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What’s your favorite scary movie?
Staying in on Halloween doesn’t mean you can’t get your
spook on. Coast Weekend rounded up experts from local vid-
eo stores to offer recent film recommendations guaranteed to
horrify your home theaters. Look next week for more picks.
By RYAN HUME
It Follows (2015)
Rated R
Recommended by Neal Cummings
Video Horizons
750 Astor St. Astoria, OR 97103
503-325-7310
Insidious (Chapters 1-3)
(2010, 2013, 2015)
Rated PG-13
Recommended by Jim Haugen
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This hair-raising event will be held on Saturday, October
24, 2015, the weekend prior to Halloween. The haunted
house is held at the Sunset Pool from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
this year. We recommend the haunted house for
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The event is free for pass holders (Annual, Monthly or
ϯ-Month passesͿ or for those making a two can donaƟon
to the South Clatsop County Food Bank. For all others it’s
$2 at the door (under 3 is free).
The Fall Fun Fest Carnival includes a cakewalk, carnival
games, cookies
and empire
punch, music
and a costume contest.
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The Fall Fun Fest Carnival will be held in the cafeteria at
Broadway Middle School.
Thriller and Fall Fun Fest Schedule at a glance:
ͻ 5:00pm - Doors open at Broadway Middle School for
the Fall Fun Fest
ͻ 6:00pm - Doors open for the Thriller at Sunset Pool
ͻ ϳ:00pm - Costume contest at the Fall Fun Fest
ͻ 8:00pm - Fall Fun Fest concludes
ͻ 9:00pm - Sunset Thriller closes
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David Robert Mitchell’s second feature
is a pitch-perfect homage to the horror
films of the ’70s and ’80s. Cummings
explained this one doesn’t rely on gore
or cheap jump scares. “This film instead
relies on psychological fright, great
cinematography and eerie atmosphere.
The musical score truly lends itself to the
tension. The characters are interesting
and you actually care about them.”
Recommended for: “It Follows
is a masterpiece in every respect and
an absolute must-watch for horror fans
that thought the genre was completely
drained of originality,” Cummings said.
Universal Video
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503-738-8877
The takeaway: “Last year we had
‘The Babadook’ and this year the movie
to beat is ‘It Follows,’” Cummings said.
The premise is simple: A young woman
contracts a sexually transmitted disease
that takes the form of a supernatural
stalker. It can look like anyone. And
yep, it follows — relentlessly. Director
The takeaway: “It’s not the house
that is haunted. It’s your son.” So begins
the saga of the Lambert family’s deal-
ings with the evil spirits that inhabit
another realm known as the Further.
Over the course of the first two films,
father Josh and son Dalton are forced to
confront the inhabitants of the Further
that want to hijack their bodies in order
to cross over. Really these are tales of
two worlds colliding — the everyday
and otherworldly — both of which are
infected with bumps and jumps thanks
to the superior timing of director James
Wan. The third entry is a prequel that
follows parapsychologist Elise Rainier
(played with aplomb in all three films by
veteran character actress, Lin Shaye) on
an important case that happened before
she met the Lamberts and is directed by
Leigh Whannell, who penned all three
scripts, as well as the original “Saw,”
which Wan directed.
Recommended for: While light on
gore, there are enough jump scares in
these films to get your adrenalin pump-
ing, and some of the spirits are memora-
bly disturbing. Halloween tweens might
spend a good amount of time with their
hands over their eyes.
BREWERY PICKS
Keep your pumpkin spice lattes and hot apple cider — these seasonal drinks from
local breweries will warm you up in a different way. Coast Weekend has rounded up a
few offerings for you to check out this fall. Read, sip and savor; then come back next
week for Part Three. Cheers.
Picks and photos
by DWIGHT CASWELL
Fort George Brewery
Wet hope beers are tricky to make
because of the timing. Everything in the
brewery has to be put on hold until the pre-
cise moment of ripeness — then the fresh
hops are picked from the vine and driven to
the tanks with haste; two weeks later the
beer is released. Fort George’s wet hop beer
is appropriately called Fresh IPA. If you’re
looking for a beer that defines early fall,
this is it. Drink it while you can. It won’t be
around for long.
The Fort’s Drunkin Pumpkin Ale is now
called Squash Buckler, because it’s avail-
able in 22-ounce bottles and you can’t put
“drunkin” on a bottle of beer. Same beer,
with a smooth malty and pumpkiny flavor
without a lot of spices.
Fort George also has the “North” series
of beers, which are strong seasonal beers.
They’re available whimsically and include
North the Seventh, a barrel-aged imperial
Belgian-inspired IPA, and North the Eighth, a
Submitted photo
Fort George brewers worked around the
clock for two days to brew Fresh IPA.
Russian imperial stout. Also arriving this fall
is Plaid, a Scotch ale, strong and bittersweet.
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