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Item #390

The Changeling, George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, color 115 min. $19.99

I found this an almost unbearably tense movie. Why do horror movie directors always have to bump off kids? A great haunted house, startling sound effects, and some truly eerie moments like the seance with a drab little medium who does automatic writing and the scene where the chain of a pendant slithers out of a grave. The ending might be a little abrupt and unsatisfying, but I'd still give this a 3-skull rating.

Item #391

English Ghosts, narrated by Edward Mulhare, 1989, 30 min. $14.95

Mulhare, from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir TV series, takes you into the world of supernatural Britain. Obviously designed for television, (try to ignore the hokey "mad scientist's" lab and TV-screen effects) this is a lightweight look at some haunted British sites. Quicky interviews with witnesses and ghosthunters like Scott Rogo, Raymond Bayless and Simon Marsden [speaking of Borley], re-enactments, double-exposures. Superficial, but some nice photography and some sites I hadn't heard of.

Item #400

The Frighteners, Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, John Astin, 1996, 1 hr. 50 min., color, CC $19.95

An ectoplasmic romp of a film starring Fox as a bogus psychic investigator, whose tame ghosts infest houses which he then "clears." Things take a more terrifying turn with the intrusion of a hooded "Soul Collector," whose horrible slithering, hopping motion put me in mind of creatures from M.R. James and the Croglin Grange Vampire. This Thing is driving up the body count and Fox becomes the main suspect. The special effects are extraordinary and there are some wonderfully subtle touches such as the nasty grating noises from Astin’s decaying Judge and the Hieronymous Boschean tunnel of light to the Afterlife. I was riveted by the final time-warp sequence, which flashes between a ghostly massacre and Fox’s and Alvarado’s stalking by a psychotic couple—one living, one dead. It all wraps up with a sweetly sentimental ending for the good couple and satisfyingly awful fates for the evil one, including a nice, medieval use of worms.

Item #392

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, Natalie Wood, 1947, B&W, 104 min. $25.95

Lovely and determined Lucy Muir (Tierney) refuses to be frightened when a ghostly sea captain (Harrison) appears in her ocean-side home. When the dashing captain suggests Lucy write a book on his life, they fall in love. When a flesh-and-cold-blooded rival in the form of George Sanders appears to challenge the captain's spirit, what's a mortal woman to do? A sentimental classic!

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