Today’s Number One Film:

Insidious, 8.50pm Cinemax Ch 509. Watch this if you liked Paranormal Activity, Sinister or Mama. Even with their spectacular computer-generated special effects, few modern horrors are genuinely good. This one is. Horror that seriously disturbs the viewer doesn’t come from eyeballs flying across the screen occasionally as much as from nerves being worried away constantly. Insidious is one of a handful of recent films that uses modern technologies to visually enhance a fairly good script. Because there are undeniable kinks in the script, though, it is not as finished a product as, say, The Exorcist or The Omen. Still, Insidious is a spooky, unsettling movie that will make even the most jaded horror flick junkie jump several times. Directed by James Wan/ 2010/ USA-Canada / Horror-Thriller/ 103 mins/ Rated PG-13 for thematic material, violence, terror and frightening images, and brief strong language.

JUST NOSED OUT:

**Room BEST FILM OF THE DAY, 7pm Max; Seven Pscyhopaths (Comedy-Crime-Thriller), 6.05pm MaxP; *Freaky Friday (Family), 9pm MaxU; 25^th Hour (Drama), 4.55pm TCM; The Age of Adaline (Drama-Fantasy), 9.33pm HBO; Star Trek: The Motion Picture (William Shatner) (Sci-fi), 10.40pm FoxClas; Gravity (Adventure-Sci-fi), 4.57pm HBO;

The Karate Kid (Ralph Macchio) (Family), 4.16pm Edge; A Most Wanted Man (Thriller), 5.45pm HBOS; Horrible Bosses (Stoner comedy) 2, 9.35pm MaxP.

BEST Pay Per View BET: Dr Strange, Ch 402

*Starred films have been chosen in the last year. ** Double-starred films have been chosen in the last three months.

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