelings of imminent death appears to be a contagion. The seemingly absurd premise…
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020): Dir. Sang-ho Yeon
Feat. Dong-won Gang, Jung-hyun Lee, Re Lee; A standalone sequel to the 2016 action–horror hit TRAIN TO BUSAN, with director Yeon Sang–ho returning for a less focused but no less…
Underwater (2020): Dir. William Eubank
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, John Gallagher Jr.…; Claustrophobic creature–feature following the fates of a group of oceanic researchers lead by a mechanical engineer (Kristen Stewart) whose…
Willy's Wonderland (2020): Dir. Kevin Lewis
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Ric Reitz; Nicolas Cage continues his late career "cult" movie run with this bonkers action–comedy–horror playing a quiet drifter who is tricked…
Witches, The (2020): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci…; Robert Zemeckis' re–imagining of Roald Dahl’s beloved story that tells the darkly humorous yet heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who,…
After Midnight (2019): Dir. Jeremy Gardner
Feat. Jeremy Gardner, Brea Grant; After his long–term girlfriend unexpectedly leaves him. a small town bar owner finds himself threatened by a mysterious unseen evil. A curious…
Annabelle Comes Home (2019): Dir. Gary Dauberman
Feat. Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, Patrick Wilson…; The modern horror cash–cow known as the Conjuring Universe conjures up a seventh instalment of its franchise with this sequel to Annabelle…
Apartment 1BR (1BR) (2019): Dir. David Marmor
Feat. Nicole Brydon Bloom, Giles Matthey, Taylor Nichols…; Smartly scripted psychological thriller about an aspiring costumer designer in Los Angeles whose new neighbours belong to a creepy cult–like…
Bacurau (2019): Dir. Kleber Mendonca Filho, Juliano Dornelles
Feat. Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen…; Fiercely political and utterly distinctive film blending elements of neo–western, ethnography, gonzo and horror, set in a fictional Brazilian…
Bliss (2019): Dir. Joe Begos
Feat. Dora Madison; Brilliant hallucinogenic splatter–fest following a painter hungry for inspiration who begins snorting a stimulant called Bliss and soon spirals…
Brightburn (2019): Dir. David Yarovesky
Feat. Elizabeth Banks, David Denman; Sinister horror movie about an alien boy who crash–lands on earth and is adopted by a couple, but soon discovers that he has super powers, and…
Child's Play (2019): Dir. Lars Klevberg
Feat. Mark Hamill, Aubrey Plaza, Brian Tyree Henry…; Reboot of the killer doll slasher series that proves its worth with hugely entertaining scares and millennial–themed touches (Chucky's evil…
Color Out of Space (Colour Out of Space) (2019): Dir. Richard Stanley
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Q'orianka Kilcher…; Cult director Richard Stanley (HARDWARE) brings some nutty humour to this adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, with…
Come to Daddy (2019): Dir. Ant Timpson
Feat. Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Michael Smiley…; Wildly inventive horror–comedy from New Zealand producer and "Incredibly Strange" film festival honcho Ant Timpson in his directorial debut. A…
Crawl (2019): Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper; When a category 5 hurricane hits South Florida, a young woman attempts to save her father and finds herself fighting to survive in a flooded house…
Daniel Isn't Real (2019): Dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer
Feat. Miles Robbins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sasha Lane; Terrific psychological horror about a troubled college freshman who resurrects his charismatic childhood imaginary friend Daniel to cope after…
Dead Don't Die, The (2019): Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton…; Zom–com from indie favourite Jim Jarmusch, assembling a stunning ensemble cast and following the police force of a small town as they struggle…
Deerskin (Le Daim) (2019): Dir. Quentin Dupieux
Feat. Jean Dujardin, Adele Haenel, Albert Delpy; Quentin Dupieux, director of the cult hit RUBBER, returns with this buckwild surrealist comedy, following a man's all–consuming devotion for a…
Depraved (2019): Dir. Larry Fessenden
Feat. David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux…; The director of WENDIGO blesses us with another deliciously smart and stylish take on the classic monster movie. Inspired by Mary Shelley's…
Escape Room (2019): Dir. Adam Robitel
Feat. Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll…; Psychological horror following a group of people who agree to navigate a series of rooms by solving puzzles in order to win a large cash prize.…
Extra Ordinary (2019): Dir. Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman
Feat. Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte…; A pleasingly off–kilter Irish supernatural comedy about a sweet–natured but lonely driving instructor who uses her paranormal talents to…
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (The Delivered) (2019): Dir. Thomas Clay
Feat. Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox; British period thriller set in 1657 on a Shropshire farm, where Fanny Lye (the magnificent Maxine Peake) is living a quiet, puritan life until the…
Girl on the Third Floor (2019): Dir. Travis Stevens
Feat. C.M. Punk, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Sarah Brooks; Wild black comedy with former WWE wrestler "CM Punk" as an ex–con with his own demons convincing his eight–month–pregnant wife to…
Happy Death Day 2U (2019): Dir. Christopher Landon
Feat. Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Suraj Sharma…; Sequel to the enormously likable 2017 slasher farce HAPPY DEATH DAY, with Jessica Rothe returning as Tree Gelbman, the college student who gets stuck…
Harpoon (2019): Dir. Rob Grant
Feat. Munro Chambers, Brett Gelman, Emily Tyra; Darkly humorous survival horror with three best friends stranded on a yacht, fighting to survive and struggling with sexual tensions and rivalries.…
Haunt (2019): Dir. Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Feat. Will Brittain, Lauryn McClain; Claustrophobic Halloween themed slasher film following the fates of a group of friends who visit an "extreme" haunted house and encounter their worst…
Hole in the Ground, The (2019): Dir. Lee Cronin
Feat. Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Simone Kirby…; Decidedly creepy horror about a single mother who moves to the Irish countryside after a separation, but begins to suspect that her son may be an…
I See You (2019): Dir. Adam Randall
Feat. Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Owen Teague…; Meticulously crafted horror about a small–town detective whose family is plagued by inexplicable events after the disappearance of a local…
I Trapped the Devil (2019): Dir. Josh Lobo
Feat. Jocelin Donahue, A. J. Bowen, Scott Polythress…; Simultaneously clever and silly, this dread–inducing horror has a man trap Satan in his basement right before his family unexpectedly arrive…
Into the Labyrinth (L'uomo del labirinto) (2019): Dir. Donato Carrisi
Feat. Toni Servillo, Dustin Hoffman, Valentina Bellè…; Based on the best–selling novel by the director himself, this dream–like, indeed labyrinthine–plotted Italian thriller stars Toni…
It: Chapter 2 (2019): Dir. Andrés Muschietti
Feat. Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader…; A solid but overly–protracted direct sequel to the 2017 film that takes place 27 years later when the cast are all grown up and drawn back to…
Killer Sofa (My Lover, My Lazy Boy) (2019): Dir. Bernardo Rao
Feat. Jed Brophy, jordan rivers, Nathalie Morris…; Endearing Kiwi B–movie about a reclining chair that becomes smitten with a young woman and begins committing crimes of passion. It's up to a…
Lighthouse, The (2019): Dir. Robert Eggers
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman; A brilliantly salty psychological two–hander from Robert Eggers (THE WITCH), with Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe playing a pair of…
Little Monsters (2019): Dir. Abe Forsythe
Feat. Lupita Nyong'o, Alexander England, Kat Stewart; Horror comedy in which a zombie outbreak threatens the lives of some school children, and a school teacher forms a resistance team with the help of a…
Lodge, The (2019): Dir. Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Feat. Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh…; Psychological horror of unprecedented creepiness with Riley Keough playing a step–mother and suicide cult survivor who is snowed in with her…
Midsommar (2019): Dir. Ari Aster
Feat. Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper…; Dread–soaked arthouse horror from director Ari Aster (HEREDITARY), with Florence Pugh riveting as an American woman who travels to Sweden with…
Parasite (2019): Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho…; An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
Pet Sematary (2019): Dir. Dennis Widmyer, Kevin Kölsch
Feat. Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow; Nothing if not audacious, this updated screen adaptation of the terrifying Stephen King novel takes liberties with the plot to arguably increase the…
Ready or Not (2019): Dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Feat. Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Henry Czerny…; Outrageously violent horror comedy following the fate of a bride who discovers that her wealthy and eccentric in–laws have a terrifying and…
Saint Maud (2019): Dir. Rose Glass
Feat. Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Caoilfhionn Dunne…; The debut feature film of English writer–director Rose Glass is a deeply disturbing psychological horror about a devout Roman Catholic nurse…
Sator (2019): Dir. Jordan Graham
Feat. Michael Daniel, Rachel Johnson, Aurora Lowe; A critically–lauded, brooding horror film that doubles as a disturbing meditation on family bonds and mental illness, based on the…
Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark (2019): Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush; Young adult themed horror set on Halloween in Pennsylvania,1968, where a group of children explore a sinister book filled with darkly imaginative…
Stephen King's Doctor Sleep (2019): Dir. Mike Flanagan
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran; A nothing–if–not–bold sequel to one of the greatest horror movies of all time, THE SHINING. Set 40 years after the events of the…
Twilight Zone, The (TV Series) (2019): Feat. Sanaa Lathan, Adam Scott, Kumail Nanjiani…; A second reprise of the iconic and influential cult TV series, with 10 self–contained episodes telling sci–fi tinged tales of the…
Us (Jordan Peele's Us) (2019): Dir. Jordan Peele
Feat. Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss…; Writer–director Jordan Peele follows up his zeitgeist sensation GET OUT with this expanded expression of the African–American experience…
Vivarium (2019): Dir. Lorcan Finnegan
Feat. Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg; A young couple shopping for their first home find themselves in a housing development where every house looks exactly the same, and with no idea how…
Wretched, The (2019): Dir. Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce
Feat. John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Zarah Mahler; Witchy atmospheric chiller firmly grounded in 80's horror movie lore, where a rebellious teenage boy, struggling with his parents' imminent…
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019): Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone…; Satisfying sequel to the popular 2009 zombie comedy, bringing back the same likable makeshift family who face off against the walking dead.
A Quiet Place (2018): Dir. John Krasinski
Feat. Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds…; A smart and creative horror movie made by John Krasinski, who also stars alongside his real–life spouse Emily Blunt as parents fighting for…
Castle Rock (TV Series) (2018): Feat. André Holland, Melanie Lynskey, Bill Skarsgård…
Clovehitch Killer, The (2018): Dir. Duncan Skiles
Feat. Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer, Samantha Mathis; A tense, effectively slowburn horror–thriller from the writer of COP CAR that stars Charlie Plummer (so good in LEAN ON PETE) as the dutiful…
Cloverfield Paradox, The (2018): Dir. Julius Onah
Feat. Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Aksel Hennie…; Third entry into the tenuously connected Cloverfield Franchise, created and produced by J. J. Abrams, which follows a group of astronauts on a space…
Field Guide to Evil, The (2018): Dir. Peter Strickland, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala; The brainchild of Kiwi Ant "Incredibly Strange" Timpson, who follows his ABC's OF DEATH anthology productions with a like–minded venture into…
Ghostland (Incident in a Ghostland) (2018): Dir. Pascal Laugier
Feat. Crystal Reed, Anastasia Phillips; Grisly and gratuitous torture horror where a mother of two who inherits a home from her Aunt but intruders capture her daughters in the basement.…
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018): Dir. Ari Sandel
Feat. Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Madison Iseman…; Following on from the popular 2015 big screen adaptation, two young boys accidentally unleash a cacophony of monsters and demons after they open an…
Halloween (2018): Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak…; Jamie Lee Curtis makes a triumphant return to the Halloween franchise as Laurie Strode, now a badass grandma who has been waiting her whole life to…
Haunting of Hill House, The (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Mike Flanagan
Feat. Anthony Ruivivar, Carla Gugino, Elizabeth Reaser…; Loosely based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson, this modern serialized version flashes between past and present as a fractured…
Hereditary (2018): Dir. Ari Aster
Feat. Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro…; One of the most terrifying movies of recent years, with Toni Colette in a career defining performance, playing an artist whose mother passes away,…
House With the Clock in its Walls, The (2018): Dir. Eli Roth
Feat. Jack Black, Cate Blanchett; Gore maestro Eli Roth changes pace with this kids fantasy horror about a young orphan who teams up with his magical Uncle to find a clock that could…
In Fabric (2018): Dir. Peter Strickland
Feat. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Fatma Mohamed, Hayley Squires…; Utterly beguiling and sumptuous ghost story from singular British director Peter Strickland (DUKE OF BURGUNDY), following a possessed red dress as it…
Mandy (2018): Dir. Panos Cosmatos
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache…; Psychedelic horror director Panos Cosmatos follows up his beguiling and underrated BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW with this no–holds–barred…
Night Eats the World, The (La nuit a dévoré le monde) (2018): Dir. Dominique Rocher
Feat. Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant; Powerful and existentially inflected French zombie horror, a showcase for the acting talents of Anders Danielsen Lie, who plays a man fighting to…
Nun, The (2018): Dir. Corin Hardy
Feat. Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet…; An ultra–stylised, carnival–ride horror that spins–off from THE CONJURING movies, bringing the demonic nun from the second film…
Overlord (2018): Dir. Julius Avery
Feat. Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier; A small group of American soldiers discover secret Nazi experiments after they are dropped behind enemy lines the day before D–day. A gleefully…
Piercing (2018): Dir. Nicolas Pesce
Feat. Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, Laia Costa…; Director Nicolas Pesce's follow–up to THE EYES OF MY MOTHER is a deliciously deranged psychological horror following a man whose plans to…
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018): Dir. Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund
Feat. Thomas Lennon, Barbara Crampton, Udo Kier…; Deranged reboot of the Charles Band classic about puppets who get animated by an Egyptian spell and go on a murderous rampage.
Relaxer (2018): Dir. Joel Potrykus
Feat. Joshua Burge, David Dastmalchian; Grungy downbeat comedy set in 1999 in a haze of Y2K paranoia, where a slacker is challenged by his older brother not to leave the couch until he has…
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018): Dir. Crispian Mills
Feat. Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield…; Entertaining Simon Pegg and Nick Frost produced horror comedy set at an illustrious British boarding school, where a nearby fracking site creates a…
Slender Man (2018): Dir. Sylvain White
Feat. Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair…; Dramatic re–telling of the chilling true story of four high school girls from small–town Massachusetts who attempt to summon the Slender…
Slice (2018): Dir. Austin Vesely
Feat. Zazie Beetz, Chance the Rapper; Enjoyable schlocky comedy, fashionably throwing back to 80's horror and following a pizza delivery boy who sets out to solve a murder mystery in his…
Strangers, The: Prey at Night (2018): Dir. Johannes Roberts
Feat. Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin Henderson; An ironic retro–soundtrack typifies this frivolous sequel to THE STRANGERS (2008) in which a family of innocents are terrorised by a trio of…
Suspiria (2018): Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth…; A jaw–droppingly audacious remake of the classic Argento horror, which finds director Luca Guadagnino (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) at his most bold…
Terror, The (TV Mini-series) (2018): This grim series constructs a speculative account of an ill fated British expedition to map the arctic coastline and find a trade passage for ships…
Truth or Dare (2018): Dir. Jeff Wadlow
Feat. Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane; Teen horror fodder from the mega–successful Blumhouse productions in which a harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when…
Unsane (2018): Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Juno Temple; A gripping psychological horror focused on a woman who is committed to a mental institution after being pursued by a stalker. Shot entirely on an…
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018): Dir. Stacie Passon
Feat. Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover…; A family living in isolation after a tragedy is visited by their cousin who is after the family fortune, setting off a series of spine–tingling…
Welcome the Stranger (2018): Dir. Justin Kelly
Feat. Abbey Lee, Caleb Landry Jones, Riley Keough; An impressive cast grace this moody, somewhat impenetrable Gothic drama in which a young woman creates a disturbance when she shows up at her artist…
What Keeps You Alive (2018): Dir. Colin Minihan
Feat. Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen, Martha MacIsaac; Twisty, slow–burning thriller centered on two woman who are on a romantic getaway at a picturesque family lake house, when their happiness is…
Wind, The (2018): Dir. Emma Tammi
Feat. Caitlin Gerard, Ashley Zukerman, Julia Goldani Telles…; Atmospheric arthouse horror–western in which a tough, resourceful frontierswoman senses a sinister presence at her isolated homestead, with her…
A Dark Song (2017): Dir. Liam Gavin
Feat. Steve Oram, Catherine Walker; Ambitious Irish independent horror, with the rugged Welsh landscape as a fitting backdrop to a chamber piece following the fate of two strangers in a…
Alien: Covenant (2017): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Billy Crudup…; The alien resurrection continues with director Ridley Scott returning once again to the sci–fi blockbuster franchise for another…
Annabelle: Creation (2017): Dir. David F. Sandberg
Feat. Stephanie Sigman, Jason Bateman, Lulu Wilson…; A "return to form" for THE CONJURING franchise (after the egregious ANNABELLE), this prequel featuring the eponymous possessed doll tormenting a nun…
Berlin Syndrome (2017): Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Teresa Palmer, Riemelt Max; An Australian photographer visiting Berlin to shoot architecture meets a charismatic local English teacher, but their first date turns into a…
Dark Tower, The (2017): Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
Feat. Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor…; Stephen King adaptation which simplifies the author's acclaimed fantasy series into a watchable battle of good vs evil – represented by Idris…
Evil Within, The (2017): Dir. Andrew Getty
Feat. Frederick Koehler, Sean Patrick Flanery; Bizarre horror where a lonely, unstable man is compelled to go on a murder spree by the demonic reflection he sees in the mirror. It's production…
Get Out (2017): Dir. Jordan Peele
Feat. Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener…; A deliciously fresh and contemporary paranoid thriller that puts an ingenious and spirited African–American spin on the conspiracy template set…
Ghost Stories (2017): Dir. Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman; Well–crafted British horror anthology in three parts, concerning the adventures of paranormal skeptic Professor Phillip Goodman as he attempts…
Good Manners (2017): Dir. Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Feat. Isabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano; A genre–defying Portuguese film which artfully blends social satire and horror to tell the story of a nanny called Clara, who works for Ana, a…
Happy Death Day (2017): Dir. Christopher Landon
Feat. Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard; A plucky and successful stab at applying the GROUNDHOG DAY premise to the teen horror genre. Jessica Rothe is excellent as a self–centered…
Institute, The (2017): Dir. James Franco, Pamela Romanowsky
Feat. Allie Gallerani, James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson…; Curiously bungled indie horror set in Victorian–era Maryland, where a grief–stricken woman is institutionalised and subject to disturbing…
It (It: Chapter One) (2017): Dir. Andrés Muschietti
Feat. Jaeden Lieberher, Bill Skarsgård, Finn Wolfhard…; A group of youngsters dread, and dare to tread, toward solving the mystery of why children are disappearing in their small town in Maine, leading to…
It Comes at Night (2017): Dir. Trey Edward Schults
Feat. Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo…; Following his impressive debut feature KRISHA, director Trey Edward Shults steps up a notch in scale and ambition to craft an exquisitely…
Jigsaw (2017): Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie; A cynical but lucrative eighth installment in the "seven movie" SAW movie franchise that resuscitates the eponymous Jigsaw killer a decade after his…
Leatherface (2017): Dir. Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor, Sam Strike; A TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE "origin story" focused on a teenage Leatherface who escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a…
Life (2017): Dir. Daniel Espinosa
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson…; Claustrophobic white knuckle horror where a team of scientists on an international space station discover that the biological sample they took from…
Mom and Dad (2017): Dir. Brian Taylor
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair; Pitch–black horror–comedy featuring Nicolas Cage in a wonderfully crazed performance alongside an impressive Selma Blair as parents who…
Mother! (mother!) (2017): Dir. Darren Aronofsky
Feat. Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris…; A polarising yet brilliant psychological horror bursting with allegorical detail, from visionary auteur/provocateur Darren Aronofsky. A couple's…
One Cut of the Dead (Kamera wo tomeruna!) (2017): Dir. Shinichiro Ueda
Feat. Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama; Ridiculously fun and gleefully inventive movie–within–a–movie where the crew of a low–budget zombie film are terrorised by…
Pyewacket (2017): Dir. Adam MacDonald
Feat. Laurie Holden, Nicole Muñoz; A teenager with a thing for the occult performs a ritual to kill her mother after a heated argument, but despite her regrets unleashes a demon called…
Super Dark Times (2017): Dir. Kevin Phillips
Feat. Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino…; An indie psychological thriller that deftly detours from a benign coming–of–age scenario when a traumatic after–school incident…
Terrified (Aterrados) (2017): Dir. Demián Rugna
Feat. Maxi Ghione, Elvira Onetto, Norberto Gonzalo…; Supremely creepy yet thoughtful Argentine horror–drama set in a Buenos Aires neighbourhood plagued by paranormal occurrences. Stacked with…
Thelma (2017): Dir. Joachim Trier
Feat. Eili Harboe, Henrik Rafaelsen, Kaya Wilkins…; A gracefully unsettling Nordic thriller about a painfully shy young woman whose oppressed, conservative upbringing and burgeoning passion for a…
Tokyo Ghoul (2017): Dir. Kentaro Hagiwara
Feat. Masataka Kubota, Fumika Shimizu; A live–action adaptation of the manga series by Sui Ishida. In modern day Tokyo, flesh–eating ghouls live among humans, and after…
Tragedy Girls (2017): Dir. Tyler MacIntyre
Feat. Brianna Hildebrand, Alexandra Shipp, Jack Quaid; Ultra–hip black comedy playing on slasher movie tropes, following two death obsessed and fame hungry girls who'll do anything for popularity on…
Transfiguration, The (2017): Dir. Michael O’Shea
Feat. Eric Ruffin; An elevated genre film dealing with love and loss about a troubled teen with a vampire lore fascination who meets an equally alienated young woman…
Winchester (2017): Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Helen Mirren, Sarah Snook, Jason Clarke; The great Helen Mirren slums it magnificently in an unchallenging role, playing a wealthy heiress who builds a prison asylum for hundreds of vengeful…
XX (2017): Dir. Jovanka Vuckovic, Roxanne Benjamin, Karyn Kusama
Feat. Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Breeda Wool…; Female helmed anthology of horror shorts, which makes this a milestone of horror film making, fortunately living up to expectations and providing a…
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016): Dir. Dan Trachtenberg
Feat. John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher, Jr.; Set in the CLOVERFIELD universe, but not an official sequel, Mary Elizabeth Winstead wakes up to find herself trapped in an underground bunker with…
47 Metres Down (2016): Dir. Johannes Roberts
Feat. Claire Holt, Mandy Moore; Survival horror with two sisters on vacation in Mexico who become trapped inside a shark viewing cage 47 metres under the ocean. Fairly predictable…
A Cure for Wellness (2016): Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth; An ambitious Manhattan stockbroker is blackmailed to retrieve a company boardmember from a wellness spa in the Swiss Alps in this visually stunning…
A Ghost Story (2016): Dir. David Lowery
Feat. Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara; A supernatural drama of striking originality about a man and woman separated by death and haunted by eternal loss and helplessness. Framed in the…
Autopsy of Jane Doe, The (2016): Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond…; Intense and acclaimed supernatural horror from the director of TROLL HUNTER, about a coroner and his son who conduct a late–night autopsy on…
Belko Experiment, The (2016): Dir. Greg McLean
Feat. John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, John C. McGinley…; In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high–rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown…
Blair Witch (2016): Dir. Adam Wingard
Feat. Callie Hernandez, James Allen McCune, Brandon Scott…; Competent remake of the 1999 indie–horror landmark in which a group of college students venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to…
Boy, The (2016): Dir. William Brent Bell
Feat. Rupert Evans, Lauren Cohan, James Russell; An American nanny is shocked that her new English family's boy is actually a life–sized doll. After she violates a list of strict rules,…
Conjuring 2, The (2016): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O’Connor…; Scary sequel to the 2013 chiller has Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson reprise their roles as paranormal investigators, this time traveling to London…
Darling (2016): Dir. Mickey Keating
Feat. Lauren Ashley Carter, Brian Morvant, Sean Young…; Tastefully shot in rich black and white, this stylish, occult–tinged horror stars Lauren Ashley Carter as a Manhattan woman who is minding an…
Devil's Candy, The (2016): Dir. Sean Byrne
Feat. Ethan Embry, Shiri Appleby, Pruitt Taylor Vince; Promising Australian director Sean Byrne follows up his first horror movie THE LOVED ONES with this Texas–set story of a father who suffers…
Don't Breathe (2016): Dir. Fede Alvarez
Feat. Jane Levy, Stephen Lang, Dylan Minnette…; Relentless, sometimes inventive horror about a trio of thieves attempting to rob the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems. From the…
Eyes of My Mother, The (2016): Dir. Nicolas Pesce
Feat. Kika Magalhães, Olivia Bond, Diana Agostini…; Dark and polarising black–and–white horror centred around a lonely young woman who is trained by her mother, a Portugese surgeon, to be…
Girl With All the Gifts, The (2016): Dir. Colm McCarthy
Feat. Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine…; Aimed especially at young adults, this British take on the zombie thriller features the unique presence of an exceptional young girl who is…
Greasy Strangler, The (2016): Dir. Jim Hosking
Feat. Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo; A good–dumb–fun excerise in bad taste about a creepy father–and–son team who run a disco walking tour and become rivals for…
Hounds of Love (2016): Dir. Ben Young
Feat. Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Stephen Curry; A disturbing yet vivid captivity thriller set in the mundane suburbs of Perth in 1987 where a couple kidnap and terrorise a young woman. While…
Lights Out (2016): Dir. David F. Sandberg
Feat. Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Gabriel Bateman…; Nervy horror has a bloodthirsty supernatural being preying upon a family with Teresa Palmer fighting to protect herself, save her little…
Limehouse Golem, The (2016): Dir. Juan Carlos Medina
Feat. Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth…; Set on the squalid streets of Victorian London where a series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only an…
Living and the Dead, The (TV Mini-series) (2016): Feat. Colin Morgan, Charlotte Spencer; Spooky anglophile escapism set in picturesque Victorian–era Somerset, following the supernatural afflictions of a pioneering psychologist after…
Love Witch, The (2016): Dir. Anna Biller
Feat. Samantha Robinson, Laura Waddell, Gian Keys…; Writer–director Anna Biller who also produced, edited, costumed, set designed and scored this feminist sexploitation pastiche shot in 35mm as…
Monster, The (2016): Dir. Bryan Bertino
Feat. Zoe Kazan, Ella Ballentine; Zoe Kazan (THE BIG SICK) gives an emotive performance as a dysfunctional mother trapped with her 10–year–old daughter after a breakdown…
Neon Demon, The (2016): Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Jena Malone…; An aspiring model moves to Los Angeles where her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty–obsessed women and exploitative…
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016): Dir. Mike Flanagan
Feat. Elizabeth Reaser, Annalise Basso, Lulu Wilson…; Superior "prequel" to the 2014 supernatural turkey OUIJA sets itself in 1960's LA whereupon a widow and her family add a Ouija board to their phony…
Outcast (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Patrick Fugit, Philip Glenister, Reg E. Cathey; From the creator of THE WALKING DEAD comes this horror series that follows a young man as he searches for answers to why he's been suffering from…
Personal Shopper (2016): Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie…; Utterly beguiling psychological horror closely following a troubled personal shopper to a fashion–world celebrity, who attempts to make contact…
Pet (2016): Dir. Carles Torrens
Feat. Dominic Monaghan; Dominic Monaghan plays a man whose obsession with an old crush leads him to hold her captive underneath the animal shelter where he works. A lurid…
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016): Dir. Burr Steers
Feat. Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston…; The myriad charms of Jane Austen's classic novel are put to the test when zombies threaten the happiness of all who dwell on the Bennett estate.…
Raw (Grave) (2016): Dir. Julia Ducournau
Feat. Garance Marillier , Ella Rumpf; A bright young veterinary student and ardent vegetarian is unexpectedly subjected to a series of cruel hazing rituals in her first week at college,…
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016): Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter…; Super soldier Alice is drawn back into the battle against the undead when she is the only survivor of the apocalypse at the end of Resident Evil:…
Rupture (2016): Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Peter Stormare; Torture horror in which a single mother (Rapace) is brutally kidnapped and forced to experience her deepest fears by a sadistic organisation who…
Stranger Things (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard…; A web television series phenomenon that pays hefty homage to the tropes and aesthetics of sci–fi adventure and horror film of the 1980s and the…
Terraformars: The Movie (2016): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Rinko Kikuchi, Rila Fukushima, Kane Kosugi…; A team of human exterminators are on a mission to wipe out a ridiculous cockroach infestation that plagues the red planet, after a terraforming…
Under the Shadow (2016): Dir. Babak Anvari
Feat. Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi; As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post–revolution, war–torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious, oppressive…
Underworld: Blood Wars (2016): Dir. Anna Foerster
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Charles Dance…; Fifth installment in the blood–busting franchise sees death dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) attempting to stop the eternal war between Lycans…
Untamed, The (La región salvaje) (2016): Dir. Amat Escalante
Feat. Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza; Unforgettable psycho–sexual horror featuring a multi–tentacled alien which becomes the source of obsession for members of a Mexican…
Wailing, The (Goksung) (2016): Dir. Hong-jin Na
Feat. Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee; A bumbling police officer in a rural South Korean town investigates a series of horrific murders in this deeply immersive occultist thriller by the…
Aaaaaaaah! (2015): Dir. Steve Oram
Feat. Steve Oram, Julian Barratt, Lucy Honigman…; A twisted cult comedy which confronts the human condition by imagining what life would be like if humans were apes. Written and directed by Steve…
Ash vs Evil Dead (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Lucy Lawless; Triumphant resurrection of Sam Raimi's horror franchise with Bruce Campbell rightfully returning as the undead slaying hero Ash. 10 episodes on 2…
Backtrack (2015): Dir. Michael Petroni
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, George Shevtsov…; Australian paranormal thriller about a psychotherapist (Adrian Brody) who is plagued by sinister visions after the death of his daughter. Returning…
Baskin (2015): Dir. Can Evrenol
Feat. Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Görkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu…; A police squad inadvertently wander into hell in this terrifying tour–de–force feature debut from Turkish director Can Evrenol, which…
Bone Tomahawk (2015): Dir. S. Craig Zahler
Feat. Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins…; Blood–soaked western with Kurt Russell and his posse setting out to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
Crimson Peak (2015): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston…; Guillermo del Toro directs this sumptuous Gothic feast in which a new bride investigates ghostly visions at a remote mansion that holds dark secrets.
Dead Room, The (2015): Dir. Jason Stutter
Feat. Jed Brophy, Jeffrey Thomas, Laura Petersen; A game straight horror effort from DIY Kiwi film–maker Jason Stutter who leaves his comedic impulses at the door for the first time to explore…
Deathgasm (2015): Dir. Jason Lei Howden
Feat. Milo Cawthorne, Kimberley Crossman, James Blake…; Bloody–minded Kiwi horror–comedy has two teenage metal fans stirring up trouble in small–town New Zealand when they accidentally…
Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015): Dir. Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon
Feat. Alec Owen, Paul Prado, Patton Oswalt…; Satirical slasher film which, despite it's title, is not a sequel, and which presents itself as a lost film dug up from the 1980's. A masked killer…
Enfield Haunting, The (2015): Dir. Kristoffer Nyholm
Feat. Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Matthew MacFadyen…; Chilly British horror mini–series from the director of the Danish series THE KILLING, based on Guy Lyon Playfair’s book 'This House Is…
Fear the Walking Dead (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane; Grisly prequel to THE WALKING DEAD follows Cliff Curtis as he negotiates a world rapidly turning apocalyptic.
February (The Blackcoat's Daughter) (2015): Dir. Oz Perkins
Feat. Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lauren Holly…; Wintry horror with two terrified girls battling a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at their boarding school.
Goosebumps (2015): Dir. Rob Letterman
Feat. Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush…; Fantastical spin on the popular kidult horror series with Jack Black perfectly cast as horror maestro R.L. Stine whose imaginary demons come to life.
House on Pine Street, The (2015): Dir. Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling
Feat. Emily Goss, Taylor Bottles; A Polanski–inspired, low–key indie horror in which a reluctantly pregnant woman returns to her hometown of Kansas after a breakdown where…
Human Centipede 3, The (2015): Dir. Tom Six
iZombie (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Rose McIver, David Anders, Malcolm Goodwin; The hunger for all things dead–but–still–living continues with his amusing twist on the genre, loosely adapted from a comic book…
Krampus (2015): Dir. Michael Dougherty
Feat. Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner…; A merry little horror film about a boy who after enduring a bad Christmas accidentally summons a Christmas demon to his family home.
Lazarus Effect, The (2015): Dir. David Gelb
Feat. Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Evan Peters…; Supernatural thriller concerns a group of medical students who discover a way to bring dead patients back to life.
Life in the Dead Zone (2015): Dir. Peter Tonks
Feat. Des Morgon, Gabe Page, Chester Dextar…; Shot in Christchurch following the 2011 earthquakes, this creative comedy–mockumentary presents a town overrun by zombies in the wave of a…
Lure, The (2015): Dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska
Feat. Marta Mazurek; Utterly beguiling musical horror set in Poland in the 1980's, following the fate of a pair of mermaid sisters as they struggle to integrate into a…
Maggie (2015): Dir. Henry Hobson
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson; A notable change of pace for Arnie in this mood piece in which a teenage girl becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the…
Midwinter of the Spirit (TV Mini-series) (2015): Feat. Nicholas Pinnock, Anna Maxwell Martin, Kate Dickie; TV miniseries following a female vicar who works as an exorcist. Cheerfully creepy Middle–England gothic from the pen of supernatural mystery…
Nina Forever (2015): Dir. Chris Blaine, Ben Blaine
Feat. Fiona OShaughnessy, Cian Barry, Abigail Hardingham; Darkly funny horror in which a man embarking on a new relationship is taunted by his dead ex–girlfriend whenever he has sex.
Observance (2015): Dir. Joseph Sims-Dennett
Feat. Lindsay Farris, Stephanie King, Brendan Cowell…; Resourceful Aussie horror, set largely inside a derelict room, about a private investigator is hired to spy on a mysterious woman.
Sinister 2 (2015): Dir. Ciaran Foy
Feat. James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon; Limp sequel to the 2012 chiller has former Deputy Ransone coming to the aid of single mother Sossamon as the demonic Bughuul returns to wreak havoc.
Southbound (2015): Dir. Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath
Feat. Chad Villella; Five interlocking tales of terror follow the fates of a group of weary travellers who confront their worst nightmares and darkest secrets on a…
Victor Frankenstein (2015): Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay…; Mary Shelley's classic is given an interesting twist, this time told from the perspective of Igor, the hunchbacked assistant who teams with Dr…
Visit, The (2015): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Kathryn Hahn…; M. Night Shyamalan directs another twisty chiller in which siblings become incredibly frightened by their grandparents disturbing behavior, while…
We Are Still Here (2015): Dir. Ted Geoghegan
Feat. Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Lisa Marie…; Scream queen Barbara Crampton (RE–ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND) returns to the horror genre as one half of a grieving couple who make the mistake of…
Witch, The (2015): Dir. Robert Eggers
Feat. Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie; A rigorous arthouse horror–drama that follows a puritan family in 1630s New England as they are torn apart by the apparent forces of black…
ABCs of Death 2, The (2014): Dir. Vincenzo Natali, Bill Plympton, Sion Sono; NZ's "enfant terrible" and "Incredibly Strange" Film Festival director Ant Timpson wrangles another 26 genre film directors from all over the globe…
Adjust Your Tracking (2014): An informal companion piece to REWIND THIS!, this documentary even shares a few of its commentators but narrows the focus down to a range of…
Alien Abduction (2014): Dir. Matty Beckerman
Feat. Katherine Sigismund; Expect the expected in this routine though entirely competent "found footage" horror chronicling the terror of a family who encounter alien abductors…
Annabelle (2014): Dir. John R. Leonetti
Feat. Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, Alfre Woodard; A prequel to THE CONJURING (2013), following a couple who are traumatised by a haunted doll. A grab bag of horror clichés, but recommended for…
As Above, So Below (2014): Dir. John Erick Dowdle
Feat. Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman; A suitably catastrophic subterranean horror set in the catacombs beneath Paris, where a pair of archaeologists searching for a prized philosopher's…
At The Devil's Door (Home) (2014): Dir. Nicholas McCarthy
Feat. Ashley Rickards, Nick Eversman, Michael Massee…; Horror in which an ambitious young real estate agent is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl and when…
Babadook, The (2014): Dir. Jennifer Kent
Feat. Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall; A single mother and her disobedient son are stalked by a malevolent spirit summoned by a children's book in this expertly directed psychological…
Clown (2014): Dir. Jon Watts
Feat. Eli Roth, Peter Stormare, Laura Allen; Eli Roth produced shocker in which a loving father dons a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse…
Cooties (2014): Dir. Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion
Feat. Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill…; Splatter comedy set in a primary school where a cafeteria food virus turns the kiddies into killer zombies, and a group of misfit teachers must band…
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014): Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Vegar Hoel, Martin Starr; Direct sequel to the wintery zombie hit features more undead Nazis, Russkie POWs and other WWII foes.
Deliver Us from Evil (2014): Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Eric Bana, Édgar Ramírez, Olivia Munn…; Eric Bana investigates a series of horrific crimes believed to be the work of the devil by a renegade priest. Wedged firmly into the serial…
Dracula Untold (2014): Dir. Gary Shore
Feat. Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon…; Another definitely–not–untold Dracula story, revamped in typical Hollywood action–adventure style that may leave you yearning for…
From Dusk Till Dawn (TV Series) (2014): Feat. D. J. Cotrona, Zane Holtz, Wilmer Valderrama; Based on the thrill–ride film of the same name, the series is centered around bank robber, Seth Gecko and his violent, unpredictable brother,…
Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, A (2014): Dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
Feat. Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh; A languid and luscious Iranian immigrant take on the vampire myth set in the ghost–town of Bad City (filmed in California), where the remaining…
Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh ich seh) (2014): Dir. Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Feat. Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest; A sleek, uncompromising psycho–thriller from the Michael Haneke school of Austrian austerity centred around twin boys whose perception of their…
Guest, The (2014): Dir. Adam Wingard
Feat. Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe; The director of YOU'RE NEXT returns with another entertainingly lurid thriller about a returning soldier ingratiating himself to a family whose son…
Helix (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Billy Campbell, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyra Zagorsky…; Schlocky sci–fi thriller series from the Syfy channel that follows a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Honeymoon (2014): Dir. Leigh Janiak
Feat. Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber; A honeymooning bride goes sleepwalking into the woods surrounding a secluded cabin. When she returns she looks the same, but something about her is…
Housebound (2014): Dir. Gerard Johnstone
Feat. Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru…; A home detainee is forced to move back into her old family house where she grapples with her neurotic mother and supernatural disturbances. A…
It Follows (2014): Dir. David Robert Mitchell
Feat. Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi; Much–lauded, 70s–inspired horror in which a young woman is followed by a contagious supernatural force after getting involved in a sexual…
Killers (2014): Dir. Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto
Feat. Oka Antara, Rin Takanashi, Katzuo Kitamura; A serial killer from Japan and Indonesia compete in a twisted game of one–upmanship by posting their latest sadistic crimes online in this…
Life After Beth (2014): Dir. Jeff Baena
Feat. Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly…; Grieving over the death of his girlfriend, a young man gets a second chance when she returns from the dead in this zany and inventive…
Ouija (2014): Dir. Stiles White
Feat. Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Ana Coto…; Much–maligned supernatural horror film about a group of non–too–bright teenagers who unleash unfriendly spirits from a Ouija…
Over Your Dead Body (Kuime) (2014): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Ebizo Ichikawa, Miho Nakanishi…; Takashi Miike takes his cues from the art of Kabuki in this chilly tale of how fiction begins to bleed into reality for actors as they rehearse a…
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014): Dir. Christopher Landon
Feat. Andrew Jacobs; The Paranormal Activity mythology is expanded in this new story about a young man marked for possession by a malevolent demonic entity. Over…
Parasyte: Part One (2014): Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Shota Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto…; Based on a long running Manga, this horror–comedy offers up Cronenbergian thrills in a world under attack from parasitic worm–like…
Penny Dreadful (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green…; Familiar Gothic literary characters like Dr. Frankenstein and Dorian Gray are brought together with others to explore their origin stories in this…
Purge, The: Anarchy (Purge 2) (2014): Dir. James DeMonaco
Feat. Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford…; Visceral sequel follows the plight of three different groups of people as they try to survive another 'Purge'.
