I love spooky movies, especially old black and white films from the 1950s or earlier. Now I’m not talking about slasher films; those just aren’t for me. But give me a good old Vincent Price or Borlis Karloff flick and I’m a happy camper. I know they’re corny, but they just make me smile. And they’re so unrealistic, that they don’t make me lose any sleep.
However, for some reason, on Halloween, nothing seems quite as spooky and scary to me as Macbeth. I’ve seen the play in person several times, but love watching clips from various versions on YouTube. This clip from the Orson Welles version is one of my favorites. (I know I’ve posted this earlier at our previous site, but this just says Halloween to me.)
How about you? Do you like scary movies? If so, what are some of your favorites?
LinnieGayl
The NYT used to be my go-to site for movie reviews, but of late I find myself bored with their determined cynicism. However, I do have to agree with Manohla Dargis’s summary of Pixar’s latest creation: Though the initial images of flight are wonderfully rendered…the movie remains bound by convention….This has become the Pixar way. Passages of glorious imagination are invariably matched by stock characters and banal story choices, as each new movie becomes another manifestation of the movie-industry divide between art and the bottom line. Well, I’m not sure I’d totally agree with the last assertion, but I do know that the movie left me flat after a glorious beginning. 
One of the trade-offs in the joys of parenthood is that sometimes I have to see movies that on my own, I probably wouldn’t see. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is one of those movies. Luckily, I enjoyed it for it’s over the top performances and it’s poking fun of esteemed historical personalities. 
What’s romantic about Star Trek? The series and films are not exactly famous for long-lived happy coupledom (yes, I am looking at you who killed off Jadzia Dax), and the focus is hardly ever on characters’ serious romantic attachments. Yet Star Trek offers the ultimate romance in its determined, occasional stubborn optimism in the face of great odds. In the new movie, Spock explains to Kirk the function of a simulation that is meant to prepare for the worst and promote dignified actions in the face of death, and Kirk isn’t having any of that. He refuses to think either death or defeat, and similarly the whole Star Trek universe is about overcoming (or having overcome) racism, poverty, inequality of women, environmental damage, and general selfish greed. It’s the people as a whole who get their HEA.
