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godzilla 300x202 Godzilla (1998)‘Sighs’ do matter

Check out the award that this film won – but that’s what can happen when you give people the vote, right?

Winner of the Best European Director (Roland Emmerich, Germany), People’s Choice Awards, European Film Awards 1998

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paranormal activity 150x150 Paranormal Activity (2007)Haunting

It’s now ten years since The Blair Witch Project (1999) brought the power of cinema and the (then fledgling) internet together, with its faux-true story/documentary approach to what was actually nothing more (but certainly nothing less) than a well-told (and very creepy) spook story.

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large diary 150x150 George A. Romeros Diary of the Dead (2007)‘They won’t stay dead!’

Thus screamed the tagline for George A. Romero’s seminal Night of the Living Dead way back in 1968, and it would appear to have been on the money as here we are, more than 40 years later, with the world still ending not with a bang, nor for that matter a whimper, but rather with the sound of relentless shuffling, moaning, screaming and chewing.

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