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.

“How do you know there’s not a conspiracy? Like maybe the X-Files is right. Where do all these movies come from anyway? How do we know Spielberg, Lucas, Sonnenfeld, Emmerich haven’t been visited by aliens? Maybe they’re aliens themselves… Maybe they’re simply preparing us for what’s to come.”

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.

John Carpenter is back, after a 10 year absence from the horror scene.

Hoodies. The word alone strikes fear into the hearts of the modern masses. As a buzz word for bullying bunches of anti-social anarchists roaming our streets like packs of wild animals armed with knives instead of claws.

John Carpenter’s The Ward is set for a UK cinema release on January 21st 2011.