English Dept.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark presents nostalgic scenarios that are mostly negative, but it evokes a nostalgia in me that is positive. I think if you were a certain kind of kid who grew up at a certain time, Scary Stories is like sitting down in the company of old friends. And some of those old friends are very, very frightening.
I, MADMAN is a bit of a wild card. I've seen it so many times that I can't recall my first viewing. It might have been on VHS. I remember seeing the trailer a lot, probably in theaters before other movies and the poster at the video store, which said, at the top, “Spend the night with a madman.” It’s practically an unknown gem of late-eighties horror.
