Sleep paralysis, ghost stories, H.R. Giger — NOW’s film section is awfully dark this week, but at least I can offer context through interviews.

I talked to Leigh Whannell and Lin Shaye, writer-director and star of Insidious Chapter 3; I talked to Rodney Ascher, whose The Nightmare is perhaps the most intense documentary you will ever see. And I talked to Belinda Sallin about Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World, a considerably calmer profile of a famously intense artist.

I talk to people. It’s a good gig.