Supernatural terror from The Exorcist and Frankenstein. By Kevin Rush.
We’re past the middle of October, so it’s a ghoulishly good time to look at horror films. Not that I’m a big fan of what Halloween has become. What had been a fun kid’s holiday has, in recent decades, metastasized into an off-putting celebration of adult perversity. Hollywood continues to turn out “horror” films, but gone are the good scares, replaced by stomach-churning, slow torture. Evil in all its banality that fails to deliver chills. So, this column is dedicated to those days when horror was entertaining and scary, rather than desensitizing and addictive. That last point is important, because Halloween was originally practiced as a warning against demons prowling the earth for the ruin of souls. Thus, it was good to be scared. Today, the darkness has become too seductive, and that’s not good, as our first film ably demonstrates.

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