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The outpouring of affection for Sam Neill when he died at 78 last month tells you everything you need to know about him – the Omagh-born New Zealander was every bit as fine a man as an actor. This tribute session at Phenomena brings John Carpenter's gleefully unsettling horror from 1995 – and Neill on sensational form – to the big screen.

Neill plays John Trent, an insurance investigator hired to track down bestselling horror novelist Sutter Cane, whose latest manuscript has seemingly driven readers to violence and insanity. His search takes him to the eerie town of Hobb’s End, where the boundaries between the invented and the real begin to collapse.