There's nothing particularly new and exciting about the plot of the film (take a group of 20-somethings somewhere dark, kill them off slowly) but it does it well and that's the main thing.

What made it for me is Klaus Stiglmeier's turn as Armin. Looking a bit like a more animated version of David Carradine, his every move screams "Psycho alert!". Added to this is the fact that he speaks in German, while the rest of the cast switch between…

When the second film in the series came out, comparisons were made between those two films and the first two in the Alien franchise: REC 2 was Aliens to REC's Alien.

Genesis is not Alien 3, if anything it's Army of Darkness. It has a more comedic tone than the earlier films which there's nothing particularly wrong with, but you need to know that going in or else you have to shift your thinking and reassess what you've seen up…