When Walter Sparrow is given a book called 'The Number 23' by his wife he becomes convinced that the events and characters contained within mirror his own life and that the number 23 has a sinister and insidious meaning. Terrified that he is destined to follow the same murderous path as the novel's protagonist, Walter embarks on a paranoid odyssey to find the author and unravel the truth. A rather pedestrian plot is lifted by a good performance by Carrey, stylish cinematography and an intriguing 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...

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 cautionary tale for those of you working in call centres! Supervisor Larry Pearce spends his days monitoring tech support phone conversations but since the tragic death of his son Larry's hearing has taken on superhuman intensity. As his grip on reality threatens to slip altogether his attempts to silence the increasingly cacophonous world lead to extreme and violent solutions. Directed by The Machinist and Session 9 director Brad Anderson. find out more...

Psychiatrist Sam Foster takes on a colleague's patient, talented art student Henry, who announces his intention to kill himself at midnight on Saturday. As Sam pursues Henry, hoping to save him, the world around him begins to fracture and distort and Sam's mad world impinges on Henry's rational one. What's the meaning of the flashbacks to a car accident on the Brooklyn Bridge? Why are dead people seemingly alive? A hallucinatory New York becomes a dark, fractured, dislocated landscape. An intrig find out more...

Adrien Brody plays an amnesiac Gulf War veteran, who's either had part of his brain blown away, is a restless spirit or an angel, take it your own way, sentenced to life in a mental institution for a brutal killing he may, or may not, have done. There he is subjected to barbaric drug and sensory deprivation treatment during which he finds himself in 2007 with a girl, Keira Knightley, he met once in the past, a future, moreover, in which he discovers he has been dead for 14 years. How did he die? find out more...

Echoes of the past reverberate throughout this intelligent, chilling movie. Laura embarks on a mission to solve the puzzle of her adopted son's disappearance based on the clues left in their games and his talk of imaginary friends. High atmospherics dominate in this superior ghost story... Polanski's "Repulsion" meets "The Others". find out more...

It's the end of WW2 and highly strung Grace and her two photosensitive children are awaiting the return of her husband. Grace lives an isolated and twilght existence but after the arrival of three uninvited servants she becomes convinced that the house is haunted by malevolent spirits. The Others is a stylish, spooky, highly intelligent ghost story that builds up the tension without having to resort to blood and guts.

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Based on a popular manga by Ito Junji, Uzumaki is a one of the most eccentrically entertaining horror movies to come out of Japan in the last few years. The small town of Kurouzucho has fallen under the power of the ‘vortex', spirals holding the local community in thrall, a man climbs inside his spin dryer turning himself into a ‘Mr Whippy', his wife mutilates herself trying to escape the spirals within her own body, school children are mutating into human-snails and subtle helical CGI pepper t find out more...