It's rare to find a film capable of genuinely frightening me, but this one manages it; I certainly didn’t anticipate the direction the protagonist would take in what I had assumed was another standard horror movie. The character isn’t portrayed as monstrous, just disturbingly insane.

This 2006 film, *Perfume: The Story of a Murderer*, from director Tom Tykwer, features Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Dustin Hoffman. The music was composed by Tykwer, Klimek, and Heil, and the script—written by Tykwer, Birkin, and Eichinger—is adapted from Patrick Süskind's 1985 novel. Taking place in 18th century France, it centers on Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Whishaw), a man with an extraordinary…