An indie thriller so dark and dangerously involving that the subtitles are completely unobtrusive. An inoffensive middle-class family set off to their secluded lakeside holiday home for a restful retreat. However the arrival of Peter and Paul puts paid to that as the pair embark on a truly chilling campaign of terror, intermittently turning to camera to consult the viewer as to what should happen next, cleverly implicating their audience in the unfolding horror. Superbly unsettling. find out more...

Vitually a shot by shot remake of Haneke's dark and dangerous tale of a family's holiday being wrecked by a pair of sadistic psychopaths. It's difficult to judge remakes having seen the original, the novelty has worn off, but, even if I had to advise watching the latter, this new version still cuts to the bone. find out more...

This is Hannibal's beginning, the reason why he became what he is, a brilliant young man traumatised by a personal tragedy at the hands of the Nazis and consumed by revenge. Slick, bloody and pretty daft what really lets Hannibal Rising down is that it's pretty dull, some savage editing and snipping half an hour off the running time would have helped a lot, it still wouldn't have been good, but it might have been considerably more fun. 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...

Eight months after a disastrous job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, ex-soldier turned contract killer, Jay, is pressured by his partner, Gal, into taking a new assignment. As they descend into the dark and disturbing world of the contract, Jay begins to unravel once again, his fear and paranoia sending him deep into the heart of darkness. An find out more...

The third in Tartan's trilogy of true life serial killer psychodramas, The Hillside Strangler follows the events that led Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi to murder more than a dozen women in California in the late 1970s. Nicholas Turturro and CT Howell give their all in portraying two of the most dispicable personalities in recent times, and Parello laudably avoids sensationalising their exploits by refusing to give the villians any redeeming features whatsoever. Thoroughly unpleasant - as it s find out more...

USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack over a span of 12 years and are introduced to the murders that define Jack's development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack's point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his find out more...

An inquisitive photographer wanders the night time streets looking for shots and stumbles across Mahogany, a butcher, who uses the subway system as his killing field. But who is he killing for and where is he delivering the meat of his victims to? Utter, relentlessly bloody, hardcore horror and a major addition to the genre. find out more...

Kevin Smith had a podcast where they made a joke about the idea of kidnapping and turning a human into a walrus. It went viral on the twittersphere. Then it became a movie. This movie. Though the whole thing starts out well, with decent doses of good humour and dramatic tension, it all falls very quickly by the wayside. The result is a ridiculous prosthetic walrus suit that envelops Justin Long. Somewhere inside this mess of a movie there's a punchline, if only Smith could get to it without q find out more...