While horror movies have had a remarkable run in the 20th century, I was being a scaredy cat who tried to avoid all of it. But I eventually realized I might be missing something. So many of my fellow cinephiles also love horror, and not just for cheap thrills. What did they see that I didn’t?

Read my piece for Cinema Sugar where I lay out the five horror movies that brought me into the dark and showed me the light about a timeless genre.