Tell Me a Story

                                                                Photo by Vino Li on Unsplash Dear Readers, Okay!  I watched a lot of scary movies since writing you all last.  Here are my final 7 that I would recommend to watch per Halloween season.  A couple are not scary per se, but interesting and well suited for the Halloween season (Beetlejuice.)  Some did not make my list-- Psycho was well done (as written about in my previous post) but not a movie I will watch year after year.  Some were better than I thought they would be in terms of an analysis (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) but too gory for me.  I prefer classic haunted house movies or ones with a twist like Six Sense or ones that have historic settings like Sleepy Hollow. 1. Sixth Sense 2. The Conjuring (the first is the best one) 3. Hocus Pocus (I did not review the second one... I wanted to but they needed you to get a Disney subscription...)  4. Sleepy Hollow (I like the Johnny Depp version best) 5. The Exorcist  6. The Shinin

                                                     Photo by Maxime Roedel on Unsplash I have been wanting to watch the movie, Psycho , for a number of years.  To be honest, I tend to not be interested in black and white films.  One source said the reason the movie was shot in black and white was to save on production cost and to not make the shower scene so gory...  Moving on! I was completely enraptured by this movie which is based on Robert Bloch's 1959 novel of the same title.  The movie opens with a couple in bed... I appreciated the subtly of the physical aspect of their relationship versus all the explicitness that goes on in film and tv today.  We all know what people do when attracted to each other-- there is no reason to spend so much time on it and show it all! I loved the poise and intelligence demonstrated by Marion Crane, our heroine.  Her next choice is shocking... and the one part of the screenplay/story I thought should be fixed.  It didn't see plausible that

                                                      Photo by Łukasz Nieścioruk on Unsplash -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For those of you who know me, or are getting to know me through this blog, I LOVE scary stories!  I do believe in spirits and I do believe in an afterlife.  I do not think a person just dies... rather there is a separation.  I can write more about the topic on the after life in a future blog. So.... I know I said I would be writing about books... but many movies are based on books!  In celebration of Halloween, I decided to see what lists were out there in terms of top scary movies.  I am picky about my scary movies... I used to be an acquisitions editor for a company called Short Cinema Journal in Los Angeles and screened lots of amazing films. I think it is difficult to create a great scary film... sometimes the acting is weak, or the plot is weak, the setting or a