Feature Films P to S | Passthemarmalade

PRE-2000

PAPERHOUSE (Bernard Rose 1988) - young girl's dreams about a bed-ridden boy living in the fantasy house she has sketched turn to horrific nightmare as she gradually loses control. Some decent frights in this intelligent dark fantasy which unfortunately loses its grip before the close.

PARANOIAC (Freddie Francis 1963) - Janette Scott and Oliver Reed in one of the better Hammer psycho films.

THE PASSION OF DARKLY NOON (Philip Ridley 1995) - in the tradition of Ridley’s THE REFLECTING SKIN, another offbeat, unclassifiable rural thriller, starring Brendan Fraser as a disturbed young man with a religious upbringing. Weirdness and surrealism give way to tried and tested stalk-and-slash techniques by the intense finale. U.K./German co-production.

PAURA IL DIAVOLO (Darren Ward 1994) - more mail order imitation Italian shocks from the makers of BLUE FEAR.

PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell 1959) - the film which destroyed Powell's reputation - many critics now regard it as the best horror movie ever made.

THE PENTHOUSE (Peter Collinson 1967) - sadists 'Tom', 'Dick', and 'Harry' invade an apartment to terrorise the occupants. With Tony Beckley, and Martine Beswicke as 'Harry'.

THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT (Kevin Connor 1977) - more cheapo dinos.

PERSECUTION (Don Chaffey 1974) - Tyburn's stab at Hammer-esque psychological chills, with Lana Turner and Ralph Bates. "Mother - I've killed the cat"...

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Terence Fisher 1962) - substandard Fisher remake with Herbert Lom a less than imposing Phantom. Some fine moments can't make up for the generally lacklustre feel to the whole thing.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Al Guest, Jean Mathieson 1987) - animated version of the story, from the makers of GHOST STORIES FROM THE PICKWICK PAPERS.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Tony Richardson 1990) - lengthy remake, for television - Charles Dance behind the mask, and in a new twist, Burt Lancaster plays the Phantom's father!

PHASE IV (Saul Bass 1974) - the ants take over.

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Fred W.Durrant 1916)

A PLACE OF ONE'S OWN (Bernard Knowles 1944) - stately and effective ghost story, features James Mason in old-age make-up and Margaret Lockwood as a victim of possession.

THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES (John Gilling 1966) - a film which says more about the class struggle than any number of contemporary kitchen sink dramas - a superb horror picture (the graveyard dream sequence deserves its legendary status) and an equally biting political tract. Top-notch Hammer.

THE PLAYBIRDS (Willy Roe 1978) - the inevitable attempt to combine those twin pillars of the U.K. film industry, the dirty mac movie and the sleazy horror flick, as an insane strangler targets topless models, daubing an identifying number on to each corpse. Mary Millington, Alan Lake, Windsor Davies, Dudley Sutton, Kenny Lynch and 'That's Life' presenter Gavin Campbell all 'star'.

THE POSSESSION OF JOEL DELANEY (Waris Hussein 1971) - Shirley MacLaine, demon-possession, and decapitations, in Manhattan-based horror financed by our own Lew Grade through his ITC company.

PREY (Norman J.Warren 1978) - in perhaps the ultimate Brit exploitation pitch, a cannibal alien arrives on Earth and snacks on a couple of lesbians...

PROJECT: ASSASSIN (Andy Hurst, Robin Hill 1996) - Cronenbergian sf-horror thriller about man who was injected with a genetically-engineered virus as a baby. Shot on video for just £4000 and released theatrically in Germany but not seen in the U.K.!

THE PROJECTED MAN (Ian Curteis 1966) - one of a mini-60s wave of matter-mangling mutant shockers (CURSE OF THE FLY and THE VULTURE materialised at roughly the same time).

PROTEUS (Bob Keen 1996) - Craig Fairbrass continues his bid to become Britain's modern-day king of horror in this dodgy monster movie set on an oil rig

PSYCHOMANIA (Don Sharp 1972) - tearaway biker gang 'The Living Dead', tired of causing havoc in the local shopping arcade and desperate for new thrills, commit suicide and return from the grave, engines throbbing.

THE PSYCHOPATH (Freddie Francis 1966)

POST-2000

P (Paul Spurrier 2005) - U.K./Thai co-production - young girl is taught the ways of magic by her grandmother - the old lady falls sick and her grand-daughter travels to Bangkok, seeking work to pay for medicine. She ends up working in a go-go bar - and her magic powers eventually extend beyond her control, with dark and horrific results.

PANDAMONIUM (M.J. Dixon 2020) - strippers hired for an office party find themselves stalked by a panda-headed killer known as the 'Stripper Ripper'. 85-minute feature from the prolific Mycho Entertainment team.

PANDORUM (Christian Alvart 2009) - UK/German SF horror starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Psychosis and cannibalism on board a 'space ark' transporting 60,000 people from Earth to colonise a new planet.

PANIC BUTTON (Chris Crow 2011) - four users of social networking online site 'All2gethr' are selected to take part in a competition, to take place during a flight to New York. Events gradually turn more sinister and deadly with SAW-like mindgames and psychological tortures.

PARALLELS (Ben Warner 2005) - a couple fall into another dimension, encountering their parallel selves - Jessica (Evonne Fletcher) discovers her dimensional twin to be a psychotic murderess. Award-winning sf/horror feature, a U.K./Australian co-production.

THE PARANORMAL DIARIES: CLOPHILL (Kevin Gates and Michael Bartlett 2013) - "A documentary team investigates rumours of witches and paranormal events at a ruined church". More found footage.

PARANORMAL FARM (Carl Medland 2017) - feature-length found footage film concerning paranormal activity on a farm, shot on an iPhone on a budget of just £200.

PARANORMAL FARM 2: CLOSER TO THE TRUTH (Carl Medland 2018) - sequel to PARANORMAL FARM.

PARANORMAL FARM 3: HALLOWEEN (Carl Medland 2019) - more spooky fun on the farm. Running time of this one is listed at a challenging 110 minutes...

PARANORMAL HAUNTING: THE CURSE OF THE BLUE MOON INN (Philip Gardiner 2012) - yet another dire feature from Gardiner, this one featuring an astronomer, an astrologer and a documentary filmmaker walking into a bar... on the night of a rare 'blue moon', witchcraft and occult occurrences may be about to commence at a cursed inn.

PARASITE (Andrew Prendergast 2003) - environmentalists confront oil workers on an abandoned rig – but something else has made its home there…

PASSENGERS (John Hales 2015) - lads travelling to a music festival run down and injure a nurse, who dies while they try to cover up the incident; soon after, an unseen killer begins to exact revenge. Birmingham-shot horror thriller, aka FREAK OF NURTURE.

PATIENT ZERO (Stefan Ruzowitzky 2018) - Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer and Stanley Tucci star in this action horror film set in a world where a contagious rabies-like virus has spread through the human population, turning people into ravenous killers.

PATROL MEN (David Campion and Ben Simpson 2010) - low-budgeter set on a small British island where the Mayor exercises control over the populace, with the gas-masked henchmen of the title enforcing a strict curfew. This is supposedly due to the activities of a serial killer at work on the island (seen in action early on); but a teenage girl begins to question the Mayor's motives and uncover the facts.

