The CGI monsters of Independence Day will never haunt the imagination | Catherine Shoard

The best horror films suggest threat and withhold bogeymen. Give me a card-and-goo Alien, not the virtual-reality beasties of the Independence Day sequelLast Thursday I went to Belfast and Basra. I did this in Kent, at a massive abandoned army camp sold off by the Ministry of Defence and now earmarked for 5,000 new homes. In fact there are already a handful of houses on the site, constructed by the army in the 70s and 80s for bomb disposal and combat reconnaissance training, and now colonised by