See also: Five best sci-fi/horror films to help a non-horror geek survive Octoberīased on the novel Ritual by David Pinner Then we Lars von Trier'ed ourselves into a corner by only selecting movies that are available to stream instantly, so readers can easily check out these great films before their Halloween spirit is buried beneath the snows of November. With that in mind, the Westword Book Club has compiled a list of five cult classic horror movies that were inspired by novels and short stories, deliberately avoiding canonical works like Dracula and Frankenstein as well as blockbusters like The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby in favor of slightly obscure titles that deserve more eyeballs. In horror cinema, however, the filmmaker's vision of a story so often becomes definitive in the minds of viewers that it overshadows the books that inspired that vision in the first place (unless of course, those books were written by Stephen King). They're also less likely to interfere with a proven earner, which is why the most interesting and distinctive films are usually literary adaptations. Studios are more likely to greenlight a scary story after it has been officially vetted by the reading public. The entertainment industry, with its long-established allergy to new ideas, often mines the bestseller list for source material.
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