Guillermo Del Toro's blockbusting tale of a young girl struggling to make sense of the violent world around her was a big 2006 arthouse hit. Continuing his exploration of the impact of the Spanish Civil War on his generation (it was also the backdrop for his excellent ghost story, The Devil's Backbone) Del Toro's fantasy mixes strong horror with fairytale-style aesthetics to great effect, making Ofelia's escape into an imaginary realm a poignant response to the cruel realities of her existence. find out more...

Radha Mitchell's adopted somnambulist daughter's night-time wanderings leave her screaming about a place called 'Silent Hill'. Seeking to find the cause of these nightmares, Rose takes her daughter, Sharon, on a road trip to the isolated and abandoned township, which is still smouldering from the underground coal fires that wiped the community off the map 30 years previously. Pursued by her husband and an unfeasibly sexy, leather-clad police woman, Rose finds herself in an alternative world with find out more...

Heather Mason and her father have been evading the dark forces that years ago took her mother. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, plagued by nightmares and Christopher's disappearance, Heather discovers that her presumed identity is false, leading her to an alternate dimension existing in the strange town of Silent Hill, and a cult led by Claudia Wolf. A d find out more...

A 12-year-old lad finds himself at the centre of a battle between two warring clans of werewolves, one sworn to protect him, the other to destroy him. A sort of action, thriller, horror with lupines hogging all the limelight… well who's going to argue? find out more...

Rick O'Connell and family must once again save the planet from descending into supernatural darkness, but having finally whooped North Africa's ancient evils they now find themselves up against a resurrected Chinese Emperor and his anything but static terracotta army. There is a diminishing returns aspect to this, the third film in the Mummy franchise, but as bubblegum spectacular it still just about rustles up the goods. find out more...

In the year 2707; Earth's natural resources have been exhausted by mankind and war rages between the soldiers of four leading Corporations. But when a bombardment on enemy lines breaks an ancient seal, a long forgotten horror is unleashed: Necromutants, an army of the ‘not quite dead', who sweep all before them. Only a monk and a rag tag group of fighters stand in the way of the terror and what chance do they… hang on, why am I troubling you with plot outline, this is a slash and slash again act 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...

A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.

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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...