20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A pregnant woman is involved in a car accident in which her husband is killed. Later, about to give birth and living alone, she finds herself hunted by 'La Femme'; a knife, scissors and spike-wielding psychotic. find out more...

A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949)

CertificationU Our Rating

The film opens with shots of a prosperous town and its stately avenues of rich mens' houses, all placidly awaiting the start of the country club season, as the venomously honeyed voice of an unseen female narrator begins spinning a web of speculation and suspicion round three married women, shortly to be completed by their receipt of a poisonous letter indicating that the narrator has run away with one of their husbands. With the three wives trapped for the day supervising a children's picnic find out more...

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)

Certification18 Our Rating

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...

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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 - DREAM WARRIORS (1987)

Certification18 Our Rating

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...

A SCANNER DARKLY (2005)

Certification15 Our Rating

Set in Orange County, California, in an age where America has lost its �war on drugs', a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, the consequence of which is a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode and even your own motives become unclear. Scanner Darkly is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K Dick and born of his own experiences. Like a graphic novel come to life, the film uses live action pho find out more...

A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (2003)

Certification15 Our Rating

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...

AFTERSCHOOL (2009)

Certification18 Our Rating

Set against the backdrop of an elite American East Coast prep school, protagonist Robert is an apathetic teenager who seems interested only in YouTube-esque videos of either babies, kittens, pornography or violent acts. When Robert takes part in the school's AV club he unexpectedly captures a traumatic event that will irreversibly alter the lives of everyone at his school. Far from �easy viewing', 'Afterschool' is an intense, intelligent and provocative account of one boy's conflicted and trou find out more...

AIRPLANE! (1980)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Every TV mini series and disaster movie cliche taken apart put back together, turned upside down and then kicked to bits. Starring all the actors who normally do this kind of thing seriously. A laugh every five seconds - this film can be watched over and over and over again! Voted second funniest film by Observer readers in a 2007 poll. find out more...

AKIRA (1987)

Certification15 Our Rating

2019. The Earth is on the brink of destruction, Tokyo shimmers with post-punk fetishism, gangs of cyberpunk bikers and rioting crowds are on the streets of the post-atomic city. The scene is set for comic-book ultra-violence in this remarkable animated nightmare of hyper-reality. find out more...

ALEXANDRA (2002)

Certification15 Our Rating

Babushka Aleksandra moseys on down to the war zone in Chechnya to search for her soldier boy grandson. Here the old biddy, poking her nose in places it wouldn't normally go, brings peace and love, chilling out the grunts in the soldier camp and even making friends amongst the Chechens when she briefly takes a trip to the market. On many critics' lists as one of the best films of 2008; one for serious connoisseurs of film. find out more...