IF you think gas prices are scary, consider a far worse fright that Kelly Shager of Lynchburg, Va., got at a gas pump.
Producer J.J. Abrams is back for a third-installment that's tense and eerie, leaving you worrying how far director Julius Onah will push the frights.
But 36 hours in a ute will remind you that there are many incarnations of country towns which fit neither the Sunday Too Far Away image or the Wake in Fright model.
Sooner or later everyone gets used to having a camera around, and a far bigger problem than stiffness or stage fright is that the captains now act as directors sometimes.
And then there's always my favorite (and the sole reason for Fright Fest's existence as far as I'm concerned): Colossus backward.
The vendors brought their own festive frights to the table from far and wide.
Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.
Like Wake in Fright, the program offers an honest but far from flattering assessment of the national psyche – if indeed we possess such a thing.
The bad news is that this potentially rich stew of frights and kink has been underspiced: "Asylum," so far, doesn't have the energy or the over-the-top inventiveness that Season 1 eventually displayed, with its twin sons of different fathers and its ghost alliances.
Not long thereafter, McClure--with his character displaying severe stage fright--comes up with an extended bit of humor that lasts far longer, and seems all but physically impossible.