Quiet Ones, The (2014): Dir. John Pogue
Feat. Sam Claflin, Jared Harris, Olivia Cooke; Hammer Films inject some grunt into this overfamiliar tale of an exorcism gone wrong, here conducted by a group of naive university research…
Spring (2014): Dir. Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Feat. Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Vanessa Bednar; A captivating hybrid of "tourist romance" and "body horror" (yes, Linklater meets Cronenberg) in which a recently orphaned young man flees the US for…
Starry Eyes (2014): Dir. Dennis Widmyer, Kevin Kölsch
Feat. Alexandra Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan; An aspiring actress undergoes a terrifying transformation in her efforts to seek fame, in this darkly comic horror movie offering a parable for the…
Stonehearst Asylum (Eliza Graves) (2014): Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis…; A recent medical school grad who takes a position at a mental institution soon finds himself taken with one of his colleagues –– though…
Taking of Deborah Logan, The (2014): An elderly woman becomes the subject of a students PhD thesis on the effects of Alzheimer's disease. The project goes horribly wrong as it becomes…
True Blood - Season 7 (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell…; Final episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
Tusk (2014): Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Justin Long, Michael Parks, Haley Joel Osment…; Gleefully ludicrous Kevin Smith directed horror comedy following the fate of an unfortunate podcaster who discovers his next guest has a bizarre…
Vampire Academy (2014): Dir. Mark Waters
Feat. Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Gabriel Byrne…; A half–human, half–vampire trains to be a guardian at an exclusive academy for the young and undead. Toothy vampire comedy pokes fun at…
What We Do in the Shadows (2014): Dir. Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement
Feat. Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, Jonathan Brugh…; Follow the lives of Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav – three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life’s obstacles, like being…
When Animals Dream (2014): Dir. Jonas Alexander Arnby
Feat. Sonia Suhl, Lars Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter…; 16–year old Marie lives on a small island with her seriously ill mother and her father, who takes care of the family. But suddenly mysterious…
Woman in Black 2, The: Angel of Death (2014): Dir. Tom Harper
Feat. Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Phoebe Fox; Sequel to the Daniel Radcliffe chiller is set forty years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, and this time the focus shifts to a group of…
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014): Dir. Kiah Roache-Turner
Feat. Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill; Ocker shocker with a mechanic battling zombies as he hunts for his sister kidnapped by a psychotic doctor.
Z Nation (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Tom Everett Scott, DJ Qualls; The Syfy channel's answer to THE WALKING DEAD set three years into a viral zombie apocalypse where a team of everyday heroes travel from New York to…
A Field in England (2013): Dir. Ben Wheatley
Feat. Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover…; Dir. Ben Wheatley (KILL LIST, SIGHTSEERS) goes off the deep end with this trippy 17th century odyssey about a band of English Civil War deserters,…
Afflicted (2013): Dir. Clif Prowse, Derek Lee; Two backpackers fight a mysterious illness contracted while traveling in this taut found footage thriller.
Bad Milo! (2013): Dir. Jacob Vaughan
Feat. Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Mary Kay Place; A mild–mannered accountant with bowel problems discovers that a pint–sized demon has moved into his intestinal tract. Though this…
Banshee Chapter (2013): Dir. Blair Erickson
Feat. Katia Winter, Ted Levine, Michael McMillian; A journalist searching for her missing friend uncovers a disturbing trail of leads in this stylish and perturbing horror centred on secret government…
Bates Motel (TV Series) (2013): Feat. Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot…; A creepy, character–rich exploration of Norman Bates' formative years and the relationship with his overbearing mother, played deliciously by…
Big Bad Wolves (2013): Dir. Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado
Feat. Lior Ashkenazi, Tzahi Grad; A bold, gruesome satire on Israel's militarised culture, this black comedy about three Israeli men who abduct a school teacher upon suspicion that he…
Borgman (2013): Dir. Alex Van Warmerdam
Feat. Jan Bijvoet, Jeroen Perceval , Hadewych Minis; Unforgettably creepy home–invasion thriller from Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam, where a rural vagrant preys on an arrogant upper class…
Carrie (2013): Dir. Kimberly Peirce
Feat. Julianne Moore, Chloe Grace Moretz, Portia Doubleday…; Though strictly serviceable as a horror film, BOYS DON'T CRY director Kimberly Peirce brings an intense focus on character, psychology and social…
Cheap Thrills (2013): Dir. E.L. Katz
Feat. Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton…; A devilishly effective black comedy about a pair of old friends who enter into an increasingly bloody game of one–upmanship with a wealthy…
Conjuring, The (2013): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor…; A dilapidated Rhode Island farm house is the setting for this nerve–tingling supernatural horror from INSIDIOUS dir. James Wan.
Delivery (Delivery: The Beast Within) (2013): Dir. Brian Netto
Feat. Laurel Vail, Danny Barclay; Chilling horror from the extensive "found footage" sub genre. A young mother starts to fear that a malevolent entity has taken control of her unborn…
Disco Exorcist (2013): Dir. Richard Griffin
Feat. Shadow Faye, Andre Boudreau, Kevin Killavey; Outrageous horror comedy about a disco king and playboy whose one night stand turns bad when he enrages a black magic priestess. A fun throwback to…
Evil Dead (2013): Dir. Fede Alvarez
Feat. Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci…; Sam Raimi's undead classic is reboot for a new generation in this gory low–budget horror set in a cabin in the woods.
Frankenstein's Army (2013): Dir. Richard Raaphorst
Feat. Karel Roden, Robert Gwilym, Joshua Sasse; Ludicrous found footage horror movie with a descendent of Victor Frankenstein forming an undead army during World War II.
Ghost Bride (2013): Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Yoson An, Rebekah Palmer, Fiona Feng…; A Chinese ghost story set in Auckland from Kiwi horror auteur David Blyth centred on a tabooed romance between a Chinese immigrant and a caucasian…
Green Inferno, The (2013): Dir. Eli Roth
Feat. Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara…; More rancid cinema from Eli Roth. This time its young student activists getting disemboweled after their plane crashes in the Amazon.
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013): Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen…; The Brothers Grimm fairytale is re–imagined as an action vehicle for the fantasy set, with the grown up siblings now self–employed as…
Harvest, The (2013): Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Michael Shannon, Samantha Morton, Peter Fonda…; Old–school chiller in which a couple who keeps their sick son in a secluded environment find their controlled lives challenged by a young girl…
Haunter (2013): Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Abigail Breslin, Peter Outerbridge; Abigail Breslin grapples with a poltergeist while stuck in a GROUNDHOG DAY–esque time loop in this novel horror mystery from dir. Vincenzo…
Horns (2013): Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella…; In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his temples.
In Fear (2013): Dir. Jeremy Lovering
Feat. Alice Englert, Iain de Caestecker; A couple en route to a musical festival make a detour they'll live to regret in this high tension backwoods horror.
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins…; James Wan helms this direct sequel to his paranormal hit, which continues to follow the misfortunes of a family terrorized by demons from the spirit…
Mama (2013): Dir. Andrés Muschietti
Feat. Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Javier Botet; A chilly, malevolent atmosphere permeates this housebound horror about the recovery of two young sisters presumed dead, and whose return to the…
Nurse (2013): Dir. Douglas Aarniokoski
Feat. Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, Judd Nelson…; Paz de la Huerta plays devoted nurse by day, murderous man–hater by night. A trashy, if glossily conceived exploitation film with more than a…
Oculus (2013): Dir. Mike Flanagan
Feat. Karen Gillan , Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff…; Two siblings contrive an experiment around a mysterious antique mirror they believe was responsible for the murder–suicide of their parents in…
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013): Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Anton Yelchin…; Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston are sublimely cast as sophisticated vampire lovers who reunite after centuries in this stylish and imaginative new…
Open Grave (2013): Dir. Gonzalo López-Gallego
Feat. Sharlto Copley, Thomas Kretschmann, Josie Ho; A man awakens in a mass grave without knowledge of how he got there or who is responsible for the bodies piled up around him. An eerie horror that…
Patrick (2013): Dir. Mark Hartley
Feat. Charles Dance, Rachel Griffiths, Sharni Vinson…; NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD director Mark Hartley pays homage to this Ozploitation classic by remaking it over with an all knowing wink. The stylish, if…
Purge, The (2013): Dir. James DeMonaco
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey; In the near future, the moral fibre of a family is tested when their house is invaded by a stranger on the night of the 'purge', an annual…
Sacrament, The (2013): Dir. Ti West
Feat. Joe Swanberg, Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil; A pair of "Vice" journalists infiltrate a cult in Africa in search of a missing woman in this unsettling "found footage" horror from dir. Ti West.
Sleepy Hollow (TV Series) (2013): Feat. Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones; The Sleepy Hollow legend is transported to the 21st century in this rollicking detective series centred on the menace of the Four Horsemen of the…
True Blood - Season 6 (TV Series) (2013): Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell…; Further episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
V/H/S 2 (VHS 2) (2013): Dir. Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans; A second batch of grisly, scary, depraved found–footage horror films, this new anthology picks up where the original concept left off, and…
Warm Bodies (2013): Dir. Jonathan Levine
Feat. Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry…; A young, sensitive zombie falls for a human girl in this savvy romantic comedy which turns the walking dead genre on its head.
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Jigoku de naze warui) (2013): Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Kunimura Jun, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Fumi Nikaido; Described by its creator as "an action film about the love of 35mm", this frenzied fanboy fiction from Shion Sono bears his trademark excess and…
Willow Creek (2013): Dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
Feat. Alexis Gilmore, Bryce Johnson; A little bit of Bobcat Goldthwait's genius rubs off on this backwoods horror centred on the Bigfoot legend. While no huge surprises in its makeup, it…
Wolf Creek 2 (2013): Dir. Greg McLean
Feat. John Jarratt; Serial–killing pig–hunter Mick Taylor returns to torment another unwitting tourist in this vicious sequel to the memorable outback horror.
ABCs of Death, The (2012): Dir. Nacho Vigalondo, Marcel Sarmiento, Angela Bettis; Twenty–six directors, each assigned a letter of the alphabet, combine blood with creativity in this scatterbrained anthology of five minute…
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012): Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper…; The Russian alchemist behind vampiric trilogy NIGHT WATCH directs this spectacular bastardization of the Lincoln legend, here re–imagined as a…
American Mary (2012): Dir. Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
Feat. Katherine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk; Macabre horror concerns a disenchanted delving into the world of underground surgeries with predictably nasty results.
Antiviral (2012): Dir. Brandon Cronenberg
Feat. Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith…; Brandon Cronenberg has made an object lesson in intelligent low budget horror. In the near future, our obsession with celebrity will have become so…
Bait (2012): Dir. Kimble Rendall
Feat. Xavier Samuel, Sharni Vinson, Julian McMahon…; Ludicrous popcorn flick in which a freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building – along with a…
Bay, The (2012): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Kether Donohue, Will Rogers, Kristen Connolly…; A found footage eco–horror film directed by Hollywood veteran Barry Levinson who creates an edgy yet entirely believeable series chaotic events…
Berberian Sound Studio (2012): Dir. Peter Strickland
Feat. Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Tonia Sotiropoulou…; A masterpiece of implied horror, this is a homage to Italian 'giallo' and horror cinema of 1970's that remarkably measures up to the best films of…
Byzantium (2012): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley…; Neil Jordan returns to the vampire genre with this stylish horror where the residents of a small coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the…
Chernobyl Diaries (2012): Dir. Brad Parker
Feat. Jesse McCartney; A silly but effective found–footage/first–person horror set in the condemned Chernobyl fallout zone. When a group of young tourists visit…
Collection, The (2012): Dir. Marcus Dunstan
Feat. Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald; A no–nonsense sequel to rudimentary torture vehicle THE COLLECTOR, in which the eponymous masked psychopath carries out another set of…
Come Out and Play (2012): Dir. Makinov
Feat. Vinessa Shaw; A couple holidaying on a remote island learn the disturbing reason why it is only populated by children in this trashy vacation horror.
Conspiracy, The (2012): Dir. Christopher MacBride
Feat. James Gilbert, Aaron Poole; Found–footage horror movie about a pair of documentary film makers who are shooting a film about conspiracy theories when they discover a…
Dead Sushi (2012): Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Rina Takeda; An innkeeper proficient in both karate and sushi making must fend off a hoard of flesh–eating California Rolls after one of her guests injects…
Devil Inside, The (2012): Dir. William Brent Bell
Feat. Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth; Hapless handycam horror based on 'true events' surrounding a series of murders alleged to have been provoked by an unsanctioned exorcism. If the raw,…
Excision (2012): Dir. Richard Bates Jr.
Feat. AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Malcolm McDowell…; Teen angst gets the Grand Guignol treatment in this visceral portrait of a high school outcast whose delusions of surgical precision don't bode well…
Fantastic Fear of Everything, A (2012): Dir. Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell
Feat. Simon Pegg, Paul Freeman, Amara Karan…; Comedic misfire with Pegg as a crime novelist who's intensive research makes him more than a little paranoid culminating in a fateful trip to the…
Fresh Meat (2012): Dir. Danny Mulheron
Feat. Temuera Morrison, Nicola Kawana, Hanna Tevita…; A cannibal comedy with a Maori twist, this spirited romp throws various genres into its gory blender when a gang of criminals accidentally invade the…
Grabbers (2012): Dir. Jon Wright
Feat. Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey; A very Irish sense of humour permeates throughout this daffy, if highly entertaining horror comedy, about a mutant strain of creatures who descend on…
House at the End of the Street (2012): Dir. Mark Tonderai
Feat. Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Elisabeth Shue…; Jennifer Lawrence carries this uninspired horror flick of a mother and daughter whose new live in a rural town is disturbed by the history of a…
In Their Skin (Replicas) (2012): Dir. Jeremy Power Regimbal
Feat. Selma Blair, Joshua Close, James D'Arcy…; A middle class family welcome a neighboring family into their house, only for their guests to take them hostage in an attempt to steal their…
Jack & Diane (Jack and Diane) (2012): Dir. Bradley Rust Gray
Feat. Riley Keough, Juno Temple, Kylie Minogue…; Juno Temple and Riley Keough star in this romance between two teenage girls that quickly manifests as terrifying, violent and inexplicable.
Kill Zombie! (Zombibi) (2012): Dir. Martijn Smits, Erwin van den Eshof
Feat. Uriah Arnhem; This low hanging zombie comedy by way of Amsterdam imagines the Dutch city as a zombie infested urban jungle, in the middle of which an office worker…
Kiss of the Damned (2012): Dir. Xan Cassavetes
Feat. Joséphine de La Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida…; A luxurious Gothic romance that puts undead amour ahead of vampiric bloodlust, this sexy, baroque twist on a now ubiquitous genre plays out the…
Lesson of Evil (Lesson of the Evil) (2012): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Yamada Takayuki, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Hideaki Ito; Another manga adaption from director cult Takashi Miike based on the seinen manga on the same name. A successful English teacher who is secretly a…
Lords of Salem, The (2012): Dir. Rob Zombie
Feat. Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Ken Foree…; Goth rock musician Rob Zombie continues his stint of horror movie directing with this deranged story of a female disc jockey in Salem, Massachusetts…
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012): Dir. Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Feat. Kathryn Newton, Katie Featherston, Matt Shively; Creaky fourth addition to the franchise picks up five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events…
Piranha 3DD (2012): Dir. John Gulager
Feat. Danielle Panabaker, Katrina Bowden, David Koechner…; This chestier sequel to 2010's Piranha remake goes overboard with gratuitous T&A and wanton violence. Dumb, but if you're in the mood, a lot of fun,…
Possession, The (2012): Dir. Ole Bornedal
Feat. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis…; A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with…
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Bingbing Li…; Further adventures in the undead, with Milla Jovovich continuing to kick zombie ass with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
Sinister (2012): Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Vincent D'Onofrio…; Ethan Hawke plays a crime writer who moves into the house of a grisly crime scene and stumbles upon a cache of 8mm snuff footage in the attic,…
Tall Man, The (2012): Dir. Pascal Laugier
Feat. Jessica Biel, Jodelle Ferland, Stephen McHattie; When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Thale (2012): Dir. Aleksander Nordaas
Feat. Silje Reinåmo, Erlend Nervold; An artful, serious–minded horror fantasy based on the Norwegian legend of the Hydra – a seductive, shape–shifting Scandanavian…
True Blood - Season 5 (TV Series) (2012): Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell…; Further episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
Underworld: Awakening (2012): Dir. Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Charles Dance; When the human race wages war on both the Vampire and Lycan species, leather–clad warrioress Kate Beckinsale goes to battle in this routine…
V/H/S (VHS) (2012): Dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett
Feat. Joe Swanberg, Sophia Takal; A group of delinquents break into a house at the request a mysterious person, only to discover a sinister collection of video tapes, in this creepy…
Vamps (2012): Dir. Amy Heckerling
Feat. Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter, Sigourney Weaver…; Charming horror comedy from director Amy Heckerling (CLUELESS) re–teaming with actress Alicia Silverstone, who plays a vampire in New York City…
Woman in Black, The (2012): Dir. James Watkins
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Roger Allam…; A restrained yet genuinely chilling Gothic horror from the director of EDEN LAKE, with Daniel Radcliffe as a widowed young lawyer whose visit to a…
[REC] Genesis (REC 3) (2012): Dir. Paco Plaza
Feat. Leticia Dolera, Diego Martin, Javier Botet; A young couples wedding day is tragically interrupted by demonic contagion in the third installment of the Spanish horror series. Abandoning the…
Absentia (2011): Dir. Mike Flanagan
Feat. Katie Parker, Courtney Bell; This creepy investigation into the whereabouts of missing person via a sinister pedestrian tunnel plays its cards close to its chest while resisting…
American Horror Story (TV Series) (2011): Feat. Dylan McDermott, Jessica Lange, Lily Rabe…; Stylish and atmospheric anthology series that centers on different characters and locations, including a Hotel, a carnival sideshow and an insane…
Apollo 18 (2011): Dir. Gonzalo López-Gallego
Feat. Ryan Robbins, Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen; BLAIR WITCH in space! Top secret footage reveals why NASA never returned to the moon. Derivative and progressively silly, but dir.…
Awakening, The (2011): Dir. Nick Murphy
Feat. Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton; A classical British ghost story set in 1920s England, with Rebecca Hall as a noted skeptic who's assigned to debunk a haunting at a prestigious…
Cabin in the Woods, The (2011): Dir. Drew Goddard
Feat. Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison…; Masterminded by Joss Whedon, this hilarious inside–out horror comedy promises the last word on the horror genre, although its cleverness is…
Dear God No! (2011): Dir. James Bickert
Feat. Jett Bryant, Paul McComiskey, Madeline Brumby; The grindhouse aesthetic is aped for all its worth in this grubby exploitation pastiche, centred on a renegade biker gang and their violent exploits.…
Devil's Rock, The (2011): Dir. Paul Campion
Feat. Craig Hall, Matthew Sunderland, Gina Varela…; Kiwi cinema's fondness for zombie–horror vehicles continues with this enterprising homespun production, centred on a pair of New Zealand…
Final Destination 5 (2011): Dir. Steven Quale
Feat. Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell; No surprises here: a group of obnoxious teens narrowly avoid tragedy when a suspension bridge collapses, only to endure the wrath of Death himself.…
Four (2011): Four cutting–edge tales of horror from the creators of ONG BAK and 13: GAME OF DEATH. Clean–up Day Four friends are discussing the…
Fright Night (2011): Dir. Craig Gillespie
Feat. Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, David Tennant…; Colin Farrell vamps it up in this prosaic remake of the 80's cult horror, with Anton Yelchin the hapless teen convinced his neighbour is a vampire.…
Grave Encounters (2011): Dir. Vicious Brothers
Feat. Ben Wilkinson, Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko; A television crew producing a sham ghost hunting reality series in an abandoned psychiatric hospital have their skepticism tested in this derivative,…
Grimm (TV Series) (2011): Feat. David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Bitsie Tulloch…; A supernaturally gifted homicide detective begins to take on cases linked to creature mythology and fairytale archetypes in this police procedural…
Hell (2011): Dir. Tim Fehlbaum
Feat. Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe Erceg, Angela Winkler; Earth has been parched by solar flares in this resourceful variation on the oft–told post–apocalyptic survival tale. Swiss–German…
Innkeepers, The (2011): Dir. Ti West
Feat. Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis; Horror savant Ti West (HOUSE OF THE DEVIL) turns his attention to the paranormal activity in a run–down hotel in this expertly crafted ghost…
Intruders (2011): Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Feat. Clive Owen, Carice Van Houten, Daniel Bruhl…; Psychological horror with two young children, countries apart, are haunted by a faceless demon.
Juan of the Dead (2011): Dir. Alejandro Brugués
Feat. Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Jorge Molina; A direct and surprisingly inspired Hispanic take on the SHAUN OF THE DEAD zom–com model that makes nifty use of its unique Cuban locale and…
Kill List (2011): Dir. Ben Wheatley
Feat. Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley; An ex–solider turned contract killer descends into a disturbing netherworld while embarking on this latest hit in this dark, twisted thriller…
Livid (2011): Dir. Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Feat. Chloé Colloud, Catherine Jacob, Marie Claude-Pietragalla; The directors of the revered French horror film 'Inside' try their hand at the haunted house genre, with predictably savage but also surprisingly…
Lovely Molly (2011): Dir. Eduardo Sanchez
Feat. Gretchen Lodge; The co–director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT treads familiar ground with this spooky tale of possession, filmed in part as a handy–cam…
Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011): Dir. Mary Lambert
Feat. Debbie Gibson, Tiffany , A Martinez; Trashy fun with eighties teen idols Debbie Gibson and Tiffany teaming up to save the Everglades from giant pythons and gators on roids!
Monk, The (2011): Dir. Dominik Moll
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Deborah Francois, Sergi Lopez; A devout monk (Cassell) experiences a crisis of faith which in turn manifests into a malevolent force in this abstract, atmospheric horror adapted…
Moth Diaries, The (2011): Dir. Mary Harron
Feat. Sarah Bolger, Lily Cole, Scott Speedman…; Rachel Klein’s vampire–themed young adult novel receives a curious adaptation from the dir. of AMERICAN PSYCHO, touching on the source…
Panic Button (2011): Dir. Chris Crow
Feat. Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jack Gordon, Michael Jibson…; Four winners of a trip to New York experience a turbulent time when their in–flight entertainment reveals the unlucky four's darkest secrets.…
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011): Dir. Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost
Feat. Christopher Nicholas Smith, Lauren Bittner, Chloe Csenergy…; Third installment in the lo–tech horror series is still surprisingly effective. Set twenty years previous, two young girls befriend an…
Priest (2011): Dir. Scott Charles Stewart
Feat. Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q…; Priests battle vampires in this post–apocalyptic fantasy based on the popular graphic novel.
Red Riding Hood (2011): Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke…; Amanda Seyfried plays the eponymous fairytale heroine lusted after by a sinister werewolf in this deliriously overheated horror–fantasy pitched…
Red State (2011): Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman…; Kevin Smith tries his hand at horror as three sex–obsessed teenagers are lured into a trap laid by religious fundamentalists. Subversive…
Resident, The (2011): Dir. Antti Jokinen
Feat. Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace…; Entirely watchable chiller has Hilary Swank suspecting she may not be alone in her new apartment. Produced by the revived "Hammer" label, Christopher…
Rite, The (2011): Dir. Mikael Håfström
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds…; Anthony Hopkins is enjoyably unhinged in this otherwise gloomy religious horror centered on a legendary Vatican exorcist who falls victim to Satan,…
Scream 4 (2011): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…; Ghostface is back in this series 'reboot', with Campbell returning to the unfortunate town of Woodsboro and bringing with her more…
Silent House (2011): Dir. Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
Feat. Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese; A direct retread of the daring Spanish horror combines the unnerving atmosphere of real time camera work with the cliches and contrivances of the…
Sleep Tight (2011): Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan…; Unsettling portrait of a concierge who's romantic obsession with one of the tenants involves slowly sabotaging every aspect of her life.
Strigoi (2011): Dir. Faye Jackson
Feat. Constantin Barbulescu, Camelia Maxim, Catalin Paraschiv; Slow–burning horror, laced with dean–pan humour, has residents of a Romanian village contending with an outbreak of communist vampires.
Thing, The (2011): Dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Feat. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen…; A fairly perfunctory, though by no means terrible prequel to John Carpenter's sci–fi classic, centred on a young paleontologist (Winstead)…
True Blood - Season 4 (TV Series) (2011): Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell…; Further episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
Twixt (2011): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Bruce Dern…; Silly, though intermittently stylish late Francis Ford Coppola piece, with Val Kilmer as an alcoholic horror novelist who is visited by a young ghost…
Wake Wood (2011): Dir. David Keating
Feat. Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall…; The grieving parents of a young girl savaged to death by a dog are given the chance to return her to life, but only for three days, in this pagan…
We Are What We Are (Somos lo que hay) (2011): Dir. Jorge Michel Grau
Feat. Daniel Giménez Cacho, Paulina Gaitan, Carmen Beato; Mexican horror about a family of cannibals who attempt to retain their rituals of kidnapping and eating other humans after their family patriarch…
Woman, The (2011): Dir. Lucky McKee
Feat. Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers; A suburban family capture and attempt to civilize a feral young woman in this controversial adaptation of a Jack Ketchum novel.
You're Next (2011): Dir. Adam Wingard
Feat. Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, Amy Seimetz…; A family reunion at a country mansion turns into a bloody nightmare when they find themselves under attack by masked assailants in this playfully…
Altitude (2010): Dir. Kaare Andrews
Feat. Jessica Lowndes; Inventive confined–space thriller about a group of teens aboard a chartered jet which hits a rough patch of turbulence in the form of a…
And Soon the Darkness (2010): Dir. Marcos Efron
Feat. Amber Heard, Karl Urban, Odette Yustman…; Stock remake of a minor '70's chiller concerns two friends cycling through Argentina, when they split up one goes missing, and the other finds…
Bedevilled (2010): Dir. Chul-soo Jang
Feat. Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji; Nasty, though serious–minded Korean horror about a city dweller who, upon returning to the remote island of her youth, discovers her childhood…
Big Tits Zombie (The Big Tits Dragon) (2010): Dir. Takao Nakano
Feat. Saori Andô, Sola Aoi; Big, dumb fun born from Japan's recent spate of outrageous splatter comedies, centred on three air–headed strippers who unwittingly unleash an…
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010): Dir. James Nguyen
Feat. Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore; Shoe–string trash homage to Hitchcock's THE BIRDS that follows a romantic couple whose small town that is attacked by birds.…
Black Swan (2010): Dir. Darren Aronofsky
Feat. Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel…; Natalie Portman plays a ballerina losing her grip on reality, not to mention the lead role in a prestigious production of Swan Lake, in this…
Burke and Hare (2010): Dir. John Landis
Feat. Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson…; An oddball comedic take on the infamous grave robbing duo, with Serkis and Pegg supported by a terrific ensemble of British comedic thesps. While…
Caged (Captifs) (2010): Dir. Yann Gozlan
Feat. Zoé Félix, Eric Savin, Arié Elmaleh; Standard–issue captivity horror revolves around a humanitarian aid worker who is kidnapped by a group of masked assailants while in Eastern…
Clinic, The (2010): Dir. James Rabbitts
Feat. Tabrett Bethell, Andy Whitfield, Freya Stafford…; Nervy horror with an expectant mother waking in an isolated clinic to discover her baby has been taken from her womb. A little bit of unpleasantness…
Crazies, The (2010): Dir. Breck Eisner
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell; George Romero's low budget classic gets a flashy, though ultimately needless makeover angled at the Iraq war set, with Radha Mitchell and Timothy…
Dante's Inferno (2010): Dir. Boris Acosta
Feat. Mark Hamill, Victoria Tennant; An animated companion film to the Dante–inspired video game, this drags viewers through the nine circles of Hell in pursuit of…
Dead, The (2010): Dir. Ford Brothers
Feat. Rob Freeman; A zombie movie to rescue the genre from mediocrity, this superbly executed survival horror begins with an American Air Force Lieutenant stranded on…
Devil (2010): Dir. John Erick Dowdle
Feat. Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine…; From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan comes this deeply dippy horror film with a group of people trapped in an elevator with....THE DEVIL! The…
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010): Dir. Troy Nixey
Feat. Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison; Guillermo del Toro penned this creepily old fashioned remake of a 1974 TV movie that scared the bejesus out of the Mexican filmmaker as a young boy.…
Frozen (2010): Dir. Adam Green
Feat. Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers…; Nifty little thriller with three snowboarding friends trapped on a frozen ski lift, and as night comes they discover something lurks down below.…
Hatchet 2 (2010): Dir. Adam Green
Feat. Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd; More gory homaging from Adam Green in this even nastier sequel that has our nominal heroine returning to the swamp with a crack team of killers to…
Horrible Way to Die, A (2010): Dir. Adam Wingard
Feat. A.J. Bowen, Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg; Smart horror with an escaped murderer in pursuit of his recovering alcoholic ex–girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
I Saw the Devil (2010): Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi; Terrifying revenge thriller following a man on a hunt for the serial killer who murdered his pregnant wife. Exceedingly brutal, this makes for a…
Insidious (2010): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins…; The creators of the original SAW reunite for this genuinely creepy haunted house movie, about a stressed couple whose comatose son is preyed upon by…
Julia's Eyes (2010): Dir. Guillem Morales
Feat. Belen Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui…; Produced by Guillermo Del Toro this atmospheric chiller with a woman who is slowly losing her sight trying to investigate the mysterious death of…
Kidnapped (Secuestrados) (2010): Dir. Miguel Ángel Vivas; Brutally authentic Spanish horror in which three hooded criminals break into a family home in a gated community, holding the others hostage whilst…
Last Circus, The (2010): Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang; Clown rivalries collide in this violent, OTT genre riot from Spanish trash auteur, Alex de la Iglesia, set at both ends of Franco's dictatorship…
Last Exorcism, The (2010): Dir. Daniel Stamm
Feat. Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell; Surprisingly effective horror with a documentary crew follow a disillusioned preacher as he sets out to perform one more sham exorcism. A sly script…
Let Me In (2010): Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins…; Justifiable American remake elevates the style and menace of the Swedish vampire hit with special attention paid to the relationship between a…
Monster High (TV Series) (2010): Animated web series based on the Mattel fashion doll franchise Monster High, following a group of teenagers whose parents are all famous monsters.
Mutant Girls Squad (2010): Dir. Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Tak Sakaguchi
Feat. Yumi Sugimoto, Tak Sakaguchi; Japan's outlandish splatter–comedy phase reaches its logical end point with this three–chapter collaboration between the most notorious…
My Soul to Take (2010): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Max Thieriot, Zena Grey, John Magaro…; Mildly scary horror from Wes Craven in which a serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date…
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010): Dir. Daniel Farrands, Andrew Kasch; Leaving no stone unturned, this four hour documentary on Freddie Krueger's reign of cinematic terror is a must–see retrospective for fans of…
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (2010): Dir. Samuel Bayer
Feat. Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Clancy Brown…; Stylish, shallow reworking of the classic 80s slasher movie (replete with a music video director at the helm) reins in the smirk and aims for a…
Outcast (2010): Dir. Colm McCarthy
Feat. Niall Bruton, Kate Dickie, James Nesbitt…; Striking horror set amongst the bleak tenement housing of Edinburgh where a beast is killing off the locals. Nesbitt – cast against type…
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010): Dir. Tod Williams
Feat. Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Brian Boland; Scary, straight–ahead sequel to the low–tech horror hit is careful not to meddle with the formula that freaked out audiences, this time…
Piranha (2010): Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Elisabeth Shue, Richard Dreyfuss, Jerry O'Connell…; Stupefyingly gory remake has the man–eating fish dining out on exhibitionist students while Sheriff Shue must do her best to protect the…
Psychosis (2010): Dir. Reg Traviss
Feat. Charisma Carpenter, Paul Sculfor, Justin Hawkins…; Sturdy chiller that evokes the Hammer horrors of the seventies, Charisma Carpenter relocates to rural England and is plagued to the point of madness…
Rare Exports - A Christmas Tale (2010): Dir. Jalmari Helander
Feat. Onni Tommita, Jorma Tommila; A wicked brew of 80s adventure movie and twisted horror comedy, centred on an archaeological discovery which may prove to be the remains of the real…
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates…; Bloody fourth installment has Jovovich join a group of survivors who want to relocate to the mysterious, but supposedly unharmed safe haven, known…
Rubber (2010): Dir. Quentin Dupieux
Feat. Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida, Wings Hauser; Defiantly oddball art–horror parody about an inanimate car tyre with telepathic powers who embarks on a desert killing spree for "no reason".…
Saw: The Final Chapter (Saw 7) (2010): Dir. Kevin Greutert
Feat. Sean Patrick Flanery, Cary Elwes, Tobin Bell…; It's game over for Jigsaw and his victims as the seemingly unending torture franchise finally meets its maker. Original SAW survivor, Cary Elwes,…
Silent House, The (2010): Dir. Gustavo Hernandez
Feat. María Salazar; Extending the high–concept genre trend of 'self–documented' horror to its logical extreme, this audacious Spanish chiller is noteworthy…
Stake Land (2010): Dir. Jim Mickle
Feat. Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Kelly McGillis…; An unusually artful post–apocalyptic saga, centred on a handful of human survivors making their way across a desolate, vampire–infested…
Troll Hunter (2010): Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Otto Jespersen; Three college kids who set out to make a documentary about illegal bear hunters encounter more than bargained for in this thrilling Norwegian…
True Blood - Season 3 (TV Series) (2010): Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell…; Further episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010): Dir. Eli Craig
Feat. Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden; In a delicious reversal of urban legend and horror tropes, two hillbilly friends are mistaken for murderous backwoods rednecks by an archetypal group…
Twilight: Eclipse (2010): Dir. David Slade
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner…; Torrid third installment in the saga has Bella forced to choose between Edward and Jacob as a series of mysterious killings grip Seattle.
Vanishing on 7th Street (2010): Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Hayden Christensen, Thandiwe Newton, John Leguizamo…; Low–wattage shocks abound as Hayden Christensen wakes up one morning to find everyone has disappeared. Brad Anderson directs with customary…
Violent Kind, The (2010): Dir. Butcher Brothers
Feat. Cory Knauf, Joe Egender, Bret Roberts…; Rockin' horror with bikers pursued by a malevolent gang of hopped up 'Rockabillies". Bloody, trashy, exploitation from directors of THE HAMILTONS.
Walking Dead, The (TV Series) (2010): Dir. Frank Darabont
Feat. Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey DeMunn…; The undying zombie genre reaches the long–form TV format in this riveting, expertly studied AMC series about the aftermath apocalyptic events,…
Ward, The (John Carpenter's The Ward) (2010): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Amber Heard, Lyndsy Fonseca, Danielle Panabaker…; Chilly 'return–to–form' for dir. Carpenter set inside an asylum where the inmates start to mysteriously disappear.
