When Kylie is ordered by the man into home detention, as part of her rehabilitation programme, for sticking it to him once too often, she struggles to adapt to the prison she shares with her mother and her mother’s new partner; the family home she grew up in, that may or may not be haunted. The secrets housed within unravel against a seriously pleasing balance of horror suspense and mild peril lols. Worth it for the performance of Rima Te Wiata, as Kylie’s mother Miriam, alone.

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Sophie is a young hat maker and though less than satisfied with the life allotted to her she is resigned to her fate. When the wicked witch of the waste transforms her into an old woman however, the world Sophie had expected disappears forever. Finding refuge in the bizarre moving Castle of the wizard Howl, Sophie embarks on a fantastical adventure that will shape the destiny of the world. The latest film from the master animator Hayao Miyazaki Howl's moving Castle is a beautifully rendered flig find out more...

How to describe 'Inland Empire' to the uninitiated? I think the answer is if you're new to David Lynch films don't start with this one, if you like his stuff you'll love it. Nikki, a leading Hollywood film actress, but living an empty life, starts work on a film that is a remake of an old Polish film that was never completed due to too many on set deaths. People, especially Nikki, get whisked from place to place and time to time in a series of nightmarish non-sequiturs, but at least you know whe find out more...

More Miyazaki magic (the creator of Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and The Castle In The Sky) at last available for us Brits to indulge in. Once again, the world he creates is infused with a realism that borders on the photographic in its detail that makes the fantastical elements of the story strangely believable. Kiki is a young witch who has moved from the country to a seaside town as part of her supernatural work experience. She starts the eponymous delivery service and thus begins her edu find out more...

The inhabitants of a traditionalist Carpathian village are terrified for their lives as a series of ghastly murders rock the community. The killer demon is the vengeful ghost of Baroness Graps' dead daughter, Melissa, who wants to collect the souls of the hapless villagers. Only a local sorceress, and a visiting 'modern/rational' doctor, stand in the way of the Grap family's evil hold on the people, but is she powerful enough to end the slaughter? And can he lend a hand? find out more...

A successful inventor and his charming wife, a seemingly idyllic couple, make the unavoidable error of having his new boss and embittered wife to dinner, and the guests dark and twisted loathing swiftly takes its toll on the hosts for the evening. A later meeting and attempted seduction take the movie from acute, embittered comedy to dark and dangerous drama. Given a chilling Hitchcockian twist, The Lemming shares much of its style with Moll's earlier ‘Harry He's Here To Help' and, like that fil find out more...

Suspended from the force, estranged from his wife and kids, sleeping on his sister's couch and addicted to meds in an effort to kick his alcoholism, Ben Carson is a man who has just about lost everything. Down and out, and above all desperate, he takes a job as a security guard working the night shift at an old burnt-down department store called the Mayflower in New York City. Wandering through the grand old building at night he begins to see strange things in its large ornate mirrors. After the 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...

Probably one of the best and creepiest horror flicks ever. An average suburban family become embroiled in a nightmare when their cutesy little daughter mysteriously disappears into the TV set. A well crafted, top quality chiller with real suspense. find out more...