Welcome to yet another Blair Witch/Paranormal Activity subgenre tale of a TV Crew undertaking their series finale. Now you know some really spooky stuff is going happen, right? Right…?

I’ve been playing quite the tough guy recently with regard to horror films. I’ve been watching them with reckless abandon and poo-pooing any attempts to scare me as nonsense. A recent viewing of Paranormal Activity being a good example – it was terrifically dull and about as scary as mash potato.

And now for something completely different…… Ghost Stories, written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, is the closest experience to a living horror film you will get.

Paranormal Activity is released Monday 22nd March. By now just about everyone and their pet hamster has heard about this movie. The trailer, whose marketing impact is not to be sniffed at, depicts ‘real’ audiences gasping in horror at the ossifying action they are witnessing on screen. It’s an enticing advertisement which promises the viewer [...]

Right, I did it the wrong way round. I watched Messengers 2 first. But, let’s face it, if I hadn’t have quite liked it, I probably wouldn’t have wanted to watch part one. Like the second, it’s set on a farm (the same house even?), there are loads of really irritating crows, and there is [...]

I’m finding it increasingly hard to find good ‘ghost’ horror movies. At the moment, there’s lots of torture-filled, psychologically twisted, gory jump-fests. And there are even a few ghost-type stories, heavily influenced by the Asian horrors. But they just don’t scare me anymore and I’m finding that I’m having to go further back in time, [...]