Word: creepier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This time Anne Heche is the thief, Vince Vaughn is Norman Bates--two lonely people who want something from each other and, fatally, get it. Like some of the other actors here, Heche doesn't know the value of seductive repose; she's fidgety, shallow. But Vaughn (a taller, creepier Billy Crystal) understands Norman, his naive charm, his need to watch women, become them, then mete out punishment for the transgression. And William H. Macy is fine as the prying detective. But does any man still wear a hat these days...
...script for "The X-Files," but the show's producer, Chris Carter, wasn't blown away by it. "Chris is a real gentleman, but basically he came back to me and said, 'This isn't what we wanted,"' King told TV Guide. Carter wanted King to make the story creepier, and the novelist took another couple of stabs at it. But in the end Carter ended up doing a rewrite himself. The episode airs...
...this point Pentheus has been doomed and the Bacchant chorus is praising the sweetness of vengeance. The scene is creepier than mere Halloween fantasy. The immediacy of Williams' language, its claim on the play's disturbing juxtaposition of beauty and inclemency (the chorus as, perhaps, "Les Belles Dames Sans Merci"?) must be what attracted Walker, Harper and the rest of the staff...
...that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing to save her life? What if abnormal Norman were to be questioned by the shrink who has decoded his warped family life? And what if Norman were to escape from custody to reveal an even creepier secret...