William Castle! He was the king of this crap in the 50's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Castle
I would love it if they carried this gimmick to the next level and just hung an automated skeleton above the crowd,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_Haunted_Hill
only then to have kids...
I saw Van Helsing in theatres when it came out, and I had some high hopes for it. But I thought it was really REALLY DUMB. Nice monster designs, nice fight sequences, but stupid script. I kept thinking of a better movie that could have been made with the source material, rather than just big...
I was thinking that too, but I would have to rate Goodfellas and Casino a tad higher, which is funny because they all follow the familiar rise-and-fall arc. It's just a matter of tone when you come down to it. The Scorcese mob movies always had the gravitas because of the sudden and graphic...
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