Angela is last out of the office on Christmas Eve, but finds to her horror, that she is locked in the office building. After descending to the lower levels, the car parking area, she is chloroformed and wakes up chained to a table in the lone security guard's office. The rest of the movie is spent with her trying to escape this dangerous lunatic in this tense psycho-in-the-house thriller. find out more...

The follow-up to the astounding ‘Paradise Lost’. More and more, especially forensic, evidence comes to light that the non-existent case against the 3 is just that. Much of the film focuses on the prime alternative suspect, the step-father of one of the murdered children, a dangerously barking Church-going redneck, but the rightwing local state bureaucracy don't want to know, they've already got their man (sorry children). Damien, Jason and Jessie have matured visibly in prison, with Damien perha find out more...

Do you really need to be told about this film? The Bates' Motel, the shower sequence and, of course, Mother! THE Hitchcock movie! find out more...

Ran, Kurosawa's last great epic, is a Jidaigeki (Japanese period drama) depicting the fall of Hidetora Ichimonj, an ageing Sengoku-era warlord who abdicates as ruler in favor of his three sons. His kingdom slowly disintegrates as the sons struggle for power, murdering rivals and laying waste to the land, and Hidetora goes insane after watching his retainers slaughtered in an epic massacre, the centrepiece of the film. As the kingdom crumbles and rival warlords move in for the kill, the Ichimonji find out more...

Five builders enter the desolate and ominous Danvers state mental hospital on a two week contract. Though the hospital has long closed it still holds tormented memories and the men, each of whom have a dark secret of their own, are entering the merciless jaws of hell. "Session 9" is a class psychological horror, dripping in atmosphere, well acted, originally plotted and relentlessly unnerving. find out more...

A disenchanted Vietnam vet becomes a New York taxi driver and lets the violence and squalor around him explode in his mind. One of the most atmospheric films ever made about urban alienation. Foster's first film and the one which almost resulted in Ronald Reagan's assassination when he was President - it must be good! find out more...

Life with a troubled autistic brother is tough for Thomas when all he wants is to be a normal teenager. His new girlfriend Jackie tries to help, but Thomas must take a long hard look at himself in order to appreciate all of the positives in his life and to understand that a perceived adolescent idyll isn't necessarily the be all and end all. The multi-award winning and nominated 'The Black Balloon' is a thoughtful and nicely performed coming of age drama. find out more...

Frank is worried about the treatment his wife is receiving at "The Clinic of Psychoplasmics" and when he starts to investigate his nearest and dearest are put under threat from a bunch of vicious, childlike mutants. Effective, and once banned, vintage Cronenberg body-horror. The difference between the two discs contained here are that the UK version is r-rated and the US version is the fully uncut and superior version. Soon-to-be-fathers should think twice about renting this one! find out more...

In collusion with Lieutenant Jim Gordon and newly appointed (butter wouldn't melt) DA Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising anarchistic mastermind known to the terrified citizens and criminals of Gotham City as 'The Joker'. The second part of Chris Nolan's helming of the 'Bat' bloke franchise is even more accom find out more...

The Fane family are an unusual, if not unhinged, group of individuals, but their nanny is in a league of her own. 'The Nanny' is a delicious psychological thriller which pays considerable homage in its style and atmosphere to Bette Davis' earlier 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane'. find out more...