FrightFest — A–Z of films

What it lacks in structural coherence, Atrocious makes up for in atmosphere.

Despite appealing leads and the subtle creepiness of the escalating phone-calls, director Matthew Parkhill can't make the pieces fit, leaving the audience hanging in frustration rather than in suspense.

The film's biggest disappointment is that it just isn't very scary.

The deaths are gory and elaborate, certainly, and the effects aren’t bad, but it’s nothing new.

What's noticeable about Gillespie's version is how little really has to change to make it work.

Jacobson is definitely a new British talent to watch.

You can’t help thinking that West would have made a better (and perhaps more genuinely unsettling) film if he’d focused more on the inner demons of his young protagonists

A lethal little stab at a well-worn template.

Kill List manages to blend its study of friendship, masculinity, violence and family with a hitman road movie wrapped inside a horror mystery. This is quite some achievement.

A thoroughly thrilling and unpretentious little flick that takes its genre by the scruff of the neck and drags it kicking and screaming through Scotland's menacing undergrowth.

Midnight Son is atypical, funny and intriguing.

The script is knowing, loving and amusingly toys with the genre.

An unashamedly trashy treat.

Won't set the box office alight but has plenty of atmosphere and imagination to commend it.

In a filmic landscape littered with the lurching corpses of zombies and the emotional angst of vampires, it's refreshing to be presented with a mythology that is less familiar.

Edited, directed and shot by Andy Fetscher (Bukarest Fleisch), Urban Explorer offers a cruel lesson in the ugliest aspects of Germany's recent history.

Although this is a flawed film, it certainly isn't the disaster many had feared, and it will provide viewers with much to think about.

Horror film of the year so far, and likely to be one of the most memorable and celebrated of the coming decade.