10 Best Horror Movies Turning 30 In 2020

I'm your Number One Fan.

Run. Run while you can. Annie Wilkes is just the nicest lady you could ever hope to be dragged out of a snowbound car wreck by and, wouldn't you know it, she happens to be your biggest fan! What an absolute win, right? Paul Sheldon gets to find out the answer to that question in a way that still makes people wince when they look at a sledgehammer.

Another Stephen King adaptation to be released in 1990, this film offered an Oscar winning performance from Kathy Bates as the villainous sweetheart, Annie. James Caan appears as Paul Sheldon, the unlucky writer who ends up in her guest room. In what is for the most part a two-hander, these two play a stationary game of cat and mouse until the thrilling denoument.

It is hardly possible to overestimate the strength and appeal of this film, delivering one of the finest horrors of the year, one of the best King adaptations and one of the best performances of Bates' career. There is an undercurrent of black humour running throughout as the tongue in cheek title suggests. Caan plays his captive Sheldon to perfection, truly demonstrating the hopelessness he feels at the mercy of the deranged nurse in charge.

There are many stand out moments and some true shocks but very little compares to the strange joy the audience feels when Annie wheels through the house, ecstatic that Misery has returned to life, once and for all.