So what's on your Halloween movie watch list this weekend? For me, a childhood favorite - the "Omen" trilogy (although the 3rd one was quite dull). It's not a franchise that holds up well 30 or so years later, but, I have fond memories, watching the movies (the second was the most thrilling for me) as a child, and being REALLY scared afterward, literally unable to sleep; the kind of "scared" that makes you want to watch the films repeatedly, which is a good thing. I actually watched all 3 of them again recently (AMC has been running a scary movie marathon all week), and, as I said already, they just don't have the same effect on me today as they did 30 or so...
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