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2001: A Halloween Watchlist
The optimistic ’90s are over, the War on Terror has yet to begin and movie tickets cost about $5.50. This Halloween, return to ’01 for your cinematic scares! By Emma McClatchey
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voters again with films like Black Swan, The Witch and Get Out. Like any year, 2001 embraces cash-grab sequels and schlocky thrillers, and launches at least one new franchise of questionable quality. Yet, The Blair Witch Project (1999) recently demonstrated that low-budget scares can still dominate the box office, even as CGI technology advances. And the 2000 Best Picture winner, American Beauty, proved the seedy underbelly of Clinton-era suburbia was the perfect stage for
001. Wikipedia and BitTorrent launch. Apple
a psychological thriller. In the spirit of inducing some
introduces iTunes and
Halloween déjà vu, I’ve compiled a
the iPod. Rudy Giuliani is
list of 10 horror films from 2001 that
Time’s Person of the Year. Britney
exemplify the fantastical fears of the
dons a python. The kids won’t
Y2K era. Some are classics, others
shut up about Harry Potter, and
cringey, but all are utterly oh-one.
Mulholland Drive, 2001
Bones
Hannibal
lots of money, and it is certainly
Horror, crime
Horror, thriller
a frightening affair (particularly
are desperately trying to replicate
Available to stream on all rental
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video
when Gary Oldman’s disfigured
the success of Scream, The Matrix
platforms, $3.99
your brother won’t shut up about Ocean’s 11. Hollywood’s horror producers
and The Sixth Sense. Americans
pedophile pig farmer gets in on Imagine Clarice Starling and
the murder game), but it wouldn’t
are scared of loner teens and
Into the pantheon of great movie
Hannibal Lecter hooked up.
fetch the accolades Silence did 10
tech-savvy serial killers—not yet
taglines I submit “This Halloween,
Thomas Harris readers don’t have
years earlier.
the foreign terrorists and random,
unleash the Dogg.” Between al-
to. Harris’ 1999 novel Hannibal
soulless violence that will color
bums Tha Last Meal (’00) and
is so bizarre and disappointing,
Donnie Darko
post-9/11 cinema.
Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$ (’02),
Jodie Foster refused to star in
Sci-fi, psychological thriller
Snoop Dogg did a turn as Jimmy
an adaptation of it. Still, the box
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video
London, New York and Atlanta
Bones, a switchblade-wielding
office prospects of a Silence of
remain unconquered by zombie
ghost stalking his murderers
the Lambs sequel were too tempt-
I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda
hordes. Saw and The Human
and sending them to hell. Bones
ing for the studio, so Julianne
sad. This indie mega-cult classic
Centipede have yet to catapult
flopped at the box office, but has
Moore stepped up to the plate
follows the young and troubled
shock horror into popular culture.
since been reappraised as a stylish
glass and screenwriters got to
Donnie (an iconic bebe Jake
It’ll be a decade before horror
attempt to bring blaxploitation
work trying to salvage the story.
Gyllenhaal), who falls under the
starts to court critics and Oscar
into the 21st century.
Hannibal (2001) did indeed make
malevolent influence of a giant
Nary a vampire sparkles;
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