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[Glynis Waughtal]

Disney's A Christmas Carol" by Robert Zemeckis (and Charles Dickens, of course) is an exhilarating visual experience and proves for the third time he's one of the few directors who knows what he's doing with 3-D. The story that Dickens wrote in 1838 remains timeless, and if it's supercharged here with Scrooge swooping the London streets as freely as Superman, well, once you let ghosts into a movie, there's room for anything.

The story I will not repeat for you. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future will not come as news. I'd rather dwell on the look of the film, which is true to the spirit of Dickens (in some moods) as he cheerfully exaggerates. He usually starts with plucky young heroes or heroines and surrounds them with a gallery of characters and caricatures. Here his protagonist is the caricature: Ebenezer Scrooge, never thinner, never more stooped, never more bitter.

Jim Carrey is in there somewhere beneath the performance-capture animation; you can recognize his expressive mouth, but in general the Zemeckis characters don't resemble their originals overmuch. In his "The Polar Express," you were sure that was Tom Hanks, but here you're not equally sure of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Robin Wright Penn or Bob Hoskins.

Zemeckis places these characters in a London that twists and stretches its setting to reflect the macabre mood. Consider Scrooge's living room, as narrow and tall just as he is. The home of his nephew Fred, by contrast, is as wide and warm as Fred's personality.

Animation provides the freedom to show just about anything, and Zemeckis uses it. Occasionally, he even seems to be evoking the ghost of Salvador Dali, as in a striking sequence where all the furniture disappears and a towering grandfather clock looms over Scrooge and a floor slanting into a distant perspective.

The three starring ghosts are also spectacular grotesques. I like the first, an elfin figure with a head constantly afire and a hat shaped like a candle-snuffer. Sometimes he playfully shakes his flames like a kid tossing the hair out of his eyes. After another (ahem) ghost flies out the window, Scrooge runs over to see the whole street filled with floating spectral figures, each one chained to a heavy block, like so many Chicago mobsters sleeping with the fishes.

Can you talk about performances in characters so much assembled by committee? You can discuss the voices, and Carrey works overtime as not only Scrooge but all three of the Christmas ghosts. Gary Oldman voices Bob Cratchit, Marley and Tiny Tim.

I remain unconvinced that 3-D represents the future of the movies, but it tells you something that Zemeckis' three 3-D features (also including "Beowulf") have wrestled from me 11 of a possible 12 stars.

I like the way that Zemeckis does it. He seems to have a more sure touch than many other directors, using 3-D instead of being used by it. If the foreground is occupied by close objects, they're usually looming inward, not out over our heads. Note the foreground wall-mounted bells that we look past when Scrooge, far below, enters his home; as one and then another slowly starts to move, it's a nice little touch.

Another one: The score by Alan Silvestri sneaks in some traditional Christmas carols, but you have to listen for such as "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" when its distinctive cadences turn sinister during a perilous flight through London.

So should you take the kiddies? Hmmm. I'm not so sure. When I was small, this movie would have scared the living ectoplasm out of me. Today's kids have seen more and are tougher. Anyway, "A Christmas Carol" has the one quality parents hope for in a family movie: It's entertaining for adults.

Several moments of terror and some blood. Scary monsters. Jump scares. Characters vanish. Stabbing with pitchfork. Bullies smash beer bottles and beat a scarecrow with a baseball bat. Severed body parts (which assemble into a monster). Stew filled with toes, eyeballs, etc. Flaming bag of poop thrown at car. Giant, squirm-inducing pimple on teen's face. References to the Vietnam War. Nazi symbol shown (on a poster of Nixon).

Parents need to know that Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a horror movie based on a popular series of books by Alvin Schwartz from the early 1980s. It's well made and fun for horror fans, but it's too scary and edgy for younger viewers. Expect moments of terror, a little blood, jump scares, and creepy monsters. A character is stabbed with a pitchfork, and gross stuff is shown (eyeballs, severed toes, severed heads, etc.); body parts assemble to make a monster. A teen has a "striptease" pen that reveals a naked woman when tilted (though nothing graphic is shown), and there's some mild flirting and sex-related talk (a character is called a "perv"). Language includes a (possible) use of "f--k," plus "s--t," "a--hole," and a few other words, including a racial slur. Teen bullies are shown drunk, smashing beer bottles; one teen's mother asks, "Are you drunk again?" To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.

In SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK, nerdy, horror-loving outcast Stella (Zoe Margaret Colletti) is urged to come out on Halloween night, 1968, with her two misfit best friends, Augie (Gabriel Rush) and Chuck (Austin Zajur). Their plan is to prank the town bully (Austin Abrams), but they're caught and chased. At the drive-in, the teens duck into the car of Ramon (Michael Garza), a loner who's passing through town. Later, when the coast is clear, they take Ramon to the local haunted house and tell him about the legend of Sarah Bellows, whose ghost is said to tell scary stories and make children disappear. In a secret room, Stella finds Sarah's actual book, and before long, scary things start happening and kids begin to vanish. Stella must find out the real story behind Sarah Bellows and set things right before her own name comes up in the book.

Somewhat similar in mood and tone to It, this hugely entertaining scary story has its own delightfully demonic vibe, with strong characters, striking atmosphere, and furious frights. Based on a collection of short horror stories from the early 1980s by Alvin Schwartz (with horrific illustrations by Stephen Gammell), which was intended for kids, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark cooks up its own mythology as a way of packaging the books' mini-tales into a cohesive story. Set in 1968, the movie conjures up a kind of freedom in which the young heroes have the space and gumption to run about town and do their own thing. (Stella's room is filled with classic horror movie posters and monster magazines, as well as a half-finished tale in her typewriter.) We love hanging out with them, and their ghost chase is as secretly thrilling as it is scary.

It begins on Halloween night, and then Night of the Living Dead is playing at the drive-in, while Vietnam hovers in the background and Richard Nixon's re-election is right around the corner. Oscar-winning filmmaker/monster-maker Guillermo Del Toro -- who co-wrote Scary Stories' screenplay with his Trollhunters co-writers Dan and Kevin Hageman -- seems to have added the Ramon character as a way to highlight bigotry, which can be just as scary as ghosts. At the helm, talented Norwegian director Andre Ovredal keeps a measured, tense pace and uses physical space -- including the haunted Bellows house, a cornfield, a creepy hospital, and even a bedroom -- to great shocking effect. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has the stuff to become a perennial re-watch when the frost is on the pumpkin.

It's been five years since the last Insidious film was released, so horror fans are understandably salivating in anticipation of the fifth entry, Insidious: The Red Door, coming to theaters July 7. But half a decade is a long time to keep all the lore and characters straight in this spooky film series, which began in 2010.

Hot off the success of basically pioneering the torture porn subgenre with their Saw franchise, director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell set out to demonstrate that they had subtler tricks up their creepy sleeves. So, they unleashed a master class in the "less is more" principle of horror filmmaking with Insidious, which relies more on atmosphere and things that go "Boo!" in the dark than the severed limbs and gutted victims of their first onscreen collaboration. As such, it's the sort of PG-13 fright film that teens can take their dates to see and leave cuddling and chilled rather than nauseated and traumatized.

No such luck. There are spirits in their new home as well, seemingly attached to the still-comatose Dalton. And so Josh's mother Lorraine (played by the great Barbara Hershey, in a nod to her starring role in the R-rated supernatural film The Entity), calls in help from the expected paranormal experts: psychic Elise Rainier (played by Lin Shaye), and her sidekicks Tucker (Angus Sampson) and Specs (Whannell).

Insidious is really a triumph of low-budget filmmaking. Shot in rented houses for about $1.5 million, using minimal CGI and gore, director Wan is able to wring maximum scares out of innocuous objects like baby monitors, strangers in the corner of a room, and our inability to see deeply into the background of a darkened frame or around a corner. It also contains the single most effective jump scare in the series thus far (you've likely seen it online).

Despite its PG-13 rating, Insidious pulls no punches in its quest to make us shriek. Critics found the film to be a fairly standard haunting film with slightly better-than-average direction. But it is a very effective thrill ride, and since the film went on to make approximately $100 million worldwide, it was inevitable that the hauntings would continue.

Wan and Whannell returned for the inevitable sequel, which offered plenty of scares despite a slight dip in the shriek factor. The cast is also back, with the Lamberts hoping to move on and put the ghosts behind them. However, the last film ended with psychic Elise Rainier dead from fright and Josh clearly in a more-than-casual relationship with a ghost; relocating to Josh's childhood home, where they all now live with Lorraine, is not helping. The police, meanwhile, suspect Josh of killing Elise, a subplot that is unfortunately dropped a little too quickly.

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