A bus filled with schoolgirls makes their way through the British countryside on a school trip, but in the middle of nowhere the bus breaks down leaving the teachers and the girls stranded. Luckily they are not far from a hotel that it preparing for re-opening after being closed for the season. But luck is in short supply for these girls as also in the area are four escaped criminals, all rapists and murderers; but these criminals are under a unique new process of rehabilitation known as dream therapy. With their courses of dream therapy unfinished the four escapees are unable to tell the difference between reality and their dream life, this is unfortunate for our young schoolgirls because when they get in the way the convicts believe that they are just dreams, and any damage done will obviously be rectified in the morning.

Killer's Moon is one of those movies that I have heard about over the years but never actually seen, as you can imagine I was overjoyed to hear of the new release and made sure the movie made its way to me double quick. Sadly it's a case of what you anticipate being far weaker than the reality, and my years of waiting were rewarded by a sad, poorly acted and ultimately lacklustre offering so bad that not even a cheap satellite channel would want it.

Once you get passed the hit and miss aspect of the storyline, (I say hit and miss because although it sounds quite ridiculous if you give it some thought it certainly has the potential to be something far better than you at first think.) what holds the movie together is actually very little indeed. Rather nicely for a movie that focuses so deeply on the subject of rape, there is thankfully very little for the perverts to see here, it's all tackled with the typical 1970's stiff upper lip. To almost add an element of this terribly bad "Britishness" one of the first victims of the rapist stumbles upon a group of people traumatised by the discovery of a chopped up gamekeeper, one of the girls turns round to the rape victim and offers them a coffee, and seemingly the rape victim have heard the power of the word coffee recovers from her gang rape, the coffee maker clearly sees the change "see your feeling better already!" If only the victims of real life rape could be swung round from the terrible events so quickly, as if to add insult to injury the young woman has pretty much completely forgotten the horrific incident a few minutes later.

Sex plays heavily in the movie, when not being raped the women seem rather eager to offer themselves quickly for sex, but then I guess it is the country what else are they going to do?

In between the bloody murders, that look incredibly tame in a new millennium; the rapes, and the scares as if to almost blast the last pieces of credibility the movie has out of the water we are presented the musical score by John Shakespeare and Derek Warne, and this needs to be heard to be believed what your getting is literally an artistic version of the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice".

In among all the actors you have neither seen or heard of before or since the movie you do have the recently passed Hilda Braid possibly best known as Nanna Moon in Eastenders and Mum from 70's sitcom Citizen Smith. It's sad that of all the cast (and there are a lot) that she is the only one with real acting talent, but this is sadly limited. Blakes 7 fans will be familiar with the actor David Jackson who played Gan in the first two series of the show.

What did surprise me most of all about this movie is that its writer director Alan Birkinshaw had some rather over qualified help in the form of She Devil author Fay Weldon, who presumably had the good sense not to allow her name to be associated with the movie.

If you enjoy seeing movies that have been lost in the passage of time, Killer's Moon is a nice addition to say that you have seen it, beyond this it's not worth going out of your way for, neither is it worth wasting part of your life to see.

After the death of a much loved father and husband Karen Tunny (Lori Heuring) and her two daughters Sarah (Scout Taylor Compton) and Emma are forced due to financial pressures to flee the city and settle in the woods of a small Pennsylvania community in a house Karen's husband owned. The house a traditional dwelling used by miners back at the turn of the 20th century is in much need of repair, but offers solace for Karen; while Sarah takes a dim view of things, and Emma embraces the move. For young Emma a sweet 8 year old it offers a chance of new friendship in the form of Mary who to everyone else is just an imaginary friend. It seems however that Addytown's newest arrivals have either caused or arrived at the time of a great awakening, things are about to become dramatically more chilling.

I first saw Wicked Little Things as it was then known about 16 months ago, and to be perfectly honest with you I got half way through and could not be bothered to proceed on, to me it was like every other low budget horror movie of the time and I was stacked under a heavy workload. Unbeknown to me was that at that very moment I lost interest and turned off the stories tone changed and effectively was only just the beginning. For an avid horror fan like me this was the place to begin a grizzly death of some animal stock takes the movie back to the sort of shock! Horror! We witnessed at the start of the 1980's when so many movies were edited or outlawed all together.

While I won't pretend that Zombies is the best horror offering I have seen this year I will say it has some great echoes in horror movie past that will undoubtedly appeal to casual and hardcore horror movie fans. While others have compared the movie to The Omen, a similarity I cannot see I'm reminded most of John Carpenters 1978 movie The Fog, there is a great scene where a group of teenagers are desperately trying to escape a group of killer zombie children in a car that's back wheels are stuck in mud. The ambience of this moment are literally plucked from The Fog, but with one exception, the scene goes further and almost allows you to ask the question, what if Jamie Lee Curtis had not got that car started? What follows is probably one of the most harrowing scenes I have seen in an American horror movie for some time.

Ben Cross an actor best known from Chariots Of Fire and the BBC drama The Citadel plays a creepy hillside soothsayer for want of a better choice of words. The character of Hanks not only knows what to do, he knows what is going to happen, and while at first alienating the Tunny family with his creepy choice of wording and his spreading of blood to ward off evil; soon becomes the key to their survival, if of course they have any chance. Cross who is always around working, but never in anything most of us would probably watch does a sterling job as the movies oddball character. Although the movies villain role is taken by Martin McDougall as William Carlton, descendant of the Carlton mine and all that rests on the surrounding area.

Of our main cast Lori Heuring is pretty much a tool (no disrespect) of the movie, not essentially a needed part, the piece is lead by Scout Taylor Compton (An American Crime, Halloween) who as the teenage character of the movie most of the horror is endured through her eyes. Compton delivers a competent performance as the usual dysfunctional type character of the movie. Chloe Moretz (who back in 2006 was at the start of her career but is now pretty much an excepted part of Hollywood furniture) is the most watchable character, however because of child acting laws is dramatically underused in order to get the movie completed within a target time, overall a tragic mistake that may if it has not already cost the movie points in horror movie history offerings.

What was most enjoyable about the movie was the dark offing of children as the terrible force of the movies, now just Zombies these were the children of the mine nearly 100 years prior who feel not only wronged by events, but cursed in there vicious need to engage in the consumption of human flesh. These kids whom of course look sweet without the makeup are pretty darn scary, with their over emphasised teeth and their terrible lack of compassion, are genuinely creepy and with their bloody massacre at the mid section of the movie you are left with no doubt that these creatures are best not reckoned with.

Zombies is a movie you really need to stick with, and as I said earlier its first 30 minutes or so are hardly going to endear you to the piece. But if you have the patience a small pot of gold lies at the end of this rainbow, and judging by horror releases over the last two months this isthe best choice of salvation.

Released in the UK on the Momentum pictures label on the 21st of July, the movie has a short featurette as a special feature called Wicked Little Zombies, this feature shows you a glimpse behind the scenes and discusses the immense pressure of filming a movie with children, especially ones that have enough experience but are still young enough to pull off the terrifying performances effectively. Zombies is released with an RRP of £15.99.