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costume contests and treats for all tricksters. songs th<
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tertainment on the stage at Devine and Harden streets, specialty
The fiendish Five Points street dance will begin at Most
6:30 p.m. with the band, The Losers. plained.
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voodoobility on Halloween prowlers. Members of The Paying ^
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on a new recording. They've been seen
fellas' and in Greenstreets before it closed,
of their tunes have been getting a lot of air
WUSC, including "Longhorn Grill," "Wild
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*ea beginning at 8:30 p.m. The Greene and
Street stage will be the starting point and all
should register by 8:15 p.m.
the outdoor festivities, the parties will move
is several of the popular bars and restaurants
the eerie night
Jims, Rockafellas', Sharky's, Yesterdays,
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DStume contests.
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contest, will feature prizes totalling up to
adults and $85 for children. All ghastly jack
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Welcome, boys and ghouls, to a
special Halloween edition of the
"Video Vault".
Since the holiday is about blood,
gore, dismemberment and all that
icky stuff, I thought I'd recommend
some movies that go along
with this theme.
Today,I'm going to discuss my
favorite "driver's ed" training
films from high school, currently
on video.
Just kidding. Actually I'm going
to review my favorite horror movies
of all time. To be honest, it
was quite difficult to find enough
good horror movies to base a column
on since, for every one of the
gems listed below, there are literally
thousands of turkeys with titles
like "Blood-Splattered Chiropractor."
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Silence of the Lambs (1991): 4
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Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal "the i
Cannibal" Lecter. Lecter is a psy- i,
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Tremors (1990): Vastly under'ated
horror/comedy that has Kefin
Bacon, Reba McEntire, and
Michael Gross (Mr. Keaton on
'Family Ties") battling a huge
icked-off worm who is burrowing
inder their town. Absolutely brainess
in some parts but so full of acion,
suspense and wit that lack of
ogic doesn't really hurt the film,
rhe end which, as you would expect.
Dits the townsfolk apainst the
iwful, angry annelida (if you studed
your biology, you'd know what
his means) is a classic.(A-).
Re-Animator (1985): Occasionilly
disgusting but well-written
lorror flick that focuses on a docor
named Herbert West (Jeffrey
^ombs) who believes he can bring
jack the dead with a mysterious
jreen goo. His experiments are
:uccessful but, as he soon finds
>ut, some cadavers are better left
lead. Especially the evil Dr. Hill
vho loses his head (literally) but is
itill able to throw a wrench into
best's plans. Available in "Rated"
and "unrated" versions and
ollowed by a sequel, Bride of the
le-Animator, which is totally
vorthless.(A).
Evil Dead (1983): This looks
ike it cost about 10 bucks to make
>ut it is still genuinely spooky and
iction-packed. The plot revolves
iround a group of campers who
ind a book that raises the dead
ind by the end, most of them fall
ictim to various demons or murlerous
trees. The frenzied pace
nakes it hard to figure out what's
;oing on sometimes but, overall,
his film merits its "cult classic"
tanding. As with Re-Animator, it,
oo, is followed by a totally wordless
sequel.(B+).
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The Cenobites are some of the
scariest and most creative horror
villains ever and when they're on
screen, the film livens up. Unfortunately,
when they're not, the film
is a snooze so make use of the
"fast forward" button whenever
neccesary. Followed up by a sequel
that sucks because it makes
the Cenobites into wimps.(B-).
The Fly (1986): Dark, somber
and thoroughly disturbing movie
which has Jeff Goldblum accidentally
turning himself into the title
insect The harrowing transformation
from man to bug is aptly illustrated
with the use of great makeup
effects and fine acting on Goldblum's
part. Geena Davis is also
convincing in her role as Goldblum's
increasingly disgusted girlfriend.
Unfortunately, as you might
expect, there's a sequel and . . .
well, you know the rest(A-).
Halloween (1978): Overrated,
but genuinely creepy, flick about a
maniac named Michael Myers who
goes on a rampage on "All Hallow's
Eve." It seems he's after his
sister, played by the always fine
Jamie Lee Curtis, but strike one up
for the good guys because Detective
Loomis (Donald Pleascence)
is on his trail. Will Loomis catch
him before he kills virtually everybody
in Curtis' town? You won't
find out until the very end and, by
that time, you will be so tense that,
if someone were to tap you on the
shoulder, you would probably leap
right out of your skin. Followed
by four hideous sequels, each one
worse than the one before.(B+).
Well, those are my picks for the
best horror movies of all time.
Make sure to watch them with a
friend or with all the lights in your
house on so that, if your house
squeaks like houses are prone to
do, your paranoia won't make you