The silver screen’s spooky best from the last 100 years of cinema

As the new sequel arrives, Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter on making the original

The club finished seventh last year and the manager is offering no excuses for bad run

How Music Works: Electronic producer Jack Hammill has been known to drop music from ‘Star Wars’ into his DJ set, but his own tunes have a wider cinematic scope

His works have been adapted by Rob Reiner, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick and David Cronenberg. And we’re soon to see more adaptations on screen

Director Julia Ducournau’s feminist-cannibal horror-comedy ‘Raw’ made audience members faint in Toronto, but it's more than a horror movie; it’s a crossover movie

A blind homeowner vs home invaders in a superbly made thriller that turns the genre on its head

Ennio Morricone revolutionised cinema music but has never won an Oscar for one of his scores. He’s up again, for ‘The Hateful Eight’. Does he care? Just a little

It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?

How do you make class-A films on B-movie budgets? Few know better than John Carpenter. The director sits down with Derek O’Connor to talk slow-burning suspense, anti-establishment leanings and the art of the soundtrack

You know him as the ever-so-nice Matthew on Downton Abbey, but he’s toned up and turned into an all-American bad boy for The Guest. ‘It has been nice to take the stiff collar off for a bit’

Firebrand Slovenian academic Slavoj Zizek has spent his entire career dismantling culture and exposing the banality of conventional wisdom. He’s delivering his splenetic opinions again in Sophie Fiennes’s ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’. “Life is shit,” he says. “But it’s relatively okay today.”

This film from Irish director Ruairi Robinson shows that the galactic chamber piece can be every bit as gripping as the huge space opera