The NOW website is just bursting with content today, folks!
My latest Superhero Nonsense column tries to make sense of the cancellation of Luke Cage, while on a more serious note we put Planet in Focus in this week’s screening spotlight, talking to programmers Alessandra Cannito and Julian Carrington about the festival’s evolution over the years — and how their conception of environmental documentary has expanded accordingly.
And speaking of scary movies, I ran down all the Halloween-themed screenings happening in town between now and the 31st — and there’s a lot of them, like two thousand words’ worth. I’m sure you can find something to see if you just dig deep enough.
For ages I’ve been trying to identify a film that scared me more than ANY other I’ve seen. I saw it in on TV the early 1960s when I was 12 or so. I remembered the title as Black Sabbath but the description didn’t fit. It was about a witch who had to be killed by a stake through the eye. I finally found it. Black Sunday 1960 by Italian director Mario Bava. Scary AF.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054067/?ref_=nm_flmg_cin_26