There aren’t many fresh horrors lurking in the nearly empty parking garage that serves as the setting for P2, a 2007 semi-psychological thriller from the French team responsible for The Hills Have Eyes and Haute Tension. Sure, it has more exposed entrails and torn off fingernails than one might expect given that the film is ostensibly structured as a two-person cat-and-mouse game. Still, outside of that extra – and predictable given the film’s creative pedigree – viscera, P2 feels tediously familiar.

The Houses October Built was one of those word of mouth indies that while it approached the found-footage genre with a unique flair it did very little to make itself stand out as a memorable genre entry. It would not shock me if someone reading this is finding out for the first time that a sequel hadn't only been greenlit but had already made its VOD run and is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Wish Upon is the kind of movie that makes old folks – this reviewer counts himself as a member of this demographic – very nervous. Not because it’s subversive or dangerous or so hip that our aging brains can’t cope with it. No, what makes Wish Upon so unsettling to us is that it perfectly depicts all of our fears and prejudices about young people. It feeds directly into our belief that they are so irresponsible and selfish that, if given unlimited power, they would waste it on the utterly trivial.