Spooky Movie Night

Get a big bowl of bourbon caramels, turn off the lights, and watch these:

"The Body Snatcher," with Boris Karloff, the original Frankenstein's monster, and Bela Lugosi, the original Dracula. Based on a Robert Louis Stevenson story, itself based on the murderous Burke and Hare, who in 19th century Edinburgh found profit in supplying anatomist Robert Knox with bodies for dissection.

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers." No relation to Burke and Hare, these creatures are vegetables that take over human forms. Jack Finney came up with this idea, long before plant-based burgers.

"Rosemary's Baby." The message of this tale is that if someone who looks like John Cassavetes asks to swap neckties with you, don't do it.

"The Uninvited." In which Ray Milland successfully evicts a ghost from a haunted house.

"The Seventh Victim." This Tom Conway film from the 1940s is so scary, it sent one viewer fleeing the theatre. But he went back the next day to see how it ended.

"Wait Until Dark." If you know Alan Arkin only as the benign octogenarian of "The Kominsky Method," wait until you see him stalking Audrey Hepburn.

"Young Frankenstein." Comic relief time. Mix yourself a Corpse Reviver and watch the monster do "Puttin' On the Ritz."