I’ve enjoyed being scared witless in movies ever since 1967, when I was eight and jumped screaming from my seat as a murderous Alan Arkin, kitchen knife flashing, hunted the blind Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark. To paraphrase Tolstoy, happy movies are all alike, but every scary movie is scary in its own way. There are stalker movies, like Halloween, that turn you into pre (...)
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Cinematic Scares
‘PARANORMAL ACTIVITY,’ ‘THE STEPFATHER,’ ‘WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE,’ ‘SAW VI’
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