For Halloween, Guardian writers pick their most terrifying films ever – from The Shining and The Descent to The Strangers For Halloween, Guardian writers pick their most terrifying films ever – from The Shining and The Descent to The Strangers “Sometimes one can’t help … imagining things.” Truman Capote helped to adapt Henry James’s ghost story The Turn of the Screw into 1961’s The Innocents , directed by Jack Clayton, which remains one of the most disturbing of all scary movies. To recall the