Darsana Radhakrishnan

On the way back from visiting her mother in a mental home, Kim Knaur (Melanie Rose) sees, how Claire (Paulina Lin) is dragged into an abandoned cabin by a few boys from a lover-boy gang. She runs home and gets the gun of her father to free Claire. After Claire is rescued, and Kim gets to know that the boys from the cabin weren't the only ones who abused Claire, the two girls decide, connected by their common fate, to take revenge on all of their tormentors. —David Lunch

Was there ever a more seminal film than Scared to Death? By kicking off with a body in a mortuary narrating the story, this classy horror-mystery served as the blueprint for Sunset Boulevard over a decade later.