A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay review – scares in layers

Paul Tremblay’s horror tale of an apparent teenage possession is a thoroughly frightening take on classics of the genre

Inferno review – like being lectured on Dante at gunpoint

The third of Ron Howard’s Dan Brown capers adds nothing to a woeful franchise

The Girl on the Train review – on the right track thanks to Emily Blunt

The British star holds it all together as her character falls apart in this US adaptation of the Paula Hawkins bestseller

Dan Brown returns to Da Vinci decoder for new novel Origin

Robert Langdon, the Harvard ‘symbologist’ who has solved four previous mysteries, will make his fifth outing in the hugely popular series in September 2017

Undertow by Elizabeth Heathcote review – chilling thrills by the sea

A woman suspects her husband’s involvement in his first wife’s death in this absorbing debut thriller

Curtis Hanson: a thrilling film-maker and effective exponent of mainstream Hollywood style

Hanson got Meryl Streep whitewater rafting, Eminem to act and brought James Ellroy’s cult novel LA Confidential brilliantly to life on film

The Trespasser by Tana French – review

Dublin detective Antoinette Conway returns in French’s absorbing tale of a murder that looks like a lovers’ tiff

The Limehouse Golem review – an upturned Victorian murder mystery

Lurid beheadings aside, this unlikely feminist Jack the Ripper-esque thriller cleverly unpicks late-Victorian London’s social strictures

Turning Blue by Benjamin Myers review – depraved and decadent rural noir

The Yorkshire Dales, perfectly observed, provide a glorious backdrop to a brutal tale

Liz Jensen: Seeing The Ninth Life of Louis Drax on screen is like meeting an eerie stranger

Fourteen years after my kid in a coma first appeared at the kitchen table, the film – starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon and Aaron Paul – is to appear at last

Ben Affleck gets on the case of Agatha Christie remake

Affleck will direct and star in new adaptation of Witness for the Prosecution, about a man accused of murdering a wealthy older woman

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena review: Gone Baby?

The tale of a child stolen from its cot is full of suspense but promises more than it delivers

The Secret Agent: ​a timely BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel

As Conrad’s 1907 novel screens, Mark Lawson hails a prescient masterpiece that has shaped depictions of terrorism and espionage

The Fireman review – Joe Hill’s apocalypse feels real and visceral

Joe Hill’s follow-up to NOS4R2 envisages a world overcome by a fungus that causes spontaneous human combustion

Remainder: Tom McCarthy and Omer Fast’s avant-garde explosion

Who better to film McCarthy’s highly experimental novel than a video artist who had never directed a feature before? The duo talk to Phil Hoad about antiheroes, zombie flaneurs and foreseeing the gentrification of Brixton