Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman…say his name once again and he will appear before you, his bloody hook ready to do his murderous bidding.

Hammer Horror makes a welcome return with David Keating’s Wake Wood. But does it live up to the great traditions of one of British cinema’s finest production studios?

As a follow-on from the Houdini Magic Ticket blogathon I thought it would be interesting to find out what my wife, my sister-in-law and my friend Steph would do with the ticket.

Colin Biggs takes his magic ticket and spends some time with Sam Elliot, the narrator from The Big Lebowski.

Rachelle Lafevre starts receiving phone calls from a strange woman in the past. When she tells the stranger to stop calling, the mysterious caller threatens to kill her…while she is still a child.

Paul Andrew Williams, writer-director of London To Brighton and The Cottage, goes behind the camera for another one of his screenplays in this taut, stylised home invasion thriller. Cherry Tree Lane is similar in set-up to The Strangers and the brilliant French film Them, but has more in common with Eden Lake and Harry Brown in how its contemporary setting accentuates feelings of a broken society divided by class.

We have the trailer for Matthew Parkhill’s supernatural time-traveling horror which arrives on DVD/Blu-ray October 24th. It stars Twilight’s Rachelle Lefevre and True Blood’s Stephen Moyer.

It was inevitable that Paranormal Activity would receive a sequel thanks to its unexpected success (thanks in no small part to the involvement of Steven Spielberg and a hefty marketing campaign). So how does part 2 compare with the first film. Read on to find out.