Shallow Grave

The diabolical thriller Shallow Grave was the first film from director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge (the team behind Trainspotting). In it, three self-involved Edinburgh roommates - played by Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, and Ewan McGregor, in his first starring role - take in a brooding boarder, and when he dies of an overdose, leaving a suitcase full of money, the trio embark on a series of very bad decisions, with extraordinarily grim consequences for all. Macabre but with a streak of offbeat humor, this stylistically influential tale of guilt and derangement is a full-throttle whack of Hitchcockian nastiness.