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Scccaaaaarrry Books & Movies! Beth White
October nights are perfect for curling up with a mystery novel or watching a ET – One of the best “classic” movies of
spooky movie. We asked CA staffers to list some of their favorite fall flicks and my time. Great Halloween scenes that
most memorable spine-chilling books. Somebody pass the popcorn. were funny!
Movies Michelle Mason
Krystal Wilson: Alfred Hitchcock directed the 1963 film It’s not scary but I have been watching It’s
The Birds. the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown since I
Tom Hanks in The Burbs – All-time was young. Now, my husband and I watch
favorite, spooky and hilarious! Jenny Phillips: it with our girls. Tradition!
This may shock you….but I hate scary
Stranger Things (New Netflix series) movies…. So these are the “wimpy” Sheila Diller
movies I watch in October with my family:
Emily Wallace: The Sixth Sense, The Addams Family, My memory of seeing Alfred Hitchcock’s
Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Psycho in a San Diego drive-in ... I was
The Birds – A little campy by today’s Before Christmas, Teen Witch, The Legend in a car with a sun roof, and my date
standards (Tippi Hedron runs from the of Sleepy Hollow, and Practical Magic. schemed to have one of his football team
birds in skirt, nylons and heels, clutching pals put his hand thru the sun roof and
her purse) but still a great flick. Jan Crutchfield tap my head just as they spun the old lady
I can get stuck on the old Twilight Zone around. Needless to say, it was quite a
Young Frankenstein – Who can forget shows. The acting may leave a bit to be fright - and a joke on campus for weeks!
Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman? Just a desired, but the nostalgic stage sets are
great comedy based on an old horror flick. worth it! Books
Jaime Calder: Kristen Runde
I’ve seen The Shining probably a thousand Anything by Dean Koontz
times now and it continues to scare me is scary enough for me.
to death. Also, I don’t think I’ll ever get Intensity was probably the
that last shot from Invasion of the Body scariest, but he is really
Snatchers (the 1978 version) out of my more “soft horror.” Clive
brain. Barker is too creepy for
me!
Cedric Claiborne
Emily Wallace
Hocus Pocus (actually funny), Silent Hill,
The Haunting Thinner by Stephen
King chilled me to the
Jim Romine bone. Oddly enough,
I haven’t been able to
Don’t be afraid of the Dark – Movie made read anything else he
for TV in 1973 and as an 11-year-old, it has written. Too scary.
scared the daylights out of me. I saw it
again years later, but it did not hold the Ten Little Indians by
same fear factor with me… It was remade Agatha Christie – I
in 2010. read this book several times when I was
younger. A classic mystery whodunnit.
Jaime Calder
William Peter Blatty’s
The Exorcist scared me
way more than the movie
ever did – I had to sleep
with the lights on after
reading that one!
Henry James’ The Turn
of the Screw remains just
as disturbing and creepy as it was when
it was first written over 100 years ago.
Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle in Young
Frankenstein.
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