We Are the Night (Wir sind die Nacht) (2010): Dir. Dennis Gansel
Feat. Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich; A fraulein vampire flick of sleek, urbane sensibility, centred on an alpha–female vamp (Nina Hoss) who descends on Germany in search of a soul…
Wolfman, The (2010): Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt…; Disjointed remake of the Lon Chaney classic stars Benicio Del Toro as the broody beast, helplessly chowing down on Victorian London. Although the…
Wound (2010): Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Kate O'Rourke, Te Kaea Beri, Ian Mune…; Supernatural horror with a victim of incest returning to haunt her mother, and exact a gore–filled retribution on her father. Not to…
5150 Elm's Way (5150 Rue des Ormes) (2009): Dir. Éric Tessier
Feat. Marc-André Grondin, Normand D'Amour, Sonia Vachon…; A man unwittingly places himself in the hands of a righteous, psychopathic chess player when he falls off his bike on a quiet suburban street and…
After.Life (Afterlife) (2009): Dir. Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Feat. Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long…; Macabre curio has Christina Ricci lounging on a mortuary slab as she struggles to accept her death, but luckily morgue attendant Liam Neeson can talk…
Amer (2009): An experimental journey inside the mind of a sociopathic woman. Isolated chapters cover the details of her bizarre surreal childhood and sexually…
Antichrist (2009): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg; Delivering laughter and revulsion in equal measure, Lars von Trier’s hugely controversial psychosexual opus – about a grieving couple who retreat…
Blood - The Last Vampire (2009): Dir. Chris Nahon
Feat. Gianna Jun, Allison Miller, Liam Cunningham; Nonsensical 'live action' movie of the popular anime sees a surly demon–killing teenage vampire inserted in a military school in order to catch…
Chaw (2009): Dir. Jeong-won Shin
Feat. Jeong-hwa Eom; Dorky, RAZORBACK–inspired monster mash, in which a misfit hunting party – including a master huntsman, hotshot cop, and foolhardy ecologist…
Collector, The (2009): Dir. Marcus Dunstan
Feat. Josh Stewart, Juan Fernandez, Andrea Roth…; Witless addition to the torture porn sub–genre has a luckless thief breaking into a wealthy home only to find an 'ingenious' sadist lurking…
Coraline (2009): Dir. Henry Selick
Feat. Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders…; The prodigious talents of fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and animator Henry Selick combine for this wonderful – though admittedly creepy –…
Daybreakers (2009): Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill…; Inventive take on the vampire genre has a world populated with the fanged undead facing a food shortage with the human population rapidly dwindling.…
Dead Hooker in a Trunk (2009): Dir. Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska; A rough–as–guts exploitation film with a mild feminist bent, about four friends who discover a dead hooker in the trunk of their car.…
Dead Snow (Død Snø) (2009): Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner; Nordic splatter comedy pitches a group of fresh–faced medical students against a hoard of re–animated Nazis in the snowy highlands.…
Descent: Part 2, The (The Descent 2) (2009): Dir. Jon Harris
Feat. Shauna Macdonald, Douglas Hodge, Joshua Dallas…; Workmanlike sequel picks up where the original left off with sole survivor Shauna MacDonald forced to return to the caves by a skeptical police unit…
Diagnosis: Death (Diagnosis Death) (2009): Dir. Jason Stutter
Feat. Raybon Kan, Jessica Grace Smith, Bret McKenzie…; Stand–up comedian and writer Raybon Kan casts himself in this schlocky horror spoof as a terminal patient who becomes a human guinea pig at a…
Donner Party, The (2009): Dir. T. J. Martin
Feat. Crispin Glover, Clayne Crawford, Mark Boone Jr.…; Survival western taking a few liberties with the true story of the Donner Party, who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains while attempting…
Dorian Gray (2009): Dir. Oliver Parker
Feat. Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall…; Hit–and–miss Gothic imagining of Oscar Wilde's classic, with Ben Barnes as the ageless man and Colin Firth as the silver–tongued…
Drag Me To Hell (2009): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver; Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots in this twisted tale of a loan officer (Lohman) who has three days to rid herself of a deadly curse placed upon…
Dread (2009): Dir. Anthony DiBlasi
Feat. Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Hanne Steen
Final Destination, The (Final Destination 4) (2009): Dir. David R. Ellis
Feat. Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano; Fourth installment in the hilariously creative FINAL DESTINATION franchise sees a teen save his friends from a deadly race–car accident after…
Fourth Kind, The (2009): Dir. Olatunde Osunsanmi
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton…; Jittery alien abduction flick has Jovovich as an Alaskan psychotherapist whose hypnotised patients claim alien abduction. 'Documentary' footage…
Friday The 13th (2009): Dir. Marcus Nispel
Feat. Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti…; 'Re–imagining' of the popular eighties slasher flick sees masked psychopath Jason terrorize a group of frisky camp councilors at legendary…
Grace (2009): Dir. Paul Solet
Feat. Jordan Ladd, Gabrielle Rose, Samantha Ferris; Provocative, artful gyno–horror about a desperate mother–to–be who continues to carry her still–born baby despite losing it…
Halloween 2 (2009): Dir. Rob Zombie
Feat. Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Brad Dourif…; Rob Zombie delivers yet another episode to the undying slasher franchise, this time following up his 2007 'resurrection' with further tales of…
Haunted World of El Superbeasto, The (2009): Dir. Rob Zombie; Crude R–Rated animation from horror fanatic Rob Zombie (adapted from his own dirty comic) concerns the sex–addicted exploits of a washed…
Heartless (2009): Dir. Philip Ridley
Feat. Jim Sturgess, Clemence Poesy, Noel Clarke…; An alienated young man (Strugess) begins to see demons roaming the squalid streets of London in the latest, eccentric offering from dir. Phillip…
Hole, The (2009): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Chris Massoglia, Haley Bennett, Nathan Gamble…; Spooky fun with two brothers who stumble upon a mysterious hole in their basement of their new home. Joe Dante brings his sly touch to a horror…
Horde, The (La Horde) (2009): Dir. Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher
Feat. Aurelien Recoing, Eric Ebouaney, Doudou Masta; Fist–pumping zombie flick pits cops and criminals in a fight for their life against the walking dead amidst the slums of Paris. Bloody and…
House of the Devil (2009): Dir. Ti West
Feat. Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov…; A fully–fledged homage to the 'golden age' of 70's & 80's horror that could easily be mistaken for the real thing, it follows a young college…
Human Centipede, The (2009): Dir. Tom Six
Feat. Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie…; The "mad scientist movie" taken to a perverse extreme with crab–faced Dieter Laser as the gonzo doc delighting in his latest experiment –…
I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2009): Dir. Stacey Edmonds, Doug Turner
Feat. Jai Koutrae, Stacey Edmonds, Az Jackson; Sloppy novelty horror in which a tormented cricket player returns 20 years later to hit his former teammates for six. Contains crude cricketing…
Jennifer's Body (2009): Dir. Karyn Kusama
Feat. Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons…; The screenwriter of JUNO brings her distinctive, know–it–all style to this high–school horror–comedy, in which the sultry…
Ju-On: White Ghost / Jun-On: Black Ghost (2009): Dir. Ryuta Miyake
Feat. Hiroki Suzuki, Natsuki Kasa, Ichirota Miyakawa; Two inclusions to the Japanese supernatural horror JU–ON series, released simultaneously. Both are a series of chronologically inconsistent…
Last House On The Left (2009): Dir. Dennis Iliadis
Feat. Sara Paxton, Monica Potter, Garret Dillahunt…; Predictable remake to the 70s original sees a group of killers unknowingly take refuge with the vengeful parents of one of their victims.
Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009): Dir. Phil Claydon
Feat. James Corden, Mathew Horne, MyAnna Buring…; Comedy duo Corden and Horne (stars of TV's GAVIN AND STACEY) make their big screen debut as a pair of spotty fools who must defend themselves and a…
Lodger, The (2009): Dir. David Ondaatje
Feat. Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Shane West…; Remake of the Hitchcock original takes Jack the Ripper out of Whitechapel and places him on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip, pursued by grizzled…
Loved Ones, The (2009): Dir. Sean Byrne
Feat. Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton…; The rejected classmate of a high school heartthrob turns psycho in this slickly made prom romance–cum–torture horror from…
Must Love Death (2009): Dir. Andreas Schaap
Feat. Jeff Burrell, Sami Loris, Manon Kahle…; Perversely romantic torture porn with a suicidal man joining up with what he assumes to be a group of like–minded individuals; unluckily for…
My Bloody Valentine (2009): Dir. Patrick Lussier
Feat. Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith; Remake of the 1981 slasher film sees a group of teens pursued at a Valentine's Day party – in an abandoned mineshaft, of course – by a…
Night Of The Living Dead: Reanimated (2009): Dir. Mike Schneider; Inventive homage to the Romero original brings together nearly 150 artists to animate their favourite scenes from the horror classic. Set against…
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009): Dir. Andrew Monument; An exploration of the appeal of horror films from an American angle, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre (John Carpenter, George…
Orphan (2009): Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
Feat. Isabelle Fuhrman, Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard…; This titillating 'evil child' flick focused around a couple who adopt a sinister Russian moppet who may or may not be out to kill them is truly an…
Pandorum (2009): Dir. Christian Alvart
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet…; Two astronauts adrift in deep space awaken to find their vessel abandoned, possibly haunted, and with no memory of what happened. Paul…
Perkins' 14 (2009): Dir. Craig Singer
Feat. William Marlowe, Richard Brake, Michale Graves; Gore–heavy, low–budget horror sees a serial kidnapper transform his victims into drug–enhanced monsters, who he then releases back…
Pop Skull (2009): Dir. Adam Wingard
Feat. Brandon Carroll, Maggie Gwin; Utterly one–of–a–kind "acid horror" about a troubled drug addict who begins to fall under the influence of spirits that are…
Psychoville (TV Series) (2009): Dir. Matt Lipsey
Feat. Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Dawn French…; Blacky comic sitcom written by and starring The League of Gentlemen members Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, who each play numerous bizarre…
Red Nights (2009): Dir. Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud
Feat. Frédérique Bel, Carrie Ng; This tantalizing far East giallo offers both gruesome kill sequences and flamboyant erotic style in its story of a sadistic patron of the arts (NAKED…
Revenant, The (2009): Dir. D. Kerry Prior
Feat. David Anders, Chris Wylde, Louise Griffiths; Gory buddy–comedy with an undead soldier and his best friend roaming the streets in a never–ending quest for blood. The darker brother of…
Saw VI (Saw 6) (2009): Dir. Kevin Greutert
Feat. Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor; The undying SAW franchise reaches its half–dozen. Having lost its edge long ago, the question is how many of its fans remain undead?
Smash Cut (2009): Dir. Lee Demarbe
Feat. David Hess, Sasha Grey, Michael Berryman…; Splatter comedy with Hess as horror hack who discovers a way to both gain notoriety and also to keep those pesky special effects costs down.…
Splice (2009): Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley; The director of cult hit CUBE ups the ante in hybrid horror with this story of geneticists who, after recombining DNA from different species, give…
Stepfather, The (2009): Dir. Nelson McCormick
Feat. Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Amber Heard…; This cliche–heavy remake of the eighties classic about a teenager convinced his new step father is a serial killer doesn't have the same…
Suck (2009): Dir. Rob Stefaniuk
Feat. Rob Stefaniuk, Malcolm McDowell, Jessica Pare…; Heady horror–comedy follows the career highs and lows of a struggling band who find unexpected (but fraught) success when one of their members…
Survival of the Dead (George A. Romero's Survival Of The Dead) (2009): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh; On a small island off the coast of North America, two feuding families hold an undead world at bay in George Romero's latest zombie epic.
Thirst (Bakjwi) (2009): Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Kim Ok-bin, Ha-kyun Shin; A voracious vampire movie not afraid to explore the corrupting and liberating power of being undead, starring THE HOST’s burly Song Kang–ho…
Triangle (2009): Dir. Christopher Smith
Feat. Melissa George, Jack Taylor, Michael Dorman…; Unnerving horror from British genre auteur Christopher Smith (CREEP, SEVERANCE) has a group of seafaring buddies swept into the Bermuda Triangle…
True Blood - Season 2 (TV Series) (2009): Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell…; Further episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
Twilight: New Moon (2009): Dir. Chris Weitz
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson…; Succulent second helping of the Stephanie Meyer vampire saga finds pasty Edward no longer able to protect his beloved Bella, fleeing the country and…
Unborn, The (2009): Dir. David S. Goyer
Feat. Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good; Corny 'supernatural thriller' concerning a young woman who fears she may be haunted by a demonic spirit somehow connected with her unborn…
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans (2009): Dir. Patrick Tatopoulos
Feat. Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra; Latest in the long–suffering Underworld series focuses on the origins of the ancient feud between the vampires and the Lycans. This…
Uninvited, The (2009): Dir. Charles Guard, Thomas Guard
Feat. Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn…; Not–as–bad–as–you'd–think American remake of Korean chiller A TALE OF TWO SISTERS focuses on two sisters who discover…
Vampire Diaries, The (TV Series) (2009): Feat. Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder; The TWILIGHT zeitgeist is vamped up as a 90210–style serial in this melodramatic teen soap, about a troubled girl torn between her brooding…
Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (2009): Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Feat. Yukie Nakama, Eri Otoguro; Another enjoyable stock effort from the makers of TOKYO GORE POLICE et. al, this combines home–brewed splatter, ropey special effects, and…
Walled In (2009): Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Feat. Mischa Barton, Deborah Kara Unger, Cameron Bright…; A young engineer supervising the demolition of a mysterious building discovers its past inhabitants were victims of a murderer who entombed his prey…
Zombieland (2009): Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone…; Deftly funny splatter comedy set in a post–apocalyptic world overrun with – you guessed it – Zombies, has two drifters teaming up…
[REC 2] (REC 2) (2009): Dir. Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
Feat. Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza; Sequel to the smash Spanish fright fest has a Special Ops team heading into the quarantined apartment at the same time three teenagers let their…
100 Feet (2008): Dir. Eric Red
Feat. Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick; A woman (Janssen) confined to her house after being accused of murdering her husband is plagued by his vengeful ghost in this high–concept…
Acolytes (2008): Dir. Jon Hewitt
Feat. Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Hanna Mangan Lawrence…; Chilling, if somewhat uneven, low–budget Aussie thriller concerning a group of teens who blackmail a serial killer to help them extract revenge…
Baghead (2008): Dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Feat. Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, Ross Partridge…; The Duplass Brothers deliver on the promise of their debut, THE PUFFY CHAIR, with another no–frills charmer that effortlessly marries assured…
Burrowers, The (2008): Dir. J.T. Petty
Feat. Clancy Brown, David Busse, Jocelin Donahue; Horror–western that plays like TREMORS with cowboys, focused on a group of pioneers who set out to recover some missing settlers only to find…
Children, The (2008): Dir. Tom Shankland
Feat. Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Rachel Shelley; Christmas is canceled in this wintry chiller as a family's yuletide vacation turns into a fight for survival after the children rebel violently…
Colin (2008): Dir. Marc Price
Feat. Alastair Kirton, Daisy Aitkens, Kate Alderman; Inventive, micro–budget Brit horror follows a young Zombie as he wanders through an increasingly desolate suburbia. Pic's lack of dialogue and…
Cottage, The (2008): Dir. Paul Andrew Williams
Feat. Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith; Splattery horror–comedy in the vein of SHAUN OF THE DEAD follows two mismatched brothers on a bungled kidnapping attempt of a gangster’s…
Dance of the Dead (2008): Dir. Gregg Bishop
Feat. Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Zoe Myers…; Lean and mean zombie comedy about a plague of living dead who crash the high school prom and the dateless losers who appear to be the only ones who…
Dark Floors (2008): Dir. Pete Riski
Feat. Skye Bennett, Philip Bretherton, William Hope…; Cult horror focused on a man and his autistic daughter trying to escape a hospital full of fiends from another world. Typical B–grade…
Dead in 3 Days (Dead in Three Days) (2008): Dir. Andreas Prochaska; Chilling Austrian slasher involving a group of teenagers who must discover a serial killer’s identity in order to save themselves from getting…
Dead Set (TV Series) (2008): Dir. Yann Demange
Feat. Jaime Winstone, Riz Ahmed, Warren Brown…; A bleak send–up of reality TV culture in which a production studio is attacked by zombies during the filming of a fictional "Big Brother" style…
Dead Space (Downfall + Aftermath) (2008): Dir. Chuck Patton; A deep space survivalist horror, based on the video game of the same name, centred on a group of miners battling against a gruesome alien invasion…
Deadgirl (2008): Dir. Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel
Feat. Noah Segan, Candice Accola, Shiloh Fernandez; Two outcast teens play hookie in an abandoned hospital, discovering a naked, zombified woman strapped to a gurney. Questionable necrophilic antics…
Disappeared, The (2008): Dir. Johnny Kevorkian
Feat. Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Ros Leeming…; Restrained British chiller set on a London estate focuses on a young man's search for his missing younger brother. Impressive debut for dir.…
Donkey Punch (2008): Dir. Oliver Blackburn; Trendy, explicit youth horror centred on three holidaying gal pals whose wild night of sex and drugs with three guys on a yacht turns deadly when a…
Dying Breed (2008): Dir. Jody Dwyer
Feat. Nathan Phillips, Mirrah Foulkes, Leigh Whannell; Gruesome Australian horror centred around a group of friends who go in search of the fabled Tasmanian Tiger, only to find themselves fighting for…
Echo, The (2008): Dir. Yam Laranas
Feat. Jesse Bradford, Amelia Warner; Dir. Yam Laranas remakes his own Filipino hit about an parolee (Bradford) who moves into his late mother's abandoned apartment, which may or may not…
Eden Lake (2008): Dir. James Watkins
Feat. Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender; Vicious, visceral horror set in the 'idyllic' backwoods of Eden Lake where two British holidaymakers are terrorized by a group of sadistic…
Embodiment of Evil (Encarnação do Demônio ) (2008): Dir. Jose Majica Marins
Feat. Milhem Cortaz, Jose Majica Marins; Brazilian horror film, the final movie in the Coffin Joe trilogy, about a mentally deranged undertaker with racial superiority issues, who is willing…
Eye, The (2008): Dir. David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Feat. Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Rade Serbedzija…; Mildly startling Hollywood remake of creepy Hong Kong horror sees Jessica Alba playing the once–blind violinist whose sight gets surgically…
Haunting Of Molly Hartley, The (2008): Dir. Mickey Liddell
Feat. Haley Bennett, Jake Weber, Chace Crawford; 17–year–old Molly Hartley begins to suffer odd symptoms of psychosis that foreshadow a sinister destiny in this ambitious horror, which…
I Sell the Dead (2008): Dir. Glenn McQuaid
Feat. Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Ron Perlman…; Bumptious horror–comedy of corpses with two beleaguered grave robbers having to contend with the troublesome undead and blood–lusting…
Insanitarium (2008): Dir. Jeff Buhler
Feat. Peter Stormare, Jesse Metcalfe; Jesse Metcalf (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES) stars as a man who cons his way into a mental hospital to rescue his institutionalised sister, only to discover…
Lake Mungo (2008): Dir. John Anderson
Feat. Talia Zucker; Unnerving paranormal mockumentary from Australia following the ghostly events that proceed a 16–year–old's tragic drowning, who haunts…
Lazarus Project, The (2008): Dir. John Glenn
Feat. Paul Walker, Piper Perabo, Linda Cardellini; Surreal thriller concerning a prisoner on death row (Walker), who after his lethal injection inexplicably wakes up in a mental institution where he…
Let The Right One In (2008): Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Feat. Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar; Sending many critics into raptures as a vampire flick to finally get excited about, this frost–bitten Swedish entry mixes social realism with…
Lost Boys 2: The Tribe (2008): Dir. P.J. Pesce
Feat. Gabrielle Rose, Corey Feldman, Autumn Reeser…; Belated sequel to the 80's blood–letting hit THE LOST BOYS, this time set in a California surf Mecca where a brother and sister get unwittingly…
Machine Girl, The (2008): Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Minase Yashiro, Asami Miyajima; Brainless ultra–violence combines straighforward revenge narrative with a novelty twist: a plucky schoolgirl, whose stand against local…
Make-Out With Violence (2008): Dir. Deagol Brothers
Feat. Eric Lehning, Cody DeVos; A genuinely odd zombie movie about twin brothers whose teenage girl crush mysteriously disappears one day, only to emerge in a vegetative state…
Martyrs (2008): Dir. Pascal Laugier
Feat. Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin; You, the viewer, may feel martyred after enduring this unremittingly bleak French horror focused on a pair of unhinged women who seek revenge on the…
Midnight Meat Train, The (2008): Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Feat. Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields…; Twisted horror based on cult–horror writer Clive Barker's 'Books Of Blood' sees a photographer (Cooper) grow obsessed with a butcher (Jones)…
Mirrors (2008): Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland; Sketchy remake of the Korean horror 'Geoul Sokeuro', starring Kiefer Sutherland as an ousted ex–cop turned security officer who begins to see…
Mum and Dad (2008): Dir. Steven Sheil
Feat. Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori…; Acidic, low–budget Brit horror centered around a Polish immigrant airport worker who gets trapped in the nightmarish house of a sadistic family…
Mummy, The - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008): Dir. Rob Cohen
Feat. Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello…; Veteran adventurer Rick O’Conner (Fraser) returns with family in tow to battle Jet Li’s ‘Dragon Emperor’ in this bloated third installment of…
Mutant Chronicles (2008): Dir. Simon Hunter
Feat. Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, John Malkovich; Sci–fi indie loosely based on the role–playing game of the same name set in the year 2707 of steam–powered technologies and Earth's…
Objective, The (2008): Dir. Daniel Myrick
Feat. Jonas Ball, Michael Williams; Supernatural horror set in the all–too–real territory of Afghanistan follows a bunch of US Special Ops who get lost in a terrifying…
One Eyed Monster (2008): Dir. Adam Fields
Feat. Amber Benson, Ron Jeremy, Jason Graham; 'The world is screwed' in this horror comedy, where a cast and crew of a porno film must escape a shape–shifting alien who chooses to posses…
Otis (2008): Dir. Tony Krantz
Feat. Daniel Stern, Illeana Douglas, Bostin Christopher…; A cult favourite in the making, this outrageous black comedy is an assuredly twisted, dark and laugh–out–loud funny satire of vigilantism…
Passengers (2008): Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher…; Supernatural thriller revolving around a young grief therapist (Hathaway) assigned to counsel the five survivors of a plane crash, only to have them…
Pig Hunt (2008): Dir. James Isaac
Feat. Travis Aaron Wade, Tina Huang, Howard Johnson Jr.; 'Giant pig' horror concerning a group of young twenty–somethings who go pig–hunting on a remote ranch, only to be pursued by both the…
Plague Town (2008): Dir. David Gregory
Feat. Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes, David Lombard; Breathless and bloody survival horror with an American family in Ireland pursued by sadistic, deformed children.
Pontypool (2008): Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly; Highly intriguing and unconventional horror chamber piece – less a "zombie flick" than contagion drama on account of the fact that here the…
Prom Night (2008): Dir. Nelson McCormick
Feat. Idris Elba, Jessica Stroup, Johnathon Schaech; Lame duck remake of the 80's teen horror, with a picture perfect cast being chased around by a deranged killer on their…
Quarantine (2008): Dir. John Erick Dowdle
Feat. Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Steve Harris; American remake of Spanish horror [REC] follows a group of firefighters who discover something sinister lurking within an apartment building and have…
R.L. Stine's Mostly Ghostly (2008): Dir. Richard Correll
Feat. Luke Benward; Spooky tween horror from the pen of kids horror king R.L. Stein, centred on a dorky young boy who makes a pact with a couple of ghosts to help them…
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008): Dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
Feat. Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head…; Gore–soaked goth opera set in a future necropolis where worldwide organ failure has necessitated a global organ–selling empire with an…
Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008): Dir. Makoto Kamiya; Passive animation adventure derived from the original video game series focusing on a couple of ex–special force agents tackling the outbreak…
Ruins, The (2008): Dir. Carter Smith
Feat. Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker, Joe Anderson; Gory cautionary tale, adapted from Scott Smith’s popular pulp novel, in which a group of college pals on an eye–opening Mexican vacation…
Sauna (2008): Dir. Antti-Jussi Annila
Feat. Ville Virtanen, Tommi Eronen, Viktor Klimenko; Something of a hybrid of the historical epic and ghost story, this unique genre entry from Finland concerns two brothers haunted by a young girl whom…
Saw V (Saw 5) (2008): Dir. David Hackl
Feat. Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Julie Benz; Numero five in the never–ending onslaught of SAW movies sees Jigsaw continuing to play sadistic mind games from beyond the grave with a batch…
Seventh Moon (2008): Dir. Eduardo Sanchez
Feat. Amy Smart, Sylvie Verheyde, Tim Chiou; Shaky–cam master Eduardo Sanchez (THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT) attacks our senses and stomachs once more in this non–sensical horror,…
Shuttle (2008): Dir. Edward Anderson
Feat. Tony Curran, Peyton List, Cameron Goodman…; An airport shuttle ride turn into a nightmare for its nubile passengers in this tightly contained indie adbuction thriller from first–time…
Strangers, The (2008): Dir. Bryan Bertino
Feat. Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman; A home invasion horror orcestrated with rare tension and restraint, concerning a couple’s night of terror at the hands of three masked…
Tokyo Gore Police (2008): Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura
Feat. Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Ltao, Yukihide Benny; Trashy, imaginative Japanese gore fest aims to out–splatter Peter Jackson’s BRAINDEAD with its outrageous hybrid of ROBOCOP and…
Trailer Park Of Terror (2008): Dir. Steven Goldmann
Feat. Nichole Hiltz, Matthew Del Negro, Trace Adkins; Yet another installment in the zombie–comedy genre sees a group of troubled high–school students get stranded in a trailer park occupied…
Trick 'r Treat (Trick or Treat) (2008): Dir. Michael Dougherty
Feat. Dylan Baker, Brian Cox, Anna Paquin…; Well–crafted horror that interweaves five spooky stories on the same Halloween night, subverting familiar urban legends into unexpected new…
True Blood - Season 1 (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell…; Acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern society, and the…
Twilight (2008): Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Billy Burke…; The first installment of the uber–popular book franchise (by Stephanie Meyer) sees lonely teenage girl Bella fall in love with Edward, a…
Zombie Strippers (2008): Dir. Jay Lee
Feat. Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson; No–brainer zombie comedy starring ex–porn star Jenna Jameson as a small–town stripper who catches a leaked government virus which…
1408 (2007): Dir. Mikael Håfström
Feat. John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson; This good, old–fashioned horror adapts a latter–day Steven King story of the same name. True to genre, it's about a sceptical,…
30 Days of Night (2007): Dir. David Slade
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston…; Stylish vampire movie with a potentially great twist: it pits the citizens of an Arctic Circle town – plunged into darkness one month every…
Aaah Zombies! (Wasting Away) (2007): Dir. Matthew Kohnen
Feat. Matthew Davis, Julianna Robinson, MIchael Grant Terry…; After chowing down on experimental goo four friends find themselves zombiefied in this rather sweet horror–comedy. Latest entry in the…
Alien vs. Predator 2 - Requiem (AVPR) (2007): Dir. Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Feat. Robert Joy; On–the–cheap follow–up to AVP observing the warring Alien and Predator races as they draw battle lines on either side of a small…
Apartment 1303 (2007): Dir. Ataru Oikawa
Feat. Noriko Nakagoshi; A woman is led to investigates a series of suicides in an apartment after her sister moves in and then throws herself off the balcony during her…
Believers (2007): Dir. Daniel Myrick
Feat. Daniel Benzali; Hot on the heels of BLAIR WITCH cohort Ed Sanchez’s ALTERED, dir. Myrick tackles the frightening hysteria of cults, where two paramedics are caught…
Black Water (2007): Dir. David Nerlich, Andrew Traucki
Feat. Maeve Dermody, Diana Glenn, Andy Rodoreda…; A fishing tour turns deadly for tourists when their boat is capsized deep in the swamp by a large crocodile in this skillful survival horror. The…
Blood and Chocolate (2007): Dir. Katja von Garnier
Feat. Agnes Bruckner, Olivier Martinez, Hugh Dancy…; A beautiful teenager must choose between her love for a young artist and her werewolf lineage in this campy but adequately entertaining supernatural…
Borderland (2007): Dir. Zev Berman
Feat. Brian Presley, Rider Strong, Sean Astin; Unexpectedly effective horror following three recent college–graduates as they stumble across a human–sacrifice cult during a heady…
Dark Mirror (2007): Dir. Pablo Proenza
Feat. Lisa Vidal, David Chisum; Gripping indie–horror reads like an update of AMITYVILLE with nice family moving into nice house with some odd features: mirrors that reflect…
Dead and Deader (2007): Dir. Patrick Dinhut
Feat. Dean Cain, Guy Torry, Susan Ward; A referential zombie comedy that is knowingly unoriginal, but serves its subgenre well by splatting the target more often than most in both laughs…
Dead Silence (2007): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Donnie Wahlberg, Ryan Kwanten; A more restrained offering from the creators of SAW, set amidst the creepy carnival milieu of a small town harboring the ghost of a slain…
Deaths Of Ian Stone (2007): Dir. Dario Piana
Feat. Mike Vogel, Jaime Murray, Christina Cole; High–concept horror tells the story of a businessman trapped in a surreal GROUNDHOG DAY–esque nightmare where he has to suffer his own…
Diary of the Dead (2007): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Joshua Close; Genre–king Romero's latest sojourn puts the digital camera in the hands of a group of film–school wannabes who, while shooting their own…
Dororo (2007): Dir. Akihiko Shiota
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki; Electrifying action fantasy based on a manga comic by the grandfather of Anime – Osamu Tezuka (ASTRO BOY), in which an abandoned samurai's son…
End of the Line (2007): Dir. Maurice Devereaux
Feat. Ilona Elkin, Nicolas Wright, Neil Napier…; Chilling horror set in a Subway where a young nurse boards the last train of the night, only to have it stop halfway and its passengers brutally…
Fear(s) of the Dark (Fears of the Dark, Peur(s) du noir) (2007): Dir. Blutch , Charles Burns, Marie Caillou; Six dynamic and distinct graphic artists illustrate various primordial phobias using only 'light and dark' in this impressive compendium of animated…
Ferryman, The (2007): Dir. Chris Graham
Feat. Kerry Fox, Tamer Hassan, John Rhys-Davies…; Homegrown high–seas supernatural horror following a group of charter cruise passengers en route from New Zealand to Fiji who pick up a weirdo…
Frontier(s) (Frontiers) (2007): Dir. Xavier Gens
Feat. Samuel Le Bihan; Bludgeoning sadistic fantasy, following in the footsteps of other French exponents of the rather unsavoury torture–porn mini–genre, this…
Girl Next Door, The (2007): Dir. Gregory Wilson
Feat. Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, Blanche Baker…; Sickly torture porn number details the misfortunes of two adolescent girls sent to live with their psychotic aunt after their parents pass…
Halloween (2007): Dir. Rob Zombie
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Sheri Moon…; Rocker–turned–horrormeister Rob Zombie's resurrection of the 1978 slasher classic, which tells the tale of an escaped mental patient on a…
Hills Have Eyes 2, The (2007): Dir. Martin Weisz
Feat. Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup; Predictably grisly, largely pointless sequel to Alexandre Aja’s remake of Wes Craven’s cult survivalist film, which pits a group of National…
Hitcher, The (2007): Dir. Dave Meyers
Feat. Sophia Bush, Sean Bean; Gore–laden remake of the roadtrip from hell, with a brooding Sean Bean subbing for Rutger Hauer as a deranged hitchhiker on the…
Hostel 2 (2007): Dir. Eli Roth
Feat. Jay Hernandez, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips…; Macabre, sadistic sequel from Tarantino protégé Eli Roth veritably oozes gore, this time following a disparate trio of college girls to Slovakia,…
Kaidan (2007): Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Kumiko Aso; Period J–horror from the director of THE RING relays the ghostly tale of a samurai’s son attempting to escape an ancient curse laid on his…
King of the Hill (El Rey de la montaña) (2007): Dir. Gonzalo López-Gallego
Feat. Leonardo Sbaraglia, Maria Valverde; A well–crafted, believable take on the lost–in–the–woods genre, about a man who follows an attractive stranger into the…
Mist, The (2007): Dir. Frank Darabont
Feat. Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden; Unnerving horror adapted from a Stephen King short story about a mysterious mist which rolls into a small town in Maine, driving the townsfolk to…
Mother of Tears (La Terza Madre) (2007): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Asia Argento, Christian Solimeno, Udo Kier; This missing piece in Argento’s ‘Three Mothers’ trilogy turns to an unassuming art student (daughter Asia, getting her kit off as usual), who,…
Murder Party (2007): Dir. Jeremy Saulnier
Feat. Alex Barnett, Macon Blair, Paul Goldblatt…; Fairly wretched horror comedy about a loner who crashes a Halloween party and finds himself at the mercy of a group of deranged NY artists determined…
My Name Is Bruce (2007): Dir. Bruce Campbell
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Ted Raimi…; Cult favourite B–grade actor Campbell is kidnapped by a misguided fan who expects him to save the world from very real monsters in this…
Orphanage, The (El Orfanato) (2007): Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona
Feat. Belen Rueda, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Cayo; Exemplary exercise in suggestive horror storytelling from first time feature director Bayona, with Belen Rueda superb as a woman who returns to her…
Paranormal Activity (2007): Dir. Oren Peli
Feat. Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat; Benefitting from the low–tech immediacy that made THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT chillingly effective (and hugely profitable), this assembles its own…
Planet Terror (2007): Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Josh Brolin…; Robert Rodriguez's half – and quite possibly, the better half – of the "Grindhouse" double bill (with Quentin Tarantino's DEATH PROOF),…
R.L. Stine's Haunting Hour (Don't Even Think About It) (2007): Dir. Alex Zamm
Feat. Tobin Bell; Jocular tween horror tale of a spooky lil Goth girl who discovers a puzzling book that unleashes unthinkable evil. Suitably creepy…
Resident Evil - Extinction (2007): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter; Milla Jovovich returns in the war against the undead in this third installment of the game–turned–film franchise. This time our…
Rise - Blood Hunter (2007): Dir. Sebastian Guitierrez
Feat. Lucy Liu, James D'Arcy, Michael Chiklis…; Lucy Liu seeks revenge using a trusty silver crossbow against those who transformed her into a bloodlusty creature of the undead in this stylish…
Rogue (2007): Dir. Greg McLean
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington; Second terrifying outing from the dir. of WOLF CREEK centers on a 'rogue' giant crocodile in the Australian outback, whose latest prey is a boatful…
Saw IV (Saw 4) (2007): Dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
Feat. Tobin Bell; A sight for Saw eyes if ever there was one, the producers of this undying snuff series return to the toolbox for a fourth time and wind up with what…
Shrooms (2007): Dir. Paddy Breathnach
Feat. Robert Hoffman; Flimsy slasher horror in which a group of clot–headed American college kids camp out in some creepy Irish woods and experience a terrifying…
Signal, The (2007): Dir. David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry
Feat. Anessa Ramsey, Justin Welborn, A.J. Bowen…; This promising triptych of horror stories centres on a mysterious viral signal which, via electronic transmissions, sends those exposed to its…
Sisterhood, The (2007): Dir. David DeCoteau; Uneven lesbian horror about a psychic pre–med student asked to infiltrate the exclusive 'Bats' sorority – a group of feisty girls with…
Stuck (2007): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby; Macabre morality play that's unfortunately based on the true tale of a young woman who ran over a homeless man, and left him bleeding to death in her…
Sublime (2007): Dir. Tony Krantz
Feat. Thomas Cavanagh; Hospital–phobes beware: in this grisly extension of the torture genre currently in vogue, a man scheduled in for a routine colonoscopy awakes…
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman…; Johnny Depp is centre stage once again for dir. Tim Burton in this fiendish screen rendition of Stephen Sondheim's twisted musical about a…
Tattooist, The (2007): Dir. Peter Burger
Feat. Jason Behr, Mia Blake, David Fane…; A supernatural thriller that forges the disparate worlds of urban tattoo counter–culture with Samoan cultural taboo, Jason Behr plays an…
Teeth (2007): Dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein
Feat. Jess Weixler; Squeamishly entertaining horror centred on a sweet high school virgin who discovers she has a set of mutant teeth between her legs, the perfect…
Vacancy (2007): Dir. Nimrod Antal
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley…; A middle–of–nowhere breakdown leaves Beckinsale and Wilson stranded in a hotel room full of hidden cameras – and as stars in a sicko…
Vampire Diary (2007): Dir. Mark James, Phil O' Shea
Feat. Anna Walton; Lusty, low–budget horror centred on a filmmaker who indulges in an affair with her documentary subject – a bloodthirsty real–life…
Waz (w Delta z) (2007): Dir. Tom Shankland
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Melissa George, Selma Blair; Intriguing horror debut from UK dir. Shankland sees a detective and his assistant investigate a series of chilling murders, involving loved ones who…
When Night Falls (2007): Dir. Alex Galvin
Feat. Tania Nolan, Rosella Hart; Creeping Wairarapa–set thriller fixed on two nurses holed up in a remote country house caring for a patient while trying to steer clear of a…
Wind Chill (2007): Dir. Gregory Jacobs
Feat. Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan; A prickly college student (Blunt) catches a ride home for Christmas with a random classmate, but when their car ploughs off the icy road, stranding…
Wizard of Gore, The (2007): Dir. Jeremy Kasten
Feat. Bijou Phillips, Crispin Glover, Brad Dourif; Not at all wasteful remake of Herschell Gordon Lewis' gore classic about a master illusionist whose trick is that he's actually sawing in half his…
[REC] (REC) (2007): Dir. Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza; Sinister Spanish horror, from European creepy movie maestro Jaume Balaguero, which follows a callout from a Barcelona fire station to an apartment…
13: Game Of Death (2006): Dir. Chukiat Sakveerakul, Stewart St. John; Twisted Thai horror in which a down–and–out salesman, targeted by a mysterious phone call, is offered millions if he can complete 13…
Abandoned, The (Los Abandonados) (2006): Dir. Nacho Cerda
Feat. Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden; Spanish dir. Nacho Cerda serves up a surreal English–language Euro–horror that, like the works of Bava, Argento, and their progeny, works…
After... (2006): Dir. David L. Cunningham
Feat. Daniel Caltagirone, Flora Montgomery, Nicholas Aaron; Headache–inducing horror follows a group of 'Urban Explorer' thrillseekers whose journey to the depths of Moscow's underground subways goes…
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006): Dir. Jonathan Levine
Feat. Amber Heard, Anson Mount, Whitney Able; Above–average slasher flick following a group of Texan teens who invite the unobtainable 'hot girl' at their school to a remote weekend…
Altered (2006): Dir. Eduardo Sanchez
Feat. James Gammon; A belated return to screen for the co–director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, who works another resourceful and potentially nerve–racking…
An American Haunting (2006): Dir. Courtney Solomon
Feat. James D'Arcy, Sissy Spacek, Donald Sutherland; A stylishly cinematic ghost train, supposedly based on a real–life Tennessee family haunted by strange forces in the early 1800s. Donald…
Backwoods, The (Bosque de sombras) (2006): Dir. Koldo Serra
