oooeeer! i saw an excellent scary movie this morning! i woke up at 5 and couldn’t get back to sleep and so instead curled up under a blanket to flip the channels on the idiot box. and there, right in front of me, a black and white gem. it was called the innocents and it was spooooky! like toe-curling god i really wish i wasn’t alone holy crow what the bleep was that noise just now oh my god i’m going to die saints preserve us! kind of spooky. the best kind. but it wasn’t one of those ripper/slasher gut em until all their entrails are laying all over the place kind of movies. it was the kind where you just hear things on the cusp of reality and you’re not quite sure what you heard. or saw. and you’re always doubting your own sanity. it was all subtle. thought-provoking. but the possibility was there that something *might* just pop out and gut our heroine and leave her entrails everywhere. you just never know. it made my stomach hurt. now thats a good scary flick.

this was from ’61 so it was long before m. night shamalamadingdong brought out his bag of tricks on like, you know, the sixth sense and whatever, i can’t remember his other movies which are all basically the same movie anyway. and i’m too lazy to go look. and this movie put his to shame. i’m still not sure i know for sure what was real and what wasn’t. and i can’t tell you! because it might give something away. and sadly, it’s not available on dvd. so you’ll just have to get up at 5 in the morning and try to catch it yourself. and it’s worth it. read these 71 other reviews if you don’t believe me. don’t look at me like that. just do it.