PENETRATION ANGST (Wolfgang Buld 2003) - young woman's sexual partners are consumed by her vagina during intercourse! Sex-horror-comedy released on DVD by Salvation

PENTAGRAM (Steve Lawson 2019) - California-set, Derbyshire-filmed Jonathan Sothcott production - four criminals take refuge in an old house when their car breaks down, finding a man there lying inside a pentagram. He needs to pull a sacrificial victim within the design, in order to escape safely, avoiding being torn apart by a strange creature.

PERFECT CREATURE (Glenn Standring 2005) - human cop and vampire cop join forces to take on another vampire intent on creating a war between the two races. New Zealand/U.K. co-production.

PET GRAVEYARD (Rebecca Matthews 2019) - "A group of teens are tormented by the Grim Reaper and his pet after undergoing an experiment that allows them to revisit the dead". Another cheapie from prolific producer/director Matthews, clearly intended to lure in unsuspecting PET SEMATARY fans.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Joel Schumacher 2004) - movie version of the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

PLAN Z (Stuart Brennan 2016) - character study-cum-zombie flick as a photographer who has been tipped off by a civil service contact readies himself for the apocalyptic outbreak and, as the film title suggests, makes a plan and tries to stick to it in order to survive.

THE PLANET (Mark Stirton 2006) - "a science fiction / horror set on a barren inhospitable planet, where a group of shipwrecked mercenaries have to fight for survival while trying to find a way to escape" - www.stirtonproductions.com

POLTERGEIST ACTIVITY (Andrew Jones 2015) - yet another from the Jones conveyor belt. "A father and daughter experience strange occurrences and frightening visions coming into their new home"

POLTERHEIST (David Gilbank 2018) - "Two gangsters are given 72 hours to discover the whereabouts of a stash of drug money stolen by their boss. There's only one problem... they just murdered him. Frantic to find the cash, the hapless criminals kidnap a psychic medium and force her to contact the dead gang boss. Unfortunately for them, they only succeed in unleashing an evil spirit bent on revenge". Feature version expanded from Gilbank's earlier short film from 2016.

THE PORCELAIN MAN (Sameer Kumar 2004) - Animal liberationists break into a lab but get more than they bargained for. "Horror thriller zombie film", according to the makers. DV feature, budgeted at £6000

POSSUM (Matthew Holness 2018) - Sean Harris and Alun Armstrong in what is largely a superbly-acted two-hander; pretty indescribable, other than to remark that Holness really captures the spirit of 1970s Public Information Films, weird kids' programmes, and half-glimpsed horror films seen on TV after midnight. Disturbed puppeteer operating a strange spider-like contraption visits an older man, a father figure/possible former abuser, while a boy we've seen earlier making a train journey is reported as missing. Quite how much is real and how much is in the puppeteer's head, you decide...

PREVENGE (Alice Lowe 2016) - pregnant woman whose partner died while climbing comes to believe that her unborn child is guiding her to take revenge on the people connected with his death. Ok horror comedy, though not as good as it thinks it is.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES (Burr Steers 2016) - film version of the publication which was part of a spate of 'add a horror theme to an existing novel in the public domain' novelty paperbacks. What a wheeze it must have seemed to chuck a few living dead into a Jane Austen classic. Movie-wise, it's a very dull affair indeed.

PROMETHEUS (Ridley Scott 2012) - Ridley Scott's much-vaunted but ultimately poorly-received and rather disastrous bid to return to the territory of his 1979 hit ALIEN.

PSYCHOMANTEUM (Ray Brady 2017) - multi-episode horror anthology made up of short films by Brady (and other contributors) filmed over several years.

PSYCHOSIS (Reg Traviss 2010) - exceptional feature-length expansion of the old Michael Armstrong/Stanley Long short DREAM HOUSE, in which a neurotic woman thinking her new home is haunted doesn't realise that she is actually experiencing a premonition of future horrors. The notion of remaking this story and extending it to three times the length really shouldn't have worked, but this succeeds (by accident or design?) on so many levels, recreating the feel of a late 70s/early 80s British horror film better than almost anyone else, casting Charisma Carpenter in the lead in a nod to the days of importing overseas stars for UK productions, even throwing in a sleazy party scene that doesn't fit the film at all but certainly fits the vibe. A surprise winner on all counts.

PSYCHOTIC (Johnny Johnson 2012) - "A psychologist is trapped inside a mental institution where all the patients have escaped and are on the rampage". 80-minute feature.

PUFFBALL (Nicolas Roeg 2007) - Roeg's final feature movie is a mystical, Irish-set drama based on Fay Weldon's novel. Black magic is brought into play by the mother and daughter of a farming family, to end the pregnancy of the young architect who plans to redevelop their former homestead.

PUMPKINHEAD 3: ASHES TO ASHES (Jake West 2006) - UK/US production shot in Romania - one of two further entries in the popular PUMPKINHEAD franchise, lensed back-to-back during 2006 and featuring series star Lance Henriksen.

PUMPKINHEAD 4: LOVE HURTS (Mike Hurst 2006) - UK/US production shot in Romania, hot on the heels of Jake West's PUMPKINHEAD 3.

PURITAN (Hadi Hajaig 2004) - Victorian inspired modern day supernatural film noir, set against the backdrop of Whitechapel, mediums and the work of supposed pagan architect Nicholas Hawksmoore

PRE-2000

QUALEN (Michael J. Murphy 1984) - one of independent British director Murphy’s horror titles, rarely seen by even the genre’s most obsessive fans. This one is available, if at all, in a Spanish-language version only.

QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (Roy Ward Baker 1967) – a spaceship is uncovered during excavations at a tube station, leading to revelations about the possible origins of mankind. Thought-provoking sf based on Nigel Kneale’s hit t.v. series.

THE QUATERMASS CONCLUSION (Piers Haggard 1979) – the return of Nigel Kneale’s crabby old scientist, in a four-part t.v. series also broadcast on occasion as a cut-down feature-length version. Wembley Stadium is the focus for new age activity, leading to the wiping-out of Britain’s young by alien forces.

THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT (Val Guest 1955) – first manned space flight ends in disaster, with the sole survivor transforming into a hideous alien blob, eventually fried in Westminster Abbey. Amazing performance by Richard Wordsworth as the doomed astronaut Caroon.

QUATERMASS 2 (Val Guest 1957) – stunning political horror, based on Nigel Kneale’s great six-part BBC series – aliens enlist the aid of a right-wing government in an invasion plot almost too frightening to contemplate.

QUEEN KONG (Frank Agrama 1976) – Robin Askwith and Rula Lenska in a hasty parody of the KING KONG remake – Dino de Laurentiis took out a lawsuit against the movie, successfully preventing its release. Ripe for rediscovery?

THE QUEEN OF SPADES (Thorold Dickinson 1948) – Edith Evans excels as the Russian countess in this feature version of Pushkin’s oft-filmed Faustian tale.

POST-2000

QUADRO BIZARRO (Thomas Lee Rutter 2011) - Rutter compiled four of his short films into an anthology feature, THE FORBIDDEN FOUR, in 2012; according to MJ Simpson, 'British Horror Revival' blogger and friend/champion of the director, Tom had previously put together this earlier compendium of his work - oddly, including the shorts A CHILD'S TOY and CATALYST among the content, both also later to be edited into THE FORBIDDEN FOUR!

