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35 ) Hellraiser (1987) “1) The Shining (1980) Perfectionist auteur Stanley Kubrick seemed an unlikely choice to adapt Stephen King’s pulp novel, yet the result was this towering horror masterpiece. Though King wasn’t satisfied with the result, Kubrick skilfully turned the story of a hotel caretaker slowly cracking up into an opulent study of isolation, madness and paranoia. It’s full of iconic moments, including the spooky twin girls in the hotel corridor and Danny’s mutterings about ‘Red Rum’, and Jack Nicholson gives one of his finest performances as the struggling author who lurches from caring family man into axe-wielding psycho. 2) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Rosemary’s Baby opens with a young couple moving into a new apartment and gradually, and quite brilliantly, builds up a palatable sense of paranoia and unease as Rosemary comes to suspect that her neighbours are Satanists.
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