Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble travelling tax collector, arrives in a small town, but, the inns all being full, he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There he meets Taoist swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, who warns him to stay out of trouble, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Hsiao-Tsing is a ghost, bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit with an incredibly long tongue that wraps itself round its victims and sucks out their life essence find out more...

DJ Walters has a particularly active imagination, he is convinced that his haggard and crabby neighbour Horace Nebbercracker, the terroriser of all the neighbourhood kids, is responsible for Mrs Nebbercracker's mysterious disappearance. Any toy that touches Nebbercracker's property promptly disappears, swallowed up by the cavernous house in which Horace lives, DJ has seen it with his own eyes! Monster House is a great CGI children's adventure, but be warned….it genuinely is pretty scary. find out more...

Roaming the streets of Moscow, unseen by normal humans, are the nightwatch, a group of altruistic supernatural do-gooders who keep the dark forces of chaos at bay once us mere more mortals have turned in for the night. Inadvertently caught up in this relentless battle is Anton, an insomniac tortured by the death of his son, and on this fateful night the world as it truly exists is made apparent to him. Nightwatch is an epic extravaganza, the striking special effects and over all ‘look', allowing find out more...

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...

Radha Mitchell's adopted somnambulist daughter's night-time wanderings leave her screaming about a place called 'Silent Hill'. Seeking to find the cause of these nightmares, Rose takes her daughter, Sharon, on a road trip to the isolated and abandoned township, which is still smouldering from the underground coal fires that wiped the community off the map 30 years previously. Pursued by her husband and an unfeasibly sexy, leather-clad police woman, Rose finds herself in an alternative world with 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...

Will and Jake Grimm travel the land collecting and imparting magical tales to the villages they visit, but their real money spinner is the age old con, creating elaborate scenarios whereby they rid the locals of various imagined demons of the night. This being the 19th Century and a Terry Gilliam film it is inevitable that the two are eventually confronted by the dark tales of fear and superstition that they weave. When Will and Jake arrive at one particular village they find the folk under the find out more...

Rick O'Connell and family must once again save the planet from descending into supernatural darkness, but having finally whooped North Africa's ancient evils they now find themselves up against a resurrected Chinese Emperor and his anything but static terracotta army. There is a diminishing returns aspect to this, the third film in the Mummy franchise, but as bubblegum spectacular it still just about rustles up the goods. 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...