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...Year of the Pig is a new kind of chiller movie. Audiences sit in helpless frustration watching scenes of unreeling historical horror. Producer-Director Emile de Antonio (Point of Order) has taken his ghoulish episodes from newsreels made in and about Viet Nam over the past three decades. The result is a slanted but devastating account of the spiraling American involvement in Southeast Asia...
THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Bette Davis stars in The Nanny (1965), a thriller-chiller about-you guessed it-a nanny and her ten-year-old charge. Something for everyone: death, suspense, generation-gap intrigue...
...EDGAR G. ULMER'S "Classic chiller," Boris Karloff plays opposite Bela Lugosi. You therefore expect, and get, a wide range of bizarre deeds--for starters, Satanism and skinning alive. The more extreme of these deeds are supported by a host of lesser strange touches, partly in Ulmer's visual style and partly in the fine acting. These touches make the film the masterpiece it is. They constantly reveal the personalities of the characters--especially the two leads, whose traits and drives take in all mutations of moral position and psychological experience. Karloff initially seems perverse and decadent; Lugosi, virtuous...
Determined Spoiler. Faust is usually done as a Victorian morality play in which the Devil rightly gets his due. The New York City Opera's new production at Lincoln Center is a chiller in which an obstinate Mephistopheles stands as a towering match for the Almighty. From the moment when he first springs to life in Faust's laboratory, it is readily apparent that this is a Devil who bursts with the power of his own evil. He taunts God endlessly, even pulling an arrow brazenly from the chest of a statue of St. Sebastian to make wine...
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Under Roman Polanski's direction, Ira Levin's bestselling chiller about the powers of darkness at work in a Manhattan apartment becomes a bewitching film that demonstrates the impressive acting ability of Mia Farrow...