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  • I just realized after looking it up that I've never seen The Uninvited myself... all these years, I thought it was another film, a 50s-era poverty row spooker.

    It's definitely definitive! Arbogast 2009

  • Nice supernatural superhero spooker... not sure what to think about the art though honestly, sometimes it looks great, other times the perspectives are stunningly flimsey and looked too rushed.

    "The Corpses That Wouldn't Stay Dead!" (Part IV) Chuck Wells 2008

  • From its opening frames captured guerrilla style on Manhattan's Battery Park and underscored with Suzi Jane Hokum's bittersweet cover of the Lee Hazlewood song "For a Day Like Today", MULBERRY STREET is refreshingly atypical, resisting the temptation to type the unfolding narrative as a spooker via canted angles and dum-dum-dum music cues.

    The rats are slumming Arbogast 2008

  • Save the date: on Friday night (actually, the wee hours of Saturday morn) at 2 am (EST, 11pm to you Left Coasters), Turner Classic Movies will be showing the sadly rare and under-discussed British spooker BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW (1971), starring Brit scream queen Linda Hayden, the ever-sinister Patrick Wymark (who died before the film was released) and DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE's Barry Andrews.

    Keep an eye out Arbogast 2008

  • When vengeful Asian ghost children turn up to throw a spectral spanner into an otherwise ordinary day, comparisons to Hideo Nakata's RING (1996) become unavoidable... but this Korean spooker seems inspired more specifically by STIR OF ECHOES (1999) and WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000).

    At the sound of the beep... run like hell! Arbogast 2008

  • The incomparable Jonathan Lapper has provided the elusive poster I was asking about yesterday, which happens to be called FIVE ACROSS THE EYES 2006, a Tennessee-shot lost-in-the-woods spooker that one IMDb wag has scalded as "simply one of the worst movies ever."

    Not quite through the looking glass Arbogast 2008

  • A simply classic moment from a classic spooker, ROSEMARY'S BABY 1968.

    Look sharp! Arbogast 2007

  • She was accustomed to being the spooker, not the spookee.

    Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006

  • THE INNOCENTS 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment: Not only is this classic spooker finally available on DVD, but at an affordable price not much above $10.

    Archive 2005-12-18 2005

  • She got a touchy mouth an 'goes best neck-reined, an' she's a spooker.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

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