10 Most Underrated 90s Horror Movies

3. Apt Pupil

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When it comes to Stephen King, there's always space on our shelves for another film adaptation to attempt to bring his weird worlds to life - and the 90s had some of his most successful works to date. From Misery, to The Green Mile, to The Shawshank Redemption, King movies absolutely knocked it out the park. So it's no surprise that one or two fell into the bad movie wasteland that houses Sleepwalkers and the It miniseries.

Apt Pupil is one such adaptation that didn't get its dues, in which a young boy finds out that his neighbour is a fugitive second world war criminal who served in the SS. Trading a promise to keep his secret if he teaches him things about the war he could never learn in school, Todd soon begins to get embroiled in a series of events that threaten to expose both his Nazi teacher and Todd's subterfuge - neither of which would end well for the schoolboy.

It's incredibly tense, building both a spoken and invisible horror through subject matter and implications alike.

 
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