Mike, who writes successful books debunking 'supernatural' phenomena, is lured into spending a night in a New York hotel... Room 1408. Although the first half hour or so promises little more than a rather standard haunted room flick once his total isolation from the outside world becomes apparent we enter a genuinely scary and surreal world where he is forced to fight to retain his sanity. Unable to leave this 'cell of death' he is assaulted not only by malevolent demons but his own painful memo find out more...

A truly effective horror movie made with imagination and style. A dead child murderer starts getting into a group of teenagers' dreams and the line between sleep and reality becomes very blurred. Not one to watch late at night all alone! find out more...

Clive Barker's bizarre and gripping plot has been skilfully adapted into an explosive psycho-drama. A terrifying evil demon has been unleashed, half myth, half reality, its power lies in peoples tendency to drive themselves mad with fear. A genuine, skin-crawlingly original horror flick. find out more...

A father is haunted by the death of his young child. Omens point to disaster and hallucinations predict the future as this wonderful atmospheric film moves to its disturbing climax. Shot in the beautiful city of Venice and based on the book by Daphne du Maurier.

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Stylish chiller thriller with Denzel Washington as homicide detective John Hobbes, who gets the heebie-jeebies at a spate of murders bearing all the trademarks of serial killer Edgar Reese - because Hobbes himself watched Reese put to death in the gas chamber. Forced to confront facts which go against everything the hardened cop knows to be true, Hobbes finds himself on the trail of an unseen entity which can take over anyone it fancies. Darkly X-Files-ish.

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A mixed bag of mercenaries, hired by a mysterious businessman, arrive at and occupy a labyrinthine ex-WW2 bunker in an unnamed East European country. Once inside this distinctly claustrophobic subterranean outpost they discover a catatonic survivor and the remains of old Nazi science experiments, but they have woken a ghostly army of dedicated SS soldiers whose sole purpose is to retake the mini-fortress and, using extreme violence, take the mercenaries out. 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...

A young girl draws a picture of a house, which she then visits in her dreams. In it there is a trapped boy, whom she tries to help, but her dreams start coming too close to her home life and her infantile drawings turn into horrific nightmarish landscapes. A tense intelligent psychological drama, perhaps about primal fears of adulthood? find out more...

A young married couple with sleep issues set up a camera to record the sounds and sights around them while they sleep. 'Paranormal Activity' was the 'Blair Witch Project' of 2009, a slow burning budget 'video-cam' horror that turned into a huge commercial success, and that's because it's very very scary. So snuggle up to your other half, lock the doors and windows and don't expect shuteye later. find out more...

Strange things are afoot at the Morningside mortuary…… the undertaker has superhuman strength and fingers that have a life of their own, flying silver balls make mince-meat out of trespassers and demonic, hooded dwarves run amok. It is up to 13-year-old Mike Pearson and his buddies to battle these evil forces and save the whole town from a fate worse than death. This little nugget of cult movie history has an innocent yet very twisted charm. Angus Scrimm's turn as The Tall Man has deservedly mad find out more...