Argento's directorial debut, a tightly constructed thriller in which an American writer witnesses a knife attack and finds himself obsessed with tracking down a serial killer whose next victims could be himself and his lover. Ennio Morricone's soundtrack helps sustain the tension throughout. find out more...

A New York cop is sent undercover into the sado-masochistic heavy leather gay scene of Manhattan's West Village in order to pose as a potential victim in order to catch a brutal serial killer. His whole pose begins to affect his own personality and sexuality in this tense and brutal thriller. find out more...

A hypnotised British detective, Fisher, recalls his last case pursuing the "Lotto Murderer", a killer of young female lottery ticket sellers, using a method suggested by his disgraced mentor, Osborne, which involves entering the killer's mind, and in which the line between solving and committing a crime becomes dangerously obscured. Set in a post-apocalyptic Northern Europe of the future, 'Element of Crime' was Lars Von Trier's feature length debut, surreal, intense and, frankly, confusing it's find out more...

A screwed-up runaway teenage girl accepts a lift from a Mr Nice Guy, but soon realises he's a notorious serial killer. Having left him for dead she is soon arrested and facing a lifetime in prison, escapes, only to meet the killer again. A high quality, brutally comic, thriller with attitude. Very dark and very good.

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Veronica is a dissatisfied member of the in-crowd at high school until she meets JD, a cool newcomer to town, and they decide to play a practical joke on the 'queen bee', unaware she's about to become complicit in a series of murders. An offbeat, highly original and very black teen comedy. Brilliant, one to watch. find out more...

Witty, sickening, fast and above all, controversial. Benoit is a killer, but he does it with style and a smile. Filmed as a documentary, with the crew following Ben on his spree this is at times some of the cleverest spoof material ever filmed. Remarkable and original, but not to everyone's taste. find out more...

A 'Leatherface' type murderer who wears other people's faces, kills at an all-night horror-thon at an old theatre put on by a bunch of film students. Maggie, the lead character, believes it's really Lanyard Gates, a crazed film maker who killed his family live on stage fifteen years ago. And now he's back to kill his daughter, Sara, who is believed to really be Maggie. 

 

Superlative horror that blends great diy special effects, cinephilia and frights with aplomb. AN find out more...

Eat your heart out David Lynch! This movie has it all - sex, mutilation, religion, obsession, revenge and a circus which makes Archaos look like a branch of the Young Conservatives. The plot defies description, suffice to say it is perversely funny, grotesquely bizarre and definitely not family viewing. find out more...

With one of the best titles in Christendom this cult classic centres around a group of high school students who plan a slumber party while their parents are away for the night. Enter a random psycho-killer, on the loose from a mental asylum and armed with an assortment of power tools (all conveniently cordless). There are a couple of good, hearty deaths, but while it's not the worst this sub-genre has to offer it's also nowhere near the calibre of some other suburban fright-flicks, like 'Hallowe find out more...

What to say about The American Astronaut... It's a heady cocktail of DIY science-fiction, lo-fi musical, transatlantic surrealism and good old fashioned nice-guy comedy. The action revolves around Sam Curtis, a mercenary of the Han Solo school, and his increasingly colourful mission. It begins with the delivery of a cat to a small outer-belt asteroid saloon where he meets his former dance partner, and interplanetary fruit thief, the Blueberry Pirate. Peril comes in the form of nemesis Professor find out more...