FrightFest — A–Z of films

While it is big on atmosphere and features crafty camerawork it is running on empty when it comes to plot.

So long as you don't care about how cars go or how reality works or how people can continue to get away with making movies without a single credible acting performance, or anything, you'll almost certainly enjoy yourself.

Elevated by an outstanding central performance from Harry Treadaway.

Not so very far from where we all live today.

Fear(s) of the Dark is a collection of great animations, but while each of its chapters are great, the overall film doesn't gel brilliantly.

It is frequently not what you see but what you hear which holds the horror.

If The Midnight Meat Train starts with what sounds like a bog-standard serial killer premise, it quickly deviates into more uncharted terrains.

Mirrors doesn't feel like an unfixed horror for an uncertain world, it comes across more as a broth for the appetites of focus groups.

A movie you won’t be able to shake off any time soon.

A savage deconstruction of Thatcherite beliefs in family.

Beyond simple voyeurism there's really no reason to care.

So nasty are parts of Scar, the latest entry to the ever-more inexplicable torture film-canon, that you wouldn't want to view it in any dimensions, let alone three of them.

Bertino introduces a parade of cardboard characters whose psychological reflexes only extend to squealing when something goes bang.

The decent cast, the unusual soundtrack and the imaginatively sadistic set pieces are all good value for money.

It may not be flashy but there are flashes of cleverness sparkling throughout.