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Requiem | Netflix, from Friday ➢ “Requiem doesn’t hang about. No gradual crescendo here, it’s straight into full horror, with deferential echoes of films in that genre. You could be forgiven for thinking you’d landed somewhere in The Omen franchise. Echoes of the past, skeletons in closets, loss and bereavement, will all play their part […]

The Omen: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. This cut-and-paste re-make of the 1976 demonic blockbuster looks as if it was assembled with pinking shears. Made in haste to meets its worldwide 666 release date — the sixth day of the sixth month of 2006 – it ploddingly follows the original but with none of the finesse or […]

TV2 will screen in HD on October 30 the animated Hallow’een special, Scared Shrekless. The half-hour movie spin-off has Shrek challenging Fiona, Donkey, Puss in Boots and the other fairy-tale characters to spend the night in Lord Farquaad’s haunted castle telling scary stories. The last one to be scared ‘Shrekless’ will win. Gingerbread Man tells The […]