A rich fantasy and extraordinary visual film based on Angela Carter's novels (changing traditional fairytales to dark tales of sexuality and seduction). A young girl dreams of a magical world where she confronts her fears of sex and death, and is pursued by a handsome werewolf. Convincing and excellently done. find out more...

The Hour of the Wolf is the hour between night and dawn, the hour when most people die and the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fears. Haunted by demons past and present, artist Johan Borg fights a losing battle to retain his sanity and maintain his artistic prowess. His wife Alma, desperate to help him, finds herself starting to share his hallucinations, but as Johan's mind continues to unravel, Alma is forced to choose between her love and her life. A brilliant gothic fanta find out more...

19 year old Jay discovers, after a sexual encounter with her boyfriend, that a mysterious curse has been passed on to her. As she begins to experience terrifying visions and the feeling that she is being followed wherever she goes, she turns to her group of close friends for help. Can they solve the mystery of the deadly curse before its too late? Nowhere near as cliched as that all sounds. Not an original story line but a tight, well acted and directed lesson in nail biting tension.

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Valerie is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. In love with a brooding outsider Peter but bequeathed to marry the wealthy Henry. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when the resident werewolf brings tragedy to her family. As the village descends into fear and re-crimination the services of Father Solomon are called for, a mysterious and obsessive werewolf hunter. Red Riding Hood is a barely recognisable re-working of the classic fairytale d find out more...

An American returns to his ancestral home in Wales to make amends with his father. He buys a walking-stick in an antique shop off a lass named Gwen, gets involved with some local gypsies and is bitten by a wolf, something which turns out to have rather unfortunate consequences. 'The Wolf Man' is the template werewolf flick and with its stellar horror flick cast rates as an iconic film of its era. find out more...

"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...

Kevin Smith had a podcast where they made a joke about the idea of kidnapping and turning a human into a walrus. It went viral on the twittersphere. Then it became a movie. This movie. Though the whole thing starts out well, with decent doses of good humour and dramatic tension, it all falls very quickly by the wayside. The result is a ridiculous prosthetic walrus suit that envelops Justin Long. Somewhere inside this mess of a movie there's a punchline, if only Smith could get to it without q find out more...

When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show.

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Will's life is stuck in a rut, and everyone seems to be leaving him behind. One night he's bitten by a wolf and his life begins to transform. At first the changes are positive: he regains his 'killer' instinct (metaphorically speaking) at work, but then more primal urges begin to surface. Good fun. Plus a great dark turn from Spader as Will's nemesis lifts this movie above being simply watchable.

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Troubled aristocrat Lawrence returns to his ancestral pile after the disappearance of his brother, falls for his sibling's girl, but soon discovers that a wild beast is on the loose savaging the locals and that the origins of this lycanthrope might be a bit closer to home than he'd have wished for. 'Even a man who is pure of heart And says his prayers by night May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright' A faithful remake of the 1940s classic. 'It is said find out more...