Salon.com > Sleep Tight http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 01:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Have horror movies hit a new golden age? http://www.salon.com/2012/10/25/have_horror_movies_hit_a_new_golden_age/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/25/have_horror_movies_hit_a_new_golden_age/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13051189 At first we don’t understand why César (Luis Tosar), the protagonist of the new Spanish horror thriller “Sleep Tight,” would dream about suicide in the opening sequence. Sure, he has to get up at 5 a.m. to go to work as the front-desk concierge in a middle-class Barcelona apartment building, and the grumpy old guy who manages the building gives him a hard time about watering the plants and staying out too long for lunch. But he also gets to wake up next to Clara (Maria Etura), a vivacious younger woman who likes to show off her terrific figure in high-end lingerie. It takes quite a while, in fact, to figure out the problem: Clara doesn’t actually know that César is sleeping in her bed, night after night, let alone that he’s the source of the creepy love letters and abusive text messages she gets every day.

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