Citadel Jason: Fuck man, this has it all. Shorts shitting moments, heavy drama, and even a tender moment or two. Credit must be given to writer/director Ciaran Foy, who keeps a tight reign on this story and never lets events happen to serve the script. This is a story that unravels organically, and I bought every beat. Favourite moments? I have several. The scene where Tommy takes his wife off life support is heartbreaking. Ditto when he manages to save his daughter from the creatures. The scene where he dances with his baby girl is also touching. The scares, particularly during the opening half hour or so, are plentiful. Kudos to leading man Aneurin Barnard . He deserves an Oscar for his work here. He starts off weak and ends strong, and is 100-per-cent convincing throughout. I also dug James Cosmo 's priest. Any priest who can swear like a sailor and knows how to make and set plastic explosives is a hero in my book. Citadel is a thrilling scare machine with he...

Comin' at yah from across the pond -- a little corner of the globe where people know a thing or two about scary stories -- come two tales guaranteed to put the FEAR into you. First up is Ciaran Foy's movie about an agoraphobic father who teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier. Scared yet? You should be. Then The Basement Dwellers travel back in time to 1921 England as hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. OK. Now you're scared, right? Right!?!? Plus, Jason and Shawn take a few moments of their not-so-precious time to talk about movies that should be remade. That's right, there are a few flicks out there that could stand to be retooled a little bit, and the Basementites are going to tell you what they are. So tune in at 10 p.m. PST at 92.5FM CFBX Kamloops and on...

The Basement hasn't delivered any info on the upcoming period ghost story The Awakening for almost a year, but we're breaking the silence with the creepy little clip below. Sure, there's a moment right out of the great 80s Canadian horror flick The Changeling, but rehashed here it's still surprisingly effective. In fact, this whole clip is effective, from the beauty of star Rebecca Hall to that crazy ghost with the shotgun. I'm up for seeing this. For shizzle. Hall stars as a ghost hunter who travels to a countryside boarding school to investigate rumors of an apparent haunting. Just when she thinks she has debunked the ghost theory, she has a chilling spectral encounter that defies all her rational beliefs. The Awakening was released in the U.K. last November and is scheduled for a limited release here in North America Aug. 17. Look for our thoughts some time in Season Four.

There's something about period ghost stories that tales set in the modern era can't quite capture. The spooky corridors, the looming shadows, the creepy old buildings; these are all ingredients of the old-fashioned ghost story. The Awakening has all these things. Looking like a cross between a dozen similar films yet still feeling fresh -- at least from the trailer -- the film stars Rebecca Hall as a "ghost hunter" who travels to a countryside boarding school to investigate rumors of an apparent haunting. Just when she thinks she has debunked the ghost theory, she has a chilling spectral encounter that defies all her rational beliefs. Dominic West of The Wire ("Omar comin') also stars in director Nick Murphy's film, which hits U.K. theatres next Friday. No word on if we're getting a North American release, but The Basement's sources are actively searching out a copy.