So, you’ve scoffed all the chocolate, watched the umpteenth repeat of Uncle Buck on TV and vaguely pondered the true meaning of this extended bank holiday. What now, very few people ask.

Well, how about a bevy of horror releases and a documentary about one of the greatest films of that genre? More chocolate? Sorry, it’ll have to be the movies.

Ah. Spring is finally here. After a long winter not dissimilar to 30 Days of Night, the UK is… erm, blanketed in more snow, being pummelled by Arctic winds and bored by the traditional British weather chat. It’s timely then, that we have a quartet of home-grown horrors to prove that there are some things our country is actually good at; namely, violence, misery and a dash of allegory for good measure.

Is anyone else getting tired of new horror movies? If it’s not 12A haunted houses, Eli Roth torture-porning it up or endless found footage films, it’s smug-as-hell meta bollocks po-moing for all its worth. I hear you screaming “where are the phallic puppet-demons?” Lucky for you, then, that we have a batch of vintage re-releases this month.

House At The End Of The Street skimps on the gore but ends up doing something far more interesting with the format.

If there’s one thing horror movies have taught us, it’s that you really shouldn’t take people at face value.

Ah, late October. The time for DVD distributors line up a bumper batch of gorefests to keep you, the eager public, satisfied.

First up amongst the laughing boys of genre cinema we have the highly enjoyable Dutch zombie apocalypse-fest Kill Zombie.