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There are compensations. For example, the womanseems to be a nymphomaniac. That would be more of a compensation for Earl if hewere not terrified of aggressive women. Earl has not the slightest notion ofhow to deal with these next-door maniacs, and his wife's no help: She puts onher best smile and tries to handle the situation as if everyone were playing byEmily Post's rules. The story of the Keeses and their weird neighbors was firsttold in Thomas Berger's novel. It was obviously a launching pad for a movie,but what sort of movie? The relationships among these neighbors depend almostentirely on the chemistry of casting: For example, obnoxious Richard Benjamincould have moved in next to meek Donald Sutherland.

The movie slides easily from its opening slicesof life into a surburban nightmare. We know things are strange right at the start,when Aykroyd extorts money from Belushi to get a carry-out Italian dinner, andthen secretly cooks the spaghetti right in his own kitchen. Belushi sneaks outinto the night to spy on Aykroyd and catches him faking it with Ragu, but istoo intimidated to say anything. The whole movie goes like that, with Belushiso intimidated that he hardly protests even when he finds himself sinking intoquicksand.

Meanwhile, the women are making their ownstrange arrangements, especially after the Keese's college-age daughter(Lauren-Marie Taylor) comes home from school and begins attracting Moriarty'sattention. The movie operates as a satire of social expectations, using polite clichsas counterpoint to deadly insults (all delivered in pleasant conversationaltones).

Italian artist Enzo Sciotti, who passed away in April 2021, always comes to mind during the scary season for me. His horror movie poster artwork, so lurid and lush, was filled with women in peril, knife-wielding maniacs, and grotesque creatures of the night. During his peak period in the 1970s through the 1980s, Sciotti illustrated countless horror movie posters, including many for Italian giallo films, the American slasher genre, and really anything else that called for stunningly evocative imagery that sometimes conveyed even more terror than the movies they were advertising.