Feat. Gary Oldman, Paddy Considine, Virginie Ledoyen; Latin slice of backwoods gothic is a classy revenge film, as things go from bad to worse for hunting buddy Brits Gary Oldman and Paddy Consadine when…
Belief (2006): Dir. Phil Davison; Low–budget grinder from local horror up'n'comer Phil Davison (KUNG FU VAMPIRE KILLERS) which juggles comedy and DIY terror around the tale of…
Black Sheep (2006): Dir. Jonathan King
Feat. Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney…; A slick splatter–comedy in the Kiwi tradition of BAD TASTE, about a herd of rabid, flesh–eating sheep run amok in rural New…
Blood Trails (2006): Dir. Robert Krause
Feat. Rebecca R. Palmer, Ben Price, Tom Frederic; Low budget horror sees a cyclist woman and her boyfriend pursued by a psycotic fellow rider through the wilderness. This is an effective little…
Broken (2006): Dir. Adam Mason, Simon Boyes
Feat. Nadja Brand, Eric Colvin; Unsavory backwoods survival horror unravels with punishing, gut–wrenching haute tension the plight of a single mother arbitrarily abducted by…
Day Watch (Dnevnoi Dozor, Daywatch) (2006): Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Dima Martinov; The vampiric Muscovite forces of Good and Evil fight it out again in this frenetic, fantastic FX fantasy every bit as good as the first one (NIGHT…
Fido (2006): Dir. Andrew Currie
Feat. Billy Connolly, Carrie-Anne Moss, K'Sun Ray; Day–glo zombie comedy takes the increasingly dog–eared genre to a new meta–level with its premise of zombies being domesticated as…
Final Destination 3 (2006): Dir. James Wong
Feat. Mary Elizabeth Winstead; Workmanlike third entry in the horror series known best for its wildly inventive death sequences, this time setting up a handful of teenagers to…
Gathering, The (2006): Dir. Brian Gilbert
Feat. Christina Ricci, Stephen Dillane, Ioan Gruffudd; Goth–lite supernatural horror stars Ricci as an American backpacker who loses her memory after a car accident in a small town in rural England,…
Grimm Love (Rohtenburg) (2006): Dir. Martin Weisz
Feat. Keri Russell, Thomas Kretschmann, Thomas Huber; Morbidly fascinating drama based on the sensational true story of Armin Meiwes, a cannibal who searched the internet for a companion willing to be…
Grudge 2, The (2006): Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Amber Tamblyn, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Edison Chen…; Dir. Shimizu revisits his effective J–Horror franchise and re–adapts a sequel for Hollywood. While fans of the original JU–ON (and…
Hamiltons, The (2006): Dir. Butcher Brothers
Feat. Cory Knauf, Samuel Child, MacKenzie Firgens…; An interesting shoestring horror that's been casually dubbed as 'Party of Five' with fangs, its a subversive and sometimes disturbing satire on the…
Hatchet (2006): Dir. Adam Green
Feat. Joel David Moore; Definitely not for the squeamish, this gloriously gruesome horror involves imbecilic young tourists getting stalked, lopped and hacked up by a…
Haunted Airman, The (2006): Dir. Chris Durlacher
Feat. Robert Pattinson; Blatant cash–in on the popularity of TWILIGHT'S Robert Pattinson sees the heartthrob play an injured WW2 pilot, who must recuperate in a…
Hidden (2006): Dir. Tim McLachlan; An atmospheric but baffling 'lost in the woods' thriller, this locally–produced horror wrestles with the plight of various characters who are…
Last Winter, The (2006): Dir. Larry Fessenden
Feat. Ron Perlman, James LeGros, Connie Britton…; Chilly, intelligent survival horror from director Larry Fessenden that plays like a more naturalistic version of the John Carpenter's THE…
Living and the Dead, The (2006): Dir. Simon Rumley
Feat. Leo Bill, Kate Fahy, Roger Lloyd Pack…; Intense, left–field chamber piece takes the over–familiar scenario of a dysfunctional aristocratic family out of the ordinary, centering…
Monster House (2006): Dir. Gil Kenan
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Lee; Rollercoaster haunted–house ride for kids expertly CGI–animated around the story of three suburban teens who decide to challenge a…
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (TV Series) (From the Stories of Stephen King) (2006): Feat. William Hurt, William H. Macy, Ron Livingston…; High–end anthology of Stephen King short stories boasts name guest stars an abundance of great ideas in what can be considered a return to form…
Number 13 (2006): Dir. Pier Wilkie
Feat. Greg Wise, Paul Freeman, David Burke; A hotel–dwelling sceptic is haunted by the appearance of a mysterious room, marked by the number thirteen, and is compelled to investigate.…
Omen, The (Omen 666) (2006): Dir. Jason Moore
Feat. Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, David Thewlis…; A conservative but effective remake of the iconic 1976 horror moving, in which an ambitious diplomat and his wife (Schreiber, Stiles) secretly adopt…
Other Side, The (2006): Dir. Gregg Bishop
Feat. Nathan Mobley, Jaimie Alexander; Paced like a bat–out–of–hell, this action–packed yet intricate 'undead' thriller follows a murdered student to hell and back…
Perfect Creature (2006): Dir. Glenn Standring
Feat. Saffron Burrows, Dougray Scott, Leo Gregory…; Ambitious, well–appointed Gothica set in a retro–alternate Aotearoa, where humans and their highly–evolved vampire colleagues…
Pulse (2006): Dir. Jim Sonzero
Feat. Kristen Bell; Slow–pulsed Hollywood remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's excellent J–horror KAIRO, fitfully reproduces the concept of spectres using the viral…
Re-Cycle (Gwai Wik) (2006): Dir. Danny Pang, Oxide Pang; Chinese gore connoisseurs Danny and Oxide Pang embark on another otherworldly excursion in this horror about an author who realises the supernatural…
Rest Stop (2006): Dir. John Shiban; Road trip becomes holiday in hell when a young woman gets caught up in a cat and mouse battle with a deranged killer, after her boyfriend goes…
Retribution (2006): Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara; A skin–crawling 'mainstream' J–Horror from subtle spookmeister Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this trades heavily in established genre elements, but…
Return, The (2006): Dir. Asif Kapadia
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Kate Beahan; Scream queen Sarah Michelle Gellar is plagued by spectral visions en route to her Texan hometown in this mildly effective, slow burn ghost…
Rosebery 7470 (2006): Dir. Stefan Popescu
Feat. Alice Ansara; Disturbing Aussie mining town Horror from experimental dir. Stefan Popescu, focused on an autistic teen mentally scarred by abuse who slips into a…
Saw 3 (2006): Dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
Feat. Shawnee Smith, Donnie Wahlberg, Dina Meyer…; Latest gratuitous sequel in the grisly torture franchise sees sadomasochist Jigsaw continue his reign of pain on more unfortunate victims. Fleshless…
Severance (2006): Dir. Christopher Smith
Feat. Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny; Bludgeoning horror–comedy that derives its slasher conventions and corporate politics from an ill–fated team building exercise in the…
Sheitan (2006): Dir. Kim Chapiron
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Roxane Mesquida; A gaggle of young hedonists on a bender expend their energies at a disco and are invited by pouting barmaid Mesquida (A MA SOUER) to her remote…
Silent Hill (2006): Dir. Christophe Gans
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Deborah Kara Unger, Alice Krige…; An instantly–spooky premise, based on a video game, guides this story of a mother (Rahda Mitchell) who foolishly drives to a ghoulish West…
Slither (2006): Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker; The small American town of Wheelsy is visited by a slithery space squid, which sends a variety of parasitic slugs out to invade the bodies of the…
Stephen King's Desperation (2006): Dir. Mick Garris
Feat. Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish…; Hokey, high–concept telemovie from the Stephen King assembly line, about a couple who stumble upon a deranged, demonically possessed…
Subject Two (2006): Dir. Phillip Chidel
Feat. Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton; Indie 'mad science' thriller in which a doctor invents a resurrection formula and tests it by killing and reviving a 'volunteer' med student many…
Them (Ils) (2006): Dir. Xavier Palud, David Moreau
Feat. Olivia Bonamy, Michael Cohen, Adriana Mocca…; French horror that takes the 'home invasion' subgenre to chilling new heights, sees a young couple terrorized in their home by unseen intruders.…
Turistas (2006): Dir. John Stockwell
Feat. Josh Duhamel, Melissa George; Well in keeping with HOSTEL’s trendsetting sadomasochism, this Brazilian–set thriller concerns a group of backpackers stranded in a jungle…
When a Stranger Calls (2006): Dir. Simon West
Feat. Camilla Belle; Tense, if skeletal, remake of the original 1970s babysitter thriller in which Camilla Belle minds the children in a remote house fitted with…
Wicker Man, The (2006): Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Frances Conroy…; Remake of the 1970s horror classic plays with fire by making women the centre of the island cult, while the scares fall flat as dir. Labute’s…
Woods, The (2006): Dir. Lucky McKee
Feat. Agnes Bruckner, Patricia Clarkson, Bruce Campbell; Creepy excursion has a teenage pyromaniac (Bruckner) sent to girls' school located deep in the malign woods of 1960s New England, which is possibly…
Zombie Diaries, The (2006): Dir. Michael Bartlett, Kevin Gates; Taking cues from 28 DAYS LATER and the wellspring of Romero classics, this low–key indie zombie mockumentary has three separate…
2001 Maniacs (2005): Dir. Tim Sullivan
Feat. Robert Englund, Lyn Shaye, Giuseppe Andrews; A clan of college loafers plan a spring break to Daytona Beach but end up getting side tracked into a creepy little town where the residents have…
Amityville Horror, The (2005): Dir. Andrew Douglas
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George; Competent, though hardly inspiring remake of the 1979 horror, in which a couple of happy newlyweds shift into a baleful–looking house, without…
Bloodrayne (2005): Dir. Uwe Boll
Feat. Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen, Ben Kingsley…; Brain dead blood and breast fest from the consistently awful Boll with "plot" revolving around a half–human/half–vampire pursuing the man…
Boogeyman (2005): Dir. Stephen Kay
Feat. Barry Watson, Emily Dreschanel, Lucy Lawless; Haunted by his father's death, a young man (Watson) quests to discover the identity of the monstrous 'boogeyman' killer, who may in fact be a figment…
Constantine (2005): Dir. Francis Lawrence
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Tilda Swinton…; A stylish, but rather misfiring adaptation of the DC comicbook 'Hellblazer', with Keanu Reeves playing a wry, hard–boiled detective with…
Cry Wolf (2005): Dir. Jeff Wadlow
Feat. Jon Bon Jovi; Inventive, if light on truly scary moments, this slasher suspenser is set in a posh American prep school, where bored teenagers concoct a fictional…
Cursed (2005): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Portia de Rossi…; Two siblings (Ricci, Eisenberg) are bitten and infected by a werewolf on the loose in their manicured Los Angeles suburb. Discovering that…
Dark Hours, The (2005): Dir. Paul Fox
Feat. Kate Greenhouse, Aidan Devine, Gordon Currie; An above–average pulp horror–thriller from Canada about a psychiatrist, her husband and her sister, who escape to a remote lakeside cabin…
Dark Water (2005): Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth…; Translation to New York of the spooky Japanese horror of the same name, with a recent divorcee (Connelly) and her young daughter moving into a…
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005): Dir. Ana Clavell, James Glenn Dudelson
Feat. John Freedom Henry, Joseph Marino, Jackeline Olivier; Billed as a prequel to George Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD, this in fact is a B–movie knockoff in the time–honoured zombie tradition. Without…
Descent, The (2005): Dir. Neil Marshall
Feat. Shauna Macdonald; Terrific subterranean survival horror from the dir. of DOG SOLDIERS, with a group of thrill–seeking ladies venturing into an uncharted cave…
Devil's Rejects, The (2005): Dir. Rob Zombie
Feat. Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon…; There is no pause in the blood–letting for this sequel to HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, with dir. Zombie continuing the saga of the murderous Firefly…
Evil Aliens (2005): Dir. Jake West; Riotous horror–comedy in the shamelessly low–rent tradition of BAD TASTE, in which a tabloid TV presenter gathers up her film crew to…
Exorcism of Emily Rose, The (2005): Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott…; An eerie tale based on true events concerns the supposed demonic possession of a girl (Carpenter) in the 1970s and the trial of a priest (Wilkinson)…
Feast (2005): Dir. John Gulager
Feat. Balthazar Getty, Navi Rawat, Josh Zuckerman; The trapped patrons of a bar are feasted upon by a horde of flesh–eating monsters in a horror extravaganza derived out of modest means –…
Fog, The (2005): Dir. Rupert Wainwright
Feat. Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Rade Sherbedgia…; Remake of the John Carpenter film of the same name, with Tom Welling (SMALLVILLE) unwittingly disturbing the vengeful demonic spirits that haunt the…
Fragile (Fragiles) (2005): Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Calista Flockhart, Richard Roxburgh; Moody horror with a Spanish sensibility, this features a slight Calista Flockhart fending off a series of mysterious and increasingly supernatural…
Headspace (2005): Dir. Andrew van den Houten
Feat. Christopher Denham, Olivia Hussey, William Atherton…; A neophyte horror in which a young man 'loses his mind' after gaining mental abilities, this has an impressive array of 80's B–movie icons…
Hills Have Eyes, The (2005): Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Aaron Stanford…; Abject and rather kitschy remake of Wes Craven's 1977 B–grade classic which pumps buckets of blood and gore onto the tale of an…
Hostel (2005): Dir. Eli Roth
Feat. Jay Hernandez; A rather grisly exercise in 'torture chamber' suspense, in which two American backpackers head for Slovakia, hoping to crash a legendary sex scene at…
House of Wax (2005): Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
Feat. Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton; A remake only in name of Vincent Price's 1953 classic, this brutal excursion has a group of young victims have a car breakdown in a 'forgotten' and…
Invasion (TV Series) (2005-2006): Feat. William Fichtner, Eddie Cibrian; Creeping sci–fi series concerning a small–town family who find their town bizarrely quarantined after a mysterious hurricane. Like a…
Isolation (2005): Dir. Billy O'Brien
Feat. Essie Davis, Sean Harris, Marcel Lures; Macabre Irish thriller contained entirely to a farm where a small group of people are pursued by a group of mutated parasites. Itself a bit of a…
King Kong (2005): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black…; Peter Jackson's colossal remake lavishes one of the cinema's greatest legends in 21st century technology and ratchets up the emotional stakes to…
Land of the Dead (2005): Dir. George Romero
Feat. John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Robert Joy…; Fourth installment for dir. Romero's famed DEAD series, set around a future world overrun by shuffling, half–rotten 'zombies' who menace a…
Locusts - Day of Destruction (2005): Dir. David Jackson
Feat. Lucy Lawless, John Heard; Cheese–dipped thriller set in the good ol' US of A, where a swarm of pissed off bio–engineered locusts run riot across the countryside…
Lost, The (2005): Dir. Chris Siverston
Feat. Alex Frost, Marc Senter; Mass murder erupts in small–town America, courtesy of a dead–beat motel manager whose penchant for black clothing, cowboy boots, and…
Masters of Horror Vol. 1 (Cigarette Burns, Dreams in the Witch House) (2005): Dir. John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon
Feat. Norman Reedus, Udo Kier; The brainchild of dir. Mick Garris (THE STAND), this anthology produced by the Showtime cable network commissions some of the genre's greatest…
Masters of Horror Vol. 2 (Incident On and Off a Mountain Road, Chocolate) (2005): Dir. Don Coscarelli, Mick Garris
Feat. Ethan Embry, Henry Thomas, Matt Frewer; The brainchild of dir. Mick Garris (THE STAND), this anthology produced by the Showtime cable network commissions some of the genre's greatest…
Masters of Horror Vol. 3 (Pick Me Up, Homecoming) (2005): Dir. Larry Cohen, Joe Dante
Feat. Fairuza Balk, Michael Moriarty, Robert Picardo; The brainchild of dir. Mick Garris (THE STAND), this anthology produced by the Showtime cable network commissions some of the genre's greatest…
P (The Possessed) (2005): Dir. Paul Spurrier
Feat. Suangporn Jaturaphut; A youngster’s flirtation with witchery and the occult gives rise to an unspeakable evil in this humid Thai horror. Part soft–core porn,…
Rampo Noir (Rampo jigoku) (2005): Dir. Hisayasu Sato, Suguru Takeuchi, Atsushi Kaneko
Feat. Tadanobu Asano; Salacious quartet of horror segments all featuring actor Tadanobu Asano, with directing duties taken by four Japanese indie mavericks, crafting arty…
Red Shoes, The (Bunhongsin) (2005): Dir. Yong-gyun Kim
Feat. Hye-su Kim; Asian horror's preoccupation with inanimate objects continues in this self–consciously stylish, blood–curdling spin on the Hans Christian…
Reeker (2005): Dir. Dave Payne
Feat. Michael Ironside; Proficiently icky and clever thriller about a group of students trapped after dark in a dusty desert town and menaced by a lethal 'thing' which…
Reincarnation (2005): Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Yuka; Another freak–out from the dir. of THE GRUDGE that manages to transport the flaccid J–horror template into a more interesting,…
Ring 2, The (2005): Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Naomi Watts, Sissy Spacek, Gary Cole…; The RING remake cycle moves onto the next installment in dir. Nakata's fable of the lethal videotape, with Watts again returning to this time destroy…
Saw 2 (2005): Dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
Feat. Donnie Wahlberg, Tobin Bell; The devious villain of SAW – Jigsaw – returns with another nasty, everyone–loses trap involving a secured mansion, nerve gas and…
Skeleton Key (2005): Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Kate Hudson, John Hurt, Gena Rowlands…; A young woman (Hudson) gets a job caring for a troubled elderly stroke victim (Hurt) in a swampside manor in rural Louisiana, coming to realise there…
Supernatural (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles; Two brothers scour the countryside for urban myths and legends, stumbling upon various paranorma, horror movie moments and other unexplained events…
Tokyo Zombie (2005): Dir. Sakichi Sato
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta…; An enormous garbage dump in Tokyo begins to spawl hoards of the walking dead, prompting two dumb–and–dumber garage workers to unleash…
Trinity Blood (TV Series) (2005): Centuries ago, Armageddon cast darkness across the world. From that darkness, the vampires emerged. Now humans and vampires tremble on the brink of…
Underworld: Evolution (2005): Dir. Len Wiseman
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy; The slinky, rubber–clad Kate Beckinsale continues her Vampiric crusade against 'the Lycans' (Werewolves) in this obligatory sequel to the…
White Noise (2005): Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice; An architect (Keaton) becomes entranced by the possibilities of speaking with his deceased wife (Unger) by tapping into the audiovisual chaos of a TV…
Wolf Creek (2005): Dir. Greg McLean
Feat. John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi…; One of the more terrifying horror films of recent years, this Australian version of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE has three young travellers come…
Ab-Normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun) (2004): Dir. Oxide Pang
Feat. Race Wong, Rosanne Wong; Dir. Oxide Pang's solo followup to THE EYE is also a voyeuristically themed nerve–shredder, set around a young and rich photography student…
Alien vs. Predator (AVP) (2004): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner…; A loud and slime–lacquered clash of the sci–fi titans, the enticing prospect of two classic bogeymen going monstrous…
Boo (2004): Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. M. Steven Felty; A group of college students venture into an abandoned hospital on Halloween night for a cheap laugh, and end up trapped there while a gaggle of…
Creep (2004): Dir. Christopher Smith
Feat. Franke Potente; A grisly British horror entry that begins with German star Potente (RUN LOLA RUN) trapped in the London Underground after missing her party…
Dawn of the Dead (2004): Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Jake Weber, Kevin Zegers, Mekhi Phifer…; Tight–edged remake of George Romero's original zombie–fest, again reprising a tense battle between a small posse of post–apocalypse…
Dead and Breakfast (2004): Dir. Matthew Leutwyler
Feat. Portia de Rossi, Jeremy Sisto, David Carradine; This reasonably hospitable reprise of zombie peril has six friends finding themselves trapped and hunted in and around a smalltown 'bed and…
Dead Birds (2004): Dir. Alex Turner
Feat. Henry Thomas, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Isaiah Washington…; After a botched bank robbery during the American Civil War, a group of Confederate outlaws hole up in an abandoned plantation, finding themselves the…
Dumplings (Gaau ji) (2004): Dir. Fruit Chan
Feat. Ling Bai, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Miriam Yeung; Grotesque feature length version of Fruit Chan’s submission to the THREE…EXTREMES Asian horror omnibus, this time expanding the deplorable fable…
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004): Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, James D'Arcy, Isabella Scorupco; A latterday prequel to the horror series starring Stellan Skarsgard as Father Merrin, who rediscovers his lost faith in East Africa upon his first…
Eye 2, The (Jian Gui 2) (2004): Dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Feat. Shu Qi, Jesdaporn Pholdee; Another venture into Asian horror for the Brothers Pang, here thematically sequelling their 2002 hit with the tale of an unhappy woman who gains the…
Flatmates Wanted (2004): Dir. Gary Davies
Feat. Luke Hutching, Nick Broadhurst, Chris Yates; A no–budget psychological horror of disappearing flatmates and disturbing reoccuring dreams, this plays out with the quirky mix of horror and…
Ghost, The (Ryeong) (2004): Dir. Tae-Kyeong Kim
Feat. Ha-Neul Kim, Sang-Mi Nam; Modest, but reasonably unnerving ghost story in which an amnesiac university student is seemingly last on a list of friends being dispatched one by…
Godsend (2004): Dir. Nick Hamm
Feat. Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos; An age–old horror conceit grafted onto the topical 'genetic cloning' debate, with Kinnear and Romijn–Stamos playing a couple who agree to…
Gothika (2004): Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jnr., Penelope Cruz…; A stylish, foreboding, though ultimately secondhand suspenser which has a psychiatrist (Berry) waking up in her own mental asylum after the slaying…
Grudge, The (2004): Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Bill Pullman…; Unnerving imagery and soundscapes abound in the Japanese director's remake of his own horror film for a western audience, that while recast with…
Hellbent (2004): Dir. Paul Etheredge-Ouzts
Feat. Dylan Fergus; Curiously queer–themed slasher flick is surprisingly non–camp, and instead offers an intense throwback to old school…
Hellboy (2004): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Ron Perlman, David Hyde Pierce, John Hurt…; Surefire comicbook yarn – fusing Nazi occultism, demonic otherworlds and FBI intrigues with nice touches of style, humour and…
Hex (TV Series) (2004): Feat. Jemima Rooper, Christina Cole, Michael Fassbender; Bewitching, BUFFY–comparable series in which a feisty English schoolgirl is bestowed with supernatural powers amidst a looming demonic threat.…
Hide and Seek (2004): Dir. John Polson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen…; Bogeyman horror which has psychologist De Niro withdrawing to a lakeside mansion for some quiet time with his daughter, recently traumatized by her…
Infection (Kansen) (2004): Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Michiko Hada, Shirô Sano; A further twist on the vengeful spirit genre sees a burns patient return from the dead as a lethal infection, liquefying victims' internal organs in…
Kingdom Hospital (TV Mini-series) (2004): Dir. Craig R Baxley
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison, Diane Ladd…; Horror–writer Stephen King expands his King–dom with a solid adaptation of dir. Lars von Trier's celebrated Danish TV series "The…
Koma (2004): Dir. Chi-Leung Law
Feat. Angelica Lee; The attractive Lee plays a feckless young woman with kidney problems who gets caught up in a scandal involving a gang of organ thieves. This…
Lady Death (2004): Elevated feature–length anime based on the "Lady Death" comic series about a beautiful girl accused of consorting with the devil and sentenced…
Marebito (2004): Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara…; A delve into more conventional 'horror' for dir. Shimizo (THE GRUDGE), still retaining considerable austerity and dread with his fable of urban fears…
Mindhunters (2004): Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. LL Cool J, Jonny Lee Miller, Val Kilmer…; Mindlessly contrived suspense yarn, gains satisfactions from the sheer loopiness of its central tale of seven trainee FBI 'profilers', who must…
Night of the Living Dorks (2004): Dir. Mathias Dinter
Feat. Tino Mewes, Manuel Cortez, Thomas Schmieder…; High school geek revenge flick meets living dead spoof when four geeky buddies accidentally become zombies – and reap the social benefts – in…
Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor, aka. Nightwatch) (2004): Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Dima Martinov; A mega–hit in its native Russia, this sci–fi–horror–action cocktail concerns a running battle on the mean streets of…
Ordeal, The (Calvaire) (2004): Dir. Fabrice du Welz
Feat. Laurent Lucas; Less gruelling than its title suggests, this is a macabre, blackly humorous slice of "redneck gothic" from Belgium, in which a cabaret singer's…
Premonition (Yogen) (2004): Dir. Norio Tsuruta
Feat. Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai; Competent J–Horror entry posits the intriguing, if unrealised premise of a man whose premonitions foresee the murderous acts of a killer,…
Resident Evil - Apocalypse (2004): Dir. Alexander Witt
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr…; Sequel to the adaptation of the Playstation video game, has Jovovich returning for another blood–drenched 90 minutes trying to fight her way…
Saint Ange (Sanatorium) (2004): Dir. Pascal Laugier
Feat. Virginie Ledoyen, Katriona MacColl, Lou Doillon; A young woman (Ledoyen) journeys into the remotes of the French Alps to help clean up an abandoned orphanage, but soon begins to notice strange…
Satan's Little Helper (2004): Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Katheryn Winnick, Alexander Bricknel, Amanda Plummer; A Halloween–set black comedy about a nine–year–old boy who inadvertently teams up with a masked psychopath on his round of…
Saw (2004): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover…; Acclaimed by many for its inventive serial–killer premise and sadistic delivery, this opens with Elwes and Whannell chained in a locked…
Seed Of Chucky (2004): Dir. Don Mancini
Feat. William Boyd, Jennifer Tilly, Redman …; The demonic killer dolls are back in this blood besmattered follow–up to BRIDE OF CHUCKY, which tracks the efforts of the young doll 'Shitface'…
Shaun of the Dead (2004): Dir. Edgar Wright
Feat. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield…; The zombie movie genre collides with distinctively British "lad humour" in this playful and wildly entertaining parody. Centred around the…
Spider Forest (2004): Dir. Il-gon Song
Feat. Suh Jung, Woo-seong Kam; A refined and non–linear 'K–horror' concerns an amnesiac filmmaker whose foggy memories of the recent past concern a vast wild forest, a…
Starship Troopers 2 (Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation) (2004): Dir. Phil Tippett
Feat. Richard Burgi, Lawrence Monoson, Colleen Porch; Sequel to Paul Verhoeven's satirical futuristic sci–fi, which achieves much of the same thing on a fraction of the budget. The plot this time…
Straight Into Darkness (2004): Dir. Jeff Burr
Feat. Ryan Francis, Scott MacDonald, Linda Thorson; Grimy horror/war mishmash focused on two American soldiers on the run in Nazi–occupied France. Unapologetically violent, and made with a…
Tales from the Crapper (2004): Dir. Lloyd Kaufman, Gabriel Friedman, Chad Ferrin
Feat. Julie Strain, Ron Jeremy, Trey Parker; Definitively cr*ppy outcome for Troma (TOXIC AVENGER), created according to the 'Dog Pile 95 Doctrine of Digital Filmmaking', with two short…
They Came Back (Les Revenants) (2004): Dir. Robin Campillo
Feat. Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frédéric Pierrot…; This disquieting, unconventional ‘zombie’ movie concerns a global phenomenon of returning dead, and their subsequent integration back into living…
Three...Extremes (3 Extremes) (2004): Dir. Takashi Miike, Park Chan-Wook, Fruit Chan
Feat. Ling Bai, Tony Leung (Kar-fai); Three prominent Asian maestros of terror serve up an intense and rewarding portmanteau of short horror works. 'Dumplings' (Dir. Fruit Chan)…
Village, The (2004): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody…; A further investigation in atmospherics from the maker of SIGNS and THE SIXTH SENSE, this time sent in the foreboding microcosm of an 18th century…
28 Days Later (2003): Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson; Effective 'end of the world' thriller, where a scientifically–engineered contagion escapes the lab, turning most of Britain's populace into…
Anatomie 2 (2003): Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky; Competently staged sequel again set in a clinical German medical school, where a new student gradually uncovers a program of human experimentation…
Angel (TV Series) - Season 5 (2003): Feat. David Boreanz; Fifth season of the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER spin–off in which David Boreanaz plays an angelic vampire battling demons, serial–killers…
Beyond Re-Animator (Re-Animator 3) (2003): Dir. Brian Yuzna
Feat. Jeffrey Combs; A further extension of the RE–ANIMATOR saga in which crazed Doctor West (Combs), in prison for his past misdeeds raising organisms from the…
Butterfly Effect, The (2003): Dir. Eric Bress, J Mackye Gruber
Feat. Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz; A timewarping thriller with a touch of genuine B–movie originality, this portrays the unintended consequences when its young hero (Kutcher)…
Card Player, The (Cartaio, Il) (2003): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham, Silvio Muccino; Dario Argento, Master of 'Giallo' Cinema, strives to update his style of acutely crafted horror to a contemporary plot involving a policewoman…
Dead End (2003): Dir. Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa
Feat. Ray Wise, Lyn Shaye; Backwoods chiller about a family who find themselves trapped on a car journey into nightmare. This superior horror fare is fuelled by a genuine sense…
Dead Like Me (TV Series) (2003-2004): Feat. Ellen Muth, Mandy Patinkin; Cult TV series about a recently–deceased woman – killed by a toilet seat falling off a space station – who gets recruited to help a…
Final Destination 2 (2003): Dir. David R Ellis
Feat. Ali Larter, A J Cook, Michael Landes; Inevitably tongue–in–cheek sequel to one of the better teen horror’s of the late nineties replaces the original’s doomed…
Freddy Vs. Jason (2003): Dir. Ronnie Yu
Feat. Robert Englund; Two famous movie bogeymen face off in this dumbly contrived, yet moderately tuned–up horror duel. Freddy Kruger finds he needs the…
Green Butchers, The (De grønne slagtere ) (2003): Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas; Grim comedy focused on two down–and–out butchers who discover they can make a killing out of their customer's oblivious cannibalistic…
Grudge 2, The (Ju-On 2) (2003): Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Chiharu Nîyama, Noriko Sakai, Kei Horie…; Followup to the original Japanese version of dir. Takashi's own JU–ON, this proffers an almost identical vision, with a TV crew visiting the…
Grudge, The (Ju-On) (2003): Dir. Takashi Shimizu; A horror film that understands that fear is best painted blacker than molasses, this cult Japanese hit follows in the ghostly steps of the RING…
High Tension (Haute tension, Switchblade Romance) (2003): Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Cecile De France, Maïwenn; A grisly yet indeed tense French horror movie directed with stunning virtuosity, about two women whose rural weekend getaway turns horrific when they…
House of 1000 Corpses (2003): Dir. Rob Zombie
Feat. Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon…; A gut–churning, schlocky homage by rock–singer Rob Zombie (of White Zombie fame) to the underground 'gore' films of the 1960s and…
Killing Words (Palabras encadenadas) (2003): Dir. Laura Mana
Feat. Darío Grandinetti, Goya Toledo, Fernando Guillén…; This quality, award–winning thriller has a woman waking to find herself restrained in a dark basement, while a seeming serial–killer,…
Last Horror Movie, The (2003): Dir. Julian Richards
Feat. Kevin Howarth, Antonia Beamish; A 'no budget' horror spin with a self–reflexive hook, has suave photographer Howarth film weddings by day and grisly killings by night –…
Locals, The (2003): Dir. Greg Page
Feat. John Barker, Dwayne Cameron, Kate Elliot…; A local horror outing that follows a couple of surfie city kids into the Waikato bush, where they discover an undead netherworld of shady rural types…
One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) (2003): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi…; Another 'J–horror' riding on the wave of the RING phenomena, updating the supernatural formula with cell–phone technology and…
Scary Movie 3 (2003): Dir. David Zucker
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Leslie Nielsen, Denise Richards; Further hit–and–miss spoofery of the horror movie genre, and popular culture in general from dir. Zucker and the Wayans clan. Targets…
Serial Slayer (Claustrophobia) (2003): Dir. Mark Tapio Kines
Feat. Melanie Lynskey; Interesting indie thriller has a maniac with a crossbow stalking victims from Los Angeles rooftops, before narrowing in on three women having a…
Sin Eater, The (The Order) (2003): Dir. Brian Helgeland
Feat. Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Peter Weller; Priest Heath Ledger investigates a series of mysterious deaths within the Catholic Church that lead him to the Vatican, and beyond, in this murky…
Tale of Two Sisters, A (Janghwa Hongryeon) (2003): Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim…; A further revelation of the K–horror genre, this enters the forboding world of two devoted sisters who endure the lakeside household of their…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (2003): Dir. Marcus Nispel
Feat. Jessica Biel; Despite being largely unnecessary, and certainly no improvement on the original, this remains a solid remake of Tobe Hooper's groundbreaking 1974…
Tutenstein (TV Series) (2003): Quirksome kids animation which begins when the Egyptian mummy of a 10–year old pharoah is struck by lightning in a museum and 'Tut' comes back…
Underworld (2003): Dir. Len Wiseman
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen…; A sleek action workout in which cat–suited vampire Beckinsale fights an ongoing war with the other creatures of night, werewolves, but also…
Wrong Turn (2003): Dir. Rob Schmidt
Feat. Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Jeremy Sisto; A carload of photogenic youths take a wrong turn into the nightmare of a West Virginia inhabited by murderous mutants. With enough efficient…
Angel (TV Series) - Season 4 (2002): Feat. David Boreanz; Season 4 of the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER spin–off in which David Boreanaz plays an angelic vampire battling demons, serial–killers etc.…
Blood Feast 2: All You Can Eat (2002): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Mark McLachlan, John McConnell, Melissa Morgan…; A surprisingly enjoyable sequel to Lewis's 1963 "classic", this is the director's first movie since 1972's GORE GORE GIRLS. The direction and…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Season 7 (2002): Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar; 22 more episodes over 6 DVDs.
Cabin Fever (2002): Dir. Eli Roth
Feat. Justin Ladd, James DeBello, Rider Strong; More a horror ‘tribute’ than a horror movie, this indie effort from David Lynch protégé Roth steals knowingly from every other…
Cradle of Fear (2002): Dir. Alex Chandon
Feat. Dani Filth; An imprisoned child–killer wreaks vengeance on his enemies with the help of a satanic angel played by rock star Dani Filth. Told as four…
Dark Water (2002): Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno; Running rings around the RING films in unsettling atmosphere, rich subtext and jump–in–your–seat moments, this creepy fable of…
Darkness (2002): Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen…; The dir. of THE NAMELESS proffers a largely familiar tale of a family relocating to a remote Spanish farm, and becoming entrapped in a supernatural…
Dog Soldiers (2002): Dir. Neil Marshall
Feat. Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd; Ripping werewolf thriller, where a team of British soldiers (led by Sean Pertwee) who are training in the Scottish highlands find the grisly remains…
Double Vision (Shuang tong) (2002): Dir. Chen Kuo Fu
Feat. David Morse, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Rene Liu; A slickly effective horror film, in which cross–cultural cop buddies Leung and Morse hunt a demonic serial killer in Taiwan. Imbued with a…
Dracula - Pages From A Virgin's Diary (2002): Dir. Guy Maddin; Deeply evocative version of Bram Stoker's oft–filmed 'Dracula' novel based around a recent stage–show by the Winnipeg National Ballet…
DreamCatcher (2002): Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Jason Lee, Tom Sizemore…; Four childhood friends, who share psychic powers and an annual appointment to go male–bonding in the Maine backwoods, are inadvertantly drawn…
Eye, The (2002): Dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Feat. Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou; Almost guaranteed to give you goosebumps, this unnerving Asian horror show follows in the footsteps and spirit of the watershed RING films, though…
Fear Dot Com (Fear.com) (2002): Dir. William Malone
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Stephen Rea, Natascha McElhone; Incoherent horror flick that goes on–line with the plot of Japanese horror film RING, this will be most compared to the American remake of that…
Fiancée of Dracula (2002): Dir. Jean Rollin
Feat. Cyrille Gaudin, Jacques Orth, Thomas Smith; A late addition in the filmography of cult fantasy director Jean Rollin, who once again turns his attention to vampire mythology in this tale of a…
Frailty (2002): Dir. Bill Paxton
Feat. Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe; After a spiritual visitation, Bill Paxton and his two young sons take an axe to unsuspecting “evil–doers” in the late 1970s, while…
Ghost Ship (2002): Dir. Steve Beck
Feat. Gabriel Byrne; The forty–year–old wreck of a passenger ship is discovered by a salvage crew to contain a fortune in gold and a host of malevolent…
Halloween: Resurrection (2002): Dir. Rick Rosenthal
Feat. Busta Rhymes, Bianca Kajlich, Sean Patrick Thomas…; The eighth film in the franchise is in fact a sequel to the resurrected HALLOWEEN H20, picking up three years later where the teflon–coated…
Hellsing (TV Series) (Herushingu) (2002): Adapated from his own manga comicbook by Kouta Hirano, this concerns the battle of survival of the Hellsing Organisation, a shadowy group which looks…
In My Skin (Dans Ma Peau) (2002): Dir. Marina de Van
Feat. Marina de Van; A disturbing, cerebral manifest on the nature of self–mutilation, portrayed with serious conviction by writer/dir. Marina de Van, regular…
Kung Fu Vampire Killers (2002): Dir. Phil Davison
Feat. Katherine Beresford; Low–budget genre–bender from Dunedin, takes the vampiric corpse of a 19th century Chinese goldminer and transfuses it with Hong…
Malefique (2002): Dir. Eric Valette
Feat. Gérald Laroche, Philippe Laudenbach, Clovis Cornillac; Imaginative, atmospheric low–budget French horror, set around the discovery of a dusty book of supernatural spells by four convicts in their…
Mataku (TV Series) (2002-2005): Dir. Michael Bennett, Peter Berger
Feat. Temuera Morrison; A well–mounted anthology of contemporary one–off dramas, adapted from the unique and mystical world of Maori supernatural legends. The…
May (2002): Dir. Lucky McKee
Feat. Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, James Duval…; A twisted, slow–burn black comedy about a disturbed young veterinary student whose only real 'friend' is her doll. When her search for a…
My Little Eye (2002): Dir. Marc Evans
Feat. Kris Lemche, Sean C.W. Johnson, Jennifer Sky…; Deftly exploiting the sinister recesses of both reality television and web technology, this innovative, edgy horror–thriller spies on the five…
Phone (2002): Dir. Byeong-ki Ahn
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Yu-mi Kim; Down the more cluttered and preposterous end of the Korean–horror genre, this finds a new cellphone being the centre of all the terror for an…
Reign in Darkness (2002): Dir. Kel Dolen, David W Allen
Feat. Kel Dolen; A scientist, infected with a new virus, is transformed into an elite vampire who battles with bounty hunters for the fate of the Earth. Modern…
Resident Evil (2002): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez; Lifted from the Playstation computer–game, this action–horror concerns an off–limits scientific installation which has become…
Ring, The (2002): Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox; Fitfully creepy American remake of the influential Japanese horror film that surprisingly manages to replicate the foreboding (and uniquely Japanese)…
Suicide Club (Suicide Circle) (2002): Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Akaji Maro, Masatoshi Nagase; Off–beat Japanese thriller based on apparently real–life incidents in which groups of high–school children commit mass…
They (2002): Dir. Robert Harmon
Feat. Laura Regan; Wes Craven 'presents' this supernatural suspenser, which though unambitious, presents its scenario with enough artful suggestion to interest…
Three...Extremes 2 (Three) (2002): Dir. Ji-woon Kim, Nonzee Nimbutr, Peter Chan
Feat. Leon Lai, Eric Tsang; Dubbed the second entry in the THREE...EXTREMES horror series, this pan–asian omnibus actually precedes said anthology, offering a trio of…
Undead (2002): Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins; This brash splatter effort from Australia makes impressive, exhaustive use of special effects on a very low budget as it turns into an almost…
Vampire Hunters (2002): Dir. Wellson Chin
Feat. Ken Chang; Typically enjoyable and overblown Hong Kong mayhem, where five powerful warriors battle the Vampire King and his followers. Written and produced…
Willard (2002): Dir. Glen Morgan
Feat. Crispin Glover, Jackie Burroughs, R. Lee Ermey…; Stylistic update of the 70s mini–classic of the same name, with cult actor Crispin Glover as the meek office clerk who befriends and trains a…
Angel (TV Series) - Season 3 (2001): Feat. David Boreanz; Season 3 of the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER spin–off series centred around an angelic vampire, played by David Boreanaz.
