It takes a bold and very non-Hollywood director to tackle the difficult themes of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, but the film found its champion in Lynne Ramsay.

Her debut feature RATCATCHER, from the bowels of Glasgow, announced an original voice that refined its timbre in MORVERN CALLAR.

Listen to the Scottish director describe how she had never read a screenplay with the kind of parental relationships as in KEVIN, and how the material seems to have scared off other directors.

Then watch Tilda Swinton reveal the stigma surrounding parents who struggle with their children's behaviour and the isolation of disconnection.

It takes something pretty scary to frighten Guillermo del Toro and the story of the TV movie DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK had haunted him since childhood until he retained the rights to remake it as a movie fifteen years ago. He intended to direct it himself but made PAN'S LABYRINTH instead.

For Guy Pearce, beyond the pleasure of commuting across town to work in Melbourne, it was a genre that he admits scared him as a youngster but never really appealed to him as a grown-up actor.

Listen to Guy explain how it was the mixture of a dysfunctional family dynamic with the horror elements that enticed him to take on an unusual type of film for him.

Then watch Guillermo explain how the best horror films work without the monsters, and that the creatures are the "cherry on top", even if they are as "nasty as a Hollywood executive!"