From Chess and Grandmas to Mobsters and Monsters, Happy Halloween!
We’ve got a packed section for you this month, so we’ll get right to it. M. Night Shyamalan returns to what he does best, suspenseful storytelling a la Rod Serling with The Visit. Tobey McGuire’s nine year effort to get the story of troubled chess player Bobby Fisher made comes to wonderful fruition in Pawn Sacrifice. We also invite you to Meet the Patels, visit Grandma and attend Black Mass. Read the reviews here.
The Good Professor Kaufmann kicks off the month in spooktacular fashion with a celebration of Amicus Productions: Horror Films with Wit and Style. His DVD pick is the Amicus production Tales From the Crypt.
The Asheville Film Society offers some festive titles for the month including William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, one of the defining films that changed the horror genre into what they are today. AFS also pays tribute to Wes Craven during its Thursday Night Horror Show with A Nightmare on Elm Street and The People Under The Stairs.
The Hendersonville Film Society has a terrific lineup for October including one of Rudolph Valentino’s last films Cobra, Frank Capra’s Lost Horizons and William Friedkin’s The Night They Raided Minsky’s. For its Halloween offering HFS will screen The Innocents, a chilling tale with Deborah Kerr as most have never seen her before.
Coming soon to a theatre near you!
We think the following titles, on screens this month may be of interest to Reel Takes readers: Ridley Scott’s The Martian starring Matt Damon, the drug war drama Sicario starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies starring Tom Hanks, Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson’s Peak, Joe Wright’s Peter Pan prequel Pan, Barry Levinson’s Rock The Kasbah with Bill Murray, and Suffragette, a story of the early feminist movement for the Masterpiece Theatre crowd starring Helena Bonham Carter, Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep.
Until the next time, enjoy the show and Happy Halloween!