Camp Hell is the messy debut of director George VanBuskirk. This cautionary tale of religious fanaticism stars Dana Delany, Andrew McCarthy and Caroline London.

REC 2 continues the handheld camera thrills of the hugely entertaining original film as a group of well-armed policemen enter the building to try and contain the situation.

Three students decide to study fear as part of their university thesis in this horror film based on a Clive Barker short story. Anthony DiBlasi is the first-time director.

Although not new news, having recently heard that Tom Six’s follow-up to his controversial, medically accurate torture film The Human Centipede had been banned in the UK, I had to rush to see the original film to see what all the fuss was about.

Films have been blamed for influencing crime for many years. As far back as Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, films have been said to instigate acts of violence and murder. But can a film really influence someone or some people to carry out an atrocious, criminal act? Daniel Stephens looks at ten films that is claimed influenced men, women and even children to commit murder.

Penelope Ann Miller stars as an evolutionary biologist who, after her colleague goes missing when on the hunt for a mysterious mythical creature named the Kothoga, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation, of which the killer in question decapitates its victims. With a boat from South America found with its entire crew dead, and then the security guard at Chicago’s Natural History Museum, where Miller’s character works, found headless in the toilets, the police besiege the building in search of their killer.

The vampire: that harbinger of everlasting life and eternal damnation. From the cloaked gothic majesty of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” to the down and dirty night-crawlers of Kathryn Bigelow’s “Near Dark”, vampire’s have formed the basis for more literary and cinematic horror than any other fictional creature.
Early cinematic incarnations of the blood-sucking sun-haters were based on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Infamously, Friedrich Murnau made “Nosferatu” in Germany without acquiring the rights to film the novel. After a lawsuit, all copies of the film were ordered to be destroyed. The film …

I vaguely remember my introduction to the horror film. My cousin was visiting, the curtains had been drawn on a sunny afternoon, and John Landis’ An American Werewolf In London had been placed in the VCR. I was seven years old. As I lay in bed for days after all I could see were those green hills shrouded in the black cloak of night, and the warning: ‘Stay on the road. Keep clear of the moors,’ delivered in that Yorkshire twang. Brian Glover’s short, controlled outburst – probably his unusual form of goodbye – ‘Beware the moon, lads.’