Two men find themselves trapped in a now deserted public baths; they are chained to the pipes, their only means of escape, a saw and a gun with one bullet. Dr Lawrence and his fellow prisoner are the latest victims of the Jigsaw Killer, a serial murderer who likes to test his prey's humanity as well as their will to survive. Throw in a borderline psychotic cop, unconvincingly played by Glover, a hostage family and some ingeniously gruesome flashbacks and Saw makes for a slightly uninspiring tilt find out more...

The fiendishly inventive serial killer with a god complex and a warped sense of moral duty is back on the prowl, but when he's arrested by detective Eric Mathews the panic would seem to be over. Unfortunately, being a diabolical genius this is all part of Jigsaw's cunning plan and with his incarceration so the gruesome game begins. A more than competent follow up to the hugely successful first film. 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...

Computer hacker and all-round ‘can do’ lady Salander disappears after being framed for the murder of two researchers during an expose of the Swedish sex trade. Convinced that Salander is the victim of a set-up her friend Blomkvist sets out to investigate and clear her name, but he soon uncovers a grim conspiracy and some ugly truths that lead him unnervingly close to home.
The second instalment of the trilogy of films based on the bestselling Millennium novels by Stieg Larsson is not as find out more...

'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' (skillfully adapted from the book of the same name) is a modest but thoroughly engaging thriller. Set in a gloomy modern Sweden, the atmosphere is tense, the characters authentic, whilst the mood is sombre and slightly dreamlike. Don't be fooled though, this is a psychologically brutal film addressing themes such as incest, sadism and violence, particularly against women.
Although the inevitable twist dosn't quite think outside the box, it's an exhilar find out more...

A case history of a middle-aged man with an urge to commit insane and violent murders, well OK he just liked to top people, as we all feel like doing from time to time, but in this case the police could never catch him. A flashback goes some way towards explaining how he developed such a disdain for authority, and the film takes an almost doco-style approach to the crimes of its protagonist and takes great pains to examine the impact his behavior had on his mother, father and wife. A rare insigh find out more...