1. Dr Sleep
Not the soon to be released Stephen King follow up to The Shining but a film partly funded by the BBC starring Goran Visnjic (ER). It is a tight psychological horror, which when I first saw it, terrified me, to put it politely. (To put it unpolitely, I nearly s**t my pants). It has jumps and twists and a sense of underlying menace throughout. The plot centres around Dr. Michael Strother (Visnjic), a hypnotherapist who has a telepathic vision and is called in by the police to help them find a ritualistic killer. It has a great tag line The deeper the sleep the darker the fear and is scary, something that a lot of horror films seem to forget. It is directed expertly by Nick Willing with hints of Hitchcock and Polanski and it also features the criminally underused Paddy Considine. There is a sense of forboding tension from start to finish, and you really will have trouble dropping off to sleep after you have watched this film.