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Scott has gone back to source, bringing viewers the most refined product available.

The twists in the plot have a satisfactory gloss to them, as if the element of surprise is a new cocktail.

There are very few points at which this story delivers anything with weight or complexity, anything beyond the obvious.

Mexican director, Guillermo Del Toro, does not follow Hollywood's traditional approach to nature's abnormalites. Fear is suggested, rather than flung at the screen.

Alvart has found a way to allegorise the survival (or otherwise) of humanity itself in an environment not unlike our own.

Rodriguez weaves an incestuous blurring of genres – now amnesiac psychodrama, now desert gothic, now grotesque slash-n-dash, now perverted tragedy - that is genuinely disorienting.

The Walking Dead has arguably marked a pivotal point of evolution in the horror genre; the discerning cinema-goer now shying away from the more pedestrian gore-fest, in favour of more meaningful character-driven narratives.