Both in cinema and life, humanity finds new ways to terrorize us. Balagueró plays with this idea in Sleep Tight and thrusts it into a quotidian situation... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 7, 2023

Sleep Tight is effective and thrilling as we long for Cesar to get caught, but simultaneously marvel at his craftiness. For many, home invasion tales are the most terrifying. This one ranks among the best.

| Apr 1, 2020

What begins as an incredibly creepy premise unfortunately dips one too many times in the ludicrous pot.

| Aug 5, 2019

A must-see psychological thriller. Balagueró has succeeded in constructing a hugely compelling narrative that has you completely transfixed from start to finish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2019

With an ending so disturbing it just might rival the finale of "Oldboy," "Sleep Tight" doesn't let its beauty get in the way of its bite, but it's a film that nonetheless lifts horror to an artform.

| Dec 21, 2018

A masterclass in suspense that's likely to send shudders down its baying audiences' spines.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2018

An instant must see for fans of the horror and thriller genres.

| Sep 8, 2013

It's a stalker movie. But some ingenious variations, shrewd direction, and a killer lead performance render it fresh and absolutely entertaining.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 23, 2013

An unrelievedly nightmarish film.

| Mar 3, 2013

Even though the central character is somewhat undefined, this film is a thorough creep-out, playing on our vulnerabilities while making the villain the most sympathetic person on-screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2013

Wildly malevolent, but shrewdly executed and creepily watchable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2013

It's eminently watchable, more than a little chilling and a league and a half better than most of its kind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2013

Impressively directed and superbly written, this is a thoroughly gripping and deeply disturbing Spanish chiller with a terrific central performance from Luis Tosar. It's also, for my money, one of the best films of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2013

Luis Tosar's performance is central to the success of Sleep Tight, a taut psychological thriller set in an upmarket apartment block.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2013

A creepy, neo-Hitchcock stalker drama, infused with uneasy twists and a slow-burning intensity. Check it out. Then check under your bed...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2013

While Sleep Tight is more a dark thriller than a straight horror it inhabits some pretty creepy, twisted territory ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2013

Clever suspense cinema with a gleam in its eye and ice in its heart from an emergent Spanish A-lister. Hitchcock himself would be proud, and maybe shocked.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2013

Sleep Tight threatens to be a real snooze until the film's electric second half jolts us awake.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2013

"Sleep Tight" is well-directed by Spain's Jaume Balaguero, the guy who gave horror fans "[REC]" and "[REC] 2." It's definitely worth a rental.

| Original Score: B | Jan 12, 2013

Unsettling tale of obsession benefits from black-comic undercurrents.

| Oct 26, 2012