QUANNA (Mumtaz Yildirimlar 2008) - ouija-board 70-minute horror made on a reported budget of £1000. Early work from a director who was to become prolific in due course.

THE QUIET ONES (John Pogue 2014) - one of the better productions from the revived Hammer Films, with Jared Harris as a university professor trying to prove that poltergeist activity manifests itself via the human psyche rather than anything supernatural. Test subject Jane (Olivia Cooke) is deprived of sleep (via the music of Slade!) and conjures up an energy force named 'Evey' - the professor and his students debate whether this is a fantastic or psychological entity, and people begin to die...

PRE-2000

RASPUTIN THE MAD MONK (Don Sharp 1965) - Christopher Lee rises above the budgetary constraints in a florid Hammer take on Russian history.

RAVENOUS (Antonia Bird 1999) - Robert Carlyle as a sly 19th-century cannibal in campy, gory horror satire centred on the regenerative effects of consuming human flesh. Also with Guy Pearce, Jeffrey Jones. U.S./U.K. co-production shot in Mexico and the Czech Republic!

RAWHEAD REX (George Pavlou 1987) - rather underrated monster movie, filmed in Ireland and based on a story from Clive Barker's 'Books Of Blood'.

RAZOR BLADE SMILE (Jake West 1998) - Redemption Video's S&M queen Eileen Daly vamps her way through this fetishistic fang fest, as a bloodsucking member of the undead turned modern-day hitwoman-for-hire.

THE REFLECTING SKIN (Philip Ridley 1990) – boy thinks his weird neighbour is a vampire. Offbeat mood piece, shot in Canada.

THE REPTILE (John Gilling 1966) - Jacqueline Pearce takes the title role in a decent Hammer entry concerning Eastern mysticism and strange transformations. Memorable monster make-up.

REPULSION (Roman Polanski 1965) - Catherine Deneuve is icily convincing in Polanski's terrifying study of loneliness and insanity.

THE RETURN OF DRACULA (Stephen Pink 1967) - 89-minute vampire obscurity, aimed at deaf audiences. Excerpts have apparently been screened by the BBC. Ref: Paul Higson.

REVENGE (Sidney Hayers 1971) - pub regulars persecute and abduct a suspected child-killer - but do they have the wrong man? Grim exploitation drama with the great Kenneth Griffith as the whimpering pervert.

THE REVENGE OF BILLY THE KID (Jim Groom 1990) - rough-and-ready rustic horror comedy with Michael Balfour as a goat-shagging farmer whose bestial activities have unexpected results. Nice to see Michael Ripper pop up briefly here.

THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN (Terence Fisher 1958) - Peter Cushing's Baron survives the guillotine and sets up a charitable asylum as a front for his monster-making activities. Magnificent.

RICHARD III (Laurence Olivier 1955) - the definitive film version of Shakespeare's murder-filled royal play. Olivier is marvellous as the crookback monarch.

RITE OF SPRING (Michael J. Murphy 1995) - a possessed girl, paganism, people set alight, decapitation…just a few of the things in store in Murphy’s take on WICKER MAN-like themes.

THE RIVER HOUSE GHOST (John Daumery 1932) - horror comedy in which a cockney girl uncovers crooks masquerading as spooks.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Jim Sharman 1975) - it's just a jump to the left...

ROOM TO LET (Godfrey Grayson 1950) - early Hammer venture into terror territory - is mysterious lodger Valentine Dyall really Jack The Ripper?

RUDDIGORE (Joy Batchelor 1967) - lively animated film based on the Gilbert & Sullivan opera. A witch's curse forces members of the aristocratic Ruddigore family to commit a crime a day or die in horrible agony.

POST-2000

RAZORS: THE RETURN OF JACK THE RIPPER (Ian Powell and Karl Ward 2016) - a young writer named Ruth discovers a box of knives that may have once belonged to Jack the Ripper - the knives go missing, the killings begin again, and Ruth is haunted by the ghost of a Victorian girl.

REALM OF THE DAMNED (Tom Paton 2017) - 50-minute limited-animation film based on a horror comic - Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth, and David Vincent of Morbid Angel, are among the voice talent. Set in a world now ruled by monsters, the storyline takes in demons, mummies, Norwegian Black Metal, and more.

RED CANOPY (Ian Weeks 2005) - "Death Waits Inside" - tagline. Martial arts-based horror film, imitative of the contemporary Asian style, centred on a mysterious forest from which the local villagers stay clear, and in which everyone who enters dies.

RED MIST (Paddy Breathnach 2008) - hospital janitor goes into a coma after his drink is spiked by med students; an attempt to revive him using an experimental drug causes him to have out-of-body experiences and take his revenge. Aka FREAKDOG.

REDCON-1 (Chee Keong Cheung 2018) - soldiers versus zombies in a quarantine zone. Action horror, co-produced by Carlos Gallardo, formerly producer of the early Robert Rodriguez movies.

REDWOOD (Tom Paton 2017) - Polish-shot lost-in-the-woods/attacked-by-strange-creatures fare featuring Nicholas Brendon in a brief cameo.

THE REDWOOD MASSACRE (David Ryan Keith 2014) - Scottish slasher movie. "Five adventurous friends visit a legendary murder site, and fight for their lives when they discover the legends are true"

THE REEDS (Nick Cohen 2010) - group of friends charter a boat but become trapped when attempting to sail through a patch of reeds - one of the party departs to seek help, the others begin to experience bizarre events and horrors galore.

REIGN OF FIRE (Rob Bowman 2002) - race of fire-breathing dragons decimates a near-future London. Big-budget Irish/U.K. production from the director of THE X-FILES.

REQUIEM (Jon Kirby and Mitchell Morgan 2002) - property developer and his estranged wife are trapped in a disused sanatorium – visions of his dead father seem to be driving the man to murder his former spouse.

RESIDENT EVIL (Paul Anderson 2002) - long-awaited movie version of the popular zombie video game; filmed by Brit director Anderson in London and Germany.

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Paul W.S. Anderson 2010) - Anderson returns to the director's chair for the fourth film in the ongoing apocalyptic action/horror series. German/French/Canadian/UK co-production

RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE (Alexander Witt 2004) - our heroes take on more zombies and a new mutant threat named 'Nemesis'. German/French/U.K. sequel.

RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (Russell Mulcahy 2007) - Milla Jovovich back once again in a sequel scripted by Paul W.S. Anderson. International co-production with UK involvement.

RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (Paul W.S. Anderson 2012) - fifth instalment of the long-running series, again an international co-production with UK involvement.

RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (Paul W.S. Anderson 2016) - supposedly the finale of the series, and the highest grossing RESIDENT EVIL film with a $300 million + global box office take.

RESURRECTING THE STREET WALKER (Ozgur Uyanik 2009) - Filmmaker discovers an uncompleted 1980s horror movie and decides to finish it - but it seems there may have been a death on the set of the film, by accident or design, which may be why it was abandoned. What's more, our budding auteur seems to be getting obsessed by the film to a dangerous degree.

RETREAT (Carl Tibbets 2011) - starring Thandie Newton, Cillian Murphy and Jamie Bell. Couple visit their regular island holiday haunt in a bid to rekindle their marriage, but a soldier arrives to tell them that a deadly flu outbreak is raging throughout the globe. Is he telling the truth about the pandemic and about himself, or does he want to keep the couple on the island for his own reasons?

