Horror connoisseurs may well be familiar with Stephen King’s debut novel, Carrie (1974). As the story goes, the eponymous Carrie, our anti-heroine, is a loser teenage girl who develops kinaesthetic powers and uses them to terrorize the population of her ...

Over the past couple of decades, Spain’s film industry has churned out a number of high-profile horror films and chilling psycho-thrillers. Think Alejandro Amenábar’s Los otros/The Others (2001) starring Nicole Kidman, Guillermo del Toro’s twisted fairy-tale, El Laberinto del Fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and, of course, El orfanato/The ...