5. Who Let Jack Out Of The Pantry? - The Shining (1980)
The Shining is arguably the greatest horror film of all-time - and what else might one expect from a master like Stanley Kubrick? Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name,
The Shining tells the story of a boozy caretaker called Jack Torrance who takes his family to an isolated hotel in the mountains to look after it during its winter season. Of course, the hotel begins to take a hold of Jack and forces him into a state of insanity: he repeatedly attempts to murder his wife and child. At one point in the movie, Jack's wife Wendy manages to subdue him and lock him inside a pantry. There's no way, then, that Jack would be able to get out. The door is thick and bolted and designed to keep the contents inside secure. Except Jack does manage to get out, of course, and continues his murderous rampage soon after. Grady, a ghost, is the one who lets him out within the confines of the film. Though from what has been established thus far in the world of the movie, spirits can't interact with the physical world - hence why they can only be seen by those with "the shine" and can't otherwise directly interfere with what's happening. How does Grady manage to open the door, then? What we can assume, perhaps, is that Jack presumably found a way to get it open and hallucinated Grady's intervening.