Dolores Claiborne (1995)

Kathy Bates gives one of the great King performances as a Maine island housekeeper accused of murdering her wealthy employer, with Jennifer Jason Leigh as the estranged daughter who comes home to face her. Taylor Hackford's 1995 film is a psychological drama about a mother, a daughter and a marriage nobody on the island wanted to talk about. The fear here is entirely human, which is why Roger Ebert called it a horror story but not a supernatural one. Expect bleak family history and an abusive husband rather than jump scares, and two actors at full strength in every scene they share.