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The Evictors (1979)
Nostalgic film that truly scares
I remember seeing this movie back when we first got HBO in the early eighties as a kid. The movie had a PG rating, no gore, no masked men wielding a knife, and no big production qualities and yet still managed to scare the heck out of me. There was something about the brooding atmosphere and dark haunting score that did it for me. I also remember the film had some narration in it which made it even more creepy because it gave the film a more sinister fear of the unknown quality.
Like other psychological horror film classics such as Rosemary's Baby, The Others, and the Blair Witch Project(I'm sure some will disagree with me on that one)those films allowed the viewer to create the scariest horror of all, the horror that resides in our own heads.
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
Incredible and Mesmerizing
I must first begin by saying that in my years in public education and my subsequent years of academia in college I have never enjoyed sitting in a history class. However, in my "mature" years I have come to realize the valuable importance of history and the vital role it plays in our current time. The phrase that comes to mind the most goes something like "lest we forget our history or we are bound to repeat it"(roughly paraphrasing). With that said, I was enthralled by this work and was captivated by McNamara. I felt like I was watching a man in confessional, a somewhat broken man who acted as best he could given the circumstances. He all but completely broke down in recounting the events of war with complete candor. There was some comedic relief during the point in which McNamara was discussing Cuba and the interviewer angrily shouted "but we invaded Cuba in the Bay of Pigs!".
Overall, a powerful document in the life of a significant man.