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Horror Scenes That I Love: John Houseman in The Fog

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“Enough time for one more story…..”

Hi, everyone!  Well, as you can tell by looking around the site today, it’s October and it’s also the start of our annual Horrorthon here at the Shattered Lens!  This is my favorite time of year and one of the things that truly makes it special is that it provides me with an excuse to write about some of my favorite horror films.  When it comes to Horrorthon, there’s always time for one more story.

Today’s Horror Scene of the Day is the opening of John Carpenter’s 1980 classic, The Fog.  When John Houseman says that there’s time for one more ghost story, you know you better listen.

Scenes That I Love: Tony Soprano Dreams Of A House In The Sopranos

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With our annual Horrorthon starting tomorrow, I thought that this would be an appropriate time to share a creepy scene that I love from The Sopranos.

The Sopranos was well-known for its dream sequences. For me, this dream from the season 4’s Calling All Cars is one of the best and scariest of the series. It’s full of menace and ominous atmosphere, from the minute we see Tony being led to the house by the deceased Ralphie. And then, when that mysterious shadow appears on the staircase — AGCK!

Scenes That I Love: The Conclusion of The Passenger

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Today’s scene that I love comes from 1975’s The Passenger, a film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.  Antonioni was born 113 years ago today, in what was then the “Kingdom of Italy.”

In The Passenger, Jack Nicholson plays a journalist who, because he’s bored with his life, impulsively assumes the identity of a deceased American businessman.  What he discovers is that the businessman was an arms dealer and that the people that the arms dealer were doing business with still expect to get their weapons.  Despite the fact that he knows that it might cost him his life, Nicholson is still drawn to see just how far he can take his new existence.

The film’s enigmatic final scene, in which Nicholson goes to a hotel to wait as both the people who double-crossed and his wife search for him, is Antonioni at his best.

Scenes That I Love: Naomi Watts in Twin Peaks: The Return

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Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to Naomi Watts.

In this scene from 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, Watts tells off to low-level hoodlums who have been demanding money from her husband.

Scene That I Love: The Story of Bonnie and Clyde

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In this scene, from Arthur Penn’s 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, Bonnie Parker (played by Faye Dunaway) writes a poem and tries to craft the future image of Bonnie and Clyde.  Though it has none of the violence that made Bonnie and Clyde such a controversial film in 1967, this is still an important scene.  (Actually, it’s more than one scene.)  Indeed, this scene is a turning point for the entire film, the moment that Bonnie and Clyde goes from being an occasionally comedic attack on the establishment to a fatalistic crime noir.  This is where Bonnie shows that, unlike Clyde, she knows that death is inescapable but she also knows that she and Clyde are destined to be legends.

(Of course, Dunaway and Warren Beatty — two performers who once epitomized an era but who are only seen occasionally nowadays — are already legends.)

Scenes That I Love: Linda Hamilton in The Terminator

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Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to actress Linda Hamilton.

This scene that I love is the haunting conclusion of the original Terminator.  Even with the Terminator (momentarily) vanquished, there’s still a storm coming.

Scenes That I Love: “Greed is Good” from Wall Street

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Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy 81st birthday to actor and producer Michael Douglas!

For today’s scene that I love, we have a scene from Oliver Stone’s 1987 film, Wall Street.  In this scene, Michael Douglas plays Gordon Gekko.  Gekko is supposed to be the film’s villain but he’s actually a lot more compelling and, at times, sympathetic than the film’s heroes.  He’s not a judgmental jerk like the union leader played by Martin Sheen.  Nor is he a snitch like his protegee, played by Charlie Sheen.  Instead, Gordon Gekko is honest about who he is.

This is the scene that won Michael Douglas an Oscar.  Watching him in this scene, it’s easy to see why Douglas’s performance supposedly inspired a lot of people to get a job working on Wall Street.  Douglas is so charismatic in this scene that he makes this movie, directed by a future supporter of Bernie Sanders, into one of the best advertisements for capitalism ever filmed.

Scenes That I Love: Coyote Shivers and Renee Zellweger perform “Sugar High” in Empire Records

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It’s not Rex Manning Day but it is Coyote Shivers’s birthday!

Here, he and Renee Zellweger do their part to save the store by performing Sugar High on the roof.

Scenes That I Love: Giovanni Lombardo Radice Dances in The House on The Edge of the Park

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Today, the Shattered Lens celebrates what would have been the 71st birthday of the great Italian actor, Giovanni Lombardo Radice!

I’ve shared this scene before but I’ll happily share it again.  In Ruggero Deodato’s The House On The Edge of the Park, Giovanni Lombardo Radice shows a bunch of rich jerks how he can dance.  Dancing with Radice is his frequent co-star, Lorraine De Selle.  And, wearing the yellow suit, is David Hess.