FrightFest — A–Z of films

Landis keeps the humour dry, the speech naturalistic, yet his keen sense of the absurd provides for some laugh-out-loud moments.

Not just for Troll 2 fans, it comments on the much wider culture surrounding the love of bad movies.

The breaking of genre boundaries is surreal but one of many enjoyable elements of Black.

A garbled, unsatisfying mess that lacks any credibility or genuine suspense.

This is an intelligent, moving depiction of a world gone to hell, dripping with the melancholy of a ‘hero’ still driven by a yearning from his past that he is incapable any longer of understanding.

A highly entertaining, if derivative, thrill ride.

This delivers the kind of disappointment you always fear a sequel to a great first film will.

Provides a solid framework for plenty of classic Argento images, suspense, shocks and splatter.

The amount of creativity and ideas on display is astonishing.

Ironically, despite the narrative positively drowning in water imagery, there is never any sense of flowing story.

While The Horseman will have viewers squirming in their seats, its take on the workings of vengeance is remarkably responsible.

As a genre filmmaker through and through, West is unlikely to be winning an Oscar any time soon – but when it comes to the extraordinary manipulation of tension and atmosphere, he is an unsung master of cinema.

The film, surprisingly, pulls back from extreme gore and specific scenes of insane surgery.

Monaghan and Fessenden are cast perfectly and have a great onscreen rapport, reminding me of a re-vamped Abbott and Costello.

McDonald has once more created a unique and entertaining film that will be appreciated by fans of the zombie film and the quirky comedy alike.

This film is stunningly photographed, and as a piece of art it draws the viewer in until it becomes apparent that all is not what it seems.

Cartoonish scenes of violence are fed through a deranged Manga ethos to create a film that is uber-kitsch and heavily saturated in post-modern sensibilities.