Set in Johannesburg (more than a welcome change to the usual formulaic Hollywood paradigm whereby LA or New York are not only the backdrop for disaster but act too as the centre-point of planet Earth), An ominous mothership hovers above Johannesburg containing an alien race of insectoid refugees. Derogatively referred to as 'Prawns' by humans they are cordoned off in an apartheid-esque fashion and forced to live a desolate and slum-like existence in the titular District 9. While forcibly relocat find out more...

An ambulance, a police and a TV crew arrive in a Spanish apartment block on a call out. On trying to leave, with a police officer badly bitten by an aggressive old lady, they find themselves and the inhabitants barricaded in by the authorities and the victims of a Bio-Nuclear-Chemical alert... find out more...