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Most suspense films these days are high-voltage gross-outs. It took Nakata to restore delicacy to dread with his Japanese hit The Ring and its sequels. His 2002 Dark Water got a Hollywood makeover this year, but the original is the one to see and savor. This fable of a woman and her daughter in a very wet apartment building slowly builds an edifice of fear. Like the other masters of suspense, Nakata makes films that infect viewers with an unease lasting long after the final fadeout. --By Richard Corliss
...which are supposedly the products of a rich, illustrious Western mythic tradition dating back to who-knows-when—have become stale and boringly safe. Consider what dark fantasies have been offered to us recently—moldy, twice-baked garbage like “The Ring Two” (sequel to a remake of a Japanese movie), “The Fog” (remake of a mildly diverting John Carpenter movie), “The Amityville Horror” (wretched remake of wretched movie), “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (remake of exceptional horror...
...with a rich tradition of good jokes and gefilte fish and guilt. Another thing I know about him: he had a Masonic funeral. My sister told me that the non-conventional service only lasted 15 minutes. Turns out that I had made my dad’s Blackberry ring during it. So besides the fact that I missed a funeral that I couldn’t even picture, I also embarrassed my dad. Another thing: when my mom was in college, Grandpa left my grandma. He also left my mom feeling guilty, that maybe she could’ve made...
...included in a preliminary report released last June by Harvard’s planning firm, but several artistic renditions of the campus are new. One shows a section of Soldiers Field Road, west of North Harvard Street, buried under a pedestrian walkway. There is also a rendering of a ring of buildings resembling Mather House, touted as a “concept for an undergraduate house as a residential village.” Harris S. Band, Harvard’s director of physical planning, said that the image was included just to “spice up?...
...White Rose, 1942. White Rose, 1942.” The words are idealistic but manage to genuinely ring true: About God and free will, these words are spoken with such inspired passion that they become chilling. It is difficult to leave the theater without goose bumps, and it is even more difficult to step out of that Gestapo Headquarter, Munich...