Even when Leatherface is out and about terrorising the victims the film makers add nothing to the original, using every kill from the 1973 version. Laziness camouflaged as homage. Not only that, the poor old murdering codger is also hindered by the fact that he has to throw his chainsaw at the camera a few times to warrant the extra $2 for 3D glasses.

William Lustieg's 1980 Argento influenced cult slasher was never a real contender of priority in the slew of remakes currently gracing our screens. Admirably, splat pack member and infant terrible Alexandre Aja delved deep in to the barrel, writing and producing this for P2 director Franck Khalfoun. After all if you're coming to the plate with a remake, make it one that no one has seen…

Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones put in a couple of winning performances in a film which doesn't quite know if it's out to slander the conventions of the romantic comedy or use them to its own unique means. Celeste and Jesse look like any couple in love; they meet, share their first kiss, get married and holiday in the film's opening titles, a sickly sweet affair which continues into the intro of the film. Weirdly, we find out that this couple in love aren't a couple in love…

It's not hard to see why Guillermo Del Toro hand-picked Argentine Andrés Muschietti to flesh out his 3 minute short film Mama into a gothic suburban horror feature. Loaded with scares and atmosphere but sadly unravelling into a bit of a mess in the film's second half, it falls victim to many clichés rampant in recent "big dark house" horror.

This supremely stupid B-Movie blood fest has just enough gusto to make you forget the world for 90 minutes and revel, unashamedly  in the ludicrousness of it all. The concept; A tsunami hits a coastal Australian town and a handful of survivors find themselves trapped inside a flooded supermarket with a couple of pissed off 12ft great white sharks.

SFX wunder-kid Joseph Kosinski's second Sci-Fi effort is a seriously beautiful looking and sounding failure peppered with rehashed ideas and predictable twists. Elements of Total Recall, Moon, The Matrix and countless other philosophical concept genre powerhouses are pilfered from at random to fashion an empty panoramic world destroyed by and invaded by aliens. 

Ben Wheatley's third and most very British outing is a markedly lighter affair than his previous kitchen sink killer films Kill List and Down Terrace confidently using sharp humor to counteract its sharp violence…

Jean Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï lives between its chiming major notes. A quietly burning masterpiece of suspense rooted in early American noir and filtered through the early days of French cinema cool, its brilliance as a twisting of a popular theme and as a corner-stone of square-jawed silent style, it remains a flawless experience.

A near black and white colour palate and an unsettling introduction let you know straight off the bat that Jeremy Regimbal's debut thriller isn't going to end well. An archetypical set up which describes a car containing a family with a past winding up some country roads in their 4x4 to a house in the woods also screams the fact that In Their Skin might not be either ground breaking or unique.

Dave Grohl's directorial debut traces the history of the brown carpeted and beer soaked legendary Sound City Studios. A recording space in Van Nuys in Los Angeles known for its crunching drum sounds and analogue Neve 8028 recording desk it has hosted and produced a number of influential records including LPs by Fleetwood Mac, Nirvana and Neil Young.

Brandon Cronenberg's debut feature is an assured jet black first effort. Harnessing his fathers need to deconstruct the inherent fears in our society and mash them together with a hefty dose of flesh piercing and bloodletting this film may be instantly compared to the master of body horror's early work - Rabid or Shivers perhaps - but there are plenty of new and interesting ideas to be found in Antiviral.

In the final days of the second World War a 14-year-old girl named Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) is abandoned by her Nazi parents in the Black Forest of Bavaria. Left to fend for herself and her 4 siblings she must take them on foot to Hamburg, 500 miles through the remnants and memories of the greatest atrocity in modern times. A dark fairy tale feeling runs through Lore like a great dark vein, growing more prominent as they are pursued by many big bad wolves on their way to the safety of a childhood cottage. Cate Shortland's second feature film after the mesmerising Somersault is a dreamy, beautifully shot story about horrible realisation and doubt.

Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror masterpiece The Shining is a film that has been watched and re-watched, poured over and pondered. Its obtuse finale, its destruction of much of Stephen Kings source and its meticulous details and clues, fuelled by the fans knowledge of the directors infamous shot compositing, has paved the way for this great little film essay by Rodney Ascher…

In a world, much like Lassiter's Toy Story, the heroes and villains in a games arcade full of classics, both old and new, come alive once the premisses are closed for the night. It's a simple and obvious jumping off point for any Pixar or Disney film; A secret world behind a very public and popular one…

Jennifer Chambers Lynch third film since 2008's Surveillance is a mixed bag; Serial killer tension and a somewhat unique take on the battering genre staple of "torture porn" are strong points throughout but the infuriating finale and some messy and obvious plot devices drag stop Chained from ever being truly intriguing…

Lee Hirsch's Bully is certainly a documentary which is ragged around the edges, it isn't perfectly well-formed, it nearly drowns itself in a backwash of unanswered questions and it often falls into the traps of making a factual point to the detriment of the film. But as fact and as an expose it is a seriously affecting and disturbing portrait of a young world pummelled by the cruelest of all individuals; The teenager…

Teenage growing pains evolve into something seriously disturbing in Richard Bates Jr.'s debut horror comedy. The first time feature, expanded from the directors own short is part Cronenberg part John Waters, featuring a fine central performance from a wonderfully “uglied up” AnnaLynne McCord…

David Chase makes his debut with the somewhat autobiographical Not Fade Away, a splash of 60's rock and roll topped off with a good helping of breakfast table family drama. Though the film could have easily played as a more suburban prequel to Cameron Crowe's wonderful Almost Famous, Chase instead hints, and often points directly, at something far darker…

Though Stroszek is perhaps Herzog's least seen film of the 1970's it remains as kind of wonderful backhanded diss on the American Dream. Though on the surface it may often feel like Herzog being Herzog for Herzog's sake, Stroszek is filled with wonderful images and a beautifully real performance from Bruno S. and most of the unknown local cast…

Ben Lewins film is something of a unique sexual discovery. It's a tender look at something which infatuates and consumes many young men and women in film and is the focus of thousands of coming of age stories in modern cinema. Inventive films and terrible films alike, in the shape of high school comedies mainly, take long hard looks at the struggle of the intelligent shy guy or more accurately his struggle to get laid…