Halloween weekend is here.
The pumpkins are carved. Parties planned. Costumes conceived.
And now critics on-air and online are recommending what horror films you should include in your Halloween movie marathon. The expected have risen to the top — the Halloweens, the Nightmares on Elm Street, the Screams, the Exorcists.
Your basic nightmares.
And while Paranormal Activity 3 has been advertised to have 15 minutes that will “mess up your life,” I’ve already “been there, done that.”
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976)
I saw this film in the theatre with my sister, mom and her good friend Jeanean who loved horror movies. (The rest of us really didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into.)
Based on a true story, The Town that Dreaded Sundown follows a Texas ranger’s hunt for a serial killer who terrorized the people of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946. The killer wore a pillowcase over his head as he preyed on the residents of the town, primarily young people parking in the woods.
He was brutal and cruel and terrifying. And he was never captured.
Suffice to say no one slept in our house that night. Actually, I’m not sure any of us slept much that week, even knowing he was probably long dead. The imagine of his face covered by that pillowcase — breathing in and out like an animal — will haunt me for the rest of my life.
If you like really scary movies, I recommend it.
But it will mess you up.
Daytimer
I didn’t watch the series 24 starring Kiefer Sutherland.
But right now, I feel like I’m living it…because I can’t go 24 hours without running into Kiefer Sutherland.
He’s the voice of calm on the current Bank of America television campaign. (They need one.) He’s the spokesperson for Apple Intel, his raspy voice the perfect complement to their space age-y spots. He’s also the voice of Nissan and Verizon — and that’s just in the United States.
In Canada, his dulcet tones sell Ford Fusion. In Brazil, it’s Peugeot.
I know he has a new series on television called Touch, and a 24 feature film in the works. But seriously Kiefer, why bother?
You already RULE THE WORLD.
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