Stairway to Hell: Horror's Scariest Staircases

Did you know there are 97 steps that Father Karras tumbles down at the end of The Exorcist? Or that Wendy Torrance backs her way up 23 sets of stairs brandishing a baseball bat as her crazed husband Jack threatens to bash her brains in in The Shining? Whether you're Sarah (Madeline Petsch) climbing them to investigate that noise you heard in the creepy attic à la Polaroid (2019) or you're Chris (Dana Kimmell) running down them trying to escape the masked maniac that who just butchered your friends like in Friday the 13th Part III (1982), staircases have a special spot in horror lore. We here at Nightmare on Film Street thought it was time we paid tribute to these flights of fright and give you something to run the stairs of your mind; 97 Steps to Hell: The Top Ten Most Iconic Staircases in Horror.