Halloween Movie : Coraline

" Hush & shush, for the bedlam might be listening. "

Coraline is a 2009 animated movie based on Neil Gaiman's Novelette of the same name. Coraline Jones-a blue haired,yellow coat & boots wearing girl, moves to Pink Palace Apartments. She is bored & isn't happy about the move. To top that off her parents are always busy with no time for her. She wanders off one day & meets a boy named Wybie who gives her a doll that strangely looks a lot like her. She pays no heed & discovers a small door in her living room. The door opens every night into a colorful passage to Other World, where she meets her Other parents. They are perfect-they give her attention, they cook her delicious food, they garden, but they have buttons for eyes. Despite being warned by Wybie's cat,she visits the Other World every night. Soon her Other Parents invite her to stay with them forever & she considers it-until she is told she must have buttons sewn on her eyes.

Coraline is a great movie with an excellent story-line. Exquisite attention to detail in the animation makes it all the more enjoyable. It is full of dark humor & has a Tim Burton feel to it. The movie is spooky, horrifying,dark, yet colorful & wonderful at the same time.

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Halloween Movie : Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus is a 1993 Disney movie about the Sanderson Sisters. It's 1693-Salem& the Sanderson witches lure children to their cottage to suck the life force out of them so they become young & beautiful. They soon are hunted down by a mob & hung. While being hanged one of the witches casts a curse that on the night of a full moon on All Hallow's Eve, a virgin will summon them back from dead & they will claim the lives of all the children in Salem. 300 years later a teen (a non-believer) who thinks Halloween was created by the candy companies moves to Salem with his family. While out with his Halloween obsessed sister & crush Trick or Treating he resurrects the witches by lighting a Black Flame Candle & chaos ensues.

The movie has fine actors & an excellent story-line. It is one of the best acted roles by Bette Midler & Sarah Jessica Parker as two of the Salem Sisters. The movie is funny,cute & worth a watch, especially for Halloween.

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Hansel & Gretel : Movie Review

Let me start off by saying Hansel & Gretel is not a horror movie - although it is marketed as one - nor is it a fairytale. It falls somewhere in between.

Hansel & Gretel is a Korean film directed by Yim Pil-Sung. The movie starts out well, gripping the viewers attention right from the start. The movie's protagonist Eunsu, meets with an accident on a deserted highway. When he regains consiousness a pretty girl named Younghee invites him to her house - a beautiful cottage in the middle of a forest - where she stays with her parents and two siblings. The cottage is every child's dream come true. Everything seems too perfect at first, but then he starts noticing little kinks in the perfection - the parents seem fidgety & nervous, one of the kids-Manbok seems to have a terrible temper & no matter how much he tries to get out of the forest, he keeps coming back to the cottege.

Things spiral downward when he wakes up one day to find a letter from the parents asking him to take care of the kids till they come back. The movie is visually stunning with great acting. It's a great take on the Hansel & Gretel story by the Grimm Brothers.

Viewers expecting a typical Asian Horror will be disappointed.

Stars : ***/5