Blood - The Last Vampire (2001): Dir. Hiroyuki Kitakubo; A half–length feature that packs twice the punch of the average Anime, its astounding combination of CGI and cell–characters raises the…
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups) (2001): Dir. Christophe Gans
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Mark Dacascos; A ripping, action–packed 18th century detective story based on the true–life case of the Beast of Gevaudan – a killer or creature who…
Brotherhood, The (I've Been Watching You) (2001): Dir. David DeCoteau
Feat. Samuel Page; Refreshing 'homoerotic' horror takes a stab at an all–boy vampire fraternity with a penchant for sharp knives, semi–nakedness, and lusty…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Season 6 (2001): Feat. Sarah Michelle Geller; 22 more episodes over 6 DVDs.
Bunker, The (2001): Dir. Rob Green
Feat. Jason Flemyng; Unpretentious and mostly effective horror, unusually set around a Nazi platoon during WW2, who are retreating across the Ardennes in 1944. Taking…
Dagon (2001): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño; The director of RE–ANIMATOR returns for another good crack at an H.P. Lovecraft story, this one adapting the novella "The Shadow Over…
Devil's Backbone, The (2001): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Eduardo Noriega, Frederico Luppi, Marisa Paredes; This elegant amalgam of melodrama and horror movie set in a boys orphanage during the Spanish Civil War is rich in baroque atmospherics, and features…
Dracula 2000 (2001): Dir. Patrick Lussier
Feat. Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller, Omar Epps…; Modern–day encounter with Drac, 'presented' by Wes Craven, occurs after the opening of high–security crypt inside Van Hesling’s…
Happiness of the Katakuris (2001): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano…; A delirious confection from Japanese bad boy dir., Takashi Miike, this “zombie musical” is his most benevolent yet purely entertaining…
Isle, The (2001): Dir. Kim Ki-Duk
Feat. Suh Jung, Kim Yoo-Suk, Park Sung-Hee; An art–shocker with a distinctly Asian streak of the perverse, this counterpoints a striking visual tableaux and tranquil setting with the…
Jeepers Creepers (2001): Dir. Victor Salva
Feat. Justin Long, Gina Philips; A brother–sister couple take a rural back road home, but make an ill–advised roadside stop where urban mythology becomes gross–out…
Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical (2001): Dir. Don Roy King
Feat. David Hasselhoff, Coleen Sexton, Andrea Rivette; The unlikely David Hasselhoff stars as Dr.Jekyll in his crazed alter–ego Mr.Hyde in this rock n roll adaptation of Robert Louis Steveson's…
Long Time Dead (2001): Dir. Marcus Adams
Feat. Joe Absolom, Lara Belmont; Though hip, slick and atmospheric, this British horror entry for the multiplexes is at once straight–faced and silly, and strictly…
Nightmare Room, The (TV Series) (2001): Essentially a reprise of the creepy kids TV Series GOOSEBUMPS, this posits a series of spooky scenarios similarly narrated by R.L. Stine.
No One Can Hear You (2001): Dir. John Laing
Feat. Kelly McGillis, Craig Parker, Barry Corbin…; A serial–killing axe–fest set in the USA, but filmed in Auckland, New Zealand. Over the top performances almost lend camp appeal to…
Others, The (2001): Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Eric Sykes, Christopher Eccleston; Ghostly tale in the classic tradition of Henry James, conjuring a spectral fog of unease from a gaunt mansion on the island of Jersey in 1945,…
Pulse (Kairo) (2001): Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Kumiko Aso, Koji Yakusho, Koyuki…; A clandestine by–product of the post–RING phenomenon, this refined and wholly disconcerting tale of a supernatural internet pandemic…
Queen of the Damned (2001): Dir. Michael Rymer
Feat. Stuart Townsend, Lena Olin, Vincent Perez…; Anne Rice’s literary vampire Lestat, last seen as Tom Cruise in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, (here Stuart Townsend) shrugs off a 200 year sleep to…
Requiem (2001): Dir. Hervé Renoh
Feat. Patrick Dell'Isola, Moussa Maaskri, Julie-Anne Roth; Stylish French action horror in which four vicious convicts hole up in a remote Cistercian monastery. Terrorising the monks and a young woman who has…
Ring 2 (2001): Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato; Esteemable sequel to the 1998 original, this finds the supernaturally fatal videotape – the one that causes death, a week after watching it –…
Session 9 (2001): Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Peter Mullan, David Caruso, Josh Lucas…; A “haunted house” movie with a difference, this is an intense, thinking person’s spook session involving a team of tradesmen hired to clean up…
Shadow of the Wraith (Ikisudama) (2001): Dir. Toshiharu Ikeda; Fitfully scary J–horror is set around a series of disconnected horrors in two halves: first, at a high school plagued by a creepy…
Shaft, The (Down) (2001): Dir. Dick Maas
Feat. Naomi Watts, James Marshall, Ron Perlman…; Wildly tongue–in–cheek remake of the dir.'s own THE LIFT, here with a New York City elevator going on a murderous rampage in its…
Sleepless (Non ho Sonno) (2001): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli; A welcome return to his 'giallo' roots by dir. Argento, turning a tangled tango between a serial–killer and recently–retired detective…
Thirteen Ghosts (2001): Dir. Steve Beck
Feat. F. Murray Abraham, Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz…; An orgy of gore, noise and mindless mayhem, this hi–tech remake of William Castle’s 1960 original subtracts the camp and adds a battery of…
Tomie: Re-birth (2001): Dir. Takashi Shimizu; Third entry in the J–horror series continues the vile career of the titular schoolgirl, here playing a murder victim who comes back to haunt…
Trouble Every Day (2001): Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Beatrice Dalle, Alex Descas…; This messy yet mesmerizing tale of visceral sexual obsession has vamp Beatrice Dalle spoiling a couple's Paris honeymoon when she develops a carnally…
Truth About Demons, The (The Irrefutable Truth About Demons) (2001): Dir. Glenn Standring
Feat. Karl Urban, Katie Wolfe, Jonathan Hendry…; A sceptical occult investigator (Karl Urban) can't shake off the increasingly grotesque visions that are seemingly the handywork of a vengeful…
Valentine (2001): Dir. Jamie Blanks
Feat. Denise Richards, David Boreanz, Jessica Capshaw…; The dir. of URBAN LEGEND brings us a Valentine’s Day slasher–massacre, centred round a cupid–masked serial–killer out to avenge…
Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust (2001): Dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Feat. Hideyuki Tanaka, Ichiro Nagai, Koichi Yamadera; Raising the stakes in both style and story, this reworking of the original 1985 film spins the lone Vampire hunter's adventures in a different…
Wendigo (2001): Dir. Larry Fessenden
Feat. Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan; Elaborating on a renowned ‘urban legend’ with a refined script and a no–nonsense commitment to storytelling, this is a project fostered in…
American Nightmare, The (2000): Dir. Adam Simon
Feat. Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, John Carpenter…; A searching examination of the American horror films of the late 1960s and 1970s, in which the paranoia of the times was reflected in some intense…
Anatomie (2000): Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
Feat. Franke Potente; Franke Potente (RUN LOLA RUN) stars as a bright medical student at an elite college who discovers her fellow freshmen and women are turning up as…
Angel (TV Series) - Season 2 (2000): Feat. David Boreanz; Season 2 of the broodier spin–off from Buffy, and the series is finding it's feet after a sometimes shaky start in Season 1. 22 episodes over 6…
Angel Negro (2000): Dir. Jorge Olguin
Feat. Alvaro Morales; Slight Troma cash–in on Asian Horror’s trendsetting in vengeful spirits and curses, concerning the disappearance of a high school girl whose…
Bad Girls From Valley High (A Fate Totally Worse Than Death) (2000): Dir. John T. Kretchmer
Feat. Christopher Lloyd; A good premise lifts this high–school comedy from out of the herd, with three socially ambitious girls having a curse placed on them which…
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000): Dir. Joe Berlinger
Feat. Kim Director, Jeffrey Donovan, Erica Leerhsen; Another troupe of young ghoul–hunters head for the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, which, in a post–modern twist, has become a…
Bruiser (2000): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Jason Flemyng, Peter Stormare, Leslie Hope; Jason Flemyng plays a weak–willed and miserable office executive who wakes to find he's literally lost his identity. His 'blank face' becomes…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Season 5 (2000): Dir. "David Greenwalt, Joss Whedon, James Whitmore, Jr
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar; 22 more episodes over 6 DVDs.
Cherry Falls (2000): Dir. Geoffrey Wright
Feat. Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr; A mystery psycho–killer's penchant for slaying virgins presents life–saving opportunities for the geeks and jocks of a small–town…
Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas (2000): Dir. Eleanor Yule
Feat. Christopher Lee; Christopher Lee gloomily narrates three ghost stories while sitting around a candle lit room in this folksy adaptation of three M.R. James tales.
Cut (2000): Dir. Kimble Rendall
Feat. Molly Ringwald; Solid Australian variation on SCREAM, with an imported Molly Ringwald helping complete a horror film abandoned some years before due to an…
Ed Gein (In the Light of the Moon) (2000): Dir. Chuck Parello
Feat. Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgrass; Sombre biopic of the 1950s Wisconsin serial–killer, whose macabre exploits were the basis for PSYCHO and many other movies. Steve Railsback…
Final Destination (2000): Dir. James Wong
Feat. Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith…; A young man's premonition that his Paris–bound plane of classmates will explode after take–off causes a fall–out of unpredictable…
Gift, The (2000): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Giovanni Ribisi…; Rivalling THE SIXTH SENSE among latterday supernatural thrillers and with a pedigree to boast of, this eerie tale of smalltown ghosts and secrets is…
Ginger Snaps (2000): Dir. John Fawcett
Feat. Emily Perkins, Katherine Isabelle, Mimi Rogers; Canadian variation on the teen–horror model mixes the gene pool of adolescent angst with the werewolf genre, adopting lycanthropy as a metaphor…
Hole, The (2000): Dir. Nick Hamm
Feat. Thora Birch, Daniel Brocklebank, Desmond Harrington…; Thora Birch (AMERICAN BEAUTY) delivers a convincing English accent for this Brit variation of Teenage Gothic, emerging as the only survivor of a…
House On Haunted Hill (2000): Dir. William Malone
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Peter Gallagher; An adaptation of the 1958 William Castle film, this is a modern day B–Movie that's none too ambitious, yet fun in its trashy way. Various…
Isola (Tajuu jinkaku shôjo) (2000): Dir. Toshiyuki Mizutani
Feat. Yoshino Kimura; Curious but finally rather tepid riff on the J–Horror genre has a psychic woman (Kimura) travelling to the city of Kobe to offer help in the…
Lost Souls (2000): Dir. Janusz Kaminski
Feat. Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt…; Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin are the souls in question of this devil thriller, in which, in his 33rd year, the Anti–Christ has his previously…
Ninth Gate, The (2000): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin…; An unscrupulous book dealer (Johnny Depp) is sent to Europe by a mysterious tycoon (Frank Langella) to recover an authentic, elusive (and of course,…
Pet Shop of Horrors (2000): Horror–tinged anime set in a mysterious pet shop in New York's Chinatown, where the androgynous proprietor 'Count D' has a sinister pet for…
Requiem From The Darkness (TV Series) (Kurayami no rekuiemu) (2000): A supernatural anime series set in the Edo period, in which an aspiring writer, Momosuke, sets out into the troubled land to collect 100 ghost…
Ring 0 (2000): Dir. Norio Tsuruta
Feat. Yukie Nakama, Seilchi Tanabe, Yoshiko Tanaka; Prequel to the first RING film details the transformation of the innocent schoolgirl Sadako in 50s Japan into the murderous demon who haunts the…
Rose Red (2000): Dir. Craig R Baxley
Feat. Nancy Travis, Matt Keesler, Julian Sands…; Based on a real–life haunted house (San Jose’s Winchester House) this Stephen King mini–series has Nancy Travis leading a team of…
Scream 3 (2000): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…; Less comic than before but otherwise it's more ironic psycho–trouble on the Woodsboro lot for regulars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David…
Seance (2000): Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho; A hybrid of crime thriller and ghost story, this remake of the British classic "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" reinstates the supernatural emphasis of…
Sight, The (2000): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Honor Blackman, Kevin Tighe; Reasonably crafted TV suspenser, has McCarthy playing an American architect on the trail of vicious serial–killer in London, with only his…
Strange Frequency (2000): Dir. Bryan Spicer, Mary Lambert
Feat. Eric Roberts, John Taylor, Judd Nelson; This portmanteau of four 'urban myths' set in the contemporary music scene is surprisingly witty and satisfying. Segments 'My Generation' and 'Room…
They Nest (2000): Dir. Ellory Elkayem
Feat. Dean Stockwell, John Savage; Debut feature from NZ–born 'bug–movie specialist Ellory Elkayam features ravenous African cockroaches terrorising a coastal town in…
Tomie: Replay (2000): Dir. Tomijiro Mitsuishi
Feat. Yôsuke Kubozuka, Kenichi Endo, Tomorowo Taguchi; Second (and best) installment in the manga–inspired series continues the vengeful streak of 'Tomie', the undying…
Universal Horror (2000): Dir. Kevin Brownlow; Reeling back to the horror films produced by Universal Studios in the 1930s, this Kevin Brownlow documentary is a lovingly–made reminder of the…
Waiting Place, The (2000): Dir. Cristobal Araus Lobos; A carefully made 'DV–feature' about two unstable prison–escapers who traverse an overgrown rural landscape towards a rendezvous at an…
What Lies Beneath (2000): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford; Affluent couple Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford have their watertight marriage spring a leak when the neighbours start acting suspiciously and…
Wild Zero (2000): Dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi
Feat. Guitar Wolf; Japanese punk tyrants Guitar Wolf shred up the screen in this appropriately chaotic zombie fest, gouged from the remnants of a meteor carrying…
Angel (TV Series) - Season 1 (1999): Dir. Various
Feat. David Boreanaz; Considerably darker spin–off of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER TV–series, with the angelic vampire David Boreanaz battling demons,…
Audition (1999): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina; An almost–masterpiece of the macabre that sets up and sustains itself brilliantly with a restrained pace and jewel of a premise, then careens…
Blair Witch Project, The (1999): Dir. Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Feat. Heather Donahue, Michael C Williams, Joshua Leonard; The most profitable film in history on a cost–to–gross basis, this handycam horror struck paydirt thanks to a swag of resourcefulness and…
Bride of Chucky (1999): Dir. Ronnie Yu
Feat. Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Nick Stabile; Hard to believe this was a good idea, but the writer of the original CHILD'S PLAY manages to rejuvenate the tired series with a sardonic edge and an…
Carrie 2: The Rage (1999): Dir. Katt Shea
Feat. Emily Bergl; The secondary school system gets another dousing in pigs–blood in this less–sequel–more–remake of the Brian DePalma original…
Charisma (1999): Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Ren Osugi; An eerie 'ecological horror' from the mind of dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, here following the path of a police detective (Yakusho Koji) who has been…
Criminal Lovers (Amants criminels, Les) (1999): Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Natacha Regnier, Miki Manojlovic; Before he made the lighter 8 WOMEN, dir. Ozon established his credentials with this twisted wee horror, which fearlessly ventures into sadistic and…
Drawing Blood (1999): Dir. Sergio Lapel; Semi–original horror from Troma (TOXIC AVENGER) about a gorgeous vampire with a penchant for sketching nude models and then drinking their…
Faculty, The (1999): Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Jordana Brewster, Clea Duvall, Laura Harris…; The writer of SCREAM gives post–modern surgery to INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, setting it on a high–school campus, of…
Haunting, The (1999): Dir. Jan De Bont
Feat. Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson…; Lumpen remake of the classy 60s chiller, with Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta–Jones, Owen Wilson and psychologist Liam Neeson as the cardboard…
Hypnosis (Saimin) (1999): Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno; A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this…
Idle Hands (1999): Dir. Rodman Flender
Feat. Seth Green, Devon Sawa, Elden Henson; An evil spirit moves from person to person, afflicting only a single hand, which proceeds to wreak five–fingered carnage. High–school…
Kolobos (1999): Dir. Daniel Liatowitsch, David Todd Ocvirk; Five youths accept the offer of inhabiting an isolated house while being filmed, only to discover it is filled with creepy…
Lake Placid (1999): Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt; Gleefully silly horror contrivance abitrarily plonks a 30ft Asian crocodile down in Black Lake (where did Lake Placid go?) to dine on pigs, chickens…
Nameless, The (Los Sin Nombre) (1999): Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Emma Vilarasau, Karra Elejalde; A family, devastated by the murder of their daughter, are sent into a fresh spin by her seeming re–appearance five years later in this visually…
Sacred Flesh (1999): Dir. Nigel Wingrove
Feat. Eileen Daly, Sally Tremaine, Moyna Cope…; Salacious voyage into the mind of a Mother Superior locked away in a convent tortured by visions of sexual abandon. Debut entry for Wingrove is a…
Sixth Sense, The (1999): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Colette; A rarity here – an intelligent Hollywood horror movie with no teenagers and no comic relief (intended or otherwise). Story of a troubled…
Sleepy Hollow (1999): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken…; The oft–filmed short story 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow' is fashioned by illustrious iconoclast Tim Burton as the goriest, most…
Stigmata (1999): Dir. Rupert Wainwright
Feat. Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne; Throwback to the heyday of the 'religious horror film' of the 1970s (see THE EXORCIST, THE OMEN), this dense thriller has atheist Patricia Arquette…
Stir of Echoes (1999): Dir. David Koepp
Feat. Kevin Bacon; A decisively scary supernatural thriller unravels following sceptical family man Kevin Bacon's disturbing experience under hypnosis. A palpable…
Storm of the Century (1999): Dir. Craig R Baxley
Feat. Tim Daly, Colm Feore; Umbrellas out! Written for the small–screen by Stephen King, this horror mini–series has a small island community in Maine facing a…
Tomie (1999): Dir. Ataru Oikawa
Feat. Tomorowo Taguchi, Miho Kanno; A severed head in a paper bag mutates into the film's titular school girl from hell in this malevolent Japanese horror offering genuine creeps under…
Turn Of The Screw, The (Henry James' The Turn Of The Screw) (1999): Dir. Ben Bolt
Feat. Jodhi May, Colin Firth, Caroline Pegg; TV movie adaptation of the classic Henry James horror novella about a governess who is haunted by the ghost of her predecessor.
Virus (1999): Dir. John Bruno
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin…; A Russian research vessel in the South Pacific is attacked by an alien life form that seeks to turn humanity into cyborg slaves, in this sci–fi…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Season 3 (1998): Dir. Joss Whedon, James Whitmore, Jr, James A. Contner
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar; 22 Episodes over 6 discs.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Season 4 (1998): Dir. David Greenwalt, Michael Lange, James A. Contner
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar; 22 More episodes over 6 DVDs, as Buffy and co move onto tertiary education.
Charmed (TV Series) (1998-2005): Feat. Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs; A career–reviving hit for Doherty and Milano, as two of a trio of sisters who discover they have the supernatural powers of witches. This…
Cube (1998): Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Nicole De Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett…; More than meets the eye of this enthralling dark–horse B–movie from Canada. Five strangers find themselves thrown together in a…
Disturbing Behaviour (1998): Dir. David Nutter
Feat. James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl; Reincarnating THE STEPFORD WIVES for the SCREAM–generation finds the troublemakers of Cradle Bay High strangely changing one by one into…
Halloween H20 (1998): Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis; Or Halloween Twenty Years Later, adjourns from the original classic, undistracted by the whole lamentable trail of sequels (six at last count).…
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1998): Dir. Jim Gillespie
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Geller; A slick teen horror outing from the writer of SCREAM gives an ironic lift to several old Urban Legends, only this time with a straight…
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998): Dir. Danny Cannon
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt; While unpredictable in its specifics, this sequel follows the same straight–faced, moderately scary path as its predecessor. Jennifer Love…
Last Broadcast, The (1998): Dir. Stefan Avalos, Lance Weiler
Feat. David Beard, Jim Seward, Stefan Avalos; Preceding THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, but gaining wider release presumably because of it, this uncannily similar item too follows an grim–fated…
Phantom of the Opera (1998): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Julian Sands, Asia Argento; Not one of Dario's greatest horrors, though fans will certainly wish to see his take on the classic Gaston Leroux novel about a disfigured murderer…
Phantoms (1998): Dir. Joe Chappelle
Feat. Joanna Going, Rose McGowan, Ben Affleck…; Dropping in on a remote town with no apparent inhabitants, babe sisters Joanna Going and Rose McGowan find themselves on the sinister skids. Ben…
Quiet Family, The (Choyonghan kajok) (1998): Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Min-sik Choi; A deliciously deadpan black comedy in which a respectable family decide to leave the rat race behind, buy a hotel in remote mountains and lead more…
Ravenous (1998): Dir. Antonia Bird
Feat. Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeffrey Jones; Good taste is dispatched with relish in this period cannibal piece that promises gruesome chills from its 19th century Rocky Mountains setting, but…
Razor Blade Smile (1998): Dir. Jake West
Feat. Eileen Daly; Brazenly over–the–top, low–budget (12,000 sterling) vampire hokum about a bisexual vamp who moonlights as a mortal assassin.…
Ring (Ringu) (1998): Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada; A cult phenomenon in Japan and everywhere else it’s played, it’s since spawned a sequel, a prequel, both a Korean and American remake, and its…
Ring: The Spiral (Rasen) (1998): Dir. Jôji Iida
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani; The 'lost' first sequel to RINGU, follows on from the tale of the lethal videotape and the demonic Sadako with the rather prosaic solution to the…
Trance (The Eternal) (1998): Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Christopher Walken, Jared Harris, Alison Elliott…; Revision of Universal's horror classic THE MUMMY as a contemporary Gothic mood–piece set in coastal Ireland, an alcoholic American couple…
Ultraviolet (Mini Series) (1998): Dir. Joe Ahearne
Feat. Jack Davenport, Philip Quast; Set in the drab, menacing atmosphere of South London, a detective quests for his missing partner and turns up a frightening cabal of powerful…
Urban Legend (1998): Dir. Jamie Blanks
Feat. Alicia Witt, Danielle Harris; A serial killer is offing students in the manner of various urban legends (grisly rumours that become so commonly known they're accepted as fact).…
Vampires (1998): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Maximilian Schell; Continuing to purvey his dubious abilities, dir. John Carpenter (HALLOWEEN) sinks his teeth into another genre staple, with hideous spurts of blood…
Wisdom of Crocodiles, The (1998): Dir. Po-Chi Leong
Feat. Jude Law, Elina Lowensohn, Kerry Fox…; Suave vampire Jude Law cruises London looking for a cure to his soul–sickness in this slick–looking thriller with literary…
An American Werewolf in Paris (1997): Dir. Anthony Waller
Feat. Julie Delpy, Tom Everett Scott; Belated official sequel to the '80s horror–comedy classic takes up with the progeny of the London howler (Julie Delpy), also plagued by…
Cure (1997): Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki…; Delivering one of the great, unsung horror movies, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa plumbs the depths of societal malaise with this novel take on serial…
Devil's Advocate, The (1997): Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron; Invincible lawyer Keanu Reeves is tempted to join an elite law firm, but bossman Al Pacino has a firey temper and is looking for lifelong commitment,…
Event Horizon (1997): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill; This sleek monstrosity is worth a look for some reasonably scary special effects or if you just want reminding of what a masterpiece ALIEN really is.…
Funny Games (1997): Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Ulrich Muhe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering…; Michael Haneke’s disturbing, self–reflexive examination of violence, and violence as entertainment, in which two young men dressed in tennis…
Jack Frost (1997): Dir. Michael Cooney
Feat. Scott MacDonald, Christopher Allport, Stephen Mendel; A modern Ed Wood–style horror comedy about a killer snowman terrorising a small rural community. While uneven, this is mostly better than it…
Kingdom II, The (Riget II) (1997): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Udo Kier; Lars Von Trier's compulsive TV creation continues into its second series of medical soap opera, supernatural horror and black comedy. Raising the…
Quicksilver Highway (1997): Dir. Mick Garris
Feat. Christopher Lloyd, Matt Frewer, Veronica Cartwright…; Anthology horror film featuring two stories adapted from Stephen King ("The Chattery Teeth") and Clive Barker ("The Body Polotic"). Plenty of camp…
Relic, The (1997): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore; A dormant microbe mutates and runs amok! ALIEN–in–a–museum is the concept for this well regarded B–picture that spends most…
Scream 2 (1997): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…; Neve Campbell and friends get revisited by another round of cell–phone threats, masked stalkers and spotty, self–referential…
Shining, The (Mini Series) (1997): Dir. Mick Garris
Feat. Steven Weber, Rebecca De Mornay, Pat Hingle…; Telemovie adaptation of Stephen King's famous novel about a haunted, snowbound hotel in the Rocky Mountains. More of a literal version of the novel…
Thinner (1997): Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Robert Burke; Crash–diets provide plenty of grisly comic mill for the Stephen King grind in this be–careful–what–you–wish–for…
Ugly, The (1997): Dir. Scott Reynolds
Feat. Paolo Rotondo, Rebecca Hobbs, Jennifer Ward-Lealand; A local portrait of a serial killer – Auckland lad Scott Reynolds' transcends his derivative script with an audacious visual style that'll…
Uncle Sam (1997): Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Leslie Neale, David "Shark" Fralick, Isaac Hayes…; Solid cast of exploitation 'character actors' lifts this quasi–satirical slasherfest about a Gulf War casualty who rises from his resting place…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Season 1 (1996): Dir. Bruce Seth Green, Joss Whedon
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar; The TV followup to the 1992 movie, that slays its predecessor in wit and cult–appeal. Sarah Michelle Gellar plays the high–school teen…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Season 2 (1996): Dir. Joss Whedon, Bruce Seth Green, John Kretchmer
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan…; After the surprising success of series 1, Series 2 starts, with a bigger budget and twice the episodes.
Campfire Tales (1996): Dir. David Semel, Martin Kunert, Matt Cooper
Feat. Jay R. Ferguson, Christine Taylor, Christopher Masterson…; Urban legends pervade a trilogy of spook stories that emanate from a roadside breakdown. Some competent storytelling is undone by an irritatingly…
Craft, The (1996): Dir. Andrew Fleming
Feat. Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell…; The director of THREESOME conjures a fast–paced and slick tale of teenage outcasts who prefer to look pretty in black than pink. It's a dark…
Day of the Beast (1996): Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Alex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura; If Almodovar made a horror movie it might look like this – beautifully shot and designed, funny and exciting. Though he can't quite sustain the…
Ebola Syndrome, The (1996): Dir. Herman Yau
Feat. Anthony Wong; Birthed from the notorious "Category 3" underbelly of Hong Kong cinema, this close relative of THE UNTOLD STORY features another deranged murderer on…
Goosebumps (TV Series) (1996): Ghoulish anthology series based on R. L. Stine's popular kidult horror novels. Bound to raise goosebumps on the younger ones. Season One Episodes:…
Island of Dr. Moreau (1996): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, Temuera Morrison; HG Wells' ever–timely tale of the perils of genetic science, featuring big–name Hollywood talent and a troubled production record, it…
Killer Condom (Kondom des Grauens) (1996): Dir. Martin Walz
Feat. Udo Samel; Hysterical horror comedy is an eye–popping oddity even for the Troma stables; it combines crude but impressive phallic special effects (by H.R.…
Millennium (TV Series) (1996-1999): Feat. Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Klea Scott; Occult sci–fi series from the creator of The X–Files) following the investigations of ex–FBI agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen),…
Satan Returns (1996): Dir. Allan Lam
Feat. Chingmy Yau, Donnie Yen; On a rash mission to find the devil's daughter, a cult member with strange powers resorts to wrenching the hearts (and we mean literally) of women…
Scream (1996): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich…; The horror genre gets a long overdue (if tongue–in–cheek) revamp but you needn't be an aficionado to experience the thrill of this…
Tremors 2 (Tremors 2 Aftershocks) (1996): Dir. S. S. Wilson
Feat. Fred Ward, Christopher Gartin, Helen Shaver…; Sequel to the outrageous tongue–in–cheek creature feature TREMORS (1990), with supersucking desert worms returning to terrorise the oil…
American Gothic (TV Series) (1995): Dir. Mike Binder
Feat. Gary Cole, Lucas Black, Jake Weber…; Mordant supernatural thriller set in the small town of 'Trinity', South Carolina, where despite outward appearances of normality, much of the town's…
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (Candyman 2) (1995): Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary…; Sequel to the 1992 horror hit CANDYMAN, again based on a story by Clive Barker about the titular immortal villain's evil–doings in New…
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995): Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Mel Brooks, Leslie Nielsen; Another blockbuster spoof, three years too late from the once funny Mel Brooks in which Leslie Nielsen does his NAKED GUN–in–a–cape…
Eko Eko Azarak (Wizard of Darkness, Birth of the Wizard, Misa the Dark Angel) (1995): Dir. Shimako Sato
Feat. Kimika Yoshino; Highly impressive and lurid high–school horror, has a teenage girl (Yoshino) contending with coven of Satanic witches at her new school, who…
Grave, The (1995): Dir. Jonas Pate
Feat. Craig Sheffer, Josh Charles, Gabrielle Anwar…; Craig Sheffer and Josh Charles break jail to dredge though redneck country in pursuit of buried treasure. Though indebted to the likes of the Coen…
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (Halloween 6) (1995): Dir. Joe Chappelle
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd; Sixth film in the HALLOWEEN horror franchise picks up the story approximately six years after the events of the fifth film, convoluting a plot that…
Langoliers, The (1995): Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Dean Stockwell, Bronson Pinchot; On a near–capacity flight, ten passengers awaken from their slumber to discover they are the only people left on the plane. Some inspired…
Lord of Illusions (1995): Dir. Clive Barker
Feat. Famke Janssen, Daniel von Bargen, Kevin J. O'Connor…; Cult author Clive Barker resumes megaphone duties on this melange of detective pic and sorcery epic. Points of interest include recent Bond girl,…
Mangler, The (1995): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Robert Englund, Ted Levine, Daniel Matmor; From a short story by Stephen King, probably written over his Cornies, you'll need to prepare yourself for this high concept – the demonic…
Mr. Stitch (1995): Dir. Roger Avary
Feat. Rutger Hauer; A pulpy Frankenstein variation from the director of KILLING ZOE. Everyone's favourite B–movie stalwart Rutger Hauer stars as a maverick doctor…
Nadja (1995): Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Elina Lowensohn, Peter Fonda; A curious spawn of David Lynch and Hal Hartley, this audacious modern–day vampire pic makes up for its murky narrative with its uneasy…
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett; Eddie Murphy and the ever–dynamic Angela Bassett team up for horror specialist Wes Craven, who injects a mix of comedy and gothic romance into…
Village of the Damned (1995): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley; Schlocky remake of the 60s horror, where women in a smalltown are inseminated by an alien entity. Luckily, the presence of lightweights Christopher…
Brain Scan (1994): Dir. John Flynn
Feat. Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T.Ryder Smith; Gimmicky horror flick in which teen horror fan Edward Furlong buys a virtual reality CD–ROM game promising the 'ultimate experience in…
Death Machine (1994): Dir. Stephen Norrington
Feat. Brad Dourif, Ely Pouget, William Hootkins; A lethal hardware robot runs amok in a high–tech corporation. Its nerdish inventor fields the blame and is fired, but he has big plans for…
Flesh and Blood - The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994): Dir. Ted Newsom; A tour through the history of horror film specialists Hammer Studios, whose rise in the 1950s ushered in a new era for the genre. Narrated by Peter…
In the Mouth of Madness (1994): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Sam Neill; Sam Neill is uncannily good as an insurance investigator who uncovers a diabolical alternate reality when he is sent to locate a vanished…
Interview With the Vampire (1994): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst; Tom Cruise rises to the much–touted role of Vampire Lestat, Brad Pitt invigorates the lifeless Louis, and Kirsten Dunst gives a child…
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter…; Branagh swamps the gothic classic with theatricality and allows himself far too much screen time, impressing on us that his ego that is the real…
Nightscare (Beyond Bedlam) (1994): Dir. Vadim Jean
Feat. Keith Allen, Elizabeth Hurley, Georgina Hale…; An incarcerated serial killer (Keith 'The Yob' Allen) continues his rampage from his prison cell upon procuring the capacity for mind invasion.…
Stand, The (1994): Dir. Mick Garris
Feat. Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Laura San Giancomo…; Stephen King's most popular novel was also his lengthiest, which is why it takes cinematic form as a mini–series. Despite dramatic padding and…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994): Dir. Kim Henkel
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey; The fourth movie in the loose Texas Chainsaw franchise, directed by the writer of the original cult classic (not that that makes a difference). This…
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes; Ingenious post–script to the tired NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. franchise in which castmembers of the previous films (playing themselves), too, become…
Addams Family Values (1993): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd; Not bad sequel focuses less on Gomez & Morticia, and gets more comic mileage from the rest of the gang.
Body Bags (1993): Dir. John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper
Feat. Sheena Easton; An undead John Carpenter unzips three 'body bags' and recounts events leading up to their grisly fate. Above–average triptych with a…
Freaked (1993): Dir. Tom Stern, Alex Winter
Feat. Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves; A film–school–renegade comedy from actor, Alex 'Bill and Ted' Winter. He becomes an unwilling participant in a freak–show that uses…
Innocent Blood (A French Vampire in America) (1993): Dir. John Landis
Feat. Anne Parillaud, Robert Loggia; Director Landis rekindles the AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON formula and almost reaches the heights of his classic predecessor. Scrummy Anne 'NIKITA'…
Necronomicon (1993): Dir. Christophe Gans, Shusuke Kaneko, Brian Yuzna
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Tony Azito, Juan Fernandez; Supernatural compendium based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft weaves its three separate tales around H.P. himself searching for the elusive 'book of…
Needful Things (1993): Dir. Fraser C. Heston
Feat. Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Amanda Plummer; This Faustian tale has Max Von Sydow (ironically) cast as the devil who trades special goods for diabolic favours. Stephen King's rambling novel…
Tommyknockers, The (1993): Dir. John Power
Feat. Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton…; Stephen King mini–series cut down to a two–hour feature, shot on location in Northland, N.Z. The incoherent, watery thrills can be…
Untold Story, The (1993): Dir. Herman Yau
Feat. Danny Lee, Anthony Wong; Outrageous gross–out thriller that may put you off Chinese food for life – based on the "Eight Immortals Restaurant murders" that took…
When a Stranger Calls Back (1993): Dir. Fred Walton
Feat. Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen; Sequel to the 1979 classic WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, with the same director and much of the same cast. Babysitter Julia is looking after two kids…
Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3) (1992): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz; Raimi's third 'Evil Dead' movie is an out–and–out Pythonesque comic–fantasy in which the hero, Ash, confronts simpleton locals and…
Basket Case 3 (1992): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Annie Ross; Completing the trilogy, this installment sees Belial separated from his able–bodied Siamese twin, getting married and fathering a gaggle of…
Bloodlust (1992): Dir. Jon Hewitt
Feat. Big Bad Ralph, Kelly Chapman, Max Crawdaddy; Underground cinema rag Fatal Visions presents this guerilla–style, shot–on–video gorefest that failed to amuse the British censors…
Braindead (Dead Alive) (1992): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody; Local prodigy's magnum opus may well be the last word in zombie film. What begins as a nervous romance for naive young Lionel soon turns into a…
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves…; Francis Ford Coppola's opulent and erotic update of the gothic legend. Gary Oldman's incarnation of the fanged one is most impressive here, as are…
Candyman (1992): Dir. Bernard Rose
Feat. Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley…; Virginia Madsen's research about a 'mythical' Candyman leads to gruesome murders with a bloodied knife in her hand! A blood–curdling portrait…
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1992): Dir. Dan Hoskins
Feat. Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff; Hit–and–miss parody of zombie and biker flicks with a feminist–revenge kick. An improvement from the dreaded 'Troma' label.
Cronos (1992): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Frederico Luppi, Ron Perlman; Elderly antique dealer Federico Luppi discovers the ancient (and sought–after) 'Cronos' device, which has the power to give eternal life, but…
Dark Half, The (1992): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Timothy Hutton; Timothy Hutton plays a best–selling novelist whose 'pseudonym' goes on a murderous rampage when it learns he plans to abandon it and use his…
Doppelganger (1992): Dir. Avi Nesher
Feat. Drew Barrymore; Drew Barrymore plays an innocent who moves in with a budding horror scriptwriter – ultimately providing him with plenty of source material.…
Frankenstein (1992): Dir. David Wickes
Feat. Patrick Bergin; Standard telling of the story with Patrick Bergin as Dr. Frank recounting his chilling experiences with his heinous creation, after being rescued…
Guilty As Charged (1992): Dir. Sam Irvin
Feat. Rod Steiger, Isaac Hayes; Resourceful and 'well–executed' black comedy stars Rod Steiger as a religious zealot who fries sinners in his home–made electric chair.…
Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth (1992): Dir. Anthony Hickox
Feat. Doug Bradley, Kevin Bernhardt, Terry Farrell; Self–parodying second sequel has Pinhead vying for franchise position with fellow boogeymen Freddy and Jason.
Scanners 3: The Takeover (1992): Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Liliana Komorowska; Third in the SCANNERS trilogy with another fresh set of characters built around the concept of humans with telepathic powers. Liliana Komorowska…
Sleepwalkers (1992): Dir. Mick Garris
Feat. Brian Krause, Madchen Amick, Alice Krige…; Stephen King's first script conceived for the screen is a morbid indulgence about an incestuous mother/son team who grotesquely transform to suck the…
Sometimes They Come Back (1992): Dir. Tom McLoughlin
Feat. Tim Matheson; Tim Matheson cannot forget the brutal murder of his brother twenty years earlier, especially when the 'deceased' killers return to play havoc. From…
Trauma (1992): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie; A young girl becomes convinced she will be the next victim after a seance reveals a murderer in their midst. Argento's first American film will…
Addams Family, The (1991): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd…; Huston, Julia and Lloyd star in this glossy update of the '60s TV series. Inventive, blackly comic and lavishly gothic production design.
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (TV Series) (1991): 13 episodes of the first season of this 90's Nickelodeon show following the escapades of the "Midnight Society", a group of teen horror aficionados.
