With real estate piping hot these days, it’s easy to see how someone might be enticed by a “fixer upper,” if not the demonic house in The Amityville Horror. Haunted homes in film are pretty numerous, going back to Eerie Tales (Unheimliche Geschichten, 1919) and probably even before that. Broadly, they can be divided intoContinue reading “The Amityville Horror”
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Halloween
For all its frightening moments, Halloween actually features one of the great speeches in the pantheon of horror, Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) musing about his encounter with a young Michael Myers: “I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes… the devil’s eyes…” It’s a wholesale rejection of social constructivism,Continue reading “Halloween”
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