Shocktober is here. 31 days of horror!

We have spooks, scares and even surprises in store for every day this October. If you're brave, start with our Spotlight on The Sin Within. Enter into the minds of compulsive freaks, psycho killers and a few nice people who just happen to have darkness lurking beneath the surface.

The ABCs of Trouble Every Day BY KIVA REARDON Sex, love and death: Leave it to Claire Denis to make the conventional challenging. Vintage Rollins, Uncorked   BY DENNIS HARVEY Jean Rollin's films spun the erotic and macabre into dreamlike, poetic surreality.

Ganja and Hess (1973) dir. Bill Gunn   About addiction (to blood), sex, religion and African American identity, and an inspiration for the recent Spike Lee joint Da Sweet Blood of Jesus. Watch preview I'll See You in My Dreams (2003) dir. Miguel Vivas   The most expensive short film ever produced in Portugal is also a Cinemascope zombie epic that has been an audience favorite virtually everywhere.