Borrower, The (1991): Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Rae Dawn Chong, Don Gordon, Tom Towles…; When Earth's atmosphere causes an alien's head to explode, he must 'borrow' the heads of others in order to survive. A comic turn from the director…
Child's Play 3 (1991): Dir. Jack Bender
Feat. Justin Whalin, Brad Dourif; Brad Dourif returns as the voice of malevolent children's doll, Chucky, for an installment that takes place eight years following the events of the…
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991): Dir. Rachel Talalay
Feat. Robert Englund; Apparent conclusion to the long tired 'Elm St.' series has ol' pizza face invading the dreams of adolescents nationwide in 2001. Further installments…
Graveyard Shift (1991): Dir. Ralph Singleton
Feat. David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht; Stephen King spook story about a group of mill workers who start disappearing within its bowels. Suspend all logic and just enjoy the various ways…
Night of the Living Dead (1991): Dir. Tom Savini
Feat. Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles; Intelligent remake with FX–whizz and long–time Romero collaborator Savini in the driver's seat, keen to flaunt his bag of gory tricks.
People Under the Stairs, The (1991): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie; A young boy breaks into a mansion to find the householder's have a penchant for young meat. Craven's most inspired work since 'Nightmare on Elm…
Scanners 2: The New Order (1991): Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin; Reasonable sequel without originator Cronenberg's involvement, about a breed of humans with strong psychic abilities that are seen as a threat to…
Two Evil Eyes (1991): Dir. Dario Argento, George Romero
Feat. Adrienne Barbeau, Ramy Zada, Bingo O'Malley…; Two heralded film–makers pay homage to Edgar Allan Poe with this supernatural pair. 'The Case of Mr. Valdemar' concerns a couple who pay the…
Ambulance, The (1990): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Richard Bright…; Enjoyable though minor genre effort from B–movie maestro Larry Cohen about a New York comic book artist (Eric Roberts) who discovers that their…
Basket Case 2 (1990): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Judy Grafe, Annie Ross; Emulating the sublimely grimy flavour of the original, this commendable sequel sees Belial the basket–dweller return with friends of a…
Battle Heater (Kotatsu) (1990): Dir. Geroge Iida
Feat. Pappara Kawai, Akira Imoto; A maniacal low–budget doozie about a man–eating Kotatsu heater, this adds its own spirited splash to the horror mini–genre of…
Bloodmoon (1990): Dir. Alec Mills
Feat. Leon Lissek, Christine Amor; Enjoyably derivative low–budget Australian slasher, set in a Catholic Girls' school where a bloodthirsty serial killer is on the loose.
Buried Alive (1990): Dir. Frank Darabont
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Matheson; Accomplished Poe–influenced tele–movie about a man who seeks to avenge his wife who buried him alive.
Child's Play 2 (1990): Dir. John Lafia
Feat. Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent; This tasteless, uninspired sequel made us promise to pass on any further installments. We broke the promise when the franchise was revived in BRIDE…
Exorcist III, The (Exorcist 3) (1990): Dir. William Peter Blatty
Feat. George C. Scott, Jason Miller, Brad Dourif; The author of the original 'Exorcist' novel and screenwriter takes the helm in an attempt to create a 'worthy' successor to the original demonic…
Flatliners (1990): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon…; Young medical students experiment with their own deaths amid splendid gothic architecture. An intriguing premise is blown up to biblical proportions…
Frankenhooker (1990): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen; A young scientist accidentally chops up his gal with a lawnmower, then seeks new body parts from the red light district in order to preserve their…
Frankenstein Unbound (1990): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda; John Hurt stars as a 21st century scientist who is thrown back to 19th century England, where Frankenstein's creature and other famous Brits run…
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover; This commendable sequel sees the little critters take the mayhem to gargantuan proportions, attempting to take over the entire city of New York.
Guardian, The (1990): Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell…; An occult thriller from the director of THE EXORCIST about a nanny with a nasty supernatural temper. Demonstrates that, in experienced hands, a silly…
Holy Virgin vs. the Evil Dead (1990): Dir. Chun-Yeung Wong
Feat. Sonny Chang, Kathy Chow, Hei Man Chui; In taking advantage of the relaxation of some Asian countries regarding nudity, this comic horror mixes erotic fantasy into a tale of a wimpish…
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990): Dir. Dirk Campbell
Feat. Neil Morrissey, Amanda Noar, Michael Elphick…; Tasteless yarn centres around a Harley that runs on human blood. There are some high spots, but it's far too long for a film with a lead character…
It (Stephen King's It) (1990): Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
Feat. Tim Curry; Stephen King's lengthy novel is adapted for the small screen here with a younger audience in mind. Tim Curry stands out as the nasty force behind the…
Leatherface: the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1990): Dir. Jeff Burr
Feat. William Butler, Miriam Byrd-Nethery; Judging by the title this makes a bid in the horror franchise stakes, but death–by–chainsaw just never quite caught the teenage…
Luther the Geek (1990): Dir. Carlton J. Albright
Feat. Edward Terry; Yucky, if perversely enjoyable B–movie about a disturbed carnival freak with metal teeth who embarks on a small town murder spree.…
Maniac Cop 2 (1990): Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Robert Davi, Bruce Campbell, Claudia Christian…; Better–than–expected sequel to the enjoyably trashy slasher about an undead police officer who turns serial killer after his own murder.…
Misery (1990): Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. James Caan, Kathy Bates; You'll have a far from miserable experience watching novelist James Caan nursed back to health by his psychotic number one fan (Kathy Bates in an…
Pit and the Pendulum, The (1990): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Lance Henriksen; Stuart Gordon's remake is a camp/gothic hybrid, restricted by a low–budget, but with a stand–out over–the–top turn from Lance…
Re-Animator 2 (Bride Of Re-Animator) (1990): Dir. Brian Yuzna
Feat. Jeffrey Combs; Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West and friends return for a gory homage to Bride of Frankenstein, but its a pale shadow of both films, with noticeably…
Shocker (1990): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Michael Murphy, Peter Berg; Horace Pinker, a psychotic TV repair man meets his maker on death row...or has he? A frenetic mix of coal black humour and graphic violence from the…
Society (1990): Dir. Brian Yuzna
Feat. Billy Warlock, Connie Danese, Ben Slack; Perverse hallucinations plague a young man in this sqeaumish satire of social mores in LA. The finale is an outrageous orgy of slimy…
Tales from the Crypt (1990): Dir. Robert Zemeckis, Walter Hill, Richard Donner
Feat. Miguel Ferrer, Roy Brocksmith; Three gruesome anecdotes featuring; an out–of–work executioner who turns vigilante, an adulterous housewife who gets a sharp Christmas…
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (1990): Dir. John Harrison
Feat. Deborah Harry, Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi…; Quirky selection of stories from the popular 80s horror series TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE strung together by an inconsequential narrative and starring…
Tremors (1990): Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross; Exciting tongue–in–cheek horror flick in the tradition of 50s 'Creature Features' has Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward among the desert yokels…
Beware! Children at Play (1989): Dir. Mik Cribben
Feat. Michael Robertson; Visiting Tromaville(!), a family discover a cannibalistic cult transforming the town’s youngsters into bloodthirsty serial killers.…
Brain Dead (1989): Dir. Adam Simon
Feat. Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort; Long unreleased in New Zealand (which possibly explains why Peter Jackson also claimed the title), this arrives a bit of a lost gem from the halcyon…
Cutting Class (1989): Dir. Rospo Pallenberg
Feat. Brad Pitt, Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen…; Late–80s, high–school set slasher that (semi–)parodies the genre is best known for featuring a young Brad Pitt. While mediocre as a…
Fly 2, The (1989): Dir. Chris Walas
Feat. Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, John Getz; Unnecessary 'son–of–the–fly' sequel to the revisionist horror classic with dir. Walas clearly no Cronenberg and EricStoltz no…
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989): Dir. Dominique Othenin-Girard
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Beau Starr; Fifth film in the HALLOWEEN horror franchise picks where the previous installment left off with Michael Myers surviving the gunshots, and getting…
Hardcover (1989): Dir. Tibor Takacs
Feat. Jenny Wright, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook; Low–budget horror compendium delivers some unexpected thrills after a young woman unleashes the supernatural upon reading a spooky novel.
Intruder (1989): Dir. Scott Spiegel
Feat. Elizabeth Cox, Renee Estevez, Dan Hicks…; Under–seen late entry from the 80's slasher cycle from EVIL DEAD co–writer Scott Spiegel. A claustrophobic thriller set entirely in a…
Kitchen Sink (1989): Dir. Alison Maclean
Feat. Theresa Healy, Peter Tait, Anagretta Christian; Three shorts from director Alison Maclean. Her 1989 award–winning Gothic horror is here paired with two earlier works, TALKBACK (1987), and the…
Nightbreed (1989): Dir. Clive Barker
Feat. Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg; Novelist Clive Barker's follow–up film to HELLRAISER is again saturated with fantastic monsters and bone–crunching visuals. A dark adult…
Nightmare On Elm Street 5: Dream Child, A (1989): Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Robert Englund; Fourth sequel milks the wise–cracking dream–demon premise to the point of exhaustion. Still, the franchise continues to provide a handy…
Parents (1989): Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis; Frightening piece of horror kitsch about a boy who suspects his parents are cannibals. Splendid, stylised direction and set design make this a…
Pet Sematary (1989): Dir. Mary Lambert
Feat. Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby; A competent scarefest scripted by Stephen King from his own novel about a country doctor's experiences with things that won't stay dead.
Puppet Master, The (1989): Dir. David Schmoeller
Feat. Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle; Puppetsploitation movie from Charles Band's Full Moon production house about a group of psychics who find themselves plotted against by a former…
Return of the Swamp Thing, The (1989): Feat. Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Dick Durock; Everyone's favourite muck–encrusted plant–man is back in a sequel so bad, it's better than the original! The campy…
Spontaneous Combustion (1989): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain, Jon Cypher; Tobe Hooper's so–bad–its–not–bad cheapie about a man suffering from troubling side–effects after the nuclear explosion…
Stepfather 2, The (1989): Dir. Jeff Burr
Feat. Terry O'Quinn, Meg Foster; Terry O'Quinn returns for more slaying in suburbia in a better–than–average sequel. Highlight is a sequence that gives literal meaning to…
Stephen King's World of Horror (1989): Doco covering the various facets of Stephen King's works, plus tributes to fave movies.
Terror at the Opera (Opera) (1989): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini…; A sort of DIVA of the horror genre, Argento happily abandons plot mechanics to provide a bravura display of his technical skill. Contains at least…
Woman in Black, The (1989): Dir. Herbert Wise
Feat. Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Daker; Tastefully macabre ghost story from the makers of REILLY, ACE OF SPIES sees a young lawyer's rural visit turn macabre after his seemingly good deed…
American Gothic (1988): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Rod Steiger, Yvonne De Carlo, Sarah Torgov; Creepy psychos living on a remote isle make life hell for holiday–making teens. Sound familiar? It is, but done with a certain inventive…
Beetlejuice (1988): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin…; A deceased couple return as ghosts and discover their home has been occupied by an obnoxious family, so decide to enlist the services of…
Black Roses (1988): Dir. John Fasano
Feat. John Martin, Ken Swafford, Julie Adams…; Heavy metal horror riffing gleefully on the satanic panic of the era, with a high school teacher suspecting that a metal band touring to his small…
Blob, The (1988): Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Kevin Dillon; Effects–laden remake of the 50's classic sees Kevin Dillon get into some very sticky situations. Infamous for its…
Blood Diner (1988): Dir. Jackie Kong
Feat. Rick Burks, Carl Crew, Roger Dauer; Homage to BLOOD FEAST, features similar tongue–in–cheek carnage.
Brain Damage (1988): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry; Outrageous splatter comedy doubles as a drug–addiction parable about a parasitic monster that feeds off the acquaintances of its human host.…
Child's Play (1988): Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent…; 'Chucky', the possessed cabbage–patch kid, goes on a murderous rampage in this clever consumerist parable. Tightly scripted and imaginatively…
Demons 3 - The Ogre (Brivido giallo - La casa dell'orco) (1988): Dir. Lamberto Bava
Feat. Virginia Bryant, Paolo Malco; Gothic–tinged telemovie from the son of Mario Bava, which severs any connection with previous DEMONS films with the tale of an American…
Dreaming, The (1988): Dir. Mario Andreacchio
Feat. Arthur Dignam, Penny Cook, Gary Sweet; A supernatural oddity in which a doctor treats a sick aborigine, who had defied a tribal taboo and visited a sacred cave. The doctor soon finds…
Elvira (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) (1988): Dir. James Signorelli
Feat. Cassandra Peterson, Jeff Conaway, Edie McClurg…; High camp fun with real–life cult horror movie host Elvira, in her first acting role. Canny blend of tongue–in–cheek innuendo and…
Fright Night Part 2 (1988): Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
Feat. Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Traci Lind…; William Ragsdale returns as Charley Brewster, now a college freshman who is tormented by the undead sister of the vampire from the first film. While…
Hellraiser 2: Hellbound (1988): Dir. Tony Randel
Feat. Doug Bradley, Clare Higgins, Kenneth Cranham; Ok sequel dishes up plenty of grim, garish special effects as the teenage heroine of the original confronts Pinhead, this time in the corridors of…
Jack's Back (1988): Dir. Rowdy Herrington
Feat. James Spader; James Spader plays a reincarnated Jack the Ripper plaguing the streets of modern–day L.A.
Juvenatrix (1988): Dir. Brian Thomas Jones
Feat. Vivian Lanko, John Mackay, James Hogue; Aging woman commissions 'youth serum', with horrible side–effects. True 80s schlock.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988): Dir. Stephen Chiodo
Feat. Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson; Smalltown folk are harvested by blood–drinking alien clowns in this novelty horror confection. Has something of a reputation, but that doesn't…
Kiss, The (1988): Dir. Pen Densham
Feat. Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk; Fairly trashy rendition of 'Cat People'–style story about evil curse passed on by smooching.
Lady in White (1988): Dir. Frank LaLoggia
Feat. Lukas Haas; If you prefer your spook story with subtlety and atmos–fear, then don't overlook this gem. A young boy discovers the truth concerning a young…
Lair of the White Worm (1988): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Sammi Davis…; Dir. Ken Russell's campy masterwork combines many estranged ideas from his previous films for an outlandish horror spoof. As hilarious as it is…
Maniac Cop (1988): Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Bruce Campbell; THE EVIL DEAD's Bruce Campbell stars in this violent black comedy about a psycho–killer who masquerades as a policeman.
Monkey Shines (1988): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil; A first–rate thriller about an invalid who loses control over his pet monkey that has been subjected to cerebral experiments. Intelligent…
Night of the Demons (1988): Dir. Kevin S. Tenney
Feat. Linnea Quigley, William Gallo; Shlocky 80's horror based around a group of high school seniors partying inside an isolated funeral parlour where they unknowingly release a demon or…
Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master, A (1988): Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Robert Englund; The franchise, now in full commercial flight, but bereft of new ideas, resorts to self–parody with Freddy Pizza Face Krueger having a riot…
Pin (Pin: A Plastic Nightmare) (1988): Dir. Sandor Stern
Feat. David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn; Fascinatingly creepy psychological horror following the fates of two siblings whose father uses ventriloquism to convince them that a medical doll is…
Pumpkinhead (1988): Dir. Stan Winston
Feat. Lance Henriksen; Trashy directing debut for f/x expert Winston, with Lance Henrikson summoning up a vengeful demon.
Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988): Dir. Ken Wiederhorn
Feat. Michael Kenworthy, Thor Van Lingen, Jason Hogan; Yet another unnecessary sequel, this time to the popular spoof of Romero's Living Dead films.
Serpent and the Rainbow, The (1988): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae; Based on an apparently true story of a man's nightmare journey to into the eerie world of voodoo. Filmed on location in Haiti and scarier for it.
Seventh Sign, The (1988): Dir. Carl Schultz
Feat. Demi Moore; Apocalyptic thriller should find favour with those that prefer supernatural disquiet to visceral shocks. Demi Moore portrays a…
Slugs (Slugs, Muerte Viscosa) (1988): Dir. Juan Piquer Simon
Feat. Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale; Creature feature based on the UK horror novel of the same name by Shaun Hutson. A rural town is invaded by mutant killer slugs, spawned from…
Vampire's Kiss (1988): Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals; Nicolas Cage gives a wildly uninhibited performance as a psychotic yuppie who thinks he's been bitten by a vampire. From the pen that wrote the…
Anguish (1987): Dir. Bigas Luna
Feat. Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul…; What starts off as a run–of–the–mill slasher suddenly takes a turn into a highly effective movie–within–a–movie.…
Bad Taste (1987): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Peter Jackson; New Zealand's entry into the splatter comedy genre, shot on consecutive Sundays over a four year period, is among the best ever made. Outrageously…
Believers, The (1987): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Martin Sheen; Martin Sheen investigates serial killings connected to the Santaria cult in New York.
Creepshow 2 (1987): Dir. Michael Gornick
Feat. George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Tom Savini…; George Romero and Stephen King present three stories of bloodcurdling horror that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a…
Evil Dead 2 (1987): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell; Not so much a sequel as a big–budget remake, it's a tour–de–force of slapstick horror with camera theatrics that confirm a major…
Flowers in the Attic (1987): Dir. Jeffrey Bloom
Feat. Louise Fletcher, Kristy Swanson, Victoria Tennant; Adaptation of the Virginia Andrews book, about attic–bound children.
Gate, The (1987): Dir. Tibor Takacs
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Kelly Rowan; Amusing cult horror flick starring a young Stephen Dorff (BLADE) who accidentally uncovers a portal to hell in his backyard from which a gaggle of…
Hellraiser (1987): Dir. Clive Barker
Feat. Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence; Stylised, influential horror film with outstanding effects, well directed by the man who wrote the novel. Extravagant visuals compensate some holes…
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1987): Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Michael Rooker, Tom Towles; Theatrically banned, this uncut version ranks as one of the more unsettling works ever committed to film. In short, a low–budget masterpiece…
Howling III (Howling III: The Marsupials) (1987): Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Barry Otto, Imogen Annesley; Another sequel to the werewolf horror comedy THE HOWLING, with the same director as THE HOWLING II (1985), filmed on location in and around Sydney,…
Lost Boys, The (1987): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Corey Haim…; Keifer Sutherland leads a pack of teen vampires who have a taste for fashion as well as that red liquidy stuff. A dynamic, stylish horror with a…
Monster Squad, The (1987): Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Andre Gower, Stephen Macht, Stan Shaw…; A group of savvy kids attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monstrous cohorts – all familiar faces from Universal horror…
Near Dark (1987): Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Adrian Pasdar, Lance Henrikson, Jenny Wright…; The blueprint vampire–in–contemporary–clothing movie about a pack of young hedonists on the urban fringes afflicted with…
Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (1987): Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Robert Englund, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne…; Improving on the perfunctory Pt. 2, this ups the ante on the gross–out special effects as Freddy wreaks further havoc on the kids he's helped…
Prince of Darkness (1987): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Donald Pleasence; Carpenter dreck, where religious sect, led by Donald Pleasence, duels with the devil.
Redneck Zombies (1987): Dir. Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
Feat. Steve Sooy, Anthony M. Carr, Keith Johnson…; Troma–trash about zombies who happen to be rednecks.
Return to Salem's Lot, A (1987): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Samuel Fuller, Andrew Duggan…; Notably weird and disimiliar sequel to SALEM'S LOT is blessed with the talents of writer/director Larry Cohen. Anthropologist Moriarty is lured…
Stepfather, The (1987): Dir. Joseph Ruben
Feat. Terry O'Quinn, Shelley Hack; This psycho doesn't waste time with marriage guidance when a few waves of a machete is the quick and easy solution! Superior…
Street Trash (1987): Dir. Jim Muro
Feat. Mike Lackey, Bill Chepil, Marc Sferrazza; Sub–par gorefest about exploding vagrants on NY streets. Some people liked it.
April Fool's Day (1986): Dir. Fred Walton
Feat. Deborah Foreman; College student Foreman invites some of her friends to her parent's secluded mansion, for a series of pranks that turn murderous. Contains more…
Cassandra (1986): Dir. Colin Eggleston
Feat. Tegan Charles, Tessa Humphries, Dylan O'Neill…; Quite watchable Aussie horror is set around a young woman's visions of her brother stabbing somebody to death during her childhood years. Using a…
Class of Nuke 'em High (Atomic High School) (1986): Dir. Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman
Feat. Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton; One of the better Troma–trash productions in which pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after…
Crawlspace (1986): Dir. David Schmoeller
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinnery; Horror thriller with the always charismatic Klaus Kinski playing a psychopathic son of a Nazi doctor who is obsessed with torturing young women to…
Critters (1986): Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Zane; A gang of teeth–knashing alien fur–balls who have escaped from 'space prison' invade smalltown Kansas and terrorize the locals, cutting…
Demons (1986): Dir. Lamberto Bava
Feat. Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny; Son of Mario Bava, aided by Dario Argento, takes a slash at the zombie genre, with the undead uprising in a picture theatre.
Fly, The (1986): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis; Cronenberg's most accessible work is an ingenious re–working of the 1958 film that works as well for its contemporary audience as the original…
From Beyond (1986): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree; The director of RE–ANIMATOR interprets another great H.P. Lovecraft story as a kinky, effects–laden romp about monsters unleashed from a…
Gothic (1986): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson; Ken Russell's account of a night when Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and friends unravel their deepest fears. An enjoyable frolic, stamped with many of the…
House (1986): Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. William Katt; Expedient, tongue–in–cheek frightfest about a horror novelist who inherits a haunted mansion.
Island of the Alive (It's Alive 3) (1986): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Karen Black; Eschewing the subtle creepiness of the first ALIVE movies, this goes for a more blackly comical tale of mutant babies, placed out of harm's way on a…
King Kong Lives (1986): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin, John Ashton; A truly blasphemous sequel to the already inessential 1976 remake, has the big ape somehow survive the fall from the World Trade Centre but needing a…
Maximum Overdrive (1986): Dir. Stephen King
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington; Dubbed the PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE of the '80's, Stephen King's attempt to direct this film about demonic trucks fails miserably, but all is not lost…
Night of the Creeps (1986): Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Tom Atkins…; Good–humored horror about alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, and turning their hosts into rampaging zombies.
Nomads (1986): Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down; Murky plot sees Pierce Brosnan discovering Indian spirits terrorising L.A.
Rawhead Rex (1986): Dir. George Pavlou
Feat. David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Lora Lunny; Scripted by cult novelist Clive Barker, a demonesque monster runs riot in an Irish village where an American historian is staying with his family.
Stagefright (Deliria) (1986): Dir. Michele Soavi
Feat. David Brandon, Barbara Cupisti; Highly admired by some, this stylish Italian slasher–horror concerns an insane actor who escapes confinement and stumbles into the rehearsals…
Surf Nazis Must Die (1986): Dir. Peter George
Feat. Gail Neely, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner; Gory battles for the beaches and waves, Troma–style. The T–shirt is better than the movie.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The (1986): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Dennis Hopper; A belated, somewhat desperate, return to TCM county by the director of the original, who 'cannibalizes' his authentic horror classic with some…
Trick or Treat (1986): Dir. Charles Martin Smith
Feat. Marc Price, Tony Fields, Ozzy Osbourne…; High–school bullying prompts mournful teen Marc Price to conjure his recently–deceased heavy–metal idol (Tony Fields) back to life…
Vamp (1986): Dir. Richard Wenk
Feat. Grace Jones, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron…; Campy, neon–hued sex comedy–horror from the 80's in which two students travel to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their…
Wraith, The (1986): Dir. Mike Marvin
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn…; Cartoonish supernatural actioner starring Charlie Sheen as a murdered Arizona teen who mysteriously returns from the dead as an all–powerful…
Zombiethon (1986): Dir. Ken Dixon; Excerpts from the most outrageous 'Zombie' movies ever made comprise this hysterical compilation film. Many obscure Italian delights are featured…
Amazing Stories (TV Series) (Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories) (1985): Fantasy/supernatural series created by Steven Spielberg in the spirit of the TWILIGHT ZONE, featuring self–contained stories of the macabre and…
Bride, The (1985): Dir. Franc Roddam
Feat. Sting, Jennifer Beals, Anthony Higgins…; Infamous 'career moment' for all involved, this ambitious remake of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN has plenty of staggering gothic visuals, but fails to…
Cat's Eye (1985): Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. James Woods, Drew Barrymore, Candy Clark; Three Stephen King tales, linked by a wandering feline. Best is the classic story of self–help gone wrong, "Quitters, Inc."
Chiller (1985): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Paul Sorvino, Beatrice Straight, Dick O'Neill…; Wes Craven's follow–up to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, is a detached thriller about an entrepreneur who requests to be frozen and…
Clownhouse (1985): Dir. Victor Salva
Feat. Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, Sam Rockwell; Three brothers are trapped in their house while clown–attired loonies sneak around outside. Recommended for kids who want to be kept awake at…
Dario Argento's World of Horror (1985): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Jessica Harper…; A compendium of scenes and images from the work of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento, including an indepth interview with the maestro. Covering…
Day of the Dead (1985): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato; Apocalyptic paranoia looms in an underground shelter for a few survivors in a world overrun with zombies. Conclusion to the 'Dead' trilogy builds a…
Fright Night (1985): Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall…; Terrific vampire satire in which a boy becomes highly suspicious of his new neighbours, led by a suave Chris Sarandon. The superb make–up…
Ghoulies / Ghoulies 2 (1985-1987): Dir. Luca Bercovici, Albert Band
Feat. Lisa Pelikan, Jack Nance, Royal Dano; GREMLINS–inspired comic horrors from the mid–1980s in which a young couple unwittingly let loose half a dozen nasty little critters and…
Hills Have Eyes 2, The (1985): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Tamara Stafford, Kevin Spirtas, Michael Berryman; Revisiting the same mutant–inhabited desert terrain of the original, this has a band of motorcross enthusiasts raise the appetite of the same…
Howling II, The (Your Sister Is A Werewolf) (1985): Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Sybil Danning; A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts. This film has the dubious honour of being…
Lifeforce (1985): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay…; London descends into chaos following an invasion of space vampires, in this 80's sci–fi box–office bomb from director Tober Hooper and…
Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A (1985): Dir. Jack Sholder
Feat. Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Clu Gulager…; More of the same special f/x–assisted mayhem from Freddy Krueger and the helpless adolescent residents of Elm Street. Just ask Mom and Dad to…
Re-Animator (1985): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton; Essential splatter comedy takes gore levels to a (then) new extreme. Rebel science student Herbert West invents a serum that brings the dead back to…
Return of the Living Dead, The (1985): Dir. Dan O'Bannon
Feat. Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa; Pretty–good parody of Romero's Living Dead films, though not quite the same as the real thing. Great thrash–metal soundtrack, though.
Silver Bullet (1985): Dir. Daniel Attias
Feat. Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Everett McGill…; Gary Busey livens Stephen King small town werewolf déjà vu.
Stuff, The (1985): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris; Witty consumerist parable from low–budget maestro Larry Cohen about a new dessert product, which turns out to be lethal. Call it…
Toxic Avenger, The (1985): Dir. Michael Herz, Sam Weil
Feat. Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Prichard; A nerd becomes super–powered after falling into a vat of radioactive waste, and proceeds to clean up crime in one of the most notorious yet…
Troll (1985): Dir. John Buechler, Drago Floyd
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Sonny Bono, Shelley Hack…; Barrel–scrapingly hilarious, this GREMLINS knock–off sees a hairy troll turning an apartment block into a "garden of ancient evil", by…
Vampire Hunter D (1985): Dir. Toyoo Ashida
Feat. Michael McConnohie, Kaneto Shiozawa; In a barren, distant future where vampires rule what remains of life on earth, a beautiful young girl hires an imposing vampire hunter known as…
Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984): Dir. Ray Cameron
Feat. Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price…; Horror comedy about six scientists investigating a creepy manor, where a mysterious massacre killed 18 guests in a single night many years…
Children of the Corn (1984): Dir. Fritz Kiersch
Feat. Linda Hamilton, Peter Horton; Filmic puff–up of a Stephen King short story, features young travelers Linda Hamilton and Peter Horton coming a–cropper in a small Iowa…
Company of Wolves (1984): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea; This modest, dream–like horror fantasy was liked so much by author Anne Rice, it led to the Irish director calling the shots on INTERVIEW WITH…
Firestarter (1984): Dir. Mark Lester
Feat. Drew Barrymore; Pedestrian Stephen King adaptation with two assets – a pre–pubescent Drew Barrymore and a terrific soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
Gremlins (1984): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Hoyt Axton, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates…; Comedy–horror gold just mild enough for the kids, about a boy's new pet that spawns a legion of furry, unruly monsters.
Initiation, The (1984): Dir. Larry Stewart
Feat. Daphne Zuniga, Vera Miles, Clu Gulager…; A department store–set 80's slasher flick starring Daphne Zuniga (BEVERLY HILLS 90210) as an amnesiac sorority member plagued by a recurring…
Murder Rock (Dancing Death) (1984): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Olga Karlatos, Ray Lovelock, Claudio Cassinelli; Enjoyably bonkers Italian giallo horror with a retro–futuristic vibe, set in a prestigious New York ballet school beset by a series of sexually…
Night of the Comet (1984): Dir. Thom Eberhardt
Feat. Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, Kelli Maroney; Terrific B–movie where a comet hits earth and two surviving valley girls must fight the resulting cannibal zombie apocalypse. Trashy in all the…
Nightmare On Elm Street, A (1984): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp…; The maiden nightmare of the razor–fingered dream–demon Freddie Krueger, who went on to become the pre–eminent horror icon of the…
Phenomena (Creepers) (1984): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi; Argento once again forgoes plot to concentrate on his strengths, namely stalk and slash set pieces and kinetic visuals staged like a bad dream. VHS…
Silent Night Deadly Night (1984-1987): Dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Feat. Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick…; Cheesy, but amusingly blasphemous 80s horror in which a maniac in a Santa Clause costume (Wilson) goes on a Christmas spree. Mostly he directs his…
Christine (1983): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul; A persecuted teen finds unlikely kinship in a girl with a diff – a demonically–charged 1958 Plymouth that indulges in dispatching…
Cujo (1983): Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. Dee Wallace-Stone, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly; Of a higher quality than the usual Stephen King adaption, the scariness of this tale of a rabid St Bernard dog will generally depend on your own…
Dead Zone, The (1983): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Brooke Adams…; A dynamite thriller based on one of Stephen King's best stories. Christopher Walken plays a clairvoyant, who after helping police with homicide…
Death Warmed Up (1983): Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Michael Hurst; Hell–bent on exacting revenge on a loony scientist, Michael Hurst leads his friends to a secret island where toxic abominations run riot. This…
Hunger, The (1983): Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon; Ultra–slick sci–fi vampire film featuring Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie as a couple of chic bloodsuckers. A sexy, stylish piece,…
Keep, The (1983): Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jurgen Prochnow…; German soldiers camping in a Romanian castle are visited by various ghoulies in Michael Mann's off–beat supernatural yarn set during WWII,…
Lift, The (1983): Dir. Dick Maas
Feat. Huub Stapel, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Josine Van Dalsum; Stylish Dutch suspense concerning high–rise elevators dispatching their human contents. Dubbed into English.
Of Unknown Origin (1983): Dir. George Pan Cosmatos
Feat. Peter Weller, Shannon Tweed; A mostly inspired horror, this suburban myth plays like an extended episode of 'The Twilight Zone', with claws. Peter Weller is a happily married…
Phantom of the Opera (1983): Dir. Robert Markowitz
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Jane Seymour, Michael York; Nicely–produced TV version of the Gaston Leroux classic, that while straying far from the source, puts perhaps the darkest twist on the story…
Psycho 2 (1983): Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Anthony Perkins; Much better than expected sequel sees Anthony Perkins reprise his role 23 years later as endearing nutcase Norman Bates. Thoughtful and suspenseful.
Razorback (1983): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whitely, Bill Kerr; The expat–Oz director exercises his burgeoning talent with this local debut about a giant wild pig that terrorises a small country town.
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983): Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Jason Robards Jr., Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd…; Classic Ray Bradbury story of good and evil, set in a small American town, where two adventurous boys become entangled with a diabolical carnival and…
Sweet Sixteen (1983): Dir. Jim Sotos
Feat. Aleisa Shirley, Bo Hopkins, Susan Strasberg…; Forgotten slasher from the 80's that instead slashes the boys instead of the girls, when a soon–to–be sixteen–year–old girl…
Tales from the Darkside (TV Series) (1983-1988): This popular horror/fantasy anthology TV series from the 1980's features more misses than hits, but all are gloriously tacky relics of their time.…
Videodrome (1983): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. James Woods, Debbie Harry; Cable TV programmer James Woods enters a dark netherworld of psychosis and pornography as he searches for the ultimate thrill. He may have just found…
Basket Case (1982): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner; Sleazy and cheesy horror–comedy about a gawky teenager and his mutant siamese twin, Belial, who has a penchant for caneware and murder.
Cat People (1982): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard; Loose remake of the Val Lewton classic fleshes out the innate connection between human sexuality and animal instinct. Nymphette Nastassja Kinski…
Creepshow (1982): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeam, Fritz Weaver; Well–spun compendium of five tales captures the intended spirit and ghoulishness of 1950s EC horror comics in an affectionate homage.
Halloween 3 - Season of the Witch (Halloween III) (1982): Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
Feat. Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy; Interesting, if largely unreleated departure for the HALLOWEEN series temporarily abandons the curse of Michael Myers for a muddy sci–fi plot…
Last Horror Film, The (1982): Dir. David Winters
Feat. Caroline Munro, Joe Spinell, Filomena Spagnuolo…; Horror comedy filmed on location at the Cannes Film Festival, where a New York City taxi driver is trying to fulfill his dream of directing a film…
Living Dead Girl, The (1982): Dir. Jean Rollin
Feat. Marina Pierro, Francoise Blanchard, Mike Marshall; Rollin's dream–like visual style dominates this Gallic blood–lusting romp about a sexy vampire whose trail of gore engulfs her in bitter…
Manhattan Baby (1982): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Christopher Connelly, Martha Taylor, Brigitta Boccoli; An Egyptian curse settles on a holidaying American family, who then import a malign evil spirit back to their Manhattan apartment block. Developed…
New York Ripper (1982): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Jack Hedley, Daniela Doria; A sadistic tale from Italian dir. Fulci (THE BEYOND) which concerns a killer roaming New York City and murdering women while babbling like 'Donald…
Next of Kin (1982): Dir. Tony Williams
Feat. Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott; Moody Australian haunted house flick about a young woman who inherits a retirement home possibly contaminated with a malevolent spirit. Not a classic…
Poltergeist (1982): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight…; A rowdy spirit disrupts suburban tranquility for an average family when it kidnaps their 5–year–old daughter. The horror film receives an…
Slumber Party Massacre (1982): Dir. Amy Holden Jones
Feat. Robin Stille, Michelle Michaels, Michael Villella…; Iconic 80s slasher movie, if only for its plainly prosaic title. Set around a group of teenage girls whose overnight get–together, spiced by…
Swamp Thing (1982): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise; Wes Craven's tongue–in–cheek film version of a popular D.C. comic book character, makes no apology for its cheesy make–up and…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982): Dir. Terry Hughes
Feat. Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal; TV movie of the 1979 Broadway hit, originally staged by Harold Prince, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Set in London in 1846, where Barber…
Tenebrae (Unsane) (1982): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Anthony Franciosa, Daria Nicolodi; Compelling Argento thriller, with a typically contorted plot design – about a crime writer, whose books stimulate copycat killings – used…
Thing, The (1982): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart…; Kurt Russell headlines this remake of the 1951 film about an Antarctic outpost terrorized by an alien organism. Dir. John Carpenter cranks up the…
Xtro (1982): Dir. Harry Bromley Davenport
Feat. Maryam d'Abo, Bernice Stegers, Philip Sayer; Sci–fi horror about a man who is abducted by aliens, then shows up three years later looking for his son. Pretty good fun, with some…
Alison's Birthday (1981): Dir. Ian Coughlan
Feat. Joanne Samuel, Bunney Brooke, Lou Brown; Low–budget Ocker entry into the occult genre with Samuel's birthday celebrations with her Aunt and Uncle going horribly awry.
An American Werewolf in London (1981): Dir. John Landis
Feat. Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter; Screamingly funny resuscitatation of the werewolf genre is great fun for the whole family, replete with Oscar–winning effects and many a great…
Beyond, The (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà) (1981): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck; This eerie celluloid nightmare from Italian gore–meister Fulci can be fully appreciated in this uncut version, restoring its succession…
Burning, The (1981): Dir. Tony Maylam
Feat. Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer…; A proficient slasher in the wake of FRIDAY THE 13TH in which a former summer camp caretaker plots bloody revenge on the teenagers who accidentally…
Cannibal Ferox (Make Them Die Slowly, aka Woman From Deep River) (1981): Dir. Umberto Lenzi
Feat. John Morghen, Lorraine De Selle, Bryan Redford…; Prime example of the notorious "Cannibal" subgenre of Italian horror films, that creates a dubious mythology of its own as it exploits our mythical…
Darkroom (TV Series) (1981): Feat. James Coburn; James Coburn hosts this cultish NIGHT GALLERY spinoff, with weekly episodes presenting two or three shorts tales of the mysterious and macabre.
