Keyword: halloween
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
There’s a reason The Nightmare Before Christmas keeps resurfacing in conversations about the best animation films of its era: it simply refuses to be dated. At its core, the plot goes like this: Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town,…
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Train to Busan
If you’ve never given Train to Busan a fair shot, 2016 is as good a year as any to fix that — Yeon Sang-ho’s film has aged into something like a cult favorite. The film’s own tagline — “Life-or-death survival begins.” — tells you almost everything about the tone it’s going for. The story kicks…
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Halloween
Few horror pictures manage to stick the landing quite like Halloween, John Carpenter’s 1978 release that still gets passed around by people who swear it’s underrated. The film’s own tagline — “The night he came home!” — tells you almost everything about the tone it’s going for. The story kicks off from a clean, almost…
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Psycho
When Alfred Hitchcock sat down to make “Psycho”, the goal was clearly to deliver something that sticks with an audience long after the credits roll. It is easy to see why it keeps getting recommended long after its initial release. The marketing leaned on the line “A new and altogether different screen excitement!” — and…
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Not every film needs to reinvent its genre to be worth your time, and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”, an adventure and family and science fiction entry, proves the point. That reputation, as it turns out, is well earned. Everything the film wants you to feel is right there in its tagline: “He is afraid. He is…