With liberal helpings of humour (including a great reference to the inimitable American Werewolf), John Landis's entry tells the story of a washed up small town detective Dwight Faraday, demoted to investigating animal attacks who spends most of his working day sat at his desk or dealing with disgruntled pet owners until a series of bodies are found. Bodies that appear to have been literally trampled into mince meat. find out more...

A serial killer is on the loose in an unnamed Italian city, a killer that removes parts of his victims, replacing them with the corrosponding parts of a life-size antique 'companion' doll. Inspector Amaldi is on the trail but as his investigations deepen, the answer to the killer's macabre puzzle may be a lot closer to home than anyone suspects. A vicious serial killer with a twisted modus operandi, a tormented police detective and a beautiful young woman in peril, all the requisite ingredients find out more...

Michael Carter has a penchant for ladies of a certain size; gigantic ladies find out more...

Detective Breslin uses his forensic skills to connect a murder to a missing person in the first of a series of bizarre and violent ritualistic killings that he slowly realises are connected to the Biblical prophecies of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. find out more...

Young Jennifer Corvino is sent to study at an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland, but a psychopathic killer is at large and has already murdered one of the academy's students. One day Jennifer befriends local entomologist Dr McGregor, who has been helping the police in their murder investigation with his knowledge of insects. McGregor encourages Jennifer to use her own gift and help track down the killer but this places her in mortal danger. find out more...

Two men find themselves trapped in a now deserted public baths; they are chained to the pipes, their only means of escape, a saw and a gun with one bullet. Dr Lawrence and his fellow prisoner are the latest victims of the Jigsaw Killer, a serial murderer who likes to test his prey's humanity as well as their will to survive. Throw in a borderline psychotic cop, unconvincingly played by Glover, a hostage family and some ingeniously gruesome flashbacks and Saw makes for a slightly uninspiring tilt find out more...

The fiendishly inventive serial killer with a god complex and a warped sense of moral duty is back on the prowl, but when he's arrested by detective Eric Mathews the panic would seem to be over. Unfortunately, being a diabolical genius this is all part of Jigsaw's cunning plan and with his incarceration so the gruesome game begins. A more than competent follow up to the hugely successful first film. find out more...

Up to their tricks again Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda kidnap a brilliant but world-weary Doctor to tend to the ailing psychopath, keeping him alive until his final game is played out. The unwitting player in this game is Jeff, a man consumed by revenge and hatred since the death of his son in a car accident. As you will have come to expect Saw 3 has plenty of gore and gruesomely inventive deaths and there are some interesting flashbacks to the events of the preceding movies that add a touch find out more...

Just when audiences thought they'd heard the last of the demented killer Jigsaw Saw IV renaisses his trap-filled legacy, this time targeting the last remaining officer who touched the case, SWAT Commander Rigg. As FBI agents Strahm and Perez begin to dig through the remains of Jigsaw's crime-scene hideout a new puzzle presents itself with Rigg as the pawn in another deadly game filled with moral quandaries and torture-filled traps. At stake are the lives of his superior officer Hoffman and his f find out more...

Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Mark Hoffman - final apprentice to the serial killer - is hailed a hero, but obsessive agent Strahm knows better and while the two men circle each other unsure as to who is prey and who is predator, five hapless hunks of psycho fodder are about to learn just how monstrously unpleasant ‘teamwork' can be. Saw V; no worse, no better than those that have come before, if you like ‘em you'll like this. find out more...