Mike, who writes successful books debunking 'supernatural' phenomena, is lured into spending a night in a New York hotel... Room 1408. Although the first half hour or so promises little more than a rather standard haunted room flick once his total isolation from the outside world becomes apparent we enter a genuinely scary and surreal world where he is forced to fight to retain his sanity. Unable to leave this 'cell of death' he is assaulted not only by malevolent demons but his own painful memo find out more...

A truly effective horror movie made with imagination and style. A dead child murderer starts getting into a group of teenagers' dreams and the line between sleep and reality becomes very blurred. Not one to watch late at night all alone! find out more...

Clive Barker's bizarre and gripping plot has been skilfully adapted into an explosive psycho-drama. A terrifying evil demon has been unleashed, half myth, half reality, its power lies in peoples tendency to drive themselves mad with fear. A genuine, skin-crawlingly original horror flick. find out more...

Finally on DVD, this classic portmanteau film stands as a homage to the wonderfully lurid and grisly EC horror comics of the 1950s. Out of the pages of the comic 'Creepshow' come five tales of terror... a tyranical father returns from beyond the grave to claim his Father's Day cake, a meteor crashes to Earth and starts to turn everything into plant-life, a husband plans the ultimate revenge for his cheating wife and her lover, a college hides a hideous and ravenous secret and an ultra-rich entom find out more...

A father is haunted by the death of his young child. Omens point to disaster and hallucinations predict the future as this wonderful atmospheric film moves to its disturbing climax. Shot in the beautiful city of Venice and based on the book by Daphne du Maurier.

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Murder, magic and South African politics mix in a nightmarish world of mysticism and ritual slaughter. Drawn to the drought-ridden town of Bethany by the smell of death, shape-shifting 'Hitcher with No Name' (Burke) kills and dismembers a lonely young woman who picks him up. While the hitcher feeds off the despair of others, including fugitive wife Field, local policeman Mokae enlists the help of a half-mad, half-blind cinema projectionist in his search for a suspected serial killer. The non-lin find out more...

Stylish chiller thriller with Denzel Washington as homicide detective John Hobbes, who gets the heebie-jeebies at a spate of murders bearing all the trademarks of serial killer Edgar Reese - because Hobbes himself watched Reese put to death in the gas chamber. Forced to confront facts which go against everything the hardened cop knows to be true, Hobbes finds himself on the trail of an unseen entity which can take over anyone it fancies. Darkly X-Files-ish.

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A Ju-On is an evil spirit that occupies a place and brings disaster to all who enter and to those they come in contact with. Sequentially told through the eyes of several overlapping characters with the essential connection of a haunted house, and with a bit of jumping around timewise, this is a genuinely creepy and scary movie. Don't watch it alone, there might be 'something' in the room!! find out more...

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...

A young girl draws a picture of a house, which she then visits in her dreams. In it there is a trapped boy, whom she tries to help, but her dreams start coming too close to her home life and her infantile drawings turn into horrific nightmarish landscapes. A tense intelligent psychological drama, perhaps about primal fears of adulthood? find out more...