Hellions

This creepfest initially serves up some good horror-flick fun, but seems to lose the plot as the wind kicks up and the sky changes colour and the chase goes on and on ...

In its best moments, Hellions is interesting and perplexing and worth soaking in, in the sense that one would admire a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired painting. But without at least one foot on the ground, it doesn't inspire fear.

Some of the horror tropes being played with here - Rosemary's Baby is a clear touchstone - are staying up way past their bedtime.

While it doesn't break the mold for Halloween-themed horror, the ways in which it reimagines and reinterprets iconography of the holiday makes it worthy of being an annual October watch.