Dead and Buried (1981): Dir. Gary A Sherman
Feat. James Farentino, Melody Anderson; Low key horror set around a series of murders in Smalltown, USA, in which the victims refuse to stay in the ground. The makers of ALIEN (Dan…
Dead Kids (Strange Behaviour) (1981): Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher; Minor cult item concerning a series of nasty murders in a small town, which may be connected to a deranged scientist and his psychology experiments.…
Deadly Blessing (1981): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Ernest Borgnine; Blacklisted by a quasi–Amish farming community for marrying one of their own, city girl Martha (Jensen) and her two college friends fend off…
Entity, The (1981): Dir. Sidney J Furie
Feat. Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver; Controversial sleazy horror, which has Barbara Hershey sexually molested by an invisible demon. Psychiatrist Ron Silver thinks it’s all in her…
Evil Dead, The (1981): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell; Made on a budget of less than $100,000, this explosive splatter movie takes gore to the very limits. Colossal amounts of tomato sauce fill the screen…
Final Conflict, The (The Omen III) (1981): Dir. Graham Baker
Feat. Sam Neill; Anti–christ Damien Thorn is now a 33–year–old corporate tycoon planning a diabolical takeover bid. This installment has the…
Full Moon High (1981): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Adam Arkin, Ed McMahon, Elizabeth Hartman…; Wry horror–comedy with Adam Arkin as a jocular teen whose good time in Transylvannia is marred by his transformation into a werewolf. Change of…
Funhouse, The (1981): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Sylvia Miles…; A seedy carnival plays host to four teenagers, who against their best judgement, decide to spend the night in an ominous–looking funhouse. Dir.…
Halloween 2 (Halloween II) (1981): Dir. Rick Rosenthal
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence; Obligatory sequel to John Carpenter's horror landmark sees Michael Myers more invincible than ever, returning to terrorise the surprisingly durable…
Hand, The (1981): Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Michael Caine; Michael Caine stars in this early Oliver Stone mess (still suffering from shell–shock?) as a cartoonist whose severed hand goes about murdering…
Happy Birthday To Me (1981): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane…; Fairly good entry in the 80s slasher cycle, with Anderson playing a student at a private school who is recovering from a traumatic car accident in…
House By the Cemetery (1981): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Paolo Malco, Giovanni Frezza, Catriona MacColl…; One of the most notable from the filmography of director Lucio Fulci is this haunted house movie in which the guests at a New England home are…
Howling, The (1981): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Dee Wallace Stone, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan; A well–regarded werewolf movie that gets funnier and scarier as it progresses. Rob Bottin's bone–crunching werewolf transformation scenes…
Inseminoid (Horror Planet) (1981): Dir. Norman J. Warren
Feat. Judy Geeson; An interplanetry archaelogical team unleash a female vampire (Geeson) into their spaceship, in this super–trashy ALIEN knockoff. Unconvincing…
My Bloody Valentine (1981): Dir. George Mihalka
Feat. Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck; Apart from having one of the coolest titles of any ‘slasher movie’, this HALLOWEEN–inspired is both bloodier and more grotesque than…
Piranha 2 - The Spawning (1981): Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Lance Henriksen; Mediocre but bearable sequel to the fun 1978 horror about the ravenous, maneating fishies. This sacrifices the campy fun of the original for a…
Possession (1981): Dir. Andrzej Zulawski
Feat. Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani; Brazenly over–the–top tale of domestic disharmony and demon possession, infamous for an incredibly mannered performance by Sam Neill and…
Road Games (1981): Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis; Inventive and at times intense, this road thriller has truckdriver Keach traversing the outback, while a serial killer is on the loose. Effectively…
Rosemary's Killer (The Prowler; The Graduation) (1981): Dir. Joseph Zito
Feat. Vicki Dawson, Chris Goutman, Farley Granger…; Wholesale but effective slasher terrorizes a high school graduation dance with a military–themed serial killer. Gore by Tom Savini.
Turkey Shoot (1981): Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
Feat. Steve Railsback; Vicious Ozzie cult film set in a future society where criminals are hunted in a controlled environment. Intended to make MAD MAX look like THE SOUND…
Wolfen (1981): Dir. Michael Wadleigh
Feat. Albert Finney, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines…; Well–made werewolf yarn based around detective Albert Finney's investigation into a series of flesh–shredding killings in…
Alligator (1980): Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo; Post–Jaws monster thriller, with giant alligator lurking in Chicago sewers. John Sayles script.
Awakening, The (1980): Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Charlton Heston, Susannah York; Based on Bram Stoker's "The Jewel of Seven Stars", this large budget horror film fails to capitalise on a great cast and authentic Egyptian locations…
Black Cat, The (1980): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Patrick Magee; Village crank Patrick Magee is suspected in a gruesome series of killings, linked by the presence of the black puss. Dodgy (dubbed) acting aside,…
Boogeyman, The (1980): Dir. Ulli Lommel
Feat. Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Ron James…; Supernatural slasher directed by Fassbinder regular Ulli Lommel, who was part of the New German Cinema movement. An American production starring…
Burial Ground - Nights of Terror (Le Notti del terrore) (1980): Dir. Andrea Bianchi; A low–rent, bloodily awful Italian zombie–fest with a scientist accidentally awakening corpses in a desecrated graveyard. As one critic…
City of the Living Dead (The Gates of Hell) (1980): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Christopher George, Katriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo…; Gory, maggot–infested Italian zombie movie from one of the erratic masters of the form, Lucio Fulci. Set in Dunwich, USA, a priest's suicide…
Death Ship (1980): Dir. Alvin Rakoff
Feat. George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso…; Cult horror follows survivors of a tragic shipping collision who are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog.
Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Gui da gui) (1980): Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen; A groundbreaking Hong Kong blend of martial arts action, horror, and slapstick humour, set around Hung's attempts to battle the voodoo and hopping…
Fade to Black (1980): Dir. Vernon Zimmerman
Feat. Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford; Film buffs should appreciate this inventive black–comedy about a weirdo movie addict who kills people in the style of his various film heroes.
Fog, The (1980): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh…; A curse, put on a Californian coastal town by shipwrecked sailors, is fulfilled when bank of fog, concealing vengeful ghouls, rolls in from the sea.…
Friday the 13th [Franchise] (1980-1989): Dir. Sean S. Cunningham
Feat. Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon; The most successful film to exploit the '80s stalk–and–slash formula, characterised by disposable teenagers being endlessly slaughtered…
Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) (1980): Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors…; The last gasp of the Hammer Horror franchise was this low–budget TV series. Combining some inventive plotting, gore and a little nudity with…
Harlequin (1980): Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. David Hemmings, Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford; A modern–day version of the Rasputin story, in which a senator and his wife fall prey to the spellbinding powers of a manipulative Harlequin…
Inferno (1980): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi; Occult forces cause a few problems for young women on both sides of the Atlantic in one of Italian stylist Dario Argento’s best – and…
Maniac (1980): Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro; Notoriousy grisly 1980s "video nasty", featuring Tom Savini effects (inc a very famous head explosion and several scalpings) amid an otherwise…
Motel Hell (1980): Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons; Comedy black enough to convert one to vegetarianism about rednecks who use a special kinda meat for 'Farmer Vincent's Fritters'! The duelling…
Nightmare City (1980): Dir. Umberto Lenzi
Feat. Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio…; Survival horror from director Umberto Lenzi (CANNIBAL FEROX) set in a city overrun by zombies in the aftermath of a nuclear accident. Follows the…
Ninth Configuration, The (Twinkle, Twinkle, ) (1980): Dir. William Peter Blatty
Feat. Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller…; Psychological thriller set in the 70's written, produced and directed by William Peter Blatty (THE EXORCIST). Having returned from Vietnam, a marine…
Prom Night (1980): Dir. Paul Lynch
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen; 'Halloween' stalk'n'slash protege with Jamie Lee Curtis returning as one of a group of teens with a guilty secret menaced by the ubiquitous masked…
Shining, The (1980): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall; Man, wife and child are assigned to caretaking a remote hotel for the winter. Formidable unease is created before Jack Nicholson completely loses his…
Terror Train (1980): Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner…; Fresh from HALLOWEEN, Jamie Lee Curtis reprises a 'scream queen' for this teen slasher pic set aboard a chartered locomotive. A gamut of masquerade…
Watcher in the Woods, The (1980): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Bette Davis, David McCallum, Carroll Baker…; One of Disney's spookier efforts, this concerns a family who move into a country house in Britain and are beset with supernatural occurances.…
Amityville Horror, The (1979): Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger; James Brolin and Margot Kidder are convincingly spooked as happily marrieds who inherit a haunted house. Competently directed, but with the ghosts of…
Brood, The (1979): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Oliver Reed; Oliver Reed stars in this disturbing tale about genetic experiments and the reaches of parental anger. Though violent and often surreal, the story…
Changeling, The (1979): Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas; An impeccably crafted ghost story that demands to be taken seriously, not least because of the dignified casting of George C. Scott as a recently…
Dawn of the Dead (Zombies, Dawn of the Dead) (1979): Dir. George Romero
Feat. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger; One of the most effectively violent films ever produced, this classic gorefest has the walking dead run amok in a shopping mall. The comic–book…
Dracula (1979): Dir. John Badham
Feat. Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence…; Elegant variation on the Bram Stoker classic tones down the horror elements and amps up the eroticism with Langella an exceptional Count.
Fascination (1979): Dir. Jean Rollin
Feat. Franca Mai, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Marie Lemaire; Two castle–dwelling, negligeed vixens ensnare a petty thief for sacrifice and consumption in a ritualistic feast. Visually striking, exotic…
Legend of the Mountain (Shan zhong zhuan qi) (1979): Dir. King Hu
Feat. Shih Chun, Hsu Feng, Sylvia Chang; A scholar translating Buddhist sutras visits a monastery filled with various mysterious characters, in this soothing spiritual drama with elements of…
Murder by Decree (1979): Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings…; Sherlock Holmes and the ever faithful Watson are back, this time investigating the notorious Jack the Ripper and his gruesome fascination with…
Never Dead, The (Phantasm) (1979): Dir. Don Coscarelli
Feat. A.Michael Baldwin, Bill Thombury, Reggie Bannister…; This slick slice of macabre, if a little disjointed, has enough gruesome deaths and sinister silliness to please discerning horror buffs.
Nosferatu (1979): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani; Werner Herzog's remake is a surreal and truly sinister experience, embellished with a haunting soundtrack and a terrific Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu.
Salem's Lot (1979): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin; Creepy Stephen King story made for TV, but no less scary for it. The town of Salem don't take kindly to nosy strangers!
Stephen King Collection (It, Tommyknockers, The Shining (1997), The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, Rose Red, Salem's Lot (1979), Salem's Lot (2004)) (1979-2004): A nine–disc boxed–set containing seven of Stephen King's stories adapted for the small–screen.
Thirst (1979): Dir. Rod Hardy
Feat. Henry Silva, David Hemmings; Stylish, if slight horror–thriller in which a Satanic cult kidnap a woman to convert her into a vampire of royal stock. Eerie atmosphere now…
Tourist Trap (1979): Dir. David Schmoeller
Feat. Chuck Connors, Tanya Roberts, Jocelyn Jones; Claustrophobic horror with four friends pursued through a ghostly museum by mannequins under the control of an old man with telekinetic powers.…
When a Stranger Calls (1979): Dir. Fred Walton
Feat. Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst…; "Have you checked the children?". This line and the opening twenty minutes of this film (later parodied in SCREAM) preyed on babysitters' fears the…
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson; The Italian goremeister's answer to DAWN OF THE DEAD (and originally marketed as a sequel to it) sees zombies making grisly mincemeat of various poor…
Zombie Holocaust (1979): Dir. Marino Girolami
Feat. Donald O'Brien, Ian McCulloch; One of the more successful Italian gore–films, this strange blend of NYC policier, DAWN OF THE DEAD and ISLAND OF LOST SOULS is entertaining in…
Bloodsucking Freaks (1978): Dir. Joel Reed
Feat. Seamus O'Brien, Viju Krem; Repugnant exploitation fare set in a New York theatre of sleaze, promises gross, delivers the insufferable. A film to truly absolve one's morbid…
Cyclone (1978): Dir. René Cardona Jr.
Feat. Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, Lionel Stander; Mexican survival horror with a brutal cyclone pummeling the first 20 minutes of the film, resulting in an airplane crash, and a group of survivors…
Damien: The Omen II (Omen 2) (1978): Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Jonathan Scott-Taylor, William Holden, Lee Grant; Effective continuation of the story with Damien (chillingly understated by Jonathan Scott–Taylor) now grappling with teenage problems on top of…
Grapes of Death, The (Les Raisins de la Mort) (1978): Dir. Jean Rollin; Eco–thriller set in the French countryside where a dangerous pesticide used in a local vineyard has turned residents into the walking dead.…
Halloween (1978): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis; Landmark horror film is distinguished by direction that gives a constant sense of impending doom, yet provides constant surprises – unlike the…
I Spit On Your Grave (Day of the Woman, aka I Hate Your Guts) (1978): Dir. Meir Zarchi
Feat. Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace…; Legendary 1970s video nasty in which a feminist writer (Keaton) holidaying in the countryside is menaced and repeatedly raped by four locals, whom…
It Lives Again (It's Alive 2) (1978): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd; Three mutant babies embark on a murderous rampage in this schlocky sequel to Larry Cohen's cult hit, with fangs and claws care of effects supremo…
Magic (1978): Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith; Anthony Hopkins is tormented by his evil ventriloquist dummy in an off–kilter thriller, that misses a little screen magic. Scripted by William…
Piranha (1978): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy; A gag–filled spoof of JAWS and B–Movies from the 1950s. Premium schlock from the pen of John Sayles.
Shout, The (1978): Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York…; An intelligent, enigmatic chiller about an asylum inmate with mystical powers who upsets the lives of an avant garde music composer and his wife in…
Slave of the Cannibal God (1978): Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Helmut Berger; A star–studded, big–budget entry in the Italian 'cannibal movie' cycle, with Andress and Keach off to the wilds of New Guinea and the…
Summer of Fear (Stranger in the House) (1978): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate…; One of dir. Wes Craven's early commercial successes (initially a telemovie), sees teenager Linda Blair suffer the perils of occult forces in suburban…
Swarm, The (1978): Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. Michael Caine, Katherine Ross, Henry Fonda…; The 70s Disaster Movie rarely got this far–out, with Michael Caine trying to swat a cloud of killer bumble–bees. Many other…
Audrey Rose (1977): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck…; Soberly told thriller which has a seemingly happy couple disturbed by a stranger's (Hopkins) claim that their child is his daughter, in reincarnated…
Blood On Satan's Claw (Satan's Skin) (1977): Dir. Piers Haggard
Feat. Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews; An admirable horror set in 17th century England, in which a decaying, dismembered demon is unearthed in a field, unleashing a cult of human…
Car, The (1977): Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley…; A mysterious black sedan goes on a murderous rampage, terrorizing the residents of a small town in this cheap and cheerful thriller firmly indebted…
Count Dracula (TV Mini-series) (1977): Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon…; Faithful 70's adaptation of the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker, this critically–acclaimed BBC version utilises London's Highgate Cemetery…
David Lynch Collection (1977-2007): Dir. David Lynch; An exceptional collection for fans of one of the greats of surreal cinema, David Lynch. This 5–disc set includes: 1. 'Eraserhead' (1977) 2.…
Dead of Night (1977): Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Ed Jr. Begley, Patrick Macnee, Anjanette Comer…; Three–part horror omnibus penned by Richard Matheson ('I Am Legend'), which is patchy though intriguing throughout. Scariest story is the…
Death Weekend (1977): Dir. William Freut
Feat. Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata; Four sleazeballs invade a couple's country retreat and proceed to make things rather unpleasant. Well–acted shocker in the wake of the…
Eraserhead (1977): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Jack Nance; The king of cult movies – David Lynch's brooding, abstract nightmare about domestic alienation has redefined the face of cinema weird. A…
Exorcist II - The Heretic (1977): Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Linda Blair; Infamously choatic sequel bares little relation to its predecessor other than Linda Blair remaining possessed in a reprise of her role. Hallucinatory…
Fight For Your Life (1977): Dir. Robert A. Endelson
Feat. William Sanderson, Robert Judd; A racist hillbilly and two sadistic jail–breakers terrorize a black minister and his family, who eventually fight back and take bloody…
Hills Have Eyes, The (1977): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer…; Wes Craven takes the townies–breakdown–in–the–desert chestnut to its logical extreme, where it turns out the hills also have…
House (Hausu) (1977): Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Feat. Kimiko Ikegami; Words don't do justice to this one–of–a–kind Japanese horror romp about a gaggle of teen girls caught in a haunted house whose…
Island of Dr Moreau, The (1977): Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Michael York; Burt Lancaster plays mad scientist Moreau in the second adaptation of H.G Wells chilling novel. Benefits greatly from the make up talents of the team…
Kingdom of the Spiders (1977): Dir. John Bud Cardos
Feat. William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling; Insecticides poison the food supply of the local tarantula population, setting them off on a hysterical man–hunt in the Arizona desert.…
Last House on Dead End Street (1977): Dir. Roger Michael Watkins
Feat. Roger Michael Watkins; Both notorious and obscure, this 1970s shocker concerns a drug–dealer who upon being released from jail enters the shady world of porno…
Martin (1977): Dir. George Romero
Feat. John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest; Bizarre and original film about a young man who claims he is not a vampire, but has psycho–sexual penchants that would pale 'Nosferatu'.…
Rabid (1977): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Marilyn Chambers; Early David Cronenberg nasty starring '70s porn queen, Marilyn Chambers, who she develops an insatiable thirst for human blood after a motorcycle…
Shock (1977): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, Ivan Rassimov; A murderous husband returns from beyond the grave, in collaboration with Satan, to possess his young son and seek revenge on his wife. Dir. Bava…
Shock Waves (Almost Human, Death Corps) (1977): Dir. Ken Wiederhorn
Feat. Brooke Adams, Peter Cushing, John Carradine; Cushing plays a Nazi scientist wrecked in the Florida Keys since WWII, where he has remained hidden with his special squad of underwater zombie…
Suspiria (1977): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Jessica Harper, Alida Valli, Joan Bennett; This is the quintessential Dario Argento feature – a hysterical gothic nightmare about a girl trapped in a sinister ballet academy. Visually…
Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1977): Dir. Albert Band
Feat. Michael Pataki, Jose Ferrer; Strange and not a little camp entry in the 'Dracula' series, has a canine incarnation unleash his fangs on Los Angeles while searching for family…
Carrie (1976): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Sissy Spacek, John Travolta; One of the best screen adaptations of any Stephen King novel, and also one of dir. De Palma's best, this is the frightening story of a persecuted…
Death Trap (Eaten Alive) (1976): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones; Dir. Hooper's follow–up to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, revisits the hillbilly macabre with the simple tale of a hook–armed motelier who…
Deep Red (1976): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi; David Hemmings plays a touring pianist in Rome who witnesses the slaying of a psychiatrist. Cat–and–mouse murder mystery is one of the…
Embryo (1976): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd…; Stillborn bio–horror in which Rock Hudson's scientist discovers how to mature a fetus into a human female adult in just a few days, but the…
God Told Me To (Demon) (1976): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis…; This notable yet little known 70s horror is typical of cult director Larry Cohen’s better work (Q, IT’S ALIVE) – tightly written, atmospheric…
King Kong (1976): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges; Much–maligned remake of the 1933 classic, is typical De Laurentis fantasy fare – high in concept, broad in character, cardboard in…
Monster Squad (TV Series) (1976): Feat. Fred Grandy; Short–lived kids show has wax museum figures Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein come to life to help young mortal Fred Grandy (Gopher from THE…
Omen, The (1976): Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner…; Beautifully made, prestigious frightener stars Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as American diplomats in London, who become the not–so–proud…
Queen Kong (1976): Dir. Frank Agrama
Feat. Robin Askwith; One of several knock–offs timed to coincide with the 1976 remake of KING KONG, this lamentable spoof imagines a gender reversal on the 'Kong'…
Signalman, The (1976): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Denholm Elliott; Smallscale but nicely crafted adaptation of Charles Dickens' ghost story 'The Signalman'. Concerning the spectral experiences of a signalman…
Snuff (1976): Dir. Michael Findlay, Roberta Findlay
Feat. Ana Carro, Roberta Findlay; 'Notorious' thriller set amid a world of South American drug–smuggling sleazebags, which supposedly climaxes with an actual filmed murder.…
Squirm (1976): Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy; A storm–toppled powerline drives large (and vicious) sandworms out the surrounding swamp–waters, terrifying the local populace in this…
To the Devil...a Daughter (1976): Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Nastassja Kinski; A kinky occult thriller, produced in Hammer's twilight years, in which Kinski is prepared as a Satanic vessel.
Ash Tree, The (1975): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Edward Petherbridge, Preston Lockwood; Short film adaptation of the ghost story by M R James. A man of leisure inherits the family estate after his uncle dies, and finds himself…
Blue Sunshine (1975): Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Zalman King; Clinical, worthy Cronenberg–style horror about people who took an experimental strain of LSD in the 60's to emerge 10 years later as balding,…
Crazies, The (1975): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones; Underrated low–budgeter about germ warfare, a personal favourite of Romero's. Fast–paced editing creates some real excitement.
Ghoul, The (1975): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, John Hurt; In the foggy moors of the 1920's, one of Peter Cushing's 'gate crashers' disappears and turns up dismembered, initiating a disturbing pattern. …
Jaws (1975): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw; Brilliantly executed, famously scary Spielberg pic about a killer fish. Spawned three forgettable sequels (also available!) and dozens of imitations.
Le Orme (Footprints on the Moon) (1975): Dir. Luigi Bazzoni
Feat. Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Klaus Kinski…; Italian B–movie with director Luigi Bazzoni following in Argento's footsteps to tell a story of the psychological unraveling of an isolated…
Race with the Devil (1975): Dir. Jack Starrett
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates; Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and their bell–bottomed chicks go east in a Winnebago, but are plagued en route by an occult conspiracy. Memorably…
Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The (1975): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill…; Slow burn psychological horror directed by J. Lee Thompson (GUNS OF NAVARONE) about a university professor who is tortured by recurring nightmares…
Shivers (They Came From Within) (1975): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry…; David Cronenberg established a career–long fascination with body horror by directing this creepy B–movie about a sexual parasite let…
A Knife for the Ladies (1974): Dir. Larry G. Spangler
Feat. Jack Elam, Jeff Cooper; Brutal Western murder mystery taking inspiration from slasher films of the 1970's, in which a sheriff and a detective track down a vicious killer who…
Beast Must Die!, The (1974): Dir. Paul Annett
Feat. Peter Cushing, Calvin Lockhart, Charles Gray…; A rich sportsman (Lockhart) invites a number of guests to his house with the knowledge that one of them is a werewolf. The film features a novel…
Beyond the Door (The Devil Within Her) (1974): Dir. Ovidio Assonitis, Roberto Piazzoli
Feat. Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia; Italio–American supernatural horror from the fabulously monikered Ovidio Assonitis starring the esteemed Juliet Mills as a San Francisco…
Black Christmas (1974): Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder…; A superior precursor to psychological 'slasher' films like HALLOWEEN, this is set around a group of women in a sorority house, about to return home…
Blood for Dracula (1974): Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier; Joe Dallesandro happily deflowers a house of virgins before Udo Kier can sink his fangs into them. The perfect excuse to flaunt lashings of sex and…
Chosen Survivors (1974): Dir. Sutton Roley
Feat. Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel…; Sci–fi horror about a group of people who have been flown to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, after being chosen at random to survive…
Frightmare (1974): Dir. Pete Walker
Feat. Rupert Davies, Sheila Keith, Deborah Fairfax; 'Reformed’ husband and wife cannibals, Edmund and Dorothy Yates, rejoin society after 18 years in an institution, only to return to their flesh…
From Beyond the Grave (1974): Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Warner, Ian Bannen…; Enjoyable anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories linked through the classic device of an antique store and its mysterious owner…
Homebodies (1974): Dir. Larry Yust
Feat. Douglas Fowley, Ruth McDevitt, Frances Fuller; A blackly humourous yarn about a group of retired tenants who are willing to go to extremes to prevent eviction. Inventive genre pic belies its low…
Inn of the Damned (1974): Dir. Terry Bourke
Feat. Dame Judith Anderson, Lionel Long; An unusual hybrid of Western and horror mystery set in 1890s Australia around an isolated hostel run by a vengeful Austrian (!) couple. Arriving into…
It's Alive (1974): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. John Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan; A mutant child is born and goes on a murderous rampage while the parents try to come to grips with their 'baby'. With just enough…
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) (1974-1975): Feat. Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage; Darkly comic supernatural series following newspaper reporter Carl Kochak as he attempts to uncover supernatural occurrences in downtown Chicago.…
Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing; Fusion of Hammer horror and martial arts spectacle follows Peter Cushing's Van Helsen to China where he discovers ol' fangface lurking behind an…
Madhouse (1974): Dir. Jim Clark
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry…; British horror film based on the 1969 novel Devilday by Angus Hall, with Vincent Price playing a horror actor renowned for his character Dr. Death,…
Phase IV (Phase 4) (1974): Strange structures are appearing in the desert. Scientists are shocked to find that they are the work of super intelligent ants with sinister motives.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain; Unbearable tension builds when a group of teens are preyed upon by a notoriously psychotic family in the squalid atmosphere of the Deep South. The…
Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The (1974): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Frank Mills, Sheila Dunn, Anne Blake; Short TV movie based on the ghost story by M. R. James. Michael Bryant stars as a scholar of Medieval history who finds the clue to hidden treasure…
Turn of the Screw (1974): Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Megs Jenkins; Skillfully laden with Gothic atmosphere, this TV presentation of Henry James' famous tale of possession at a remote country estate is fairly creepy…
Vampyres (1974): Dir. Joseph Larraz
Feat. Anulka , Marianne Morris; Riding on a mini–wave of lesbian vampire movies, this English sexploitation pic turns up both the flesh and blood quotient on the ‘Hammer’…
Young Frankenstein (1974): Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr…; One of Mel Brooks' best is this on–target parody of Mary Shelley's gothic legend and especially James Whale's classic 1930s film versions.…
...And Now the Screaming Starts! (Fengriffen) (1973): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee…; Non–omnibus horror from inventively cheap horror specialists 'Amicus' concerns a young bride's horrifying discovery that her husband's family…
Asphyx, The (Horror of Death) (1973): Dir. Peter Newbrook
Feat. Robert Stephens, Robert Powell; Promising 'Victorian' horror set around experiments by a scientist (Stephens) into capturing the 'asphyx' (soul) of a dying person and gaining a…
Candy Snatchers, The (1973): Dir. Guerdon Trueblood
Feat. Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza; An unheralded gem of the 70's exploitation 'golden age', this subversive yet taut and surprisingly controlled abduction thriller concerns the brutal…
Carnal Violence (Torso) (1973): Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Suzy Kendall, John Richardson; Effective 'giallo' from the obscure but prolific dir. Sergio Martino (whose filmography covers everything from spaghetti westerns to cannibal…
Deranged (1973): Dir. Alan Ormsby
Feat. Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson; Closely modelled on the exploits of Ed Gein (whose notoriety also inspired PSYCHO and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), Roberts Blossom is…
Don't Look Now (1973): Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie; After their child drowns, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie travel to Venice in a doomed attempt to shakes off demons of the past. An iconic…
Dracula (1973): Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Jack Palance; Classy 1973 made–for–TV version, starring Jack Palance as a mournful Count.
Exorcist, The (1973): Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn; Landmark, influential horror film tells its tale of a child diagnosed with a case of demon–possession in explicit detail. A penetrating sense…
Frankenstein (1973): Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Robert Foxworth, Susan Strasberg, Bo Svenson; Little–known TV dramatisation of the Mary Shelley classic is perhaps the most faithful of all versions in concentrating mostly on the monster's…
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1973): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Shane Briant; The sixth and final installment of the Frankenstein series for Hammer Films was also the last for its director and star Peter Cushing as Victor…
Horror Hospital (1973): Dir. Anthony Balch
Feat. Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw; A bizarre combination of influences converge in this 'notorious' B–grade horror, in which a lustful mad scientist drills holes into the heads…
Legend of Hell House, The (1973): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill…; Hoary British haunted house yarn based on Richard Matheson’s novel has four ‘experts’ (a skeptical physicist and his wife, a medium…
Lost Hearts (1973): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Simon Gipps-Kent; A powerful drama based on the ghost story by M. R. James about an elderly and excitable black magician who preys sinisterly upon children.
Satanic Rites of Dracula, The (1973): Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley…; When a group of Scotland Police Investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism, they call in Van Helsing to put a stop to Count…
Sisters (1973): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Margot Kidder; This early De Palma film is a gripping account of a woman (Margot Kidder) who discovers her twin sister is a homicidal maniac. Features an…
Sssssss (1973): Dir. Bernard L. Kowalski
Feat. Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies; Despite the campy name, this is a surprisingly slow–burning, creepy throwback to 50's creature–features concerning a mad scientist who…
Theatre of Blood (1973): Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry; Vincent Price plays a hammy stage actor who avenges the critics that have vilified him, staging their deaths like scenes from Shakespearian plays. No…
Thriller (TV Series) (1973-1976): Producer of THE AVENGERS, Brian Clemens, lent his midas touch to this mildly gothic anthology of horror and suspense stories, fronted by such British…
Tis a Pity She's a Whore (1973): Dir. Giuseppe Griffi
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Oliver Tobias, Fabio Testi; Incestuous passions in medieval Italy between Charlotte Rampling and her brother, bring blood–drenched consequences. Magnificent photography…
Wicker Man, The (1973): Dir. Robin Hardy
Feat. Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland…; Policeman Edward Woodward investigates the death of a child on a remote isle where he discovers a sinister pagan cult. An engrossing journey into the…
A Warning to the Curious (1972): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Peter Vaughan; A wonderful ghost story in miniature from the heyday of adventurous BBC productions, that adapts a superior M R James story with perfect economy and…
Baron Blood (1972): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti; A resurrected 16th century warlock moves back into his old haunt to continue his macabre fantasies. A petrified Elke Sommer runs around in a…
Bloodsuckers (Incense For The Damned) (1972): Dir. Robert Hartford-Davies
Feat. Patrick Macnee, Peter Cushing, Edward Woodward…; A vampire oddity, which splices together the intrigues of Oxford professors with a blood–sucking Greek cult. This was so tampered with after…
Body Beneath, The (Vampire's Thirst) (1972): Dir. Andy Milligan
Feat. Gavin Reed, Jackie Skarvellis; Grindhouse dir. Milligan creates his best effort and the English equivalent of PLAN 9 into the bargain with this endearingly inept horror. Set…
Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter (1972): Dir. Brian Clemens
Feat. Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Carson; British cult TV writer Brian Clemens (THE AVENGERS) assumes directing duties on this spirited historical vampire romp he wrote for Hammer Studios,…
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972): Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Alan Ormsby; This grisly cult horror concerns a film director (Ormsby) and his would–be crew who take off to a spooky island and play scary games with each…
Death Line (Raw Meat) (1972): Dir. Gary Sherman
Feat. Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington; A cannibal zombie stalks the local stations of the London Underground picking off unlucky passengers for nourishment in this British 70's horror gem,…
Deathdream (Dead of Night) (1972): Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. John Marley, Richard Backus, Lynn Carlin; A presumed–dead Vietnam vet returns to avenge the family (Marley and Carlin, the couple in John Cassavetes' Faces, playing much the same roles)…
Don't Torture a Duckling (1972): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Barbara Bouchet, Florinda Bolkan, Tomas Milian…; A compelling Giallo mystery from Italian master Lucio Fulci (THE BEYOND) following a detective investigating a series of child murders in a southern…
Doomwatch (1972): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Ian Bannen, George Sanders; Based on the British TV–series, Ian Bannen investigates the effects of an oil spill on an isolated Cornish community. Ecological themes to the…
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1972): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick; Delightfully camp turn on Stevenson's legendary fable of good and evil inhabiting the same body. Archetypal fun from Hammer studios.
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972): Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing…; Vincent Price reprises the Phibes, and this time gets to go to Egypt.
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972): Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Christopher Lee's Count incongruously schmoozes with the youth of the 1970s in his never–ending search for the red stuff. Peter Cushing turns…
Escape into Night (TV Series) (Marianne Dreams) (1972): Feat. Vikki Chambers; A convalescent young girl's drawings become the basis for her dreams in this six–part British TV serial that left an indelibly haunting…
Fear in the Night (1972): Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Peter Cushing, Joan Collins; Hammer chiller about a teacher and his insecure bride who encounter murder at a desolate school for boys.
Flesh and Blood Show, The (1972): Dir. Pete Walker
Feat. Ray Brooks, Patrick Barr, Jenny Hanley…; Horror following the fates of two British thespians who audition for a play being rehearsed at an abandoned theatre by the sea, but the entire…
Fright (1972): Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Honor Blackman, Susan George, Dennis Waterman…; A 'babysitter in peril' suspenser set around the menacing of Blackman by an escaped mental patient. Not bad as a precursor to the 'slasher' genre.
Frogs (1972): Dir. George McCowan
Feat. Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark; Swamp critters exact revenge on wildlife predator Ray Milland in this enjoyable schlockfest. Bonus film with PREMATURE BURIAL.
Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973): Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry…; Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
Horror Express (1972): Dir. Gene Martin
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Inspired gothic yarn with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing travelling on the Trans–Siberian express with what could be the missing link.
Last House on the Left, The (1972): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess; Formerly banned in NZ and in many countries around the world, this disturbing film lives up to its notoriety with its documentary–like realism…
Legend of Boggy Creek, The (1972): Dir. Charles B. Pierce
Feat. Vern Stierman; Giggle inducing 'documentary' examines the mysterious happenings in lil' ol' Fouke Arkansas where some big ape creature has been stirrin' up folk…
Lisa and the Devil (1972): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Elke Sommer, Telly Savalas; Elke Sommer becomes haunted by her own death and devilish lollipop–sucker Telly Savalas in this surreal, dreamlike examination of love, lust,…
Lust for a Vampire (1972): Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford, Yutte Stensgaard; Sexy sequel to 'The Vampire Lovers' in which Micalla resumes her blood–lusting reign at a Transylvanian girl's school.
Night of Fear (1972): Dir. Terry Bourke
Feat. Carla Hoogeveen, Norman Yemm; A brief, nastily styled thriller in which an isolated woman is menaced in Outback Australia by a murderous loony. Was originally planned as the pilot…
Night of the Lepus (1972): Dir. William Claxton
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun; One of the most incredibly lame (and strange and entertaining) horror films of all time, in which giant mutant rabbits terrorize a small community in…
Night Stalker, The / Night Strangler, The (1972-1973): Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey, Dan Curtis
Feat. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland…; Two excellent and groundbreaking tele–movies from the early 70s starring Darren McGavin as wise–cracking 'regular guy' reporter Carl…
Other, The (1972): Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky, Uta Hagen…; The uneasiness of childhood is explored in this classic of early 70's horror, an under–seen gem that holds its own alongside sensationalist…
Possession of Joel Delaney, The (1972): Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Perry King, David Elliott; Horror based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Ramona Stewart, about an upper–class Manhattan divorcee who starts to suspect her younger…
Season of the Witch (Hungry Wives) (1972): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Jan White, Raymond Laine, Joedda McClain…; The third feature film from director George Romero is a self–described "feminist" horror following a neglected and dissatisfied housewife who…
Tales from the Crypt (1972): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice…; A schlocky omnibus from Amicus Studios derived from EC comics in which five people are trapped in a crypt with the mysterious Crypt Keeper, who…
Tower of Evil (Horror on Snape Island) (1972): Dir. James O'Connelly
Feat. Bryant Halliday, Jill Haworth, Mark Edwards…; On a spooky island, where a lighthouse hides the tomb of an ancient Phonecian king and his treasure, an elusive maniac reigns supreme, murdering all…
Vampire Circus (1972): Dir. Robert Young
Feat. Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Anthony Higgins…; An even now brutal late Hammer set in plague–ridden 19th century Europe, where a small village unknowingly admits vampires disguised as a…
Who Saw Her Die? (1972): Dir. Aldo Lado, Vittorio De Sisti
Feat. George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi…; Moody Italian giallo horror about a child killer roaming the streets of Venice. The family of the latest victim begin their own investigation…
You'll Like My Mother (1972): Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas; Patty Duke plays a heavily pregnant woman who travels to rural Minnesota to meet her late husband's mother–in–law, who turns out to have…
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972): Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, Luigi Pistilli…; Another brilliantly lurid psycho–sexual horror from Italian giallo master Sergio Martino (THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH). Edwige Fenech…
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Florinda Bolkan, Sir Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel…; Psychosexual giallo horror from director Lucio Fulci (THE BLACK CAT). Set in London, where the repressed wife of a lawyer is having erotic dreams…
A Reflection of Fear (1971): Dir. William A. Fraker
Feat. Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Sally Kellerman…; A giallo inspired psychological thriller set in a seaside mansion in Eastern Canada. A young girl's mental health declines rapidly when her…
Abominable Dr Phibes, The (1971): Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Vincent Price, Joseph Cotton, Hugh Griffith; Seminal Vincent Price horror, which matches its camp trappings with a 70s relish for gore and ingenious varieties of murder. As a bereaved…
Blood From the Mummy's Tomb (1971): Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Andrew Keir, James Villiers, Hugh Burden…; A superior late–Hammer Horror, concerning the reincarnation by a British research–team of an Egyptian priestess and the carnage resulting…
Brotherhood of Satan, The (1971): Dir. Bernard McEveety
Feat. Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman…; Low budget horror set in the American Southwest, where a couple on a road trip discover a coven of elderly Satanists who are holding a town's…
Cat O' Nine Tails (1971): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Karl Malden, James Franciscus; Unrestrained melodrama with Karl Malden as a blind reporter on a trail of blood. Argento's second feature, rooted in 'giallo' (Italian pulp fiction)…
Countess Dracula (1971): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Lesley-Anne Down, Nigel Green…; A moody late–Hammer Horror concerns the bloodthirsty deeds of Countess Bathory, she who liked to bathe in the blood of virgins to retain her…
Daughters of Darkness (Le Rouge aux Levres) (1971): Dir. Harry Kumel
Feat. Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau…; Significant, sultry vampire horror, justly celebrated for its blend of understated dread, unusual eroticism and elegant trappings which has been…
Demons of the Mind (1971): Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Paul Jones, Patrick Magee, Sir Michael Hordern…; A Victorian baron imprisons his two children, believing them to be possessed. Enticing Hammer offering, laced with blood–and–roses…
Die Screaming Marianne (1971): Dir. Pete Walker
Feat. Susan George, Barry Evans; Susan George is the ‘titular’ damsel in distress in this psycho–thriller of a family inheritance gone wrong. Swinging sixties vibes…
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (Blood of Frankenstein) (1971): Dir. Al Adamson
Feat. J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney, Anthony Eisley; J. Carrol Naish plays a mad scientist in a wheelchair who conspires with Dracula to resurrect Frankenstein, in this C–grade horror that finds…
Hands of the Ripper (1971): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Eric Porter, Dora Bryan; Atmospheric Hammer puts a Freudian spin on the exploits of Jack the Ripper, whose daughter inherits some of Dad's sharp handiwork. A pleasingly…
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971): Dir. John Hancock
Feat. Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman; Unsettling psychological horror following the experiences of a troubled woman recently discharged from a mental institution and into the care of her…
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Christine Kaufmann, Jason Robards Jr., Herbert Lom…; A series of grisly murders occur in a strange horror theatre in Paris and it's up to master sleuth August Dupin to solve the mystery. Based on Edgar…
Stalls of Barchester, The (1971): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Robert Hardy, Clive Swift, Thelma Barlow…; Richly atmospheric ghost story with a visiting scholar uncovering the macabre death of an archdeacon fifty years before.
Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The (1971): Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Bruno Corazzari…; Mesmerising giallo horror starring 70's Italian cinema queen and frequent Martino collaborator Edwige Fenech as the socialite wife of a diplomat who…
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971): Dir. Amando De Ossorio
Feat. Lone Fleming, Cesar Burner, Maria Elena Arpon; Savage 13th Century Templars are resurrected in modern times to exact revenge on young nymphs. The Redemption label redeems another trashy bloodlust…
Twins of Evil (1971): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Peter Cushing, Dennis Price; Final part of the 'Karnstein trilogy' (after THE VAMPIRE LOVERS and LUST FOR A VAMPIRE), climaxing in perhaps the most sexually–explicit of the…
Twitch of the Death Nerve (Bay of Blood) (1971): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli; Highly influential proto–slasher film from the Italian horror maestro Mario Bava, laying the way for such nightmares of remorseless…
What's the Matter With Helen? / Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971-1972): Dir. Curtis Harrington
Feat. Shelley Winters, Debbie Reynolds, Dennis Weaver…; A double feature disc in the "Grande Dame Guignol" genre (directly inspired by WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE), with Shelley Winters hamming/slumming…
Willard (1971): Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine; Superb persecuted–teen–gets–revenge picture about a young nerd who identifies more with rodents than people. The sequel, BEN, is…
And Soon the Darkness (1970): Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice; Minor slasher thriller concerns a pair of holidaying Brits who run into nasty perils on the backroads of rural France. Not as interesting as dir.…
Ballad of Tam-Lin, The (The Devil's Widow) (1970): Dir. Roddy McDowall
Feat. Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Cyril Cusack…; The only film that prolific acting great Roddy McDowall ever directed is this British folk horror based on the Celtic legend Tam Lin. Legendary…
Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The (1970): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall; The milestone debut from the supreme Italian horror–meister Dario Argento, this set the pattern for his many many subsequent forays into…
Bloody Judge, The (Trono di fuoco, Il) (1970): Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn…; More lavish than the usual fare of horror dir. Franco, here telling the tale of a corrupt witchfinder (Lee) in 16th century England, based around the…
Dunwich Horror, The (1970): Dir. Daniel Haller
Feat. Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley…; Supernatural horror loosely adapting the novella of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft, which builds on the Cthulhu Mythos. Set in the fictional…
Equinox (The Beast) (1970): Dir. Jack Woods, Dennis Muren
Feat. Edward Connell, Barbara Hewitt, Frank Bonner…; A group of teenagers stumble upon a tome of ancient mysticism and find themselves being pursued through canyons by a demon in this low–grade…
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing; The fifth Hammer Frankenstein film focuses on Peter Cushing's Baron who tries brain surgery to save an associate who went mad. Followed in the series…
Hatchet For The Honeymoon (1970): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti; With sombre, fluid visuals, the esteemed horror dir. Bava, livens up a fairly standard tale of a psychotic fashion director, who hunts and slaughters…
Horror of Frankenstein (1970): Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Ralph Bates; Camped–up, silly Hammer, in which Ralph Bates' Baron becomes murderously obsessive.
House That Dripped Blood, The (1970): Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott…; Juicy if variable four–part portmanteau film written by PSYCHO scribe, Robert Bloch, and adorned by the Cushing/Lee double–act as well as…
I Drink Your Blood (1970): Dir. David Durston
Feat. Bhaskar , Rhonda Fultz, Lyn Lowry; A Manson–style hippie–cult make trouble in a small village but taste the wrath of a young boy who infects their meat pies with rabies –…
Man Who Haunted Himself, The (1970): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Roger Moore; In one of his rare serious roles, Roger Moore plays the survivor of a car crash who discovers his doppelganger has been released into the…
Multiple Maniacs (1970): Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce…; John Waters' second film is this gloriously gory send–up of both mainstream and counter–culture. Populated by a cast of beloved Waters…
Night Gallery (TV Series) (1970-1973): Feat. Rod Serling; Spooky suspense series, hosted by Rod Serling, with each episode adapted from a sci–fi and horror short story. While not up to Serling's…
Scars of Dracula (1970): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Troughton; In search of his missing brother a man discovers the deadly lair of Count Dracula.
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Christopher Lee; Fourth Hammer installment of the black–caped Christopher Lee, this time meeting with a genuinely imaginative end.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a tyden divu) (1970): Dir. Jaromil Jireš
Feat. Jaroslava Schallerová; Mesmerising surrealist horror film from Czechoslovakia, following a young heroine as she encounters vampires, priests, and other fantasy characters…
Vampire Lovers (1970): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing; Hammer's famous lesbian–vampire pick made a cult star of the Polish–born volupte, Ingrid Pitt, as Carmilla. Esteemed…
Vampyros Lesbos (1970): Dir. Jess Franco; Notorious sexploitation–er from German bad boy dir. Jess Franco, peddles the softcore tale of a real estate agent trapped on an island ruled by…
Wizard of Gore, The (1970): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Ray Sager; One of gore–merchant Lewis’ (BLOOD FEAST) best, involving a bogus stage magician, whose act carves murderous carnage through his…
Castle of Fu Manchu, The (1969): Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin; The final bungled entry in the FU MANCHU series, with Christopher Lee on the same quest for world domination as ever, this time conducted from his…
Scream and Scream Again (1969): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee all turn in for this Hammer mad–doctor–creates–super–being yarn.
Spirits of the Dead (Histoires Extraordinaires) (1969): Dir. Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Terence Stamp, Alain Delon…; A classy compendium of three Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Europe's finest. Metzengerstein (Dir. Roger Vadim) – Jane and Peter Fonda…
Venus in Furs (Paroxismus) (1969): Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. James Darren, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski…; A high point for dir. Franco's psychedelic Euro–sleaze vision, with a jazz musician becoming obsessed with a beautiful woman, her bloodied…
Cremator, The (1968): Dir. Juraz Herz
Feat. Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlasta Chramostova; Widely considered one of the greatest films of the Czech new wave, a blackly humorous fantasy horror following the increasingly deranged impulses of…
Devil Rides Out, The (1968): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee; Devilishly straight–faced Hammer with Christopher Lee orchestrating a scheme to save the life (and soul) of his long–time confidant from…
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Christopher Lee; Christopher Lee returns in fangs for a third Hammer bite at the vampire story.
Ghastly Ones, The / Seeds of Sin (1968): Dir. Andy Milligan
Feat. Maggie Rogers, Candy Hammond, Veronica Radburn…; For hardcore grindhouse fans only, comes this double bill from notorious trash hound, Andy Milligan. "The Ghastly Ones" is his first horror film…
Kuroneko (1968): Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi; Visually exquisite black and white horror film from Japanese director Kaneto Shindo (ONIBABA). An adaptation of a supernatural folktale set during…
Night of the Living Dead (1968): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Duane Jones; Highly original and influential drive–in cheapie, distinguished by its realistic, documentary atmosphere and imaginative ending. Graphically…
Rosemary's Baby (1968): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Mia Farrow; First major film to deal with the occult as subject matter has lost little of its potency. The trauma of pregnancy is heightened for Mia Farrow as…
Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, The (1968): Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Jack Palance, Denholm Elliott, Billie Whitelaw; Gripping and faithful telemovie adaptation of Robert Louis Steveson's famous horror novel, with Jack Palance giving one his best as the idealistic…
Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968): Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Sir Michael Hordern; Possibly the finest of the BBC's M R James adaptations, this spooky tale concerns a closeted, sceptical professor (Hordern) whose seaside holiday…
Witchfinder General (The Conqueror Worm) (1968): Dir. Michael Reeves
Feat. Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies…; An astonishing, darkly uncompromising historical account of hypocrisy, injustice and death in olde England that features an atypically malevolent…
Blood Beast Terror, The (1967): Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Peter Cushing; In Victorian rural England, Peter Cushing's murder enquiries uncovers a beastly weremoth and the gruesome experiments of a crazed entymologist.
Castle of the Walking Dead (The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism) (1967): Dir. Harald Reinl
Feat. Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor; The blood runs thick for its vintage in this variation on Poe's Pit and the Pendulum in which a Count is drawn and quartered for killing twelve…
Circus of Fear (1967): Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey
Feat. Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski, Suzy Kendall; Not so much a horror film as a murder–mystery about a super–criminal who hides out in a circus. With various red herrings in the plot, a…
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters; The fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series starring Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein and Susan Denberg as his new creation. Diverts away from…
Gruesome Twosome (1967): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell; Typical H.G. Lewis fare that is both disgusting and amusing. The plot revolves around a wig shop that makes its products by scalping people with an…
Mummy's Shroud, The (1967): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Andre Morell, John Phillips, David Buck…; An archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharoah and ignoring warnings of a deadly curse they unleash a vengeful spirit…
Sadisterotica (1967): Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Janine Reynaud, Rosanna Yanni, Adrian Hoven; Eurotrash comedy–thriller about a foxy private eye whose insignia is imprint of her red lips!? She teams with another babe to pursue a nasty…
Something Weird (1967): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis; Certainly a trip into 'something weird' by the veteran gore schlockmeister , in which a disfigured psychic (McCabe) makes a pact with a witch who…
Sorcerers, The (1967): Dir. Michael Reeves
Feat. Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy…; An aging couple conduct secret experiments in vicarious mind–control, living out perverse scenarios through young and unwitting victims.…
Torture Garden (1967): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams…; Grisly, well–acted omnibus of four horror stories by PSYCHO–scribe Robert Bloch, framed by the fiendish hype of Burgess Meredith's…
Brides of Fu Manchu (1966): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer, Rupert Davies; First sequel to the brilliant revival of Sax Rohmer's 1920s serial in FACE OF FU MANCHU, again with Lee cooking up a dastardly plot – here to…
Dark Shadows (TV Series) (1966): Feat. Jonathan Frid, Joan Bennett; A camp classic of 'Gothic soap opera', this long–running daytime melodrama centred on 175–year–old vampire Barnabas Collins and a…
Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The (1966): Dir. Alan Rafkin
Feat. Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond…; A pretty darned funny Don Knotts vehicle that has the rubber–faced comedian as a timid typesetter who hasn't a chance of becoming a reporter…
Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966): Dir. Don Weis
Feat. Nancy Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Tommy Kirk…; Seventh and final in a loose series of 'Beach Party' movies, featuring Nancy Sinatra and an ageing Boris Karloff.
Island of Terror (1966): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing; Peter Cushing stars in this Hammer sci–fi tale about cancer research gone awry.
Kill Baby Kill (Operazione paura; Curse of the Living Dead) (1966): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Erika Blanc, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Fabienne Dali; One of dir. Bava's most intensely baroque horror visions, set in a small Transylvanian village where bodies start turning up with gold coins embedded…
Manos The Hands of Fate (1966): Dir. Harold P. Warren; Legendary cult turkey concerning a family looking for a place to stay in the desert, and picking a sinister ranch–house looked after by a…
Mystery and Imagination (TV Series) (1966-1970): A cult British series devoted to feature–length tele adaptations of Gothic works by some of the 19th century's greatest writers, including Bram…
Plague of the Zombies, The (1966): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Andre Morell; Reasonably classy Hammer offering about a Cornish mine–operator who uses zombies as a workforce in his tin mine. Good misty atmospherics, with…
Reptile, The (1966): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Noel Willman, Ray Barrett; When villagers start dying from snake venom in Cornwall, things point suspiciously to the tinkerings of a strange doctor. Moody Hammer schlock.
Theatre of Death / Rasputin - The Mad Monk (1966-1973): Dir. Samuel Gallu, Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee; A 'Midnight Movie' double–feature of two low–budget British horrors starring Christopher Lee. THEATRE OF DEATH (1973) – A tale…
Witches, The (1966): Dir. Cyril Frankel
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen…; Hammer horror adapted by Nigel Kneale under the pseudonym Peter Curtis, and featuring the final big–screen film role for Joan Fontaine.
A Study in Terror (1965): Dir. James Hill
Feat. John Neville, Robert Morley, Donald Houston…; Carefully crafted, though at times crude and bloody, Sherlock Holmes mystery (not by Conan Doyle), with the sleuth pursuing the murderous Jack the…
Color Me Blood Red (1965): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Gordon Oas-Heim, Candi Conder, Elyn Warner; "Blood–feaster" Hershell Gordon Lewis tones down the gore for this third of his splatter forays – a spin on A BUCKET OF BLOOD about an…
Curse of the Fly (1965): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Burt Kwouk; Second sequel to the original 1958 THE FLY, sans Vincent Price, but with touches of genuine gothic atmosphere and some creepy mutants. The tale of a…
Die, Monster, Die (1965): Dir. Daniel Heller
Feat. Boris Karloff, Freda Jackson, Nick Adams…; Enjoyable Lovecraft adaptation, featuring an older Boris Karloff going nuts in the greenhouse.
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Bernard Lee…; The first omnibus horror from low–budget outfit Amicus, in which the mysterious Dr. Schreck (Cushing) foretells the awful future fates of five…
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee; Christopher Lee returns from the grave to intimidate a group of tourists in this belated sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA. Misses Peter Cushing, and the…
Eye Creatures, The (1965): Dir. Larry Buchanan
Feat. John Ashley; Remake of INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN is a laughable sci–fi shocker about creatures and the intrepid band that try to fight them off.
Face of Fu Manchu (1965): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, James Robertson-Justice; Revival of Sax Rohmer's 1920s suspense tales based around arch–villain Fu Manchu's attempts to take over the West. This first outing with…
Nanny, The (1965): Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett; Bette Davis' stoney ambivalence is well employed in this Hammer production as the malevolent/misunderstood minder of a disturbed child who has been…
Nightmare Castle (The Faceless Monster, The Night of the Doomed) (1965): Dir. Mario Caiano
Feat. Barbara Steele, Paul Muller; Atmospheric gothic horror, with below–par Italian stylings and a dual role for cult actress Barbara Steele. Playing a pair of sisters,…
Repulsion (1965): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Catherine Deneuve; Polanski's tour–de–force of urban sexual paranoia. Catherine Deneuve has an obsessive fear of men which slowly descends her into madness.…
She (1965): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Ursula Andress; A scantily–clad Ursula Andress commands attention in this Hammer exotica as the love–starved eternal queen seeking reincarnation of her…
Tomb of Ligeia (1965): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price; The last of the director's Poe interpretations is one the most memorable. Effective use is made of the eerie English locations and Vincent Price's…
Addams Family, The (TV Series) (1964-1966): Feat. John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy…; Macabre 1960s sitcom about a family whose gothic lifestyle and trappings make for a mordant contrast with 'apple–pie' America. 22 episodes…
Children of the Damned (1964): Dir. Tony Leader
Feat. Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris…; Sequel to VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED finds the original film's blue–eyed humanoids transported to England for scientific study. Naturally, they…
Comedy of Terrors, The ( The Graveside Story) (1964): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price…; Business is slow for undertaker Vincent Price so taking matters into his own hands he sets about smothering elderly people in their sleep. Enjoyable…
Devil Doll (1964): Dir. Lindsay Shonteff
Feat. Bryant Halliday, William Sylvester; A hypno–ventriloquist attempts to transfer a woman's soul into a dummy. Ghoulish sleeper is sure to keep fans of low–budget chillers wide…
Earth Dies Screaming, The (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price…; British sci–fi set in the aftermath of an alien invasion, with much of the earth laid to waste and a group led by an American pilot fighting to…
Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Duncan Lamont, David Hutcheson; Number three in the renowned Hammer horror Frankenstein series set in an isolated castle. The Baron (Cushing) and his assistant, in need of help to…
Gorgon, The (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco…; A small village falls prey to an unseen monster. Citizens are found turned to stone after every full moon. The town Doctor (Peter Cushing) concludes…
Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films (1964-1992): Dir. Jan Svankmajer; A superb, forty–year anthology of the terrifying, eccentric short films of Jan Svankmajer, the influential and cutting edge Czech…
Kwaidan (1964): Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratana, Misako Watanabe; A four part anthology of visually intoxicating Japanese period ghost stories. Each tale expanding domestic melodramas into the paranormal realm.…
Last Man on Earth, The (1964): Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price; Rough but effective version of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" (also the basis for OMEGA MAN), Price playing the last living survivor of the human…
Masque of the Red Death (1964): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher…; The best of Corman's Poe adaptations allies the director's playful yet virulent treatment to one of the writer's most strongly allegorical stories.…
Munsters, The (TV Series) (1964-1965): Dir. Various
Feat. Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis…; Memorable TV–comedy set around a ghoulish–looking, but otherwise normal family – who are mystified as to why everyone reacts so…
Nightmare (1964): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. David Knight, Moira Redmond, Brenda Bruce…; Psychological horror about a young girl (Jennie Linden, WOMEN IN LOVE) living at a private school who is plagued by nightmares involving her mother,…
Phantom of the Opera (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Herbert Lom, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough…; British Hammer Horror production adapting the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux. The studio was hoping to ride on the previous huge success of the 1943…
Two Thousand Maniacs (1964): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Connie Mason, William Kerwin; One of the more enjoyable of Herschell Gordon Lewis' early gore efforts, with a better and funnier idea than most – southern town celebrates…
Black Sabbath (Three Faces of Fear) (1963): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Boris Karloff, Michele Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi…; Finely wrought three–part portmanteau film from the talents of Italian horror–maestro Mario Bava. Boris Karloff provides the…
Blood Feast (1963): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason; Blame this one! – The pioneer of the splatter film, the first to graphically depict human entrails etc. Very bad acting and a ludicrous plot…
Day of the Triffids (1963): Dir. Steve Sekely
Feat. Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey; Harmless plants mutate into giant man–eaters after a strange meteor blinds those who witnessed it. From John Wyndham's famous novel.
Dementia 13 (1963): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton; An early shocker from Francis Coppola proving that even the best start at the bottom. Quite a blurry print.
Haunted Palace, The (1963): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Lon Jr. Chaney, Debra Paget…; Minor Corman–Price collaboration has Price in a dual role both as the genteel inheritor of a castle, and as the fiendish warlock who once…
Haunting, The (1963): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson…; Exquisite photography/design and nerve–shredding sound effects urgently conspire for this, the definitive haunted house movie. Played…
Kiss of the Vampire (1963): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza…; An ominous and highly–regarded Hammer horror in which a honeymooning couple are stranded in Bavaria where they become embroiled in the…
Paranoiac (1963): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell; A Hitchcockian thriller from Hammer studio about a man long believed dead (Oliver Reed) who returns to the family estate, a palatial mansion near…
Raven, The (1963): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff…; A great cast inhabits this low budget fantasy–comedy version of Edgar Allan Poe's tale – one of Corman's best.
Terror, The (1963): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Boris Karloff; A legendary Corman quickie on which all of star Boris Karloff's scenes were shot in 3 days on sets leftover from THE RAVEN!
Twice Told Tales (1963): Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland; Triptych of horrors drawn from the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ham actor extraordinaire Vincent Price is in ripping form here.
Brain, The (1962): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Anne Heywood, Peter Van Eyck, Bernard Lee…; A well–meaning doctor keeps alive the brain of a sadistic millionaire who gradually compels him to carry out his evil requests. Well directed…
Carnival of Souls (1962): Dir. Herk Harvey
Feat. Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey; A woman's vision of the world is not quite the same after surviving a car accident in this vastly under–appreciated spook story that comes…
Devil's Hand, The (1962): Dir. William J. Hole Jnr
Feat. Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Neil Hamilton; Hammy low–budget horror of a man seduced by a blonde vixen who forces him to become involved in a mysterious satanic cult she holds allegiance…
Night Creatures (Captain Clegg) (1962): Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen…; Hammer horror set in 18th–century England, where a captain of the Royal Navy is sent to investigate reports of illegal activity in a coastal…
Night of the Eagle (Burn, Witch, Burn) (1962): Dir. Sydney Hayers
Feat. Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston; A successful academic (Peter Wyngarde) plumbs a prime teaching post at an English village idyll, causing a flurry of petty jealousies among the…
Premature Burial (1962): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Hazel Court; The third of Corman's eight Poe adaptations, with Ray Milland cast instead of Vincent Price as a paranoid med student. Tape includes bonus Milland…
Tales of Terror (1962): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone; Three Edgar Allen Poe adaptations from his best filmic interpreter Roger Corman. The Tales on offer here are "Morella", "The Black Cat" and "The Case…
Tower of London (1962): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman; This Roger Corman remake of the 1939 original sees Vincent Price stepping into Basil Rathbone shoes as the bloodthirsty Duke of Gloucester. Being…
Awful Dr. Awloff, The (1961): Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Howard Vernon; Deranged doctor Howard Vernon collects skin–grafts for his disfigured daughter, in a Spanish makeover of Franju's 'Eyes Without A Face'. A…
Curse of the Werewolf, The (1961): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Oliver Reed, Clifford Evans; Hammer horror based on the novel "The Werewolf of Paris" by Guy Endore and starring Oliver Reed as the werewolf in his first credited film…
Innocents, The (1961): Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins…; Notable adaptation of Henry James' ghost story "The Turn of the Screw", featuring Deborah Kerr as a neurotic nanny. Taking a job at a spooky…
Pit and the Pendulum, The (1961): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele; Corman's most famous plundering of Poe extracts a host of psycho–sexual tensions out of a fine script. Vincent Price is convinced he is the…
Scream of Fear (Taste of Fear) (1961): Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis…; Christopher Lee's favourite Hammer film in exercise in sustained tension with Susan Strasberg as a paralysed young woman haunted by visions of her…
Brides of Dracula (1960): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt; Recognised as one of Hammer Studios' best horrors, this acclaimed sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA reconvenes director/actor team Fisher and Cushing. This…
Circus of Horrors (1960): Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton…; After horribly botching a face–job, plastic surgeon Anton Diffring hides out in a travelling circus with some of his 'beauties', who begin to…
Eyes Without a Face (Yeux sans visage, Les) (1960): Dir. Georges Franju
Feat. Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob; Landmark European horror tells with French artistry and tonal malevolence the magnificent obsession of a surgeon determined to restore his…
Fall of the House of Usher, The (1960): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Mark Damon; More stately than Corman's later Poe adaptations, this three hander set the template with its tale of a poorly nymph afflicted with the 'family…
Horror Hotel (The City of the Dead) (1960): Dir. John Moxey
Feat. Christopher Lee; A search party ventures to Salem county after an occult student disappears under mysteriously witchy circumstances. Eerie photography.
Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barbara Steele; Italian shock–merchant Mario Bava's finest hour – his graphic, gothic images are way beyond 1960 and still impress today. A stylish…
Psycho (1960): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles…; Only Mr. Hitchcock could plunder B–movie conventions and turn in the biggest box–office success of his career. A plethora of…
Thirteen Ghosts (1960): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow; A nuclear family inherit a house haunted by a dozen ghosts of various colourful guises and some hidden stash. Trademark William Castle…
Village of the Damned (1960): Dir. Wolf Rilla
Feat. George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn…; The original, superior version of John Wyndham's novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about a brood of malevolent blue–eyed kiddies born in an English…
Wasp Woman, The (1960): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark; A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959): Dir. Bernard Kowalski
Feat. Yvette Vickers; A 'rubber–suited' swamp thing lurks in a Florida bayou. Even B–movie aficianados shouldn't get suckered by this one. 'Stars' Yvette…
Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Henry Daniell; Beware–the–family–curse is the theme in this low–budget take on Orville H. Hampton's tale about a family whose members are…
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959): Dir. Arthur Crabtree
Feat. Michael Gough, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen…; Well–acted Hammer horror about a writer who uses his hypnotised helper to commit a series of inventively gruesome killings.
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell…; Quite possibly the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, with Cushing in the lead, investigating the horrors of the Baskerville killings. The 'Hammer'…
Mania (The Flesh and the Fiends) (1959): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose…; An old–fashioned but sometimes ghoulishly nasty horror film in which an experimenting doctor in Edinburgh must harvest fresh corpses to…
Manster, The (1959): Dir. George P. Breakson
Feat. Peter Dyneley; An American correspondent in Japan becomes an unwitting human guinea pig while trying to get the scoop on the work of a reclusive scientist. His…
Mummy, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Peter Cushing confronts Christopher Lee in bandages in this stylish early Hammer.
Teenage Zombies (1959): Dir. Jerry Warren; A group of teenagers fall prey to a mad female scientist whose island they happen upon. Here, other prisoners and a variety of creatures are being…
Tingler, The (1959): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman; B–movie classic in which mad doctor Vincent Price conjures the 'physical form of fear itself', and lets the damned thing run amok! With bizzaro…
Attack of the Puppet People (1958): Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney…; One of the earliest depictions of the creepy puppet master, this low budget sci–fi horror follows a doll maker with abandonment issues who…
Corridors of Blood (Doctor from Seven Dials, The) (1958): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie…; A gruesome enactment of medical experimentation in pre–Victorian London, with Karloff donning apron and scalpel to try and discover an…
Fly, The (1958): Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price; Classic B–movie is a hammy horror tale of an obsessed scientist who unwittingly turns himself into a freak of nature.
Horror of Dracula (1958): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Quintessential Hammer horror is the first of six films with the peerless pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the razor–fanged Count…
House On Haunted Hill (1958): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart; Vincent Price is in full ham here, offering patrons $10,000 each to endure a night in the titular spooky mansion. Good fun, if a bit slight.…
How To Make A Monster (1958): Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Robert Harris; A Hollywood make–up artirst (Harris) is sacked by his studio and decides to enact brutal revenge on the management layer with the help of two…
I Bury the Living (1958): Dir. Albert Band
Feat. Richard Boone; Weird, imaginatively designed graveyard chiller with Richard Boone as a cemetery curator who thinks he has power over life and death by shifting…
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Spalding, Shawn Smith; 50's sci–fi horror set in a future 1973. A hostile martian life form stows away on a rescue ship heading to Mars to recover survivors of an…
Return of Dracula (1958): Dir. Paul Landres
Feat. Francis Lederer; Coinciding with Hammer studios revival of the Transylvanian count, this commendable effort has a long–in–the–tooth Francis Lederer…
Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn…; One of the best in the series of six Frankenstein films made by Hammer, with Peter Cushing reprising one of his signature roles as Baron Frank. …
Abominable Snowman (1957): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Richard Wattis; Hammer Horror's version of the 'yeti' legend has Cushing and Tucker journey to the roof of the world to hunt out the elusive creature. From a…
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; The first true Hammer gothic horror and number one in the Frankenstein series bringing together the fantastic talents of Cushing (as the Baron) and…
Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon) (1957): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis…; Classy occult thriller survives its big reputation through an intelligent script and controlled sense of menace. Dana Andrews' cynical professor…
Fiend Without a Face (1957): Dir. Arthur Crabtree
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker; Noteworthy 'alien invader' thriller in which creatures resembling the human brain run amok in a small town. Macabre proceedings are resolved in a…
Haunted Strangler, The (1957): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff; Jekyll–and–Hyde variation with criminologist Boris Karloff delving into a serial–murder case for which he suspects the wrong man…
Monster That Challenged the World, The (1957): Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson…; Campy 50's sci–fi creature feature in which an underwater earthquake in California's Salton Sea causes a crevice to open, releasing an army of…
She-Creature, The (1957): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marla English, Tom Conway, Chester Morris…; A sideshow hypnotist attains fame by predicting murders that are actually carried out by his lovely assistant, under his hypnotic spell. Slow yet…
Creature Walks Among Us, The (1956): Dir. John Sherwood
Feat. Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason; Second sequel to THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON this time focusing on a group of scientists on a mission to capture Gill Man and put him on show…
Indestructible Man (1956): Dir. Jack Pollexfen
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney; Homicidal maniac Lon Chaney Jnr is revived, post–execution, by a mad scientist, before going on a revenge–spree. Interesting entry for…
Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956): Dir. Dan Milner
Feat. Kent Taylor; Dredged from the darkest depths of B–Movie hell, this quaint 50s horror concerns a murderous underwater creature produced by leaking uranium.
Quatermass Xperiment, The (The Creeping Unknown) (1955): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner; Effective Hammer Films feature adaptation of the 1953 BBC sci–fi TV serial written by Nigel Kneale, in which an astronaut mysteriously returns…
Revenge of the Creature (1955): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield…; Follow–up to the cult hit CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, with poor, harassed Gill Man captured in the Amazon this time round and brought back…
Ghost Ship (1952): Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden…; Small–budget supernatural yarn with a uniquely British flavour about a couple that purchase a haunted yacht.
Strange Door, The (1951): Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest; Thriller based on the short story "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson, with Charles Laughton playing a sadistic man who…
Mighty Joe Young (1949): Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong…; Worthy successor to KING KONG, reunites many of the cast and crew, with a compellingly different slant on the 'Giant Ape' premise. Here, Armstrong…
Queen of Spades (1949): Dir. Thorold Dickinson
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Dame Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell…; Expressionistic ghost story in which an obsessive army officer in 18th Century Russia becomes convinced an elderly countess has gained the ability to…
Beast with Five Fingers (1946): Dir. Robert Florey
Feat. Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre; Psychological horror with Peter Lorre hamming it up as only he can when spooked and stalked by the severed hand of a maddened pianist.
Bedlam (1946): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Val Lewton, Boris Karloff, Anna Lee…; Meticulous though a trifle tame Val Lewton (CAT PEOPLE) production frequents the drawing rooms and asylums of 18th century London. Boris Karloff is…
Spiral Staircase, The (1946): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore; This creaky staircase descends into a spooky mansion of cantankerous matriarchs, mute nymphettes, 'weak' stepsons and impending murder. Dated, yes,…
Vincent Price Double (The Bat, Shock!) (1946-1959): Dir. Crane Wilbur, Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon; A double feature of B–grade Vincent Price horrors. SHOCK! (1946) – Dir. Alfred L. Werker. This concerns a murderous psychiatrist…
Body Snatcher, The (1945): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi; Quietly creepy Val Lewton production with Boris Karloff as a sinister grave robber who provides bodies for medical research and then blackmails the…
Dead of Night (1945): Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden; This model of the horror portmanteau film remains unsurpassed by modern all–comers, with five strong, scary short stories that converge quite…
House of Dracula (1945): Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, John Carradine, Onslow Stevens…; Actually a sequel to HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, with a scientist attempting to rectify the monstrous villains of the Universal Studios horror movies.
Isle of the Dead (1945): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew; Boris Karloff stars in this Val Lewton "superstitious chiller" about a group of plague–ridden people quarantined on a tiny Greek…
Place of One's Own, A (1945): Dir. Bernard Knowles
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price…; Elegant Victorian ghost story has an elderly couple James Mason and Margaret Lockwood buy a house possessed by a spirit who begins to fascinate their…
Curse of the Cat People (1944): Dir. Gunther V Fritsch, Robert Wise
Feat. Simone Simon; Sequel of worth to the original Val Lewton psychological chiller, again with the feline Simone Simon, here haunting the imagination of a small girl…
House of Frankenstein (1944): Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Boris Karloff, J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney…; Genuinely odd horror film in the Universal Studios stable, has scientist Karloff rolling out a monster freakshow of the 'classics', including…
Uninvited, The (1944): Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp…; Classic tale of the macabre with Ray Milland discovering that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply…
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Patric Knowles, Ilona Massey…; Unique 'dual sequel', following both THE WOLF MAN and GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN. In this episode, the hairy Chaney seeks out the Doctor for a cure, but…
Ghost on the Loose (1943): Dir. William Beaudine
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner, Leo Gorcey; At the 'Ed Wood' end of the horror–comedy canon, this has Lugosi haunting the suburban house of some newlyweds. Also stars screen…
I Walked with a Zombie (1943): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway; Incandescent spook story about a nurse who unleashes historical and spiritual demons when called out to a Caribbean island. Its scare value may have…
Leopard Man, The (1943): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dennis O'Keefe; The final Val Lewton–Tourneur horror collaboration concerns an escaped leopard (apparently) running amok in a small New Mexico town. A slim…
Phantom of the Opera (1943): Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Claude Rains, Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster; Technicolour version of the old tale with Claude Rains warbling it up behind the mask. The emphasis here is more on singing than chills, it could be…
Return of the Vampire, The (1943): Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch…; Serving as an unofficial follow–up to DRACULA (1931), Bela Lugosi plays another vampire called Armand Tesla, who encounters with an…
Seventh Victim, The (1943): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell…; One of the finest of producer Val Lewton’s low–budget RKO horror films, here investing a tale of satanists at work in NYCs Greenwich Village…
Son of Dracula (1943): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton…; The toothsome Count (not the son, despite the title), here played by Lon Chaney Jnr, sinks fangs into a selection of Southern belles and their…
Cat People (1942): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Simone Simon, Jack Holt, Kent Smith…; Producer Val Lewton's most celebrated low–budget horror evokes a disturbing atmosphere of repression and menace with shadows, music and the…
Black Cat, The (1941): Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford…; A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941): Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner…; Handsomely produced version of the Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, in which a mild doctor transforms himself by night into a murderous maniac.
Wolf Man, The (Wolfman) (1941): Dir. George Waggner
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains; Universal horror classic has Lon Chaney Jnr. bitten by werewolf Bela Lugosi among the foggy glades of Alpine–set English villages.
Ghost Breakers, The (1940): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson…; THE CAT AND THE CANARY stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard reunite for this middling chiller with Goddard inheriting a haunted mansion on a small…
Killer Bats (The Devil Bat) (1940): Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien; Although fairly low–tech in its special effects this short horror boasts a committed performance from Lugosi, as a doctor who is developing…
Cat and the Canary, The (1939): Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard; Bob Hope lends his charm to this playful remake of 1927 expressionist silent film about siblings who inherit an uncle's fortune but must first prove…
Dark Eyes of London (Human Monster; Dead Eyes of London) (1939): Dir. Walter Summers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt; Weirdly atmospheric chiller has Bela Lugosi using his blind disciples as pawns in an elaborate murder/insurance scam.
Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein (1939): Dir. Rowland V Lee, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi…; A double feature of horrors from Universal Studios, the third and fourth films respectively in the FRANKENSTEIN series. Son of Frankenstein (1939)…
Dracula's Daughter (1936): Dir. Lambert Hillyer
Feat. Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill…; Worthy sequel to the Lugosi classic, substitutes female fangster Holden in the lead. Nice atmospherics.
Bride of Frankenstein (1935): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff; Boris Karloff meets his match when mad Dr. Frank builds his forlorn monster a mate. Sequel to FRANKENSTEIN is possibly the best horror of the '30s…
Werewolf of London / She-Wolf of London (1935): Dir. Stuart Walker, Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Don Porter…; A double feature of early 'werewolf' horrors. Werewolf of London (1935) Dir. Stuart Walker – The first film to feature the 'werewolf'…
Maniac (1934): Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Horace B. Carpenter, Bill Woods; Named as one of the "100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made" in The Official Razzie Movie Guide, this early sexploitation/horror shocker was loosely…
A Shriek in the Night (1933): Dir. Albert Ray
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark…; A murderer terrorises a quiet neighbourhood, with each victim ominously receiving a polite card before being dispatched. This solidly produced…
Cry of the Bewitched / Vampire Bat, The (1933-1956): Dir. Frank Strayer, Alfredo Crevenna
Feat. Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas…; A double feature of low–rent but worthy horrors: The Vampire Bat (1933) Directed by Frank Strayer – An eerie suspenser in which a mad…
Ghoul, The (1933): Dir. T. Hayes Hunter
Feat. Boris Karloff, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger…; Creaky, but efficient Karloff outing centres on an Egyptologist who returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
Island of Lost Souls (1933): Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen…; First screen version of H.G. Wells' fascinating novel features the delightfully loony Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau, the exiled scientist obsessed…
King Kong (1933): Dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong; An iconic classic of cinema that literally smashed new ground in terms of special effects, and must have had unwitting audiences of the day…
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh; An early horror which formed the basis of Vincent Price's HOUSE OF WAX. Containing its own grisly twists on the 'waxing' process, this is well worth…
Black Cat, The (1934) / The Raven / The Mummy (1932-1935): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff; Notable debut of B–movie legend Ulmer, pits Bela Lugosi against Boris Karloff's formibable architect of evil. Bizarre sets and a dreamy,…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins; Lurid and expressionistic 30s version of Stevenson's novel, and still the best, with Fredric March (who won an Oscar) as the idealist Doctor who…
Freaks (1932): Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams; The only film in history to exploit real–life 'mutants' is actually a sensitive and fascinating piece of cinema history. Perhaps misunderstood…
Mummy, The (1932): Dir. Karl Freund
Feat. Boris Karloff; Boris Karloff gives a famously restrained performance, in one the great Universal Studios horrors. Story of the bandage–man's rise from the…
Old Dark House, The (1932): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton; Seeking refuge from an encroaching storm, six travellers pick the wrong house to take shelter in, with a spooky Boris Karloff, among other terrors in…
Vampyr (1932): Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Julian West, Henriette Gerard; Seminal psychological horror film makes up for in atmosphere what it lacks in technical sophistication. Dream–like plot concerns a young man…
White Zombie (1932): Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn; Creaky but effectively eerie chiller with Bela Lugosi as a voodoo king menacing naive newlyweds in Haiti. The trance–like direction and tiny…
Dracula (1931): Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Bela Lugosi; The role that immortalised Bela Lugosi – the original and most convincing Dracula ever committed to the screen. For sheer gothic ambience, look…
Frankenstein (1931): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff; Boris Karloff is the definitive incarnation of Mary Shelley's tragic man–monster, while the delicate balance of horror and pathos give the film…
Svengali (1931): Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Bramwell Fletcher…; Adapted from the novel by George du Maurier, this has a hypnotic maniac (Barrymore) turning his evil gaze on a young model and forcing her to…
Man Who Laughs, The (1928): Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova; One of the most spectacular (and sophisticated) of the silent epics adapts a historical story by Victor Hugo concerning the destiny of a disfigured…
Phantom of the Opera (1928): Dir. Rupert Julian
Feat. Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Gibson Gowland; First screen version of the Gaston Leroux novel with Lon Chaney grimacing through his greatest hour as the phantom. The atmosphere is creepy and the…
Cat and the Canary, The (1927): Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Laura La Plante, Tully Marshall; Seminal haunted house flick centres around the gathering of greedy contestants to the will of a rich relative. Imaginative thrills are executed with…
Unknown, The (1927): Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz…; Lon Chaney is fantastically expressive in this Grand Guignol inspired silent horror, from frequent collaborators Chaney and director Tod Browning, in…
Nosferatu (1922): Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Max Schreck, Alexander Granach; Max Schreck is unforgettable as the titular vampire in this exquisitely chilling, silent forerunner to Lugosi's Dracula. A milestone of early…
Phantom Carriage, The (Körkarlen) (1921): Dir. Victor Sjostrom
Feat. Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg; Impeccable Swedish silent film following a ghostly carriage as it takes a man's soul on a journey following his death on New Year's Eve, forcing him…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920): Dir. John S. Robertson
Feat. John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst…; The first of many adaptations is this unsettling silent version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella about a charitable scientist whose…
Grampa's Monster Movies: Feat. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney…; Al Grampa Lewis from the original Addam's Family hosts this collection of 28 horror trailers unearthed from the vaults of Universal studios. This…
Horror of Hammer, The: Brilliant collection of movie trailers from Hammer Studios horror heyday in the 1950s and 60s. Includes all the classics, plus two featurettes…
Mondo Lugosi: Feat. Bela Lugosi; A compilation of many great sequences in which Bela Lugosi appeared. The perfect bill for your next vampire masquerade party.
This Is Horror I & II: Feat. George Romero, Clive Barker, Dario Argento…; Two informative and entertaining documentaries that celebrate the best of modern horror. Contains many excerpts from films (some unavailable) with…

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