It’s Halloween Week on The Movie Gourmet, and I’ve recommended three scary European movies that you can watch at home:
- Borgman: an adult scare for Halloween. Amazon, kanopy, hoopla.
- Piggy: surprising and darkly hilarious. Amazon, kanopy, hoopla.
- You Are Not Me: a nightmare at mom and dad’s. Amazon (included with Prime), kanopy.
I started the week with a new review of the more high-falutin’ psychological drama Queen at Sea.
REMEMBRANCE
I first noticed Tom Skerritt when he played Hawkeye and Trapper John’s fellow surgeon Duke in M*A*S*H*, and he is best remembered for his roles as Dallas in Alien and Viper in Top Gun. His 178 screen credits include prestige movies like The Turning Point, Steel Magnolia, and A River Runs Through It, and even the indie Smoke Signals.
CURRENT MOVIES
- The Only Living Pickpocket in New York: desperate, not for survival, but for redemption. In theaters.
- The Marching Band: an emotionally powerful Feel Good. Amazon, AppleTV.
- Queen at Sea: no good deed. In theaters.
- Wardriver: techno-noir. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- The Scout: not what she signed up for. In theaters.
- John Boorman and the Devil: anatomy of a fiasco. Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango.
- Stolen Kingdom: true crime with nerds. Amazon, AppleTV.
- Romeria: when the dots don’t connect right away. Amazon, Fandango, AppleTV.
- The History of Concrete: a lens on absurdity. In theaters.
- Dead Souls: absurdity rides in the West, but it’s not funny enough. Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango.
ON TV
Tonight, Turner Classic Movies is bringing us a campy Vincent Price horror classic from 1959, The Tingler. It has a scary premise – a parasite embedding itself in people’s spine and feeding on them – unaware until they feel a tingle AND THEN IT MAY BE TOO LATE! When finally revealed, the grown parasite is VERY scary-looking. Conveniently, the infested can weaken the parasite by screaming.