River’s Edge (1986)

River’s Edge (1986)
Rating: ★★★★
May 5, 2003Disaffected Teens/Disturbed Psychology
The rare example of a sociological horror film concerning a teenager who kills his girlfriend and how his peers seem unconcerned. Filled with great performances, this is a film with a chilling nihilism that puts its finger on a 1980s youth generation with no seeming future ahead

Final Destination (2000)

Final Destination (2000)
Rating: ★★
Mar 19, 2000Precognition/Doomed Air Crash Survivors
This spins the old plot about a clairvoyant dream of an airline disaster out as a teen horror film based around a series of bizarre novelty deaths. This became the first in a franchise of popular horror films.

Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)

Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
Rating: ★★★½
Aug 13, 20091950s SF Parody/Invading Alien Foreheads
From Larry Blamire, a deliberately ridiculous spoof of the 1950s alien invasion film. Blamire's dialogue and the deadpan with which everybody plays is frequently hilarious

John Dies at the End (2012)

John Dies at the End (2012)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 13, 2012Reality-Expanding Drugs/Gonzo Supernatural Investigators
Phantasm series director Don Coscarelli returns with this mind-expanding effort that seems a conceptual collision between Donnie Darko, Limitless, a slacker version of Supernatural and Marvel Comics' Dr Strange. Maybe the best mind-tripping fun it is possible to have without the use of illegal substances

At the Devil’s Door (2014)

At the Devil’s Door (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 3, 2015Diabolic Pacts and Impregnation
The second film from The Pact director Nicholas McCarthy. What is happening is kept deliberately vague and elliptical – as you are trying to piece everything together, McCarthy manages to pull some incredibly eerie jolts

Phantasm: Ravager (2016)

Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
Rating: ★★
Nov 13, 2016Dream Horrors/Other-Dimensional Grave Robbers
Phantasm was a cult hit with its eerie otherworldly dream horrors. It spawned four sequels of which this is probably the last given that Angus Scrimm died earlier this year. The series peaked a couple of films ago and here the regulars pander to a comfortable familiarity without adding anything new to the mix

31 (2016)

31 (2016)
Rating: ★★
Sep 25, 2016Human Hunting Survival Game
Rob Zombie featuring people abducted and forced to play in a deathsport game. This is largely a re-run of House of 1000 Corpses, while both films in turn draw heavily on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. As always, Rob Zombie has a following but also switches large swathes of his audience off