A deeply moving autobiographical account by the manga artist Keiji Nakazawa, who, as a six year old boy living in Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, witnessed the horrific aftermath of the first atomic bomb. Terrible, tragic and utterly hypnotic. find out more...

The 'Great' war is raging and on the decimated fields of France the survivors of a British regiment take refuge in deserted German trench and await the arrival of their fellows. Unfortunately it soon becomes clear that the German troops who once occupied their new home had considerably more to deal with than bullets and bombs. Pure evil has made the underground bunkers its home and as terror envelops the men they begin to turn on each other. Deathwatch is a positive bloodfest, and though it lac find out more...

A platoon of soldiers are sent out on manoeuvers in the wilds of Scotland and at first their only worry is that they're missing the England Germany match, but when they discover the remains of a special operations unit things take a distinct turn for the worse, a misery compounded by the fact that the farm they've taken refuge in is home to a family of werewolves. Dog soldiers teeters dangerously between horror, comedy and just plain cheese but it never lets up the pace or the tension. All told find out more...

After American nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean several ships are sunk in mysterious circumstances. The Japanese authorities close in on the nearby Odo Island where natives relate tales of a devastating monster whom they call 'Gojira'. find out more...

This is Hannibal's beginning, the reason why he became what he is, a brilliant young man traumatised by a personal tragedy at the hands of the Nazis and consumed by revenge. Slick, bloody and pretty daft what really lets Hannibal Rising down is that it's pretty dull, some savage editing and snipping half an hour off the running time would have helped a lot, it still wouldn't have been good, but it might have been considerably more fun. find out more...

One of the more controversial episodes of the series, Joe (Gremlins) Dante takes a swipe at the Iraq War in this tale of spin gone horribly wrong. Just a few weeks before a presidential election the incumbant Republican administration gives the media a sound-bite to die for, countering the growing opposition to the war POTUS (looking and sounding absolutely nothing like Bush Jr - I don't think!) tells his subjects that his greatest wish would be that all the fallen heroes would come home again a find out more...

A mixed bag of mercenaries, hired by a mysterious businessman, arrive at and occupy a labyrinthine ex-WW2 bunker in an unnamed East European country. Once inside this distinctly claustrophobic subterranean outpost they discover a catatonic survivor and the remains of old Nazi science experiments, but they have woken a ghostly army of dedicated SS soldiers whose sole purpose is to retake the mini-fortress and, using extreme violence, take the mercenaries out. find out more...

The year is 1945, the closing stages of WW2, and a German scientist by the name of Klausener is working on a frightening new technology that has the power to create an immortal Nazi army. Flash forward to present day, and a NATO task force is hurriedly deployed to Eastern Europe, where a sinister enemy appears to be mercilessly killing everything in its path. But this is n find out more...

A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day. 

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Guillermo Del Toro's blockbusting tale of a young girl struggling to make sense of the violent world around her was a big 2006 arthouse hit. Continuing his exploration of the impact of the Spanish Civil War on his generation (it was also the backdrop for his excellent ghost story, The Devil's Backbone) Del Toro's fantasy mixes strong horror with fairytale-style aesthetics to great effect, making Ofelia's escape into an imaginary realm a poignant response to the cruel realities of her existence. find out more...