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This Week: Corpses, corpses, everywhere

Arsenic and Old Lace Best Lines: There are many. Peter Lorre’s Starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Peter best is ‘‘We can’t leave a body in the Lorre, Raymond Massey rumble seat.’’ Cary Grant has heaps of Directed by Frank Capra good ones, such as “‘It’s not only against the 1944, 114 minutes, black and white law -- it’s wrong!’’ Probably the best line in the entire movie is ‘‘I’m not a Brewster -- With this being Halloween, it’s time for a I’m the son of a sea cook!”’ appropriate movie. If you want to watch a flick related to the season, but not some- Best Scene: A tough call. The fight This Week: Return of the Night of The Living Dead ee ee eer, prorniciand OM sequence near the end is probably the best, Lace fits the bill perfectly. although some short clips are also great. Left Overs Part IV It’s set on Halloween, in a house beside a Well, kiddies, the idiocy is ba-ack! After a long Very silly horror movie. It was meant to be. I graveyard. Things to Look For: Lots of little things. absence necromancing the stone, I’ve decided to mean, the heroes find hand grenades and Cary Grant plays Mortimer Brewster, The c abby is hilarious, especially when he resurrect the leftover scraps of my brain and give machine guns in the pear of the recently a dramatic critic and avowed bachelor. He haste Wea aneeheh tani" President’ lousy post to boot, goodseares (Trove the Collectors temptation __-Se°Tetly marries Elaine Harper (Priscilla “Teddy thinks the stairs are San Juan hills, so scenes) and a lot of gross-outs, but no real food Lane), the daughter of a neighbour who every time he goes upstairs he yells It’s Halloween. I like Halloween. Ilike horror _for fright. You’ll sleep well afterwards (alas!) ‘dislikes Mortimer. When the couple returns = ‘‘Charge!’’ Details like the graveyard also movies. Only at Halloween can one view them The Collector’s a great villain and the to their respective homes to pack for their add ambience. without guilt. But I like literary ones. Good Cryptkeeper does bookending scenes... how can honeymoon, Mortimer discovers a body in ones. Ones that don’t have three letter roman you not like that laugh? the window seat. The Bottom Line: Fun, hilarious, and aenctals we - title. The ones a sd Pe : E His brother Theodore is mentally about as subtle as a freight train. It’s worth scare you. at least amuse you. Here’s three stly, the o igatory werewo movie: n unbalanced (he thinks he’s President renting anytime of the year, but especiall neat ones that will do both. American Werewolf in London. David Naughton Theodore Roosevelt), so Mortimer assumes at — as sii dof ne y stars as David, a college boy who’s hiking across ts bevther hay final d'and killed ‘ i ' Carrie: Carrie White is a social pariah. Not Europe with his friend Jack. Well, long story Panga Pe y ee 7 - though -- if death and the macabre bother only does she lack almost all social skills, she’s short: They get attacked on the moors of someone. But no, his aunts, who are “The you to any extent, avoid this movie. also the daughter of the local religious crazy. England by a beastie, Jack gets killed, David dearest, sweetest, kindest old ladies that Needless to say, she gets picked ona lot. Then _ gets bitten. And David starts having weird ever walked the earth’’ inform him that Availability: You shouldn’t have much three things happen. One of the popular girls dreams about running in the forest buck naked Teddy is not involved. They have taken it trouble finding Arsenic and Old Lace. Ina takes pity on her and rigs the prom so Carrie’ ll and killing deer. He keeps waking up in strange upon themselves to rid the world of lonely pinch, Sherwood Video and Off the Wall be named queen. One of the other popular girls places, like the wolf enclosure at the London old men. The body in the window seat is definitely have copies. hates her so much she rigs the prom to dump Zoo. Then his friend Jack comes back as rotting not the first -- eleven corpses are buried in —————————

blood all over her. And Carrie learns that she ghost to tell Dave that he’s a werewolf and has

can move things by the power of her brain. to kill himself. And sure enough, there’s this sa eh asted, Mortimer is in no SU ES MI iF mysterious critter killing people... 200 : i Then Carrie blows everybody up. condition to pack for the honeymoon in ; "I really don’t know what to say. It’s a good Niagara Falls. Elaine tries to drag him out WE WANT TO HEAR | Creepy. It’s like going through high school all werewolf movie, but it can’t make up its mind if to the waiting cab, but he ignores her. She ALL YOUR DEEPEST over again,. but with better pyrotechnics. it’s a comedy or a horror. Jack keeps coming thinks the marriage is on the rocks before SECRETS Adapted to the screen by Brian De Palma, one- back, more decayed than before, and keeps the first day is over. time horror wunderkind, from Stephen King’s making wisecracks. David has to make it across As if things were not bad enough, aoe eM eouer ee first novel. London stark naked after his nightly rampage. A Johnny Brewster sey) comes home. man gets stalked through the tube (London’s Bearing a.certain “cas ie to PeNite Tree eRe Demon Knight: Tales From the Crypt goes subway) by something he can’t. quite. see.... I Frankenstein’s Monster; Johany is. the: black : : 5 y is the blac feature length! Yes, the Cryptkeeper (every- give up. Great performance by Naughton who h B dehtferntice tn dark heb hot IF YOU THINK YOU one’s favourite wise-cracking Corpse) has been somehow manages to revel in his new sensations 2 ere sh aged ggidome dee lions a een CAN BARE YOUR hard at work, and the result is this fun schlock- (did you know being a werewolf increases your stiff in the rumble seat of his car. He needs HEARTS DESIRES TO fest. sexual prowess? Bonus, huh?!) and tremble in a place to hide for the night. He also plans THE STUDENT BODY fear of them simultaneously... anda terrific (and to kill Mortimer. The plot only thickens WRITE FOR THE Brayker (Will Sadler) has a key -- a key to Hell. painful) transformation sequence by special F/X from here on in, and the last twenty minutes NEWSPAPER And Hell wants it back so the denizens can open mogul Rick Baker. are a merry and hilarious romp. Ss See ec the gates and swarm the earth like East Berliners Se : after the wall came down (I assume, however, That’s it for now. These flicks are as common Se eee ty nek prea HELPING THE WORLD

always. Massey plays a convincing villain, and Peter Lorre is perfect as his reluctant henchman. The other characters are fine, A

_ that the demons will be doing more than buying as dirt and available at any good video store. Be blue jeans). The Collector (Billy Zane) and his here next time when, if I get around to it, I’ll

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