Cinema's worst ever case of post-natal depression is the subject of this compelling psycho-horror nightmare from Lynne Ramsay, adapted from the novel by Lionel Shriver.
Houseguest is compelling, a mini horror film in which a young American can't get rid of an abusive guest.
The story provides a compelling combination of horror and fascination, written with clarity and compassion.
It's part of what has made space such a compelling location for horror movies over the years, especially if you count the uncomfortable isolation of Sandra Bullock floating alone across the universe as horror.
The novel, first published in 1983, operates successfully on a number of levels: it's a compelling mystery, a chilling horror story and a brilliant evocation of the hope and turmoil of the 60s.
Bill McKibben offers another compelling plot for this horror movie in his new book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.
My Nazi Legacy is a compelling journey into the horrors of occupied eastern Europe in the company of Frank's son, Niklas, Horst von Wächter – whose father, Otto, was Nazi governor of Galicia (now mostly in modern Ukraine) – and Philippe Sands QC, professor of international law, many of whose family died during mass murders of the Jewish community there in 1942.
As with Elie Wiesel, another Nobel Peace Prize winner and a man I interviewed, I found myself looking at Mandela's eyes, looking at how they looked, where they looked, and most of all thinking of what horrors those compelling eyes had beheld.
But, after the author gained asylum in Canada following the Soviet invasion of 1968, The End of Lieutenant Boruvka (1975) and The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka (1980) provide a compelling account of the moral horror and bureaucratic comedy of life under communism.
