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...

The demonic doll is back! Once again the diminutive psycho-killer and his girlfriend Tiffany are trying to become human, searching for the perfect hosts (cue the welcome return of Jennifer Tilly playing herself) and dispatching anyone who gets in their way with gruesome inventiveness. However, Chucky's plans are thrown into disarray when their gender-confused pacifist offspring shows up looking for mom and pop and is horrified to find his folks are a few nuts shy of a coconut stall. Seed of Chuc find out more...

Solomon Kane is a cursed man, a ruthless killer in search of redemption after he comprehends the hellish consequence of his actions. However, having escaped death once, a life of praying humbly in the confines of a monastery is not going to be sufficient to save his soul and a pacifist vow is non-sustainable when the Devil establishes a murderous coven in his vicinity.
With its roots in Dennis Wheatley's occult tradition this swashbuckling high budget British film attempts, with some succ find out more...

Long-awaited sequel to the tale of a murdered man seeking vengeance from beyond the grave. Taking over from Brandon,Lee, who died tragically making the first film, Perez plays,Ashe, a young dad killed along with his son. Now he's back from his watery grave to claim his revenge. Moody horror. find out more...

Suave swinger and womanizer Rex Romanski loves and leaves evil black magic priestess Rita Marie. Naturally, Rex incurs Rita's lethal wrath by spurning her. Can Rex figure out a way to stop Rita's subsequent rampage of revenge, murder, and destruction as well as reclaim the soul of his new porn starlet gal Amoreena Jones before it's too late? fUN FACT! Brandon Luis Aponte had to remove his jacket for the scene in which Ruth Sullivan stabs him in the back because said jacket was borrowed.  find out more...

Given the slew of horror remakes in recent years it was perhaps inevitable that Sam Raimi's 1981 video nasty classic would receive an update sooner or later, but Fede Alvarez's reboot has enough tricks up its sleeve to warrant a revisit to that infamous log cabin. The emphasis on physical effects over CGI gives the film a refreshingly visceral flavour, and the initial cold turkey setup feels like a novel spin, though for all of its lashings of gore it ultimately  find out more...

It's back to the 80s and student Samantha, desperately needing some dosh (as students in those days did), takes a one-off well paid job as a baby (OK nanny) sitter. Stuck on her own for a night in an isolated, spooky cottage deep in the Connecticut woods she gets a severe case of the heebie-jeebies, and not surprisingly as she's in mortal danger. This highly credible frightener combines elements of the haunted house, slasher and occult themes from an earlier era, and it's no satire - trust me. find out more...

In the year 2707; Earth's natural resources have been exhausted by mankind and war rages between the soldiers of four leading Corporations. But when a bombardment on enemy lines breaks an ancient seal, a long forgotten horror is unleashed: Necromutants, an army of the ‘not quite dead', who sweep all before them. Only a monk and a rag tag group of fighters stand in the way of the terror and what chance do they… hang on, why am I troubling you with plot outline, this is a slash and slash again act find out more...

A group of backpacking friends discover an ancient temple in the jungles of Mexico, but their delight soon turns to terror when they're attacked by aggressive locals and then savaged by a blood thirsty, but quite pretty, vine (yup, as in a plant). As terrifying as realising you've fried the garlic before the onion while cooking a ‘spag bol' for your mates, but some fun might be had from its unrelenting awfulness. 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...