One of the first things a viewer notices about Cloverfield is that it doesn't play by ordinary storytelling rules, making this intriguing horror film as much a novelty as an event. Told from the vertiginous point-of-view of a camcorder-wielding group of friends, Cloverfield begins like a television soap opera about young Manhattanites coping with changes in their personal lives. ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Michael Stahl-david, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman, Jessica Lucas
Directed By: Matt Reeves

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Katie Cassidy, Lauren Cohan, Michael Massee
Directed By: Charles Beeson, Kim Manners, Philip J. Sgriccia, Cliff Bole, J. Miller Tobin

Three seasons into Supernatural and brothers Sam and Dean Winchester are still attracting trouble. For the pair have a talent for battling the kind of spirits and creatures that are best kept locked away in nightmares--and it's fair to say their journey has taken its toll on them. As we join them in the third season of Supernatural, their travels and adventures take in a mixture ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles

Backed by Guillermo del Toro and yet made by a surprisingly inexperienced group of film makers (especially considering the end result), The Orphanage is a chilling, tense supernatural thriller that could certainly teach more established directors a thing or two about how to send shivers down the spine. It tells the story of a woman, Laura, returning to the orphanage where she was ...

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Belen Rueda, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Cayo
Directed By: Juan Antonio Bayona

After years of rumours, it turns out that Tim Burton was the perfect visionary to film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim's Broadway masterpiece, and the result is a macabre and moving musical movie as enthralling as anything Burton has ever done. The show's mix of gothic horror, Grand Guignol, very dark humor, and witty and beautiful music never was the stuff ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Johnny Depp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall
Directed By: Tim Burton

The Alien Quadrilogy is a nine-disc box set devoted to the four Alien films. Although previously available on DVD as the Alien Legacy, here the films have been repackaged with vastly more extras and with upgraded sound and vision. For anyone who hasn't been in hypersleep for the last 25 years this series needs no introduction, though for the first time each film now comes in ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt
Directed By: Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, David Fincher

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Alex O'Loughlin, Sophia Myles, Jason Dohring, Shannyn Sossamon
Directed By: Chris Fisher, Scott Lautanen, Fred Toye, Paul Holahan

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
Starring: Christina Cox, Dylan Neal, Kyle Schmid, Gina Holden, Françoise Yip

Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Jorge Luis Borges, and Guillermo del Toro's own unlimited imagination, Pan's Labyrinth is a fairytale for adults. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) may only be 12, but the worlds she inhabits, both above and below ground, are dark as anything del Toro has conjured. Set in rural Spain, circa 1944, Ofelia and her widowed mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil, Belle Epoque), ...

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil
Directed By: Guillermo del Toro

Starring Jaime Winstone (Donkey Punch, Kidulthood), Dead Set is E4's new horror series in which the dead are returning to life and attacking the living. Curiously there are a few people left in Britain who aren't worried about any of this - that's because they're the remaining contestants in Big Brother. Cocooned in the safety of the Big Brother house, they're ...

Manufacturer: 4dvd
Starring: Chizzy Akudolu, Shelley Conn, Raj Ghatak, Jennifer Aries, Cavan Clerkin
Directed By: Yann Demange