Satanism rampant at NFT

If you're worried about what to do with the kids this summer, the National Film Theatre has a few ideas to offer you - for instance, why not have them pierced with skewers and flayed alive by vicious sadists from another dimension? Alternatively, if your tastes are more conservative, you can just leave them to be possessed by the evil spirits of dead servants. Yes, Fantasm 95, this year's annual celebration of science fiction, fantasy and horror, is running all this month, and taking over the NFT completely for this weekend (including Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde, right). At the heart of the festival (the still pulsating heart, you assume, ripped raw and bloody from its owner's living body) are two seasons paying tribute to the work of British masters of the horror genre. A homage to Freddie Francis, cameraman and director (The Ghoul, Legend of the Werewolf), reaches a climax on Sunday with a screening of The Innocents, Jack Clayton's satisfyingly low-key 1961 adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, in which Francis's remarkable camerawork plays a leading role; that's followed by a Guardian interview with Francis.

Meanwhile, a Clive Barker season kicks off tonight with the world premiere of his latest film as director, Lord of Illusions, starring Scott Bakula (Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap) as a private eye investigating the death of a magician and, naturally, meeting up with unimaginable evil along the way. For the cognoscenti, on Sunday there's the world premiere of two early Barker shorts, Salome (1973) and The Forbidden (1975), prior to their video release. It's an interesting alternative to church.

NFT, South Bank, London SE1 (0171-928 3232) to 26 Jul