Cub

Cub is characterised by terrific performances (especially from the pre-teen cast), playfully ghoulish bloodwork, and the most inventive instruments of death we've seen since the Saw franchise ran out of ideas.

The build-up is entertainingly eccentric, and there's some ingenious booby-trappery at work among the pines, but Cub runs dry once it knuckles down to the routine bloodletting.

Not much adventure. Not much horror.

While it doesn't reinvent the wheel, it captures everything fans know and love about the slasher subgenre to deliver a stylish and ruthless freight train of fear.