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After a string of lousy dates, Noa meets Steve at a local grocery store and they hit it off. Soon, they're meeting up a lot and, when Steve suggests they go away for the weekend, Noa jumps at the chance.

What Noa doesn't know is that Steve has his own plans in mind and this relationship isn't going to be what she thinks it is.

It's nice to see Sebastian Stan sinking his teeth into a role this bizarre and twisted and having a great time. Fresh balances horror and humor very well, giving the audience just enough of both without making things too funny or too dour and it all leads to a very satisfying conclusion.

Wealthy Laura Wynant hasn't made a good name for herself among her local neighbors. Everyone thinks she's a bit off the deep end, especially after a stay at a mental facility. Her son and his wife are all too eager to have her declared mentally incompetent so they can put her away and inherit her fortune.

This all comes to a head one day when Laura, out for a stroll in the woods surrounding her estate, hears a woman crying out for help from underneath the ground. When she tries to tell everyone around her, they all attribute it to her overactive imagination or even proof of her insanity.

As the woman underneath the ground runs of air, Laura starts a race against time to try and save her before it's too late.

The Screaming Woman is a solid, well paced TV chiller with an excellent central performance by screen queen Olivia de Havilland. It's twists and turns are interesting and its story is an unusual twist on the Rear Window tale.

When Louis Creed and his family move into a farmhouse in front of a busy Maine road, he's quick to befriend next door neighbor, Judd. When Louis' daughter's beloved cat dies, Judd tells Louis about the spooky titular cemetery where, if you bury something, it comes back to life. The only catch is that it's not quite the same as it was when it was alive.

Tragedy continues to strike the Creed family and Louis thinks that, if it brought back an animal, it can bring back humans and this will be a mistake that will change Louis' life forever.

It's a strong concept by Stephen King and he and director Mary Lambert work extra hard to tell it in the scariest way possible. Some sequences in this film still hold an eerie and disturbing power to this day, but it's bogged down by two flat lead performances that either go too broad or blend into the wallpaper.