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...

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...

Mandy Lane is the perfect all-American girl; blonde, smart, sassy yet virginal and all the high school boys want a piece. So when a weekend away to a remote ranch is planned all the guys fancy their chances; joints are rolled, kegs are opened and soon the blood starts to flow. 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...

A 70s classic of horror and adolescent angst. With a mother who is a repressive religious control freak Carrie is a social inadequate and the most unpopular girl in school until she becomes kinetically empowered and creates a chilling gruesome and bloody payback. Unforgetable twist at the end! find out more...

A scarred stuntman cruises the American hinterland in his specially adapted 'muscle' car praying on nubile young women who fail to take advantage of his less than smooth advances. All is going well until Mr Nutter picks on three hard as nails (but still nubile) stuntwomen and so begins a brutal chase along the byways and highways until Tarantino mercifully realises that he has no plot to speak of, a script that could have been adlibbed better, and just suddenly ends the film. Like a bizarre, mea find out more...

Heed this, those of you who work in finance... if you turn down a mortgage extension to an impoverished old lady (especially a gypsy one) this might be your fate. find out more...

Earl Brooks is a successful businessman, husband and father, and he's pretty adept at serial killing too. Goaded on by his conscienceless alter-ego Marshall, wonderfully played by William Hurt, he stalks his victims and meticulously plans their murders, posturing the corpses and photographing them for posterity. However, when Earl finds himself entangled in the twisted agenda of an opportunistic bystander, as well as hunted by the unorthodox and tenacious Detective Atwood, he finds his carefully find out more...

An above average adaptation of a Stephen King novel. A young family move to a new home next to a burial ground for dead pets. The terror begins when Dad buries the family cat. It may sound naff, but the story is brilliantly crafted and the suspense genuinely creepy. Absorbing horror. find out more...

The second and somewhat less successful (though nonetheless highly enjoyable and retrospectively kitsch), in the Pet Sematary franchise, 'Pet Sematary Two' showcases a young Edward Furlong whose perfomance is synonymously broody and creepy. Pure entertainment. find out more...