Silent and spooky: Watch the classic 1925 version of "Phantom of the Opera" on Halloween night outdoors in San Diego's Balboa Park.
And when so many soldiers are suddenly silent, it's spooky.
Alex Ross's fine piece on Michael Giacchino and film music cites Max Steiner as a pioneer in the use of leitmotifs for characters, but this practice was common in scores of the silent era ("The Spooky Fill," May 17th).
Spooky Silent Films (Sunday and Monday) Dixieland music by the Red Hook Ramblers will accompany a trio of silent films from the 1920s: "The Haunted House," with Buster Keaton (1921); "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride," featuring Stan Laurel (1925); and Harold Lloyd's "Haunted Spooks" (1920).
The place was spooky and silent — the woods of a fairy tale.
A spooky rendition of "Silent Night" plays in the background and the scene is lit up at night for all to see.
That she is the child of this silent, ancient woman, who has the enchanted, spooky aura of a character in a fairy tale, raises some interesting questions that the film never answers: Who was her father?
Our friends, who had gone the evening before and found themselves in a silent courtyard as darkness fell, said it was downright spooky.
Kyle (Dustin Ashley), a good-looking but nearly silent young man, works in a factory that makes spooky-looking baby dolls.
Make the house absolutely silent from time to time so the fear factor goes up during the next spooky sound.
