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Just like a fine wine or actress/model Monica Bellucci, John Carpenter's 1978 slasher just keeps getting better with age. Pared back to the absolute essentials, but shot through with Carpenter's widescreen artistry, Halloween eschews the gross-out gore that would become the hallmark of its countless imitators (and sequels) in favour of the far more basic – and rewarding – fun that comes from scaring the bejeezus out of its audience. It's a film that's both brilliant in its simplicity and quite simply brilliant.

Set in the Lamorna artists colony in Cornwall in 1913, this period drama tells of the ill-fated love triangle that developed between artists Alfred Munnings (Dominic Cooper) and Florence Carter-Wood (Emily Browning), and Alfred's friend Gilbert Evans (Dan Stevens).

Enter the Dragon is far from being Bruce Lee's best movie. Lacking the fury, fluidity and creativity of his trio of Asian martial arts films, this 1973 effort often feels like a fairly standard post-007 Hollywood action flick that just happens to have had Bruce Lee dropped into it.

Neither a true remake or sequel, this reboot of the Evil Dead franchise sees five friends descend on that cabin in the middle of nowhere to help one of their number, Mia (Jane Levy), kick her drug addiction. However, when they find a mysterious book hidden away in the basement – a book that holds the secret to summoning up an ancient evil – cold turkey is the least of their worries.

Reuniting two stars of his earlier horror smash Re-Animator (Jeffrey Combes and Barbara Crampton), Castle Freak tells the story of an American family who inherit an Italian castle. Of course, this being a horror film, the castle comes with a nasty secret in the form of a deformed freak who has been locked up in one of its basement cells for decades. And when he gets loose, there's going to be hell to pay...

Equal parts coming-of-age story, family melodrama, exploration of femininity and homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, the Hollywood debut of director Park Chan-wook is just as unusual and twisted as his earlier Korean thrillers Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, OldBoy and Lady Vengeance.

When the White House is overrun by North Korean terrorists and the President (Aaron Eckhart) is held hostage there's only one man who can save the day. No, not John McClane – the man of action this time is Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), the Secret Service agent the President still blames for the death of the First Lady (Ashley Judd) 18 months earlier.