Michelle breaks up with her boyfriend and, in a panicked drive interstate, ends up unconcious in her vehicle by the side of the road. Thankfully, Howard was driving by and took her to his nearby home where he put her on a drip and nursed her back to health - well, sort of. When Michelle comes to she finds herself in his cellar, in a locked room, handcuffed to the wall. Howard says an alien apocalypse is taking place but Michelle isn't so sure. What follows is a tense find out more...

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...

Superbly stylish and atmospheric thriller set in the steamy New Orleans of 1955. Down and out private eye Harry Angel is hired by the sinister Louis Cyphre to find a missing crooner who's been dabbling in the occult. But Harry's leads keep winding up ritually murdered. Chilling, erotic, brilliant. find out more...

Down in the tube station at midnight… Kate falls asleep while waiting for the last train and awakens to find the station deserted and locked up for the night. To cap it all off, Kate has been followed by a sleazy lothario whose atavistic advances she had spurned at a party earlier in the evening. Things look bleak when it becomes clear that not only is her suitor a proponent of the ‘no means yes' school of female psychology but there is something else lurking about in subterranean London, someth find out more...

Phyllis Dietrichson is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who inspires in her nothing but contempt, but rather than leave him Phyllis decides to kill him and collect on the insurance policy she's had set up with the help of her lover, and naive partner in crime, insurance salesman Walter Neff. The only flaws in their plan are the company's reluctance to pay out so much, the diligence of Neff's increasingly suspicious colleague, (and his 'little man'), and the exemplary ruthlessness of Ph find out more...

Five people are given the opportunity to take part in a game that offers the winner a million dollars, their challenge is to stay in an isolated house cut off from the world for six months. As time progresses it becomes clear that things are not as simple as they first appeared and rather than having been chosen at random each contestant has a dark secret which will be used to manipulate them in a game which no one is expected to survive. My Little Eye is a superbly un-nerving horror flick that find out more...

Hollywood remake of the 1994 cult Danish suspense thriller, faithfully translated almost word for word and scene for scene. Britain's own Ewan McGregor plays skint student Martin, who takes a job as the solitary nightwatchman in a city hospital. Unfortunately, a lunatic serial killer has just embarked on a gruesome spree and, even worse, most of the clues are leading straight back to Martin. Necrophilia, things that go bump in the night, and oodles of very black humour in this brilliant whodunni find out more...

Five builders enter the desolate and ominous Danvers state mental hospital on a two week contract. Though the hospital has long closed it still holds tormented memories and the men, each of whom have a dark secret of their own, are entering the merciless jaws of hell. "Session 9" is a class psychological horror, dripping in atmosphere, well acted, originally plotted and relentlessly unnerving. find out more...

A tightly made exercise in high tension as an innocent young driver is pursued across country by a homicidal and completely relentless maniac. Don't let it stop you giving lifts though, the Swindon exit of the M4 is a godforsaken place, enough to turn anyone crazy. The DVD is a two disk special edition with filmographies, a documentary and two shorts. find out more...

A New York book dealer, Dean Corso, is hired to find the last remaining copies of a demonic manuscript written in collaboration with the devil. The further Dean delves the more fascinated he becomes and soon finds himself embroiled in theft, satanic rituals and murder; the closer he comes to achieving his objective the more he begins to wonder if he should. The Ninth Gate is an effectively chilly supernatural thriller from the hand of Roman Polanski. find out more...