28 Years Later
A boy who has never known anything else must get his ill mother to help, decades after Britain's outbreak began.
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Films: Isolation
Horror films, old and new: what each one is, who made it and how scary it gets.
A Quiet Place
A family must live in near total silence to survive creatures that hunt by sound alone.
Alien
A commercial crew answers a distress call and finds they are not alone on their own ship.
Five Nights at Freddy's
A troubled security guard takes the night shift at a derelict pizzeria and works out its mascots aren't just old wiring.
Friday the 13th
Camp counsellors reopening a long-closed summer camp are hunted one by one by a killer nobody can name.
I Am Legend
A lone virologist searches for a cure in a New York City where night brings hostile mutants.
Night of the Living Dead
A group sheltering in a farmhouse faces an attack by the living dead in this tense, contained horror film.
Psycho
A stranded woman checks into a quiet motel run by a shy young man and his difficult mother.
Resident Evil
An amnesiac woman and a team of commandos face a virus outbreak in a secret underground facility.
The Evil Dead
Five friends in a remote cabin play an old tape, and wake something that has no intention of leaving them alone.
The Shining
A recovering drinker takes the winter caretaker job at an empty mountain hotel, and the isolation starts to unravel him.
The Thing
An Antarctic research team faces an alien that can imitate living things, leaving everyone unsure whom to trust.