{"id":1911,"date":"2010-10-23T13:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T19:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2010-10-23T13:20:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T19:20:52","slug":"the-horror-the-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"The Horror! The Horror!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At The Witching Hour<\/em>, Peg surveys some lists of best Halloween films.<\/a><\/p>\n

For pagan-themed horror films, or those including witches, at any rate, you can’t beat The Wicker Man, The Craft, Practical Magic<\/em> (Griffin Dunne, 1998), The Exorcist<\/em> (William Friedkin, 1973), Rosemary’s Baby <\/em>(Roman Polanski, 1968), The Devil Rides Ou<\/em>t (Terence Fisher, 1968), and The Dunwich Horror <\/em>(Daniel Haller, 1970).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would not exactly call Rosemary’s Baby<\/em> Pagan-with-a-capital-P, but it is still wonderfully chilling as it moves from innocence to realization.<\/p>\n

And what about The Call of Cthulhu<\/em><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At The Witching Hour, Peg surveys some lists of best Halloween films. For pagan-themed horror films, or those including witches, at any rate, you can’t beat The Wicker Man, The Craft, Practical Magic (Griffin Dunne, 1998), The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973), Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968), The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968), and The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,36],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-halloween","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-uP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8553,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8553","url_meta":{"origin":1911,"position":0},"title":"“The Love Witch” \u2014\u00a0“Twin Peaks” Meets “Bell, Book and Candle”","author":"Chas S. 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