![]() Tilda Swinton plays a woman who realizes that her son Kevin (Ezra Miller) is a psychopath. I argue occasionally with my best friend about whether or not We Need to Talk About Kevin is a horror movie, and, okay, it might be, but it’s definitely at least a thriller. A lot of the movie is funny, but this scene is where the claws really come out. Ingrid Goes West, a black comedy about a woman (Aubrey Plaza) who stalks and ingratiates herself into the life of a social media influencer (Elizabeth Olsen), has a frankly harrowing denouement at a desert Halloween party in Joshua Tree. He is dressed as a vampire pilgrim (historically accurate, metaphorically speaking) and he can’t remember his lines, but his dad helps him from the audience. In this gut-wrenching movie about divorce, there is an adorable (and heartbreaking, because the whole movie is heartbreaking) scene where little Billy, the kid caught in the middle of Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep’s separation, is on stage at his school’s Halloween show. So, this isn’t the best Jack Reacher movie… but it does feature an incredible climax set during New Orleans’s Halloween parade. I’ll note right now that The Guest, the scary Dan Stevens movie from 2014, is not on here because I think it’s too close to a proper horror movie and the goal of this list is no tricks, all treats. There might be thrillers or movies about legal cases. ![]() Once again, there will not be horror movies on this list. But this is a crime website, so today, I will be spotlighting CRIME movies that are set on Halloween. Maybe the best Halloween scene in a non-crime movie is in Ed Wood, when Martin Landau plays elderly Bela Lugosi dressing up in his old Dracula costume to terrify trick-or-treaters. Louis or ET: The Extra Terrestrial or Mr. Why? Because Halloween usually exists within horror movies as a date of note horror movies like Halloween or Donnie Darko or Halloween II or Hell House LLC or Halloween III: Season of the Witch or The Blair Witch Project or Halloween IV: the Return of Michael Myers all notably take place on Halloween.īut I’m interested in when non-horror movies have Halloween scenes. ![]() I always like watching how holidays are represented in movies, and one of the most interesting ones to get this treatment is Halloween. ![]()
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