If someone had told us any time throughout the eighties and nineties that Robin Williams could be a psychotic killer (like he was in Insomnia), we'd laugh like you'd told us the dorky English guy from Remington Steele would make a decent James Bond.

And just what was so damaging about the film we had to wait two years to see it? Following the story of a US army base in West Germany, it shows a group of soldiers in advance stages of ‘peace fatigue’.

Writer and star of the smash hit Saw, Leigh Whannell, describes a typical serial killer movie as being 'Ashley Judd leaning over a body saying 'I think I know him'.' Like historical war movies and romantic comedies, there's very seldom anything new on offer in serial murderer thrillers.