Kathy Bates gives an unnerving performance as an unhinged literature fan who kidnaps her favorite author in Rob Reiner’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. James Caan plays the star novelist who she engages in a game of psychological chess as he tries to escape the snowy remote cabin where he’s being kept.

A genre masterpiece, this Swedish film by Tomas Alfredson relies on a muted color pallet and frighteningly good performances to create a moody ambiance that breaks the mold of vampire films. A lonely adolescent befriends a young vampire and together they wreak bloody havoc.

Jim Cumming’s new horror comedy takes place in a small ski town where a suspected werewolf is leaving scores of bodies on the mountainside. A doofus of a cop (who obviously doesn’t believe in werewolves) must crack the case.