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10. Lady in White (1988)

Falling neatly into the nobody-saw-it category of remakes is Frank LaLoggia’s Lady in White, an unusual little ghost story that originally starred Lukas Haas and Len Cariou. The movie barely made a dent in the slasher-crazy world of ’80s horror movies, but it’s the kind of alternative to what the genre is currently doing that could really make an impact in the ’00s. Think about all the buzz that The Orphanage built at the end of last year (not enough if you ask us) and how tired people are of the same-old-slash-old when it comes to the torture porn genre. We could all use a good ghost story to wash the taste of The Hitcher and Hills Have Eyes 2 out of our collective mouths. And Lady in White is a solid, old-fashioned, hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck supernatural tale that starred Haas as a kid who gets locked in school closet during Halloween of 1962 and sees something unusual in the classroom that leads him to the murderer of a young girl. Lady in White was something that not a lot of ghost stories were or are to this day - scary. Lukas Haas would later appear in My Chemical Romance’s video for “Welcome to the Black Parade” because two members of the band were fans of the scary flick. If someone could recreate the same atmospheric chills as the original in a remake, it could inspire a whole new generation of Screamo fans.

I saw Lady in White when I was perhaps ten years old and it was one of the more effective horror movies in terms of actually scaring me.  That wasn’t just because I was so young, but more because it is such a believable tale and because its horror relies more upon the psychological usage similar to that of The Shining rather than a gore fest similar to that of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

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