100 Years of Spooky
By Graham Craycraft I love Halloween. As a Catholic it is enriched even more from what the secular culture offers. I love going into the “spooky” season and hitting “spooky” films. This year I got a comfortable 13 films (including the Cartoon Network gem “ Over the Garden Wall” ). After the dust settled, I looked over my watchlist. Happily surprised, I found movie(s) from the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s. This was not intentional, and in fact a few of these films I watched with a friend and ultimately it was their choice. Let’s dive in with a brief look at each. Starting chronologically, we get our movie from 1921: Fritz Lang’s silent film Destiny . The original title actually translates to The Weary Death: A German Folksong in Six Verses. Fritz Lang is one of my favorite directors and this silent film from early in his career was an excellent foray into the silent genre. If you know the history of horror films you know they begin in German-expressionis...