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ARTS & CULTURE
The Plant Recommends: Halloween Movies!
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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The Silence of the Lambs is a classic psychological thriller directed by Jonathan Demme. FBI Agent Clarice Starling leaves her job at the Behavioral Science Unit and is assigned to supervise Hannibal Lecter, a former psychiatrist. What follows is a twisty, cat and mouse game between a violent, cannibalistic serial killer who continuously psychologically torments his prey and the behavioral analyst who is interested in profiling one of the most dangerous men alive.
MATHEW ANANIA News Editor
Get Out (2017)
Chris goes on a trip to the countryside with his girlfriend to visit his step parents for the first time. What awaits him: A rich family, a splendid mansion, a kindhearted step-mom, and a convivial step-dad. What could possibly go wrong? Jordan Peele masters the art of suspense from the beginning to the end, leaving us with shivers crawling down our spine.
ALICE BOULIANNE Visual Arts Editor
Coraline (2009)
A novel first written by Neil Gaiman (2002) cleverly adapted into a stop-motion animation that scarred us all as children. 11-year-old Coraline Jones explores her new home, away from everything she’s grown up to love, and finds herself hating it. In an attempt to find adventure, she analyzes her new dwelling to find a small and seemingly insignificant door through which she discovers a new world, much like hers but glamourized. Little does she know what lurks in the malevolent dimension she’s uncovered.
KARA FUSARO Curiosities Editor
Se7en (1995)
This highly disturbing thriller puts into play two detectives trapped in an increasingly twisted manhunt. The rookie and veteran investigators, respectively embodied by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, face seven of the sickest, most sadistic murders. Each victim’s horrid death portrays the deadly sin they perpetrated: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony or sloth. This climactic psychological thriller in which gore gets blurred with mystery will chill any horror adept’s bones until the very end.
SIMONE BÉLANGER Arts & Culture Editor
Night of The Living Dead (1968)
George Romero’s Night of The Living Dead is the classic zombie flick. A group of strangers is brought together in a farmhouse in rural America due to a vicious zombie invasion. Made during a turbulent time in US history, the film can be interpreted as a metaphor for any number of social issues, including the Vietnam war, the Civil Rights Movement, and Second Wave Feminism.
