It was a weekend stuck at home with a bad back, feeling sorry for myself but I had my other half and Netflix for company.

One provided tea and snacks the other, hours of entertainment.

First up was film In The Tall Grass, based on a novella by horror-writing legend Stephen King and his son Joe Hill.

Now I spent my teens and early 20s reading most of King senior's work, and over the years, screen adaptations have varied in quality (the less said about The Tommyknockers the better) but the trailer sure looked spooky.

The next hour-and-a-half or so were filled with me and my partner pretty much hating the film by the second but hanging on in because it was going to get better. Right?

Stopping roadside for air, a man and his pregnant sister hear a child's cries of help from a field of inexplicably long grass. Long story short, they head in but as we soon discover, there's no way out. There are other people in the grass, including various versions of themselves. The creepy kid explains the grass 'doesn't move dead things'. There's a weird rock that seems incredibly powerful but only if touched. Time is warped. And the kid's dad is ticking every cliche box for sinister, weird bad guy.

It sounded wonderfully bonkers and I wanted to love it but with annoying characters that I really didn't care about and plot holes you could drive a bus through and actually none of it being interesting or making a jot of sense, it was one of the worst things I've ever watched. Gutted. I don't need endings all neat and a plot tied in a bow but crumbs of anything to discuss and pick over will do, to enjoy long after the film itself are a must, and sadly ITTG lacked any.

Feeling a bit cheated, we left it until the next day to give Fractured a whirl. The trailer looked good but we'd fallen for that seduction before.

We really needn't have worried. Fractured was excellent.

A family arrive at a hospital after their young daughter is injured in a fall. Staff just don't seem quite right and dad clocks this several times. His wife goes with their daughter as she's sent for treatment, and he's left to wait. And wait. Time goes by and the pace shifts.

Sam Worthington plays the father on a mission for answers, as he's made to feel like a crazy man by people who seem to have something to hide.

There are twists aplenty, and by the end, we were exhausted, just when you think you've got a handle on it, you haven't. It's quite a rollercoaster of a watch. It was one of the best things I've seen in a long time.

These films were polar opposites for me as entertainment but it's great to have the choice.