REVELATION (Stuart Urban 2001) - Terence Stamp stars in fantasy-horror adventure about the search for an ancient relic

THE REVENGE OF ROBERT (Andrew Jones 2018) - fourth of the 'Robert the Doll' movies. "Infamous killer doll Robert does battle with Hitler's henchmen aboard a train in Nazi Germany."

REVERB (Eitan Arrusi 2006) - aging rock star samples a 1970s recording, unaware that this will bring an evil force back into existence.

THE REVEREND (Neil Jones 2011) - clergyman is bitten by a vampire on his first day in his new posting, but decides to use his new status in order to tackle crime in the area. Rutger Hauer, Doug Bradley, Emily Booth, Shane Richie, Giovanni Lombardo Radice and UFO/AIRBORNE director Dominic Burns pop up during the course of the action.

THE REZORT (Steve Barker 2015) - following the victory of the human population against a mass zombie outbreak, zombie survivors are kept on an island and hunted for sport by tourists. Starring Dougray Scott.

RIPPER: LETTER FROM HELL (John Eyres 2001) - University students are killed off by murderer imitating the methods of Jack The Ripper. A.J.Cook and Jurgen Prochnow star in giallo-style thriller, a U.K./Canadian co-production from the director of GOODNIGHT, GOD BLESS.

RIPPER 2: LETTER FROM WITHIN (Jonas Quastel, Lloyd A. Simandl 2004) - Prague-shot sequel to RIPPER: LETTER FROM HELL, this time focusing on virtual reality experiments in an asylum.

THE RISE OF JENGO (Joe Wheeler 2011) - "an extraordinary film" - MJ Simpson. Follow-up to THE EVIL OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW featuring the same 'Jengo' character, here possessing a young man and forcing him to kill. Followed by JENGO HOOPER in 2013.

RISING TIDE (Dawn Furness and Philip Shotton 2011) - group of friends travel to Lindisfarne after receiving their A-level results, but are trapped by (see title) - meanwhile, one of the group seems to be being haunted by a strange presence, possibly ghostly, possibly a real threat, possibly a figment of the imagination.

THE RITUAL (David Bruckner 2017) - winning film version of the novel by Adam Nevill. Lots of entertaining banter as four mates hike through the Scandinavian countryside; they get lost in the woods and eerie Norse folk legends come into play. What is stalking them through the trees, and holds the local villagers in worshipful thrall?

THE RIZEN (Matt Mitchell 2017) - Sally Phillips, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Adrian Edmondson pop up in this 'zombie-like creatures in an underground facility' RESIDENT EVIL wannabe from the director of GUNS, GANGSTERS & ZOMBIES.

ROBERT (Andrew Jones 2015) - "In this chilling story based on real life events a family experience terrifying supernatural occurrences when their son acquires a vintage doll called Robert". First of a long-running series from director Jones, featuring Robert the Doll.

ROBERT REBORN (Andrew Jones 2019) - fifth of the 'Robert the Doll' franchise. "In 1951 USSR, infamous killer doll Robert battles Stalin's henchmen on board a plane"

ROMASANTA (Paco Plaza 2004) - Spanish/UK production from Brian Yuzna's Fantastic Factory, starring Julian Sands in a werewolf drama based on a true case from 18th-century Allariz, in which a murderous travelling salesman claims to be a lycanthrope.

A ROOM TO DIE FOR (Devanand Shanmugam 2017) - struggling stand-up comedian and his girlfriend rent a room in a country cottage, but the behaviour of the elderly couple who live in the property starts to get very strange. "A superbly written film with a chillingly disturbing core of the like I haven’t seen in a British horror movie since Steven Sheil’s MUM & DAD" - theschlockpit.com

ROTTWEILER (Brian Yuzna 2005) - set in the near future, a group of illegal immigrants escape from a prison farm and are pursued by a semi-robotic rottweiler that just won't die. Spanish/U.K. co-production from Yuzna's 'Fantastic Factory' conveyor-belt production line.

ROXI (Mike Murphy 2004) - homage to Jimmy Sangster's Hammer psychological thrillers of the 1960s, filmed in Greece by the prolific Michael J. Murphy. Millionaire's son is a suspect in the murder of his mother and a local girl - but is his step-mother in cahoots with a stranger in plotting against him?

PRE-2000

THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA (Lewis John Carlino 1976) - Sarah Miles begins romantic affair with ship's officer Kris Kristofferson; meanwhile, her young son becomes part of a gang of schoolboys who have some strange notions of 'purity'. The hideous torture of a cat leads to even stronger stuff in this chilling adaptation of a Yukio Mishima novel.

THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA (Alan Gibson 1973) - posing as city business tycoon 'D.D.Denham', Dracula plots the ultimate destruction of mankind via plague virus. As with the previous year's DRACULA A.D. 1972, what first appeared as a misjudged bid to drag the Count into the modern era has now taken on a fascination as a 1970s curio.

SATAN'S SLAVE (Norman J.Warren 1976) - Michael Gough presides over more country house diabolism. Scripted by David McGillivray.

SATURN 3 (Stanley Donen 1980) - scripted by Martin Amis, directed by one of Hollywood's greats, and with Harvey Keitel as the villain - and still this sf story featuring a killer robot managed to misfire.

SCARS OF DRACULA (Roy Ward Baker 1970) - weakest of Hammer's 'Dracula' series, despite Jenny Hanley, Anoushka Hempel, the Count crawling down the walls of his castle, and a spectacular demise by lightning bolt.

SCHIZO (Pete Walker 1976) - Lynne Frederick stars in lesser Walker slasher.

SCREAM...AND DIE! (Jose Larraz 1973) - disappointing psycho-thriller from the usually reliable Larraz.

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (Gordon Hessler 1969) - Vincent Price heads a team of medics stealing body parts with the intention to create a race of super-men. Delirious science-fiction shocker also features Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alfred Marks and Michael Gothard.

SCREAM FOR HELP (Michael Winner 1984) - Winner's leap on to the stalk and slash bandwagon came late, with this American-shot thriller - young girl discovers her stepfather's intention to murder her and her mother.

SCREAMTIME (Al Beresford 1983) - three supporting shorts from the pseudonymous 'Beresford' (actually Stanley Long and Michael Armstrong, working in cahoots) are linked by new American footage for this video release. Includes GARDEN OF BLOOD (a.k.a. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?), THAT'S THE WAY TO DO IT (a.k.a. KILLER PUNCH) and DREAMHOUSE.

SECOND SIGHT (Michael J.Murphy 1992) - novelist works on new book about serial killer 'Dr.Purcell'; we see visual dramatizations of horrific scenes from the work-in-progress, but real horror enters the author's life...

THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS (Andrew L. Stone 1965) - following James Booth's show-stealing turn in ZULU, the actor was cast in what ought to have been a showcase role in this picaresque black comedy anthology, tracing the rise of his character from bobby-on-the-beat to revolutionary leader of a South American country. Sadly the film flopped. The three main episodes include a story in which Booth investigates a case where a woman is suspected of murdering her husband and burying his body in the cellar, and a wild tale involving aristocratic couple the Von Lukenbergs creating a species of deadly giant spiders. The linking story has a dark edge too, adding to the movie's genre credentials.

