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Today’s Halloween movie recommendation is very different from the others I’ve mentioned. At first it doesn’t even seem to even be related to the horror genre. Oh, but it is! And KILL LIST, a British film released in the States in 2012, is one you should know very little about before seeing. The trailer is very judicious in what it shows you (something Hollywood marketers might learn from), and I’m also going to reveal nothing but the movie’s introduction. DO NOT DO A GOOGLE SEARCH OF THE MOVIE BEFORE YOU SEE IT! Spoilers are everywhere on the ‘net. Be warned. You want to see this movie blissfully unaware.

Two British contract killers take on a new job, a list of victims that includes four people: the priest, the librarian, the politician and the hunchback. And that’s all I can tell you of the plot. As for the movie itself, expect a funny, violent, shocking, increasingly tense and suspenseful, scary experience. You’ll be doing a lot of thinking or talking during the end credits.

Today’s Halloween movie recommendation is a quieter brand of horror, a black-and-white supernatural and psychological thriller based on Henry James’ classic 1898 ghost story THE TURN OF THE SCREW. But before you yawn and write it off as potentially dull, there are some diabolic currents running through the 1961 adaptation THE INNOCENTS. No surprise, Truman Capote wrote the screenplay from the novel. This movie will creep up on you, wrap its cold arms around you like the chilliest mist, and you’ll find yourself thinking about it again days later. There were things you couldn’t talk about in polite society in 1898 — or even 1961, for that matter — but those things are here, just out of sight, registered in the expressions of the adult and children characters … deadly questions that are never completely asked.

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