It seems every single classic (or not so classic) horror movie from the ‘70s and ‘80s is getting its own remake lately.

It’s a little surprising, then, that it’s taken so long for the profit-hungry executives to get round to milking the Evil Dead franchise for all its worth. By all accounts a lot more serious than Sam Raimi’s slapstick-gore original, it’s fitting that Evil Dead 2, the series’ high-point, gets a re-release on DVD and Blu-ray to coincide with the new movie’s arrival in UK cinemas.

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.