Number 3 in the long franchise of Freddie films is set in a secure medical facility where traumatised teens with a morbid fear of sleep are counselled and doped up by sceptical adults. That is until Nancy (from the original film) joins the staff team and, with her personal experience of the supernatural fiend, uses the special powers that the teens possess in their dream lives to fight the nightmares. Gloriously over-the-top, this sequel is worth a look if not just for the pleasure of watching a find out more...

Two sisters, Su-mi and Su-yeon, return from a stay in a psychiatric hospital to the home they share with their father and wicked stepmother. Disturbing and inexplicable events soon begin to occur, strange noises, hallucinations, disembodied footsteps on the stairs all combine to stretch tensions within this already volatile family unit to breaking point. Are these phenomena a product of the sisters' disturbed minds, is it their stepmother cruelly tormenting them or could there be something more 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...

Angela is last out of the office on Christmas Eve, but finds to her horror, that she is locked in the office building. After descending to the lower levels, the car parking area, she is chloroformed and wakes up chained to a table in the lone security guard's office. The rest of the movie is spent with her trying to escape this dangerous lunatic in this tense psycho-in-the-house thriller. find out more...

Do you really need to be told about this film? The Bates' Motel, the shower sequence and, of course, Mother! THE Hitchcock movie! 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...

Frank is worried about the treatment his wife is receiving at "The Clinic of Psychoplasmics" and when he starts to investigate his nearest and dearest are put under threat from a bunch of vicious, childlike mutants. Effective, and once banned, vintage Cronenberg body-horror. The difference between the two discs contained here are that the UK version is r-rated and the US version is the fully uncut and superior version. Soon-to-be-fathers should think twice about renting this one! find out more...

The Fane family are an unusual, if not unhinged, group of individuals, but their nanny is in a league of her own. 'The Nanny' is a delicious psychological thriller which pays considerable homage in its style and atmosphere to Bette Davis' earlier 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane'. find out more...

It's the end of WW2 and highly strung Grace and her two photosensitive children are awaiting the return of her husband. Grace lives an isolated and twilght existence but after the arrival of three uninvited servants she becomes convinced that the house is haunted by malevolent spirits. The Others is a stylish, spooky, highly intelligent ghost story that builds up the tension without having to resort to blood and guts.

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Thinking it'll give him a chance to work on his novel, ex-school teacher Jack takes a job caretaking an isolated hotel with his family during the winter season. Soon the evil spirit of the place begins to take him over, leading to a truly shattering, horrific climax... it's redrum! find out more...