Category: October Horror Movie Challenge

Trilogy of Terror (USA, 1975) When I was around ten years old, I remember a couple of my cousins in Dundee discussing a film they had seen on television that had terrified them. It involved…

Sleep Tight (Spain, 2011) When does a thriller become a horror film? This question kept intruding into my mind as I watched Sleep Tight. In the first act, Sleep Tight stays firmly within thriller territory,…

The Conspiracy (Canada, 2012) One of the central images of The Conspiracy is a scattering of newspaper articles taped to a wall, with sticky-notes and lengths of coloured wool connecting them. This image serves as…

The Body Snatcher (USA, 1945) There are few horror films that come with quite the pedigree of the The Body Snatcher. Adapted from a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson and produced by the legendary Val…