What’s that coming over the hill is it a monster?

Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein has received as many movie reconstructions as the mad doctor’s monster had stitches – some proving successful and others abominably abortive.

According to Irish folklore if you hear the scream of a banshee, it means your impending death. Not what you wanted to hear I’m sorry (particularly if you just heard some screaming), but I will progress on with the review nonetheless.

Featuring a babysnatching druid-nanny feeding infants to an evil tree, William Friedkin’s second horror film after The Exorcist is more recognisably a genre movie, full of eerie and suggestive imagery as well as sudden explosions of splatter and gore.

Made by Hammer Quatermass and the Pit was a sequel to two of their earlier films both of which revolved around the amazingly named protagonist Professor Bernard Quatermass and all of which inspired by the BBC TV series written by Nigel Kneale.

Muckman directed by Brett Piper, alludes itself to being a documentary (or should that be mockumentary?) about the fabled Muckman, an elusive creature who by all accounts appears to have been around for centuries.