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...

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...

There's something weird about this Therapy Centre, the journalist tells her husband as he fights off a wolf, and she was right. References to lycanthropic lore, literature and cinema abound. find out more...

Following a violent thunderstorm, artist David Drayton and a small town community, all trapped in the local supermarket, come under vicious attack from creatures prowling in a thick and unnatural mist. Local rumours point to an army experiment gone awry at a nearby top-secret base, but as the locals break off into increasingly murderous factions the ravenous monsters are in danger of taking a back seat to the carnage. Mist is a superior adaptation of a Stephen King horror thanks in large part to find out more...

A young man is left for dead when a patrol officer happens upon him. Rushing to the nearby hospital things take a turn for the worse as every sub-genre of horror collides in this monster/slasher/detective/supernatural/cult-style schlock fest. The tension is good but it looses its bite when the twist turns out to be almost everything you can think of. More throw it at the w find out more...