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Media Library recommendations: Halloween films
Motel Hell (DVD 2726)
The Media Library staff looooves movies. Check out our favorite Halloween films.
Shae: Tomie
Detective Harada is investigating the murder of a high school student, Tomie Kawakami, and her classmate, Tsukiko has been treated for amnesia. Meanwhile, Tsukiko's neighbor gets a baby, which grows into a young girl in a few weeks and answers to the name of Tomie Kawakami.
DVD 3696 / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b2661502~S12
Alexis: 27 Dresses (ha!)
Jane has the kind of selflessness that everyone looks for in a friend. Lately the perennial bridesmaid has begun to feel as if something is missing in her life. Kevin is a local newspaper reporter who spots Jane racing between two receptions - one in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn. He quickly surmises that her quirky tale may be just the story to get him into the big leagues. Jane butts heads with Kevin just as her younger sister, Tess, shows up in town. Now, Jane is prompted to reevaluate her priorities when her boss - with whom she is secretly in love - falls for her younger sister. As the bride-to-be makes plans to marry, she mistakenly assumes Jane will be happy to take part in the wedding. Jane finally comes to terms with her true feelings and her life begins to change in ways she never expected.
DVD 8782 / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b3403818~S12
Paul: The Thing
A research team at a remote research station in Antarctica finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, it creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them.
DVD 3460 / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b2659767~S12
Steven: The Shining
A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.
DVD 879 / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b2314323~S12
Abra - Suspira
Horror film about an American student enrolled in a German dance academy. A series of bizarre incidents and brutal murders puts the academy in chaos.
Abra says: The vibrant colors, surreal cinematography, and eerie soundtrack is sure to get your heart thumping
DVD 5089 / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b2873950~S12
Diane - Trick ‘r treat
Trick 'r treat takes the Creepshow/Tales from the Crypt approach to nefarious new depths with four interwoven tales set on Halloween night: a high school principal moonlights as a vicious serial killer; the quest of a young virgin for that special someone takes a gruesome turn; a group of teens carries out a cruel prank with disastrous consequences; and a cantankerous old man battles a mischievous trick-or-treating demon.
DVD 10576 / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b3791921~S6
Sue: Poltergeist and (wildcard!) Manitou
Poltergeist
Life is very pleasant for a California family until a host of other-worldly forces invades their peaceful suburban home. Their house is turned into a supernatural sideshow, and if the family doesn't clear out, they will be swept off into nightmarish chaos.
DVD 4005 / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b2662349~S6
The Manitou
What surgeons thought to be a tumor growing on the neck of patient Karen Tandy is actually a fetus growing at an abnormally accelerated rate. Eventually the fetus is discovered to be the reincarnation of an ancient demon. Karen's former lover and phony psychic Harry Erskine, an Indian shaman, and the hospital staff must work together the destroy the creature after it is reborn.
Sue says: Definitely not my favorite, but the plot is so very bizarre that it probably needs a place on the list
DVD 7975 / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b3291428~S6
Justin: Beetlejuice
A couple of likable ghosts contact the afterlife's bio-exorcist to rid their home of a trendy New York family that moves in.
DVD 884 / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b2273973~S6
Kim: Carnival of Souls
A church organist inexplicably survives a car wreck, and finds herself haunted by visions of ghouls who seem to be following her.
DVD / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b2293432~S12
Remington: The Devil's Rejects
The Texas State Police are set to make a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for the thousand plus murders and several disappearances over the past couple of years. But three of the family members escape, including Otis, Baby Firefly and Baby's father Captain Spaulding. The evil trio go on a road trip, leaving dozens of mangled bodies in their wake. Evading a massive Texas Rangers dragnet as well as a group of equally murderous bounty hunters led by Ken Dwyer who's obsessed with finding the deadly killers. The surviving Firefly clan gather at a run-down amusement park owned by Captain Spaulding's half-brother. Charlie offers them shelter and a new base of operations for their killing spree.
DVD 5344 / http://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b2934561~S12
Kevin: Donnie Darko
An edgy, psychological thriller about a suburban teen coming face-to-face with his dark destiny. Donnie Darko is a delusional high-school student visited by a demonic rabbit with eerie visions of the past, and deadly predictions for the future.
