There are some bonafide classics here. Get the popcorn.
Do you like scary movies?
It's the season for all things horror as Halloween approaches and for anyone that loves a few gory delights, Film 4 have just the thing for you. They're bringing back their FilmFear festival over the Halloween period and there are some terrifying treats in store.
Here are some of the best films that they've got planned along with a brief description of the plot.
Tuesday 24th October
9pm - Alien
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 97%
Plot: After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun
11.55pm - Sightseers
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 86%
Plot: Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
Wednesday 25th October
11.15pm - A Dark Song
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 90%
Plot: A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
1.20am - The Babadook
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 98%
Plot: A widowed mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Friday 27th October
11.15pm - Candyman
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 70%
Plot: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
1.20am - Bram Stoker's Dracula
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 78%
Plot: The centuries-old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Saturday 28th October
12.30am - Aaaaaaaah!
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 91%
Plot: Ever imagined what life would be like if humans were apes in modern life? That is the portrayal in this deeply thought provoking mind boggle.
2.10am - A Field In England
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 88%
Plot: Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.
Sunday 29th October
10.55pm - Fright Night
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 91%
Plot: When a teenager learns that his next door neighbour is a vampire, no one will believe him.
1.10am - Berberian Sound Studio
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 84%
Plot: A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
Monday 30th October
10.45pm - The Ghoul
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 76%
Plot: A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
12.30am - Evil Dead (remake)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 62%
Plot: Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods.
Tuesday 31st October
10.40pm - Prevenge
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 95%
Plot: Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way.
12.25am - The Craft
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 50%
Plot: A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them.
2.25am - Excision
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 81%
Plot: A disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.
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