It’s time for a Halloween movie marathon. Here’s what AP had to say about 10 iconic horror films
“Rear Window” (1954)
is a wonderful trick pulled off by Alfred Hitchcock. He breaks his hero’s leg, sets him up at an apartment window where he can observe, among other things, a murder across the court. The panorama of other people’s lives is laid out before you, as seen through the eyes of a Peeping Tom.
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— Bob Thomas
“Halloween” (1978)
At 19, Jamie Lee Curtis is starring in a creepy little thriller film called “Halloween.”
The idea for “Halloween” sprang from independent producer-distributor Irwin Yablans, who wanted a terror-tale involving a babysitter. John Carpenter and Debra Hill fashioned a script about a madman who kills his sister, escapes from an asylum and returns to his hometown intending to murder his sister’s friends.
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“The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)
Ted Tally adapted the Thomas Harris novel with great skill, and Demme twists the suspense almost to the breaking point. The climactic confrontation between Clarice Starling and Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) is carried a tad too far, though it is undeniably exciting with well-edited sequences.
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“Scream” (1996)
In this smart, witty homage to the genre, students at a suburban California high school are being killed in the same gruesome fashion as the victims in the slasher films they know by heart.
By turns terrifying and funny, “Scream” — written by newcomer David Williamson — is as taut as a thriller, intelligent without being self-congratulatory, and generous in its references to Wes Craven’s competitors in gore.
“The Blair Witch Project” (1999)
Imaginative, intense and stunning are a few words that come to mind.
The movie is the supposed footage found after three student filmmakers disappear in the woods of western Maryland while shooting a documentary about a legendary witch.
The film leads us to believe the footage is real, the story is real, that three young people died and we are witnessing the final days of their lives. It isn’t. It’s all fiction.
@nursefrombirth my housemate's wife absolutely refused to go into the basement after seeing that movie... which was pretty funny because that's where our laundry is.
she was a raving bitch though, so we used to leave little twig figures & stuff just laying around the house.... i really wanted to get one of those "standing in the corner" toddler dolls that were so popular in the early 2000s & leave it in the basement...
@redenigma 😂😂Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, my imagination won't take me there. I enjoy scary movies and find them more intriguing than scary. Question, so did you do her laundry 🤔
@nursefrombirth no, i think she made David do it. we were all happy when she moved out... including David, once he got over the hurt feelings.
@nursefrombirth i like a good horror movie. not a fan of slasher/gore though
“Saw” (2004)
The fright flick “Saw” is consistent, if nothing else.
This serial-killer tale is inanely plotted, badly written, poorly acted, coarsely directed, hideously photographed and clumsily edited, all these ingredients leading to a yawner of a surprise ending. To top it off, the music’s bad, too.
You could forgive all (or even fractionally, much) of the movie’s flaws if there were any chills or scares to this sordid little horror affair.
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