But where the novel is over 200 pages of 1980s male chauvinism and trite tropes about the dangers of the Big Apple, Cosmatos’ film leans into the ridiculous winds of the film’s underlying “rat horror mayhem,” culminating in Peter Weller donning armor like a DIY RoboCop to go to war with the rodent. In a way, the novel and the film are in and of themselves riffs on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” where an animal burrows itself deep into the psyche of our audience surrogate, driving him to madness. Parker III, is a scattershot of post-Vietnam, angry young man stereotypes – or maybe ‘angry young yuppie’ is a better descriptor – that takes its time getting into the battle of wits between our protagonist and the larger-than-average rat that plagues his New York City apartment. The original paperback horror novel, The Visitor by Chauncey G. It may be the only film on this list that truly surpasses its source material in every which way. Cosmatos’ rat horror opus, Of Unknown Origin. All around, this is one adaptation we love to drink in.
The result is something at once faithful and entirely unique. He stays true to the material while invigorating the film with cinematic opulence. But then again, Coppola is not most filmmakers. For most filmmakers, this would make another adaptation daunting. It’s a cornerstone of horror narratives and has been adapted (ha!) fewer times. Stoker’s epistolary novel is - and this is actually not hyperbolic - one of the most important and influential books ever written. Watching Dracula will make you realize that even though most films made today aren’t in black and white, they aren’t exactly in color either. While Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 horror film didn’t top the list, you could make a strong case that it’s the most vivid film on the list.
A surprisingly thoughtful portrait of mental illness with a great performance from Julie Harris, The Haunting is a detour from its origin story that’s still stylish, chilling, and supremely entertaining. As retold by director Robert Wise and screenwriter Nelson Gidding, the story of a group of disparate souls who come together to investigate a potentially haunted house is less about real ghosts and more about the ones we create for ourselves. The 1963 classic The Haunting is no different. The horror author’s creepy, largely internal works of fiction seem deeply resistant to on-screen translation, and while great adaptations of her work exist, each one leaves its own distinct mark on the source material while leaving some of it behind.
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I’m not in the movie adaptation biz, but if I were, I don’t think I’d ever attempt to tackle Shirley Jackson’s works. Rather, this is a list of great horror movies based on books, regardless of how much may or may not have changed in translation during the adaptation. Here are ten of our favorites.įor the book purists out there, it’s worth noting that while some of these entries do compare the on-screen adaptations to their source material, we’re not judging these films solely based on how they handled the material filmmakers and screenwriters were working with. Plenty of great horror books have been adapted for the screen, but not all adaptations are created equal.
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They say the book is always better, but who has time to read these days? With all due respect to the Edgar Allan Poes and Mary Shelleys of the world, the horror genre truly started to reach its full potential with the advent of film, when generations of campfire stories, shadow plays, and, yes, novels could be transformed into terrifying visual works that scald an imprint of their images into our brains.
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This article about the best horror movies based on books is part of our ongoing series 31 Days of Horror Lists. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up it’s true.
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