THE SECRET OF SEAGULL ISLAND (Nestore Ungaro 1981) - feature edited from a five-part t.v. series, a British/Italian co-production starring Jeremy Brett as a psychopath who selects blind female victims.

THE SECRET OF THE LOCH (Milton Rosmer 1934) - early Nessie appearance in this 30s monster comedy yarn.

SECRET RITES (Derek Ford 1971) - documentary featurette on witchcraft, with horror movie-style opening.

SECRETS (Michael J. Murphy 1977) - “in the mode of the Hammer psychological thrillers of the 60s” - Paul Higson. 16mm horror feature, shot in Greece by the elusive director of the later INVITATION TO HELL.

THE SENDER (Roger Christian 1982) - telepathic patient in psychiatric ward is able to transmit his nightmares to others. Effective psychic shocker, partially shot in Georgia by U.K. crew. Feature debut for Christian, formerly an Oscar-winning effects technician.

SEX EXPRESS (Derek Ford 1975) - Sex anthology, a showcase for the talents of luscious starlet Heather Deeley. Episode five features the ghost of a lascivious Victorian photographer, and episode two is of particular interest here - Deeley plays a psychopath who seduces, brutally stabs, and (graphically!) castrates her lovers, before meeting her eventual match when she unwittingly picks up and takes home...a vampire! 88-minute export version, re-titled DIVERSIONS, includes Deeley in hardcore scenes.

THE SEX VICTIMS (Derek Robbins 1973) - 40-minute sex/horror mini-feature; ghostly girl enlists an innocent man to help catch her killer.

SEXTON BLAKE AND THE HOODED TERROR (George King 1938) - King and Tod Slaughter together again in Sax Rohmer-inspired melodrama.

THE SHADOW (George A.Cooper 1933) - masked, black-clad killer at large in old dark house.

SHADOW OF SATAN (Ian Yeoman 1972) - running 50-55 minutes, this was one of the puppet horror films made by amateur filmmaker Ian Yeoman in the early 70s. See also DRACULA, DEMON OF THE NIGHT.

SHADOW OF THE CAT (John Gilling 1961)

SHADOW OF THE PAST (Mario Zampi 1950) - 'The Woman In Black' seems to be an apparition seeking revenge for her murder - it turns out to be the disguise of her very much alive, equally vengeful twin.

SHAKE AND SHIVER (198?) - 50-minute comedy horror spoof made by students at the University Of East Anglia in the late 1980s. The gang from ‘Scooby Doo’ (“Velma and Daphne as closet lesbian lovers, Freddie in love with himself, Shaggy as a drug-addled munchies case...Scoob himself was played as a world-weary, womanising lounge-lizard in a tuxedo”) meet ‘The Granny’, leader of a sinister religious cult. Ref: postings at www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk by ‘Jocular Pseudonym’ and ‘Colonel Caine’ (the latter having appeared in the film as the aforementioned ‘Granny’).

SHALLOW GRAVE (Danny Boyle 1995) - taking in a fourth person to help share the rent on their flat, 3 friends are astounded to find him dead - what's more, he's left a suitcase full of cash, which leads to panic and murder. Stylish 90s thriller from the team later responsible for TRAINSPOTTING.

SHE (W.Barker, H.Lisle Locoque 1916) - silent version of the Rider Haggard classic.

SHE (Leander Cordova 1925)

SHE (Robert Day 1965) - Hammer does Rider Haggard, with all the attention on red-hot Bond girl Ursula Andress.

THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick 1980) - controversial Stephen King adaptation, with Jack Nicholson outstanding. Looks better and better with each successive viewing.

THE SHOUT (Jerzy Skolimowski 1978) - Alan Bates as the charismatic stranger whose presence in a small coastal village stirs up passions, and who claims the ability to kill with the sound of his voice. Compelling, intelligent horror drama.

THE SHUTTERED ROOM (David Greene 1967) - o.k. version of H.P.Lovecraft 'thing in the attic' tale; Oliver Reed's biker hoodlum perhaps looms rather larger than the film's hidden terror.

SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (Sam Wanamaker 1977) - somewhat lacklustre Harryhausen fantasy.

THE SINFUL DWARF (Vidal Raski 1973) - outrageous piece of sleaze as a faded cabaret singer and her grotesque, vertically-challenged son kidnap young women, lock them in the attic and use them in a vice operation! Britain's answer to PINK FLAMINGOS? Almost...

SKINFLICKER (Tony Bicat 1972) - a teacher, a nurse, and a psychotic band together to kidnap, torture, and hang a government minister, as a revolutionary act, all captured on film by a porno movie-maker. Controversial BFI-funded 41-minute featurette.

THE SKULL (Freddie Francis 1965) - at times surreal expansion of Robert Bloch's short story 'The Skull Of The Marquis de Sade'. Not great, but at its best this is quite something.

SLAYGROUND (Terry Bedford 1983) - semi-British, semi-horror outing in which a hitman hired to hunt down a gang of criminals pursues one of them across the Atlantic to Southport. In true stalk-and-slash movie fashion, the assassin appears to possess uncanny powers and proves near-impossible to kill.

SLEEPWALKER (Saxon Logan 1984) - once believed 'lost' mini-feature mixing social comment (couples discuss Thatcherist values over dinner) with gory murders (one of the party knifing the rest in their beds). Prominent acting role for the celebrated Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas. In association with this very website, SLEEPWALKER was rediscovered in 2002 and received its first cinema screenings since the mid-80s, eventually securing a prestige Blu-ray release on the BFI's Flipside label. (For the full story behind SLEEPWALKER's revival, go to www.fantastic-films.com/festival/2002/sleepwalker.htm )

THE SNAKE WOMAN (Sidney J.Furie 1960)

SNOW WHITE: A TALE OF TERROR (Michael Cohn 1996) - Sigourney Weaver and Sam Neill star in a version of the Brothers Grimm classic, which accentuates the horror elements of the old fairytale.

SON OF DRACULA (Freddie Francis 1974) - barely-released pop musical, something of a vanity project for ex-Beatle Ringo Starr.

THE SORCERERS (Michael Reeves 1967) - elderly couple's invention allows them to vicariously 'live' the experiences of a young man, driving him to greater and greater depravities. With Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey and Ian Ogilvy.

SPECTRE (Clive Donner 1977) - Robert Culp and Gig Young as supernatural crimebusters in this U.S. t.v. movie shot in Britain. Above-average demonic fare, co-scripted by Gene Roddenberry. With John Hurt and Gordon Jackson.

SPELLBOUND (John Harlow 1940) - psychic revives recently-deceased woman. Dark fantasy drama scripted by the great Miles Malleson.

SPHERE – THE SPORES OF DOOM (Stephen Hilliker 1984) - the population of an old English village is kept under the control of a wizard who concocts a potion from magic mushrooms. 40-minute fantasy, compared to THE COMPANY OF WOLVES and WITCHFINDER GENERAL by ‘Starburst’ magazine (issue #77).

THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (Peter Collinson 1975) - pointless remake.

SPLIT SECOND (Tony Maylam, Ian Sharpe 1991) - Rutger Hauer in futuristic monster movie, set in a flooded London in the year 2008.

ST. ELMO (Rex Wilson 1923) - "Widow's son kills clerical rival in a duel and becomes possessed by the Devil" - British Film Catalogue.

STOLEN FACE (Terence Fisher 1952) - early plastic surgery thriller from the Hammer studio.

STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING (Peter Collinson 1972) - latter-day Hammer psycho-chiller - 60s darling Rita Tushingham as a mousy innocent who becomes involved with murderous Shane Briant, a killer with a penchant for recording the death-throes of his victims.

THE STRANGE WORLD OF PLANET X (Gilbert Gunn 1958) - scientist's experiments with the Earth's magnetic field opens the way for an invasion by giant insects from space.

THE STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY (Terence Fisher 1959) - thugee terror in this lesser Fisher horror excursion.

STRAW DOGS (Sam Peckinpah 1971) - incredibly violent siege drama with Dustin Hoffman and Susan George; Peckinpah transplants a western-style plot into a rural English setting, to produce a unique spin on the traditional British horror movie.

A STUDY IN TERROR (James Hill 1965) - Sherlock Holmes investigates the 'Jack the Ripper' case.

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (Joseph L.Mankiewicz 1959) - hysterical adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, filmed at Shepperton Studios with a big-name American cast. Homosexuality, lobotomies, and cannibalism feature prominently! "Short play turns into a ludicrous, lumbering horror movie" - 'New Yorker' 1978.

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (Richard Eyre 1992) - Maggie Smith and Rob Lowe star in a feature-length remake, for British television, of the Tennessee Williams play.

SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN (Alan Briggs 1984) - during the dark days of the 'video nasty' panic, a children's drama school filmed this short horror feature with a demonic possession theme as a special project, causing uproar in the press and considerable confusion at the BBFC.

THE SUICIDE CLUB (Maurice Elvey 1932) - from the R.L.Stevenson story, previously filmed by Elvey as a 1914 short.

SWEENEY TODD (Walter West 1928)

SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (George King 1936) - Tod Slaughter as the definitive Sweeney, complete with winning catchphrase "what a lovely throat for a razor!"

SWEET ANGEL MINE (Curtis Radclyffe 1996) - man searching for his missing father becomes involved with strange family in Nova Scotia. "(Decapitated) head" - Internet Movie Database. U.K./Canadian co-production.

SYMPTOMS (Jose Larraz 1974) - more country-house killings in this unusually subdued mood piece from Larraz. With Angela Pleasence.

POST-2000

SAFETY IN NUMBERS (David Douglas 2005) - reality t.v. contestants meet up on an island for a reunion - but their yacht goes missing, the beach house has the message "you will all die" scrawled on the wall, and they are stalked by an unknown killer…

SAINT MAUD (Rose Glass 2020) - young nurse with extreme religious beliefs is charged with caring for a terminally ill cancer patient - but begins to experience visions of a Welsh-speaking God and other seemingly supernatural sights and events (all in her own head?) as she convinces herself that she must fight to save the soul of the older woman she is looking after.

SALVAGE (Lawrence Gough 2009) - brisk and exciting little monster movie, shot on the sets of Channel 4's soap opera 'Brookside', An experimental creature developed for military use has avoided its planned destruction by the armed forces, and made its way to a cul-de-sac where it terrorises the residents.

SANITARIUM (Johannes Roberts and James Eaves 2000) - at a psychiatric institute, researcher’s tests on new drug B390 sees the insane being cured while the control group suffers horrific deterioration. Would-be intellectual shocker, with a Cronenbergian setting, concept, and even some SHIVERS-style parasites. Originally screened as DIAGNOSIS.

SAUL’S PUPILS (Andrew Harrison 2002) - a girl called Alex is kidnapped and held to ransom, the abductor requesting that her boyfriend should kill on his behalf. Supernatural thriller from Northern Ireland’s prolific amateur film enthusiasts Midnight Pictures.

SAVAGE MESSIAH (Mario Azzopardi 2002) - Drama about Manson-like killer cult. Canadian/U.K. co-production.

SAWNEY: FLESH OF MAN (Ricky Wood 2012) - David Hayman plays a cab-driving modern-day version of the notorious Scottish cannibal clan head, Sawney Bean. Aka LORD OF DARKNESS.

THE SCAR CROW (Pete Benson and Andy Thompson 2009) - witches, ghosts, curses, a living scarecrow, 17th century folk horror, and a bang-up-to-date bunch of lads on a team-building weekend are all part of the mix in this likeable low budget horror.

SCAR TISSUE (Scott Michell 2013) - man whose sister was murdered when he was five finds himself being pursued by the murderer twenty years later - but can't figure how this is happening, since the killer is suppposedly dead.

SCARRED (Steve Looker 2004) - amateur video feature made in Bolton. Young filmmakers scouting locations are kidnapped and held in 'The Blood Shed' by a deformed psycho - but is everything what it seems?

THE SCOPIA EFFECT (Christopher Butler 2014) - "Reincarnation goes horribly wrong releasing dark forces across time. Basia accesses parts of her mind that should never be tampered with. Past lives merge with present as her reality becomes distorted, she fights for her very existence."

SCRAWL (Peter Hearn 2015) - student Liam creates his own comic books, but the deaths depicted start to happen for real. An early role for Daisy Ridley (STAR WARS: EPISODE VII: - THE FORCE AWAKENS) in this indie shocker.

THE SEASONING HOUSE (Paul Hyett 2012) - brutality and murder in a decidedly grim brothel, the bleak directorial debut of Hyett, who had established a reputation as a major player in the world of special effects make up. Rosie Day, Kevin Howarth, and Sean Pertwee star, and there's an effective surprise ending.

SEED OF CHUCKY (Don Mancini 2005) - hilarious fifth entry in the CHILD'S PLAY franchise, this time a United Kingdom/Romanian co-production featuring Brits Hannah Spearritt and Jason Flemyng among the cast.

SELF INDUCED NIGHTMARES (2018) - multi-director collection of short segments from "some of Europe's leading horror filmmakers'. A UK-originated production with the likes of Adam A. Park and Dan Brownlie among the contributors.

SENTINELS OF DARKNESS (Manos Kalaitzakis 2002) - straight-to-video vampire fare starring Eileen Daly. 3-part anthology film?

SERIAL KALLER (Dan Brownlie 2014) - internet softcore porn models working on a Babestation-style TV channel are stalked by a murderer in the television studio. A great movie which manages to exploit its contemporary setting to perfection as well as containing surprises galore, not least during its crazy finale. Dani Thompson and a fabulous Debbie Rochon star.

SEVEN BOXES (Andrew Sean Eltham-Byers 2019) - 90-minute low budget horror. "7 People, 7 Hours, 7 Deadly Boxes. Past events have brought them together and they must now figure out why in order to survive"

SEVERANCE (Christopher Smith 2006) - " 'The Office' meets DELIVERANCE"… comedy horror from the director of CREEP. A white-collar 'team building' exercise, with office workers being sent to Romania, turns deadly when they find a killer lying in wait.

THE SHADOW OF DEATH (Gav Chuckie Steel 2012) - slasher comedy shot in Farnham, Surrey.

SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (E.Elias Merhige 2000) - John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe in drama centred around the filming of F.W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU: EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS. BBC production, in conjunction with Nicolas Cage’s Saturn Films.

SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Edgar Wright 2003) - from the team behind hit Channel 4 comedy ‘Spaced’; Simon Pegg stars in a light romance which turns into a gory zombie movie!

