GHOST HUNTERS

"The Shuttered Room" Gig Young, Carol Lynley and Oliver Reed. 1967. A woman comes back to claim her childhood home on a New England Island where the people are strange and the estate is even stranger. Tense, but not terrifying. Still, beautiful setting, gothic feel, and it has one of my monster crushes, Oliver Reed. ( I know, I know, who haven't I had a crush on? ) "Shattered Silence" (aka "When Michael Calls") 1972. Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley. A woman gets crank calls from her nephew, long dead. She's being tormented by this voice from the past. Is it his ghost? If you enjoyed Halloween as a kid in the 70s, this movie will give you such nostalgia, you will watch it again and again. Great Halloween season feeling flick and unsettling. "The Evil" 1978. Richard Crenna. This one somehow missed my radar in the late 70s. I think I was too busy being a mall rat, but I missed it. I saw it decades later and went "where was this classi...

When I first heard about this documentary, I got goosebumps, a premonition that I would love this thing! I am a documentary snob! I want a 24/7 speculation/paranormal documentary channel!!! I can sit and watch them all day on a day off. But, this particular documentary caught my attention because it covered everything from childhood, small towns, and secrets. Staten Island was a dumping ground of trash and mob bodies, the location of a TB clinic and a gigantic mental institute where children with deficiencies were sent. The conditions were horrendous and a young Geraldo Rivera uncovered it on the news. The place shut down, but some of the tenants still lurked around the over 300 acres and in the tunnels under the buildings. Children in the neighborhoods of Staten Island went missing in the 70s and 80s. A man was arrested, a very troubled, very dark man. A man and a woman who grew up on Staten Island grew up with the tales of a man called "Cropsey" who supposedly stole childre...