What they say: The Breakfast Club meets The Grudge in this sexy, dark comedy-thriller! Six prep school kids from Crestview Academy find themselves stuck in detention on a dark and stormy Saturday afternoon. During their eight-hour incarceration, each of the six kids falls victim to a horrible 'accident' until only one of them remains.
Tag line: Daddy's money can't save them now.
What we say: Also features original brooding Breakfast Club rebel Judd Nelson as a bow-tie wearing teacher. Photograph: PR
What they say: A dysfunctional gang of criminals invade the home of a middle-class Maori family and take them hostage. But this seemingly normal family has a deep, dark secret and when the fugitives discover the home abattoir, the tables are turned and the hunters become the hunted. There's fresh meat for dinner (washed down with a nice Chianti of course).
Tagline: A tasty comedy.
What we say: No relation to the sitcom, sadly. Photograph: PR
What they say: Modesto is a teacher who sometimes sees dead people. Not only has this cost him a fortune at the shrinks, it's also gotten him fired from every school he's worked at. His luck changes when he lands at job at Monteforte – where five students have turned the prestigious school into a house of horrors. Modesto is charged with getting all five kids to pass their senior year. But it won't be that easy … they've been dead for over 20 years.
Tagline: Bored to death of studying.
What we say: If Haley Joel Osment grew up to teach TEFL. Photograph: PR
What they say: A 50ft tall alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages the city of Los Angeles. When a massive military strike fails, it is up to a team of scientists, soldiers and one clever exterminator to kill the creature before the city is destroyed.
Tagline: Ten stories tall and very hungry.
What we say: Rumours of a sequel where the 50ft spider battles the 50ft woman cannot be verified. Photograph: PR
What they say: Based on the $300m-grossing stage hit. For several years John Smith has been blissfully married – to two wives. However, this delightfully satisfying arrangement is suddenly plunged into disarray one night when John comes to the rescue of an old bag lady being robbed by two young villains.
Tagline: John loved having a wife, so he got two of them.
What we say: Surely the only film ever to feature Cliff Richard and Rolf Harris. Photograph: PR
What they say: Six captive office workers are chained to their desks by escaped serial killer and former regional manager Thomas Reddmann. Redd assigns 'his staff' the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences. Under his twisted managerial style, written warnings are carved into foreheads, filing cabinets overflow with body parts and a trip to Human Resources is likely to end in grisly termination.
Tag line: Heads will roll.
What we say: 9 to 5, it isn't. Photograph: PR
What they say: A group of friends venture to the lake where horror author Stephen King lives and soon discover that they are the subject of his next grisly novel.
Tagline: Horror. Is. King.
What we say: Where's Cujo when you need him? Photograph: PR
