I like taking my dad to horror movies because they scare the absolute hell out of him—and, at heart, because I’m a terrible person. But what I find really fascinating is that it’s impossible to predict the ones that will really creep him out versus the ones that won’t bother him in the slightest. “Annabelle: Creation” […]
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Hands Across America
Jordan Peele’s “Us” is a Social Nightmare
If there is an “us,” that means there’s also a “them.” No matter how close we are to our “us,” whether it’s our family, our friends or our country, there is always an “other” into which we can place our blame, fear and hate. The other race, the other culture, the other tax bracket. Muslim, […]
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Hot Garbage
Hey look! A terrible possession movie!
I guess it’s always nice to start with a compliment, so…I guess “The Possession of Hannah Grace” has a few nice moments balancing shadow with light and silence with jump scares. A better director could have crafted an entire movie for the legitimate creepiness found in those few solitary moments. Instead we have this: “The Possession […]
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The Shape of You
Halloween again for the very first time
When I was in fifth grade, my mom got married to a man with two boys—one my own age and one several years older. We all moved to a big ranch house with a barn and an old Quonset hut filled with bits of scrap metal, broken records and cobwebs. My older step-brother moved out […]
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PICK: Beetlejuice!
wednesday 15 Beetlejuice FILM—Flashback to 1988, baby Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton—the ghost with the most—are sure to put hilariously pinstriped fright in your October night. One installation of the Deschutes Public Library’s Frightful Films series at Tin Pan Theater. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice…we dare you. 6 pm. Tin Pan Theater, 869 NW Tin Pan Alley. Free.
