Ulalume
tart of darkness
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It may seem old hat by now since it was such an archetype it was copied to death (pardon the expression), but I think it still stands up as a horror of wondrous simplicity, basic good versus evil stuff, tense and exciting. Give it a go, what do you have to lose?
Agreed. It may seem tame by modern standards, but IMO, strange men staring blank-eyed up at your bedroom window never stops being scary.
There was a documentary in which the film's co-writer says she and Carpenter made a list of things that frightened them most, then they wrote the story around the list. I thought that was a clever way of working.