"Sleepless" seems to mark a return in style to some of your most acclaimed thrillers like "Tenebre" and "Deep Red".
This is a detective film, a 'giallo', that has the same atmosphere as those movies. I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
Despite a strong European box office, "Sleepless" has failed to gain a UK cinema run.
I'm very disappointed that the UK is about the only country where the film could not even have been tried out in theatres for a couple of weeks. It is a movie that belongs on the big screen.
Are the murderous hands in black gloves, as with all your previous movies, your own hands?
For the first half of the film, and the first time ever, I had to use another person because the gloves were too big for my hands! For the rest of the movie the hands are mine.
This return to your earlier style of filmmaking has also seen you go back to using the music of the band 'Goblin'. How much does the music determine the mood of a film for you?
It was great to work with Goblin again. What I needed from them was a nervous and edgy music score that could unsettle. This is in contrast with some of my other movies where I used Ennio Morricone for his ability to create an epic feel through his music.
"Sleepless" is out on DVD on Monday 11th February.
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