When serial killer Gabriel Engel is captured a rural cop travels to the big city to question him about an unsolved murder in his home village, but finds himself being drawn deeper and deeper into a psychological game of cat-and-mouse that threatens his sanity, his faith and the lives of those he loves the most. The comparisons to 'Silence of the Lambs' are inevitable and even explicitly recognised within the film but, those similarities aside, 'Antibodies' is a gripping thriller with memorable p find out more...

A woman burnt to death, but no signs of fire, a dead priest with his entrails ripped out, but no sign of a struggle. Creepy indeed and good reason for the Taiwanese police to call out the FBI's top serial killer profiler. Is this the work of mere man? Or have our two heroes stumbled across something altogether more other worldly? A slick, atmospheric and gruesome horror thriller. 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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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...

A great, atmospheric and very dark addition to the serial killer genre. Easy comparisons can be found with David Fincher's 'Se7en', as this German film is also set in a grimy, rainy anonymous city, Berlin, as well as having two detective protagonists with contrasting levels of experience in the field. The plot is a neat mutation of Silence of the Lambs, involving an underground culture that has sprung up around a market in the buying and selling of human body art and, obviously, this necessitate find out more...

Unpleasant ex-cop Joong-ho Eom who works as a charmless pimp is severely troubled that his girls have started walking out on him, that is until he discovers that they all shared the same phone number for their last customer, so he starts to track the guy down. This horror-thriller is a film that, not unlike "Memories of Murder" in terms of plot direction and mood, takes convention and turns it inside out. Exploitative yes, violent yes, funny sometimes, art house no, original and entertaining, ve find out more...

Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.

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This movie contains probably the most scarily effective 20 minutes in cinema history as its opening sequence and a pretty scary finale. Unfortunately the rest is skippable. The plot; a teenage baby sitter gets sequential frightening phone calls and alerts the police, who try to track the caller down, and... you'll never stay at home alone again. find out more...

A crappy cliched horror movie in which a teenage babysitter receives menacing phone calls and barricades the house against this nasty sounding stranger. The house is tastefully designed though! NB the original, movie no 12953, has probably the most terrifying first 20 minutes in movie history, although the rest is almost as bad as this. find out more...