A man appears at the door. He is tall and foreboding, wears a wide-brimmed black hat, and says with a Mississippi accent, "You stole my story."

"Secret Window" is by far one of the best horror movies I have seen recently. You will not find any lame special effects, ridiculous dialogue, or just about anything else you are sure to find in a normal horror film. In this movie you will find something very rare: originality.

It comes from the story "Secret Windows, Secret Gardens" from Stephen King's book Four Past Midnight, about Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp), a writer who has just split up with his wife and gets accused by another man, John Shooter (John Turturro), of stealing his story and changing the ending. When Shooter threatens Rainey to fix it, he refuses. Depp brought a lot of humor to the screen, just like he did in...