SHED OF THE DEAD (Drew Cullingham 2019) - two unemployed misfit friends spend all day painting fantasy gaming figurines in a shed. After they accidentally cause the death of a neighbour who tries to have them evicted from the allotment, this results in the dead rising. British horror comedy starring Spencer Brown and Ewen McIntosh, with stellar support from big names Kane Hodder, Michael Berryman, Emily Booth, Bill Moseley and Brian Blessed..

SHORTCUTS TO HELL: VOLUME 1 (2013) - compilation of 26 British horror shorts made for FrightFest and The Horror Channel's 'Shortcuts To Hell UK' talent-spotting filmmaking competition.

SHORTCUTS TO HELL: VOLUME II (2014) - a second compilation of FrightFest competition shorts.

SHROOMS (Paddy Breathnach 2007) - group of students go camping in Ireland and experience hallucinations after taking mushrooms, before a series of murders begins in the woods. Irish/UK/Danish co-production.

SICK BASTARD (Json Impey 2007) - 70-minute amateur feature. "A madman goes on a killing rampage through the woods!"

THE SICK HOUSE (Curtis Radclyffe 2006) - as an archaeologist investigates the deaths of a number of children from three centuries ago, the spirit of a 17th-century 'Plague Doctor' is resurrected and unleashed in an old hospital.

SIGHTSEERS (Ben Wheatley 2012) - a couple holidaying in the English countryside just happen to kill people, by accident or design, every so often along the route. Wheatley's speedy follow-up to KILL LIST mixes murder with Mike Leigh's 'Nuts In May', with Alice Lowe and Steve Oram making their mark as the deadly duo.

SILVER WILLOWS (Marcus Graham 2004) - group of friends stumble upon an old abandoned house - evil spirit which is trapped there sees a chance to use them to effect its escape. 55-minute DV feature.

SILVERHIDE (Keith R. Robinson 2015) - originally announced as 'POUNCE', this cheapo affair is an attempt to do a government conspiracy thriller mixed with a wolf-monster movie (the creature is as described there, rather than a conventional werewolf).

SIX HOT CHICKS IN A WAREHOUSE (Simon P. Edwards 2017) - photographer hires six girls for a shoot, before things get violent and gory in this would-be 'grindhouse' horror cheapie.

16 DAYS 'TIL THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (Lee Isserow 2005) - young man returns from holiday and announces he is to be married in 16 days' time - his druggy/alcoholic/jealous friends suspect that his partner may be a demon/succubus and set out to seek proof before it is too late. Low-budget horror-themed comedy.

SKARE (Michael J. Murphy 2001) - low-budget black comedy horror from the elusive director of THE LAST NIGHT and INVITATION TO HELL. Adding to the Murphy legend, this film is now officially lost, the print having been mislaid in the post while on the way to the developing laboratory! (Ref: Paul Higson)

SKARE (Michael J. Murphy 2007) - see above. Murphy eventually decided to have another stab at filming his SKARE script, this time to completion! Chris Jupp also filmed the script separately, his film being released as BEAST.

SLASHER HOUSE (MJ Dixon 2012) - girl awakens in strange house, discovers that cells in the building each hold a notorious serial killer - and the captives are about to break free. Festival favourite from the early days of MJ Dixon's 'Mycho Entertainment' company.

SLASHER HOUSE 2 (MJ Dixon 2016) - our heroine Red is back, again fighting her way through a maze of psychos and maniacs.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ (Crispian Mills 2018) - fracking causes a sinkhole to appear in the grounds of a boarding school - unleashing monsters. Rather slight horror comedy with Simon Pegg, Michael Sheen, Margot Robbie and Nick Frost among the big-name cast.

THE SLEEPING ROOM (Jon Shackleton 2014) - Alex Chandon was one of the writers on this Brighton-set horror - a young prostitute visits a Victorian house and, after viewing a mutoscope film of a hooded man and two women dancing, begins to experience eerie visions, suspecting that she may have awoken the property's dark past.

SLUMBER PARTY (Martin Marshall 2001) - “Australian girl group, The Sheilas, stay overnight in a haunted Suffolk mansion” – ‘English Gothic’, second edition. Shot-on-video independent feature.

SMALL TOWN FOLK (Peter Stanley-Ward 2005) - within the village of Grockleton stands the hilltop Beesley's Manor, governed by the villainous 'Landlord'; trespassers upon his property are ensnared into a hunt a la THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME.

THE SMALL WOMAN IN GREY (Andrew Sean Eltham-Byers 2017) - teens go camping in woods which may be haunted by a malevolent spirit, a suicide victim. Shot for £5000, including Brinke Stevens among its cast.

THE SNARE (C. A. Cooper 2017) - "Three friends head to the seafront for a drunken weekend, only to be imprisoned on the top floor of their holiday apartment by a malevolent paranormal force"

THE SNARLING (Pablo Raybould 2016) - crowd-pleasing horror comedy, a big hit on the UK film festival circuit prior to a delayed DVD release. As tensions rise on the set of a low budget zombie movie filming in a small out-of-the-way village, and the local lookalike for the film's male diva star spends time boozing in the pub with his mates, a werewolf is terrorising the surrounding area. Great fun, with lots of laughs and a challenging dual role for lead actor Laurence Saunders.

THE SNOWMAN (Tomas Alfredson 2017) - Scanda-noir feature based on a Jo Nesbo novel. Killer uses snowmen as a marker every time they claim a victim, sometimes leaving the severed head atop the snow figure. All-star cast in a pretty dreadful waste of time, that almost seems to be unfinished in places. UK production involvement amid this international mess.

S.N.U.B. (Jonathan Glendening 2010) - nuclear device explodes in London, causing radiation-contaminated mutants - who break into the S.N.U.B. (Secret Nuclear Underground Bunker), killing those taking refuge there.

SNUFF FILM: DEATH ON CAMERA (Joe Newton 2011) - 40-minute item directed by Jason Impey using his 'Newton' pseudonym. Demented filmmaker shows us a collection of his snuff movies. Compiled from Impey's short films?

SNUFF-MOVIE (Bernard Rose 2005) - Jeroen Krabbe as film director 'Boris Arkadin', attempting to make a film based on a 1975 Manson-like massacre, and manipulating the horrifying events affecting his terrified cast.

SOLDIERS OF THE DAMNED (Mark Nuttall 2015) - World War II-set horror drama with German troops ordered to escort a female academic safely into a woodland area and back out again, avoiding the Russian enemy. In the forest they encounter various spooky goings on and weird time-loop events; occasionally one of them will burn to ashes, only to reappear in another part of the woods.

SOUL SEARCHER (Neil Oseman 2004) - feature-length expansion of the Hereford-based director’s 2000 short, with an ordinary everyday bloke being killed and resurrected as the ‘new Grim Reaper’ in order to collect souls.

SOULMATE (Axelle Carolyn 2013) - feature film debut of Carolyn, after acting in horror films for several years and writing extensively about horror. Woman recuperating following a suicide attempt finds that her country cottage is haunted.

A SOUND OF THUNDER (Peter Hyams 2005) - Ben Kingsley stars in this US/UK/German/Czech co-production inspired by the famous Ray Bradbury story. Time travel, dinosaur hunting, actions in the past changing the future.

SOUTH AFRICAN SPOOK HUNTER (Kathryn MacCorgarry Gray and Daniel Rands 2018) - horror comedy in which the title character hires a film crew to document his quest for the paranormal. Just as they begin to become bored with the lack of exciting activity, things start to get weird...

