4."Personally, I hated Se7en. That movie haunted me for years, especially the lust scene. It was just twisted enough that I could see some religious fanatic doing things like that in real life. Plus, I hated thinking of the person who sat down and thought up all those details of torture and death and what else was swirling in that mind."

That’s especially true as Halloween approaches. While you queue up your spooky movie marathon, here are 10 iconic horror movies from the past 70 years for inspiration, and what AP writers had to say about them when they were first released.