From that unsettling Miri episode of Star Trek to Village of the Damned everyone knows that children have the capacity to be very very creepy. Directed, produced, edited, and shot by the single-named one-man-band Makinov (though I get the feeling that should be pronounced MAKINOV!! based on the opening and closing credits) Come Out and Play basically a remake of Who Can Kill a Child, or for a more familiar frame of reference, a remake of Children of the Corn set in a beautiful coastal village in Mexico. It doesn’t exactly offer anything new in terms of plot or theme, or indeed scares, but it may just make you want to go on holiday. More

Directed by James Plumb Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection is the latest zombie film to be released on DVD. Set in the Welsh countryside a family must fight off both living and dead intruders whilst dealing with their own family dramas. Firstly, Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection is an unfortunate title for the film as any comparisons to its namesake, arguably the greatest zombie film of all time, will mean that it falls short. Surprisingly though, Plumb’s Welsh apocalypse happens to be a pretty decent low budget horror flick and setting it up as a remake does not do the film any justice,  especially as all zombie films can find their roots in Romero’s classic. More

Unlike Slasher House I’ll just get straight to the point: Slasher House is one fucking shite ride into the mind of someone who should be banned from holding a biro let alone having access to recording equipment. 

Waking up naked in a prison cell, Red (Eleanor James) has no idea who she is and why she is there. She wanders about a bit, because you know, if you’re going to have a feisty female lead character we need to see the tits and ass first. So after discovering some clothes she has a wonder about for what feels like fucking forever. Finally she speaks, and low and behold, she can’t act for shit and you long for the naked days again. More

Based on undoubtedly far less thrilling ‘true events’, 247°F  is yet another cautionary tale about good looking people going to stay in a cabin in the middle of nowhere.  Hold on before tuning out though, for this cabin has a SAUNA and bad things happen to good (looking) people (in bikinis).

During a drunken evening three of these sexy folk get themselves stuck in the sauna whilst a forth wonders off somewhere.  Within the confines of the sauna we have Jenna, Ian, and Renee (Scout Taylor-Compton, Travis Van Winkle, and Christina Ulloa), who begin to panic and get a little bit sweaty as the realisation of their situation dawns on them. More

Film Noir meets British New Wave in this remastered re-release of Hell  is a City from Hammer Productions.  Stanley Baker stars as Inspector Harry Martineau who is on the tail of violent prison escapee Don Starling (John Crawford), who he suspects has returned to his old hunting ground of Manchester to collect his stash of jewels.

Originally released in 1960 Hammer veteran Val Guest’s thriller takes the glamour of 40s and 50s American Noir and replaces it with Northern working class charm; you won’t see any casinos and femme fatales, instead you’ll be treated to tossing schools and homely barmaids, and though Martineau may not be your typical quick lipped PI he still has his share of problems. Like all good cops, his home life is a mess, and time is running out to catch his man Starling. More

Gypsy curses, werewolves, and disgruntled yokels come together in Attack of the Werewolves a film by Juan Martínez Moreno.  Tomas (Gorka Otxoa) reminds us why it is never a good idea to return to the village you left years ago and to be afraid, be very afraid of any invitation enticing you from the comfort of the city.

Opening succinctly with a Milo Manala style sequence explaining the backstory (these are the only nipples you’ll see by the way so make the most of them), the film wastes no time with lengthy historical story telling: one hundred years ago a curse was placed on the village following the kidnap, rape and murder of a handsome Gypsy traveller. More

Far from the council estates of Manchester, Shameless creator and BAFTA winner Paul Abbott takes us to the gang ridden streets of London for his new project Twenty8K. Directed by David Kew and Jimmy Dowdall, Twenty8K is a tale of murder and corruption within the London underworld: when a gang member is shot dead outside a nightclub, teenager Vipon Jani (Sebastian Nanena) is accused of murder.  Determined to clear her brother’s name,  Deeva (Parminder Nagra) sets out to investigate the events which led up to the shooting and discover the identity of the real killer. More

Just when you thought it was safe to sleep with the lights off again, the family who should come with a health warning are back with a DVD and Blu-ray release of Paranormal Activity 3. A prequel to the first two films, Paranormal Activity 3 takes us back to 1988 where Kristy and Katie’s childhood VHS tapes are the source of the, well, the paranormal activity obviously. More

If Psycho has taught us anything it has taught us to be wary of the seemingly normal bloke; even more so, be wary of the seemingly normal bloke who offers you a room for the night (ladies, you need to be extra vigilant here). Rogue River is such a cautionary tale. Michelle Page plays Mara a bereaved daughter who visits a childhood haunt in a remote area of Oregon to scatter her father’s ashes and gets more than a telling off for littering for her efforts. More

Mike Kellerman is having a bad day. Waking up after being dead for three years he discovers, well, he discovers that he is very much dead. Slowly grasping that he is no longer with the living he quickly admits that he is now a zombie. He’s not your run of the mill zombie, however, Mike Kellerman can reason, speak, and become all soppy over his long lost girlfriend. More