Thursday, October 29, 2009

What to watch -- and what not to watch -- for Halloween

Posted by Scott Wilson on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:00 AM

click to enlarge Alison Lohman in Drag Me to Hell
  • Alison Lohman in Drag Me to Hell

When the last pinky-sized 100 Grand bar is gone and the porch light goes out, how will you reckon with the waning hours of October 31? With an extra hour available, thanks to the end of daylight-saving time, there's no going wrong with the shut-in creepfest double feature. But what to watch?

Our sister paper the San Francisco Weekly offers critic Brian Miller's handy guide, which rightly positions Onion AV Club and Kansas City Public Library favorite They Live near the top of the Halloween heap.

And across the aisle, local freelance writer Gil James Baven cautions against a host of really, really stinky movies that were supposed to be scary. He also finds a few to love, even going out on a limb to champion the Keanu Reeves mumbler sleeper Constantine -- and its novelization. Now that's scary.

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Um, that's Bavel. With an L. Not that anyone will see it.

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