![]() ![]() Which I didn’t understand, because I’ve been working pretty hard.” One of the spirits that she sensed was a man in my family from a couple generations back who was dissatisfied with my pace and wanted to push me further. I always feel like disaster is right around the corner. Keep going with the grain.’ Because there are times when I think I need to make a major change. “She more or less said, ‘You’re doing all right. “She said I have a lot of anxiety,” admits Oberst. After making an appointment, he walked down the street and into the front parlor of a house for a two-hour session that centered more on stress relief than predictions. Oberst visited Cassadaga last year and entered a bookstore whose chalkboard lists the names and numbers of psychics available for readings. “You know, like indie kids from Orlando driving down there or something.” “I hope it doesn’t cause them any trouble” is the first thing he says about Cassadaga. Though Cassadaga welcomes tourists, its humble town square and bungalow-lined streets are decidedly off the beaten path for Disney vacationers, and Oberst is slightly remorseful-you might say worried-that he’s about to alert his audience to the sleepy psychic center. Cassadaga takes its title from a town in the swamplands of central Florida, a haven for a community of about two dozen psychics, fortune tellers and palm readers to practice their craft in what they claim is a geographical vortex of paranormal activity. Sitting in an Italian restaurant in lower Manhattan, Oberst discusses his latest album between sips of Peroni beer. Here, Bright Eyes sounds as eerily uplifting as the Titanic’s string band, playing for beauty and kicks even as the ship is going down. Cassadaga is full of symphonic, weird, cosmic country/rock, and it’s more than a little confusing. and Bruce Springsteen, well, that’s kind of like saying M*A*S*H wasn’t funny because of all the wounded soldiers lying around. If this gives the impression that Cassadaga is the feel-bad album of the year, with Oberst preaching the kind of liberal politics that landed him on the Vote For Change tour in 2004 alongside R.E.M. Cassadaga isn’t an album it’s a federal disaster area. Not to mention polar ice caps, hurricanes, poor black children and a frightened middle class. Cassadaga, the Omaha, Neb., native’s sixth full-length under the name Bright Eyes, is set against a bleak backdrop of American idiocy and imperialism, its 13 songs bound by lyrics about holy wars, Babylon and falling empires. Until now, you may not have regarded Conor Oberst as someone who’s seen a lot of trouble-or enough of it to craft one of the most complex, haunting records a concerned citizen is likely to hear in 2007. They say it takes a worried man to sing a worried song. But Bright Eyes’ latest album, an orchestral-country passion play for the 21st-century decline, is the heaviest thing he’s ever done. ![]() New additions for this year’s update include His House and Candyman, and classics like Dario Argento’s Creepers creepin’ in.A private, precocious songwriter who’s grown up in public, Conor Oberst has shouldered expectations and weathered the hype. Each of these best scary movies thrown into our bubbling cauldron had to have at least 20 reviews with a Fresh rating, before being sorted by our ranking formula, which accounts for a movie’s number of reviews and year of release. Or so it would seem.Īnd we honor the recent stabs and strides made by female horror directors ( A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Babadook, The Invitation) and directors abroad ( Under the Shadow, The Wailing). Slashers ( Scream), zombies ( Dawn of the Dead), vampires ( Let the Right One In) abound with terror of the more psychological persuasion ( Don’t Look Now, The Innocents). Creature features ( King Kong, The Fly) nestle with Best Picture nominees ( The Exorcist, Get Out). Caligari) and Universal monsters ( Dracula, The Wolf Man). So we’re pulling from 100 years of movie history, from those early days of German expressionism ( Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. The wonders of seeing the unknown has always been the luring temptation of movies, and so horror feels especially close to this medium, a genre that exposes audiences to beyond normal, and into death. Something is stalking on your screen, primed to to kill all your free time: The big, boo-tiful list of Rotten Tomatoes’ 200 Best Horror Movies of All Time! The wind forces open the curtained window. ![]()
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