Carrie

This is the one about the quiet girl at school who everyone decides is fair game, the sort of casual cruelty that somehow gets worse the kinder she tries to be. Sissy Spacek plays her as someone genuinely startled by her own strangeness, which is exactly the right note.

Brian De Palma directs from Stephen King's novel, and what starts out as a story about being singled out slowly tips into something with real teeth, because this girl is discovering she can move things with her mind, and nobody around her has thought to ask what that might mean if she's pushed too far.

It's less jump scare horror and more the slow dread of watching a situation build past the point anyone can control it. There's real unease at home too, long before anything supernatural even happens, which tells you this was never going to end quietly.

Watch it on a night you want horror with an ache underneath it, not just a fright. It rewards patience and it earns its reputation.