Brilliant piece! I love your engaging writing style. This movie gave me so many nightmares as a kid, so I don't know that I can face rewatching it 🤣. This is going to sound ridiculous, but even your brief mention of Mars Attacks was triggering -- the alien from that film was a regular feature in my nightmares as an 8-year-old kid 😂. Having said that, I'm more resilient when it comes to creepy movies these days. The 2021 version of Candyman is my new favourite (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9347730/)... I'm looking forward to having an excuse to rewatch that in the next two weeks 🥳.
I loved Beetlejuice at the time it came out and enjoyed seeing clips of it since, although I crushed on Geena Davies. I did find Michael Keaton slightly creepy which I guess was the point, and delighted in the crazy family who moved in - especially the brilliant Catherine O'Hara and the iconic "Day-oh" lipsync scene.
I'm not sure I have a favourite scary movie, although I have watched 'The Haunting of Hill House' Netflix series more than 4 times as well as the very recent adaptation of 'Dracula' with Claes Bang who is sublime - and recently re-watched 'Midnight Mass' which was even better second time around. I like a longer-than-movie-length scare!
Brilliant piece! I love your engaging writing style. This movie gave me so many nightmares as a kid, so I don't know that I can face rewatching it 🤣. This is going to sound ridiculous, but even your brief mention of Mars Attacks was triggering -- the alien from that film was a regular feature in my nightmares as an 8-year-old kid 😂. Having said that, I'm more resilient when it comes to creepy movies these days. The 2021 version of Candyman is my new favourite (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9347730/)... I'm looking forward to having an excuse to rewatch that in the next two weeks 🥳.
Keep up the great work!
I loved Beetlejuice at the time it came out and enjoyed seeing clips of it since, although I crushed on Geena Davies. I did find Michael Keaton slightly creepy which I guess was the point, and delighted in the crazy family who moved in - especially the brilliant Catherine O'Hara and the iconic "Day-oh" lipsync scene.
I'm not sure I have a favourite scary movie, although I have watched 'The Haunting of Hill House' Netflix series more than 4 times as well as the very recent adaptation of 'Dracula' with Claes Bang who is sublime - and recently re-watched 'Midnight Mass' which was even better second time around. I like a longer-than-movie-length scare!