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Eden Lake (2008) for a pacey slice of bleak British horror with no redeeming feel-good factor whatsoever,

Cabin in the Woods (2012) for something a little bit different,

August Underground trilogy (2001, 2003, 2007) for found footage faux-snuff at it's very best or very worst depending on your point of view,

10, Rillington Place (1971) for a creepy old British suspense thriller about real-life serial killer John Christie,

Dead Hooker in a Trunk (2009) for highly entertaining low-budget grindhouse pulp,

American Psycho (2000) to see how an un-filmable novel can still be a great movie,

Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009) for a stark, unpolished and brutal take on the 80s classics,

Thirst (2009) for a westerner-friendly intro to Korean horror... slow paced but very absorbing and cinematically lush,

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) for an essential addition to any collection of controversial cinema ... an absorbing and intelligent film that's still notorious even 35 years on and made a statement about media monsters 14 years before Oliver Stone thought of it.