Bram Stoker's Dracula

A solicitor called Jonathan Harker travels to a remote Romanian castle to finalise a property deal, and comes home changed, with something old and patient following him back to London. What waits for his fiancée there is not a monster in the usual sense. It is a count who has been waiting centuries for exactly her.

This is not a jump scare film. The dread here is slow and dressed beautifully, blood and velvet and candlelight, the kind of horror that seduces you before it frightens you. Coppola builds a world that is gorgeous and slightly wrong in every frame, and it gets under your skin rather than making you leap off the sofa.

Watch it on a night when you want to feel unsettled rather than terrified, wine poured, lights low, phone face down. It is a love story wearing a horror film's coat, and it is one of the ones that stays with you the next morning, which is more than most modern efforts manage.