The Mummy

Director: Karl Freund
 
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023245/

Review: A good story with really nice special effects and a great spooky lead performance.

Watch it if: You can handle a few outdated and now offensive tropes.

And if you liked: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Frankenstein, Dracula

Bad Milo

Director: Jacob Vaughan
 
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2274570/

Review: Fun enough with a few good laughs and a reasonably tense third act considering how (intentionally) silly the premise is.

Watch it if: You can handle a fair amount of fart humour.

And if you liked: Office Space, Gremlins

Paperhouse

Director: Bernard Rose
 
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098061/

Review: A great creepy premise brought to life well with a spooky atmosphere and nicely surreal art direction.

Watch it if: You're looking for something a bit atypical.

And if you liked: Candyman, Tideland, The Truman Show, The Lovely Bones

Check this out: Marianne Dreams

Hell Baby

Director: Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon
 
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2318527/

Review: Not many really big belly laughs but still plenty of fun with a lot of great comedy people.

Watch it if: You're ok with a film essentially being just a bag of jokes.

And if you liked: Tucker and Dale vs Evil, This Is the End, My Name Is Bruce

House on Haunted Hill

Director: William Castle
 
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051744/

Review: Tense and creepy with a fun plot and a brilliantly spooky Vincent Price performance.

Watch it if: You're ok with a nice slow pace to build tension.

And if you liked: The Woman in Black (2012), The Devil Rides Out

Patrick (2013)

Director: Mark Hartley
 
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2147459/

Review: Ridiculous and loaded with odd choices and dodgy special effects but still a lot of fun to sit through.

Watch it if: You can embrace the absurdity in something despite it not being particularly strong.

And if you liked: Shutter Island, The Exorcist III, American Horror Story: Asylum

Check this out: Patrick

Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1

Director: Lloyd Kaufman
 
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2279922/

Review: Needs to be far funnier to justify the amount of crass, stupid and juvenile humour.

Watch it if: You're ok with a large amount if gratuitous nudity.

And if you liked: Street Trash, Scary Movie

Check this out: Class of Nuke 'Em High

Rituals

Director: Peter Carter
 
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076630

Review: Grueling and scary with beautiful scenery and suitably intense performances.

Watch it if: You like a good tense atmosphere even when the story isn't the strongest.

And if you liked: Deliverance, The Blair Witch Project, Straw Dogs

V/H/S/2

Director: Simon Barratt, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto and Adam Wingard
 
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2450186/

Review: A huge step above the first film with some really strong moments and some great production even when the ideas aren't as good.

Watch it if: You're ok with some gory violence.

And if you liked: V/H/S, Paranormal Activity

Eyes Without a Face

Director: Georges Franju
 
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/

Review: Tense and distressing plot with a dreamlike atmosphere and a haunting set of performances.

Watch it if: You can handle a fairly graphic surgery scene.

And if you liked: The Third Man, The Skin I Live In, Frankenstein

Check this out: Les Yeux Sans Visage