'9' is a toy living in a desolate post-apocalyptic future who allies with some ragtag straw dolls in order to defeat The Beast, a giant stalking mechanical cat. The scenery is bleak, the tone sombre, the digitalization impressive, but the characters are adult-allergic in this ambitious and original neo-Manga. find out more...

Transfer (1966), Cronenberg's first film, is a surreal sketch of a doctor and his patient. From the Drain (1967) finds two men in a bathtub, which may be part of a centre for veterans of a future war. Stereo (1969), Cronenberg's first official feature film, stunningly shot in monochrome, concerns telepaths at the Institute for Erotic Enquiry where patients undergo tests by Dr. Luther Stringfellow. In Crimes of the Future (1970) Cronenberg worked in colour and with a find out more...

A young man is found in an abandoned, gothic mansion, with only scissors for hands. He is promptly whisked off to an even stranger world - the one where normal people live. Tim Burton laces a story that is tragic, fantastic and funny with his stunning visual style, complete with pastel bungalows, surreal shrubbery and grotesque outfits. find out more...

It's 2009 and a time capsule buried 50 years earlier is opened up and inside are a series of numbers that seem to have predicted major disasters in the intervening period AND a coming apocalypse... so we're all for the chop. find out more...

When a prehistoric horse is captured, a group of adventurers decide to travel to Mexico's Forbidden Valley in search of other specimens for their circus. Winged, fanged monsters and some mighty pissed off dinosaurs cannot dissuade the motley crew of cowboys, but as we all well know from cinematic experience, if you mess with prehistoric carnivores, they're going to come back and bite you. 'The Valley Of The Gwangi' is a classic slice of Harryhausen stop motion animation and while the story is no find out more...