The Most Frightening Horror Movies Based On Short Stories

For every horror movie drawn from a screenwriter's imagination, there's an equal number that has been adapted from works of literary fiction — and short stories in particular seem to be particularly well-suited for a big-screen debut. Here are the most frightening horror movies based on short stories.

One of the most ferocious horror films of the 1980s, Hellraiser was adapted by author-turned-director Clive Barker from his own 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart. Barker has said in interviews that the reason he wrote and directed Hellraiser was to exert some creative control over adaptations of his work, having been displeased with the feature film versions of Rawhead Rex, and what became of his own script for Underworld.

As a result, Hellraiser closely follows the plotline of Hellbound Heart, with only a handful of changes: For example, in the novella, Kirsty is a friend of the ill-fated Rory, whose brother Frank accidentally summons the Cenobites, while in the film, Kirsty is the daughter of Rory, who's renamed Larry.

The name of the diabolical puzzle box that conjures up the Cenobites is also slightly different: In the novella, it's the Lemarchand Configuration, which Barker dubs the Lament Configuration in his script. And speaking of the Cenobites, their S&M-inspired body modifications are, for the most part, almost identical to their description in Barker's story — right down to the mass of pins in the creature which, while nameless in the book and film, would eventually become known as Pinhead.

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Hellraiser | 0:00
Color Out of Space | 1:28
The Thing | 2:29
The Birds | 3:53
The Fly | 4:49
Kwaidan | 6:05
Black Sabbath | 7:03
Duel | 8:19
Don't Look Now | 9:27
Re-Animator | 10:27
Freaks | 11:33

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