It takes more than a stylish director to make a great horror film. It takes more than an old dark house, a gruesome monster or even a fistful of scares.
It takes a great pair of lungs.
Ever since Mary Philbin unmasked Lon Chaney in the 1925 silent film The Phantom of the Opera, horror films have depended on frightened heroines (and, occasionally, frightening female fiends). And although Philbin had …
