Much imitated but never equalled, this is the definitive space nightmare. The crew of a commercial spacecraft are stalked by a stowaway, mutating monster of veracious appetite. Weaver puts in a splendidly believable performance as the resourceful Ripley. Taut script and awesome special FX. find out more...

The long-awaited special extended version of the brilliant sequel to the sci-fi classic "Alien". Containing seventeen minutes of extra footage showing the previously unexplained background of the terrifying planet where the Alien has bred and which Officer Ellen Ripley must now return to. find out more...

One of the best horror movie ever made, an innocent American tourist runs in to a spot of trouble when he goes hiking on the Yorkshire moors and finds that he's going all hairy. A new terror stalks the streets of London town; includes the now classic and much imitated metamorphosis scene. find out more...

Brian's just a normal guy until he meets Elmer, a foul, slimy, phallic-shaped creature who can live in a hole in the back of your neck and make everything seem really groovy, like you strayed from a '60s acid movie. Basically he feeds you an addictive narcotic, which you rather like, in exchange for your help in obtaining his food, human brains. Disquieting black humour!! Disgusting!! find out more...

Finally on DVD, this classic portmanteau film stands as a homage to the wonderfully lurid and grisly EC horror comics of the 1950s. Out of the pages of the comic 'Creepshow' come five tales of terror... a tyranical father returns from beyond the grave to claim his Father's Day cake, a meteor crashes to Earth and starts to turn everything into plant-life, a husband plans the ultimate revenge for his cheating wife and her lover, a college hides a hideous and ravenous secret and an ultra-rich entom find out more...

George Romero's classic horror satire gets a rather more serious modern day makeover, resulting in a genuinely frightening addition to the zombie genre. The plot remains fairly true to the original, portraying a world where all the seats around Satan's dinner table have been filled, forcing the recently departed to walk the earth instead. Only this time they don't walk, see. They run. And it is this subtle change that moves this film from gory satire to an edge-of-the-futon suspense horror, as a find out more...

In this, the sequel to Night Of The Living Dead, the flesh eating zombies return. As they shuffle around a deserted shopping mall one can only but reflect on the damage supermarket muzak inflicts on the senses. Good shocker from the master of the undead, George A Romero. find out more...

The most perverse Frankenstein flick ever. While the Baron's sister/wife gives the village stud a good going over in her boudoir, the man himself is carving up the locals to create two perfect zombies to spawn a master race. Incest, necrophilia and yards of technicolour entrails. Stomach-churning! find out more...

It looks like a quiet Christmas but when those cuddly little Gremlins arrive chaos starts. Brilliant bits of black comedy as the partying creatures create total mayhem for the human population, whether with chainsaw, cars, guns, or any other suitable artefacts. Some scenes may scare young children.

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After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, Hell on Earth is ready to erupt. An impassioned otherworldly prince, driven mad by man's wanton behaviour, defies his bloodline and begins a quest for the final key that will awaken an unstoppable army. Now, it's up to the planet's toughest, most charmless anti-hero to save an ungrateful humanity from their demise. Rarely is a follow-on better than the original, but however much I enjoyed the fi find out more...