Halloween: two days away. The truth is, I don't care much for trick-or-treating, or even for costumes, unless they
turn my daughter into a Jawa. What I
do like is a holiday or season that really embraces a certain atmosphere. This is the season for things that are unsettling. For things that make the hairs on your neck stand up (like
my daughter channeling The Joker).
One of the best ways to make something creepy is to take something loved and make it just a little . . . off. Like snow-fort building.
Below is an excerpt of a project I worked on at film school, and it should be fine to show your kids, and hopefully it creeps the heck out of them too. They'll never look at Bambi the same way again.
And let me just say, planning scenes that involved untamed predators is no simple task. You've just always got to keep a few first-year film students on-hand to feed to the beasts when they get restless.
