A Review/Rant on The Fog by a Black Spectator
by Tynan Davis
"Every town has its secrets,
ANTONIO BAY HAS ITS NIGHTMARES."
The Fog is a story about how a town must pay for what its forefathers did 100 years ago. The founders of Antonio Bay were responsible for deliberately leading a clipper ship full of lepers out to sea to be sunk. The founders did this in order for the town to develop without the scare of leprosy which, according to the film, "the Chinese brought [...] over." The ghosts of the lepers have returned to seek vengeance on the living ancestors of the town's forefathers. This could be a scary movie for anyone who is afraid of ghosts, but I watched the film with the hope that I could identify with the only person of color in the film. I am not afraid of ghosts, but I was pretty scared . . . .
Be Careful What You Watch, Or...
by Michal Luzzatto
“Daddy, please tell me again…one last time!”
My father heard that sentence many times through out my childhood. Every night I begged him to tell me the fairy tale again, so I could imagine how the prince saves the princess. And so he did, over and over again. Until the day his savior came- the television!
by Claire Harbage
Why do people like horror films? The genre of horror is well liked; in theaters last year, on Halloween weekend alone, two horror films grossed 40.1 million dollars. The Grudge and Saw came in first and third respectively for highest grossing in that weekend. The other eight top films together only grossed slightly more: 48.8 million dollars. This is proof that American people enjoy submitting themselves to feelings of fear, unease and, at times, repulsion caused by horror films.
Halloween Isn’t Scary
by Ben Waldorf
On Halloween last year, my friend Andrea had about thirty people over for a party.
The highlight? A screening of a horror classic from 1978: John Carpenter’s Halloween.
Except something went wrong. Was this film supposed to be a comedy? Because we all sure laughed a lot. From the attempts at terror that fell flat, to the hilariously awkward scene in which a woman removes her top simply because she spilled something on it, this film seemed to be a scary movie for a generation other than our own.
A film review by Ben Waldorf
I feel it necessary to begin my review of Curtis Hanson’s (L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys) new film, In Her Shoes, by specifying that I am not a middle-aged woman. Therefore, I am in no way part of the target audience of this film . . . .