Daniel Stephens looks back at Top 10 Films’ 31 Days of Horror, when the site dedicated itself to horror and saw a horror film reviewed each day. Find out which of the 31 films reviewed was the editor’s favourite.

Horror films scared the hell out of me as a kid. Some horror films still scare me today. So why do I enjoy watching them so much?

Zombies. Gore. Woody Harrelson in search of Twinkies. A gun-toting Emma Stone. And a Ghostbuster. There aren’t many more things horror fans can ask for from a movie.

Someone is out for revenge in the sleepy town of Valentine’ Bluff. But who could it be? And who will survive the carnage in director George Mihalka’s bleak but enjoyable slasher film?

This is cinema’s version of contraception. Tom Shankland’s yuletide thriller pits some nasty, blood-thirsty pre-teens against their parents in an English countryside setting.

What makes a scary movie scary? Writer Dan Grant takes a look at ten of the scariest films ever made in an attempt to answer that question.

The original Japanese film of the same name is widely considered one of the scariest East Asian horror films ever made. How does the American remake stand up?

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.