It's six months after the initial infection and the U.S. army have restored order and are slowly bringing British citizens back to a quarantined London, where a heavily guarded community is picking up the pieces and trying to return to normal life. Into this precarious situation come Andy and Tammy, a brother and sister who were lucky enough to be on a foreign school trip when the virus originally broke out. Reunited with their father, Don, they learn that their mother perished in the first few find out more...

Set in Orange County, California, in an age where America has lost its ‘war on drugs', a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, the consequence of which is a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode and even your own motives become unclear. Scanner Darkly is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K Dick and born of his own experiences. Like a graphic novel come to life, the film uses live action pho find out more...

Much imitated but never equalled, this is the definitive space nightmare. The crew of a commercial spacecraft are stalked by a stowaway, mutating monster of veracious appetite. Weaver puts in a splendidly believable performance as the resourceful Ripley. Taut script and awesome special FX. find out more...

A stunning visual account of man's struggle for survival in the 21st Century, a time when replicant life forms are beginning to surpass humans not just in intelligence but emotions, raising questions about our concepts of self. A post-modern sci-fi classic, THE great Hollywood movie of the '80s, the last great pre-computer film done with smoke-and-mirrors SFX and the definitive cult arthouse Sci-Fi film. This is the second version re-edited by Ridley Scott; all the good bits remain, with the onl find out more...

A stunning visual account of man's struggle for survival in the 21st Century, a time when replicant life forms are beginning to surpass humans not just in intelligence but emotions, raising questions about our concepts of self. A post-modern sci-fi classic, THE great Hollywood movie of the '80s, the last great pre-computer film done with smoke-and-mirrors SFX and the definitive cult arthouse Sci-Fi film. This is the originally released version with no unicorns in a dream, a voiceover to keep y find out more...

The third part of Romero's zombie triology. A bigger budget than the other two and featuring state of the art zombies. A small bunch of survivors are holed up in a bunker with their hopes resting on a small group of scientists experimenting on the zombies. Tense rather than terrifying, and with a black comic undercurrent, it rests on the bleak observation that, zombies or no zombies, chances are that we, the living, will tear each other apart. Not for the faint hearted. find out more...

Phyllis Dietrichson is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who inspires in her nothing but contempt, but rather than leave him Phyllis decides to kill him and collect on the insurance policy she's had set up with the help of her lover, and naive partner in crime, insurance salesman Walter Neff. The only flaws in their plan are the company's reluctance to pay out so much, the diligence of Neff's increasingly suspicious colleague, (and his 'little man'), and the exemplary ruthlessness of Ph find out more...

It's 2047 and Larry Fishburne, Captain of a search-and-rescue ship, is heading for the outer reaches of space, where the prototype spaceship Event Horizon has reappeared seven years after it mysteriously went missing. Also on board is Dr Weir (Sam Neill), who designed the ill-fated craft and has been tortured by its disappearance ever since. Boarding the craft, it soon becomes obvious from the blood-splattered interior and grisly video recording that the crew didn't simply pop out for a bottle o find out more...

A strange, beautiful film. We watch mother and son as they go about their peculiar daily routine, and we see a dead child in the ocean. It's unnerving and, somehow, everything seems eerily sexual, too. Then we are invited to go underwater where we get a closer look at the strange story science and earth have to tell. There are only mothers and sons in this coastal town. There is routine and control - but who is in control and what happens if someone starts to ask que find out more...

A highly advanced killing machine is brought back from a radioactive wasteland in a state of disrepair. It ends up in a young woman's kitchen where it starts to rebuild itself from household appliances. Adapted from the '2000 AD' comic 'SHOK! Walter's Robo-Tale', this is a critically acclaimed post-nuclear sci-fi thriller with plenty of atmosphere and a great cameo from Motorhead's Lemmy. find out more...