SOUTH OF SANITY (Kirk Watson and Mathew Edwards 2012) - masked and black-gloved killer murders members of a research team in Antarctica (where this movie was actually shot, by members of an actual research team with time on their hands!)

SPACE NINJAS (Scott McQuaid 2019) - produced by prolific British filmmaker Mumtaz Yildirimlar, this 80s-style sf/horror pastiche pits teenage students against invisible beings who are trying to kill them.

THE SPELL (Owen Carey Jones 2009) - young girl, a former drug user, becomes involved with witchcraft and the occult. Based on the true experiences of Emma Whale, who contacted the director asking him to turn her life story into a movie.

SPIDER (David Cronenberg 2002) - a care-in-the-community case living in a halfway house believes his mother to have been brutally murdered by his father when he was a boy; but the reality is rather different. Cronenberg's fascination with multiple/shared personalities emerges once more in this splendid adaptation of Patrick McGrath's novel.

SPIDERHOLE (Daniel Simpson 2010) - bunch of squatters move into an abandoned London property, before this one goes down the 'torture porn' route.

SPIRIT TRAP (David Smith 2004) - Billie Piper and Dougray Scott star in haunted house chiller.

THE SPIRITUALIST (Carl Medland 2016) - young woman, who thinks her mother's ghost is haunting her, asks a spiritualist to host a seance for her and her friends - who are forced by the entity to confront their worst fears.

SPLINTERED (Simeon Halligan 2010) - "A man (Stephen Martin Walters) imprisons a teenager (Holly Weston) to protect her from a legendary beast that roams the Welsh countryside". Very impressive feature debut from Halligan, who has gone on to fulfil the promise shown here.

SPOOKORA: HOTEL OF DEATH (Tom Stavely 2012) - following two shorts, this was the 43-minute third instalment of the SPOOKORA series from amateur filmmaking troupe Twit Twoo Films. Faux paranormal investigation stuff, this time set in a Spanish hotel. On YouTube.

STAG HUNT (James Shanks 2015) - from the director of THE DEVIL'S HARVEST (and with Julie T. Wallace reprising her character from that movie); bunch of lads enjoy a stag night on Dartmoor but something is out to get them.

STAGKNIGHT (Simon Cathcart 2005) - bunch of lads on a stag-night prepare for the usual booze, drugs, and strippers, along with a planned paintball session; but, "deep in the woods outside London, an ancient evil lies undisturbed for centuries - until now…". Low-budget horror comedy.

STAG NIGHT OF THE DEAD ('Napoleon' Jones 2010) - stag night horror (directed by Neil Jones under a pseudonym) where the entertainment is a session of 'zomball' - like paintball, except you shoot at zombies...

STALKER (Martin Kemp 2010) - member of 80s music outfit Spandau Ballet directs a remake of EXPOSE, James Kenelm Clarke's notorious British video nasty from the mid 70s - and, arguably, improves on that already fine piece of earlier work.

STALLED (Christian James 2013) - "A janitor and an office worker must find a way to escape after zombies infect revelers at a Christmas party."

STEVEN BERKOFF'S TELL TALE HEART (Stephen Cookson 2017) - Berkoff adapted Poe's classic story for Channel 4.s 'Without Walls' TV show in 1991, returning later with this 80-minute feature length version which he scripted and in which he stars.

STITCHES (Conor McMahon 2012) - clown returns from the dead to take revenge on his teenage killers. Ross Noble starred in this UK/Irish offering.

THE STONE (Philip Gardiner 2011) - another Gardiner cheapie. "A team of soul searchers uncover an ancient Stone and quickly all hell breaks loose as psychological and paranormal activity ensues"

STORAGE 24 (Johannes Roberts 2012) - Noel Clarke starred in, co-produced and co-wrote this one from his own story idea, ably handled by the prolific Roberts. A group of people become trapped in a storage unit, and are soon being stalked by a creature that may have emerged from the wreckage of a crashed military aircraft.

STORMHOUSE (Dan Turner 2011) - supernatural creature captured by the US army is locked in a British military facility, but soon gets loose and begins killing off victims.

STRIGOI (Faye Jackson 2009) - Romania-set drama centred upon a vigilante murder, with lots of Eastern European vampire lore thrown in.

STRIPPERS VS WEREWOLVES (Jonathan Glendenning 2012) - the title says it all! Written by Phillip Barron and HELLBRIDE/KILLERKILLER director Pat Higgins. According to Wikipedia the film took just £38 in its opening week at the UK box office...

SUCKED DOWN A HOLE (Ewan Rigg and Tom Stavely 2017) - 52-minute amateur micro-budget horror from Twit Twoo Films, reportedly made for £100.

SUMMER OF THE MASSACRE (Bryn Hammond 2005) - Serial killer known as 'Hammer Head' stalks teenagers in the woods

SUMMER SCARS (Julian Richards 2007) - director of THE LAST HORROR MOVIE teams up again with his star Kevin Howarth, the latter this time playing a drifter who encounters a bunch of teenagers in the woods. After their initial misgivings the kids realise that the guy is likeable and friendly, but events gradually begin to take a darker turn as he starts to play sinister psychological mind games. Tense and unconventional psycho character study fare.

SUPERSTITION (Kenneth Hope 2001) - teenage au pair is put on trial for murder resulting from her out-of-control pyrokinetic abilities. U.K/Luxembourg/Netherlands co-production starring Charlotte Rampling and David Warner.

SURPRISE (David Green and Dan McGee 2019) - "an anthology horror involving a social gathering of writers on Halloween, where they each tell stories in hopes of winning a local competition"

SURVEILLED (James Smith 2021) - a keen student of serial killings becomes more closely involved when a copycat murderer named The Clairmont Killer begins attacking women in his home town, using methods taken from a series of violent crime novels.

SURVIVAL INSTINCT (Steven Lawson 2016) - made as RITES OF PASSAGE and given a brief theatrical run as SURVIVAL INSTINCT, this was retitled FOOTSOLDIER for DVD release. Basic plotline has a shotgun-wielding maniac pursuing a young woman through the countryside, but this is a superior example of the form.

SURVIVAL ISLAND (Stewart Raffill 2005) - survivors from a fire on board a yacht wash up on a desert island, with heated passions leading to attempted murder, curses and voodoo. Billy Zane and Kelly Brook star. Aka THREE.

SURVIVING EVIL (Terence Daw 2009) - the Aswang, a shape-shifting creature of Filipino legend (as seen in several movies over the years), is the focus of this UK/South Africa co-production starring Billy Zane. Team of documentary filmmakers shooting a 'survival special' in the Philippines encounter the beast.

SUSU (Xiaoxiao Sun 2018) - the return of Norman J Warren to British filmmaking! Norman was one of the producers on this gothic drama with Du Maurier/V.C. Andrews/Hammer horror touches to it. Two Chinese girls take a translation job in the mansion home where a famous Kunqu Opera star died - one of the girls bears a resemblance to the deceased star. Their wheelchair-bound host seems a little strange - and something is preventing them from leaving the house...

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (Tim Burton 2007) - Johnny Depp (very Karloff-like here) and Helena Bonham Carter head an all-star cast in Burton's grand revival of the Demon Barber, based on Stephen Sondheim's musical