5 Horror Novels That Deserve Film Adaptations (And 5 That Deserve Better)
5. Lunar Park - Deserves Adaptation
A late career hit for literary enfant terrible Bret Easton Ellis, 2005's Lunar Park is a horror novel which more than deserves a big screen adaptation.
The American Psycho author's not-quite-actually-an-autobiography melds haunted house horror with satire for his scariest and most poignantly personal work, as the protagonist (named, er, Bret Easton Ellis) settles down to family life only to be haunted by both his late father and his own literary creations.
A stirring and scary piece of witty metafiction, this one could either be a tight twisty horror flick or a more expansive and slow moving miniseries, but it's an intensely evocative and cinematic novel crying out for adaptation either way.