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I am a die-hard fan of Rod Serling's classic TV series "The Twilight Zone." From 1959 to 1964, the anthology of science fiction, fantasy, horror and other supernatural stories offered me escape. It did more than that: There is a political philosophy behind "The Twilight Zone" episodes, a decidedly left-wing opposition to racism (1964's "I Am The Night - Color Me Black"), to greed (1963's "Of...

The only reason my title for this review describes "Dagon" as "one of the scariest movies ever made," instead of as "the scariest movie ever made," is because I haven't seen every film. It is certainly the scariest movie that I have watched. The little known 2001 cult classic is based on H. P. Lovecraft's 1931 novella "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and is directed by Stuart Gordon, who adapted...

I think everyone has at least one movie which initially made little impression on them, but then blew them away during a subsequent viewing. For me, that movie is the 2019 horror film "Crawl." I won't share the details of the night when I first saw it, but suffice to say that they were sufficiently miserable to put me in a sour mood. This didn't cause me to dislike the film, per se; I simply...