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Best in Class: Scary Movies

by revgeorge on October 31, 2009

Yahoo Movies has a photo gallery selection of the scariest movies in several different classes, best vampire, best haunted house, best killer animal, etc.  Some interesting choices but I think on the whole good ones.  I particularly like the choice for best giant monster. :)

Check out the photos…if you dare!  Happy Halloween!!

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Nosferatu: The Symphony of Horror

by revgeorge on October 22, 2009

NosferatuShadowNosferatu, The Symphony of Horror (How’s that for a catchy name?) was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.  It is, as far as I can tell from a brief research, one of the earliest adaptations of Dracula.  Directed by F.W. Murnau and released in 1922, the film attempted to get around the problem of not having the rights to the Stoker story by changing the setting from London to the fictional German city of Wisborg and also changing all the names of the characters.  Count Dracula becomes Count Orlok, Harker becomes Thomas Hutter, Renfield becomes Knock, and so on.  Minus the ending, though, the story is essentially the same as Dracula. [click to continue…]

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Books, Films, and You – Boo!

by Arabella Figg on October 2, 2009

In keeping with our October Halloween theme, what books or films have literally made your hair stand on end, or made you jump, scream or have nightmares for weeks?

I’m around eighteen. I’m reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. It’s late at night and I’m alone; the house is silent. All lights are off, except for the lamp beside me. I’m completely absorbed in the scene where the two women are in the bedroom; the house has come alive, and is breathing and making horrific sounds; I’m totally in that room with them, scared out of my wits. The doorknob to the room is turning.

Suddenly, our front door doorknob, several feet away, begins to turn.

I stare at it in disbelief, hair standing on end. It mysteriously continues to slowly turn back and forth. I get up and creep fearfully to the door, my heart practically jumping out of my chest. I feel a complete unreality. I’m get to the door and (stupid!) open it, and find myself two inches from a face between the opened screen door and me. Before I realize it’s my brother returning from an evening out, I jump and shriek loud enough to wake the neighborhood.

I haven’t read any horror since.

So, what’s your story?

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