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Bigfoot or a bear with a bad skin condition?

How Groovy for a fine Halloween morning. I’m going with Bigfoot, dammit. I have to. I must!!

…the only thing certain about the critter photographed by a hunter’s camera is that some people have gotten the notion it could be a Sasquatch, or bigfoot. Others say it’s just a bear with a bad skin infection.Rick Jacobs says he got the pictures from a camera with an automatic trigger that he fastened to a tree in the Allegheny National Forest, about 115 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, hoping to photograph deer.

Yay!!!!! Still taking donations for the first ever Newscoma/Bigfoot Expedition!

Photo from Ap/Richard Jacobs

This isn’t the scariest scene, in my opinion, from “Night of the Hunter” but it depicts some creepiness nonetheless.

Robert Mitchum plays a conman-psycho who has issues with sex in this film, the only one ever directed by actor Charles Laughton. Shot in a surreal fashion probably best suited for a children’s fantasy, it’s creepy. The scenes from Mitchum and Shelley Winters, who just wants to consummate her marriage, is painful to watch but I couldn’t find the eeriest clip, which has Winters sitting in a car at the bottom of a the river.

But this isn’t bad.

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Watch this movie as soon as possible if you haven’t already.

When I was a kid, the movie “The Day After” scared the hell of of me. No, not because Steve Guttenberg was in it, but because no one knew that the bombs were coming.

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I was a kid. It scared me.

A lot.

Incidentally, I know the special effects are cheesy. Didn’t matter.

Squeegee Monkey, the bro-in-law, voted this one as very, very freaked out.

He especially doesn’t like it when cute kid, Gage, asks for folks to come out and “play with him.”

This clip is not for the squeamish of friends of Herman Munster.

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Arrrrrghgggghhhhhhh.

This is a bit different to see news footage of folks at the theater after (or sometimes during) the original release of “The Exorcist.”

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Keep in mind, this was 34 years ago. I vaguely remember these reports when we would watch the news.

I saw it. It wigged me out. Of course I was 8 years old.

My favorite Werewolf movie. When I rented “Dog Soldiers” I expected little.

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Seriously, have you ever seen an English soldier fight a werewolf with his fists?

You have now.

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

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Christian Bale is wonderful in this scene from American Psycho.

In “Clockwork Orange” when Alexander DeLarge is raping the wife of a man his gang is terrorizing while happily crooning “Singing in the Rain” is seriously one of the most horrifying scenes in cinematic history, in my opinion.

And, then this. Messing with eyes is bone-chilling to me.

Don’t Blink.

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For LeBlanc and The School Girl. I wrote about this one earlier this week.

Good scary television. Of course, from the UK.

In keeping with our horror/Halloween thread for no other reason than it gives me joy, here are some things to keep you titillated through the pre-Halloween weekend.

And, no you cannot watch “Failure to Launch” or you will be haunted by dirty, zombie raccoons who will come over to your house and terrorize your cat and pet turtle.

First of all, Hollywood Ron has some great horror movie reviews over at Subtle Bluntness. I love this line in his review of “Dracula 2000″:

To call this film abysmal is to malign abysses throughout the country. To say this film sucks is an offense to every other film that’s ever sucked. This movie, even with the 0 skulls it earned, somehow manages to be offensive even to Living Corpse’s rank of terrible bombs. To say this film really is that bad is an understatement, but…

It really is THAT bad. I watched it for free without anyone else knowing that I did, and I still felt dirty, cheated, raped, and ripped off. I wanted back money I didn’t spend.

Now, Crypto Joe, also known in political circles as Cuppa, takes us to the world of vampires, one that he and I are both fond of:

I like vampire movies, meaning they do not scare me. I enjoy them. A movie which scares me is something like “Steel Magnolias”. The thought of having to watch that movie makes me shiver with revulsion.

And this leads to a question for all of you — what is your favorite vampire movie? Who has done the best job onscreen of being a vamp? A quick search for ‘vampire’ at IMDB reveals thousands of movies to pick from.

How many parents named their daughters “Shelby” after that movie? Too many, if you ask me.

Entertainment Weekly lists its top 20 scariest movies, although I think Horror movie fans will enjoy the list over at Retro Crush a bit better.

And, just for the hell of it, head over to Ghost Study to see pictures of ghosts like this one with a ghoul in the television.

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Delightful.

Another link dump because I’ve been busy brushing my dog’s teeth. I know, but it had to be done. For true horror, remember sometimes dogs eat what they create and, let me tell you, when you are woken up with the same dog licking your eyes in the middle of the night, action must be taken.

I digress.

• Here’s a new website for women who like horror movies done by, ta-dum, women. Cool Beans. I sorta dig this site called Pretty/Scary
  
• Sarah of the Dead talks up two new SAW movies. Sorry, I just saw the first one. It’s was okay but I wasn’t compelled to go back. I’m also not a big fan of the whole “Hostel” thing either. I’m not in to the Torture Porn thing. Sarah says she will go. I’ll read her review.
• This is so damned cool I cannot STAND IT!
• The movie “Audition” weirds me the hell out.
• I think Mabel would look awesome as a pirate. She does have a Santa hat. She’s not fond of it.
• Here’s some political horror for you.

Have a groovy day.