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Friday, October 30, 2009

Film Scary Movies for Your H'ween Eyeballs

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:26 PM

imdb.com
Spine of the Devil!

Lindy hates scary movies, and personally I'm not one for the a-hockey-mask-wearing-killer's-on-the-loose-so-I'll-just-go-off-in-the-woods-alone-in-my-bikini genre. But a truly GOOD scary movie has a healthy emetic effect on the psyche.

So, for Best Scary Movie I Can Think of Right Now (in Honor of H'ween), I would like to nominate:

The Devil's Backbone (available on DVD, short review to be found here)

No breasts, just a giant ticking time bomb and period-piece sheer terror.

Also: Last night I watched part of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and became too creepified and had to turn it off. Had weird dreams. Feel good today. Emetic!

Also: The symphony is playing along live to Psycho tonight and tomorrow night. Best idea ever. FREAK OUT.

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W is a good one too.

Very scary.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on October 30, 2009 at 1:31 PM

The Thing.

Posted by Rotten666 on October 30, 2009 at 1:32 PM

The Night of the Hunter. I still have dreams about that one. It's in black and white, with Robert Mitchum playing a murderer posing as an evangelical minister in order to get his hands on some bank loot he knows is hidden.....where?...and chasing two little kids he thinks might have it.

After seeing this I have never heard the old hymn "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" without a shiver.

Posted by attitude devant on October 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM

I love Night of the Hunter. By today's standards, some of it almost rolls into camp (the boy's acting, for one), but it's shot beautifully, and the story still holds up.

Posted by Dougsf on October 30, 2009 at 1:51 PM

I couldn't understand Fire Walks With Me well enough to be creeped out by it.

The Devil's Backbone is creepy to a point, and is beautifully filmed, but the overall story is pretty lame.

Posted by keshmeshi on October 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM

I love The Devil's Backbone! I would include The Changeling --- the one starring George C. Scott, NOT the one starring Angelina Jolie. The seance scene and the scene immediately following it still give me chills. It is even set in Seattle (although it was really filmed in Denver).

Posted by Bub on October 30, 2009 at 2:07 PM

Also, Let the Right One In is the Egyptian midnight movie this weekend.

Posted by Lindy West on October 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM

"Fire Walks With Me" is a comedy.

Posted by Fnarf

on October 30, 2009 at 2:21 PM

TP: Fire Walk With Me is David Lynch's most underappreciated work, a masterpiece in my opinion. Does it all make sense? Of course not. But I've seen it four or five times and it gets better every time. Trust me. And no, it's not a comedy. Does this Fnarf character feel the need to comment on every single goddamn post? It's a little ridiculous.

Posted by catsnbanjos on October 30, 2009 at 3:40 PM