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Show T Concert Film Oompahs Siskt'l boos Eddie Murphy in "Holy Man." C7 will fill the Provo Tabernacle Tuesday with BYlTs Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble. CS THE DAILY HERALD Pofc, spo$ GtaP 2u Barbershop concert - SALT LAKE CITY Mountain Jubilee Chorus presents its fall show tonight and Saturday. The chorus is ranked fourth worldwide and is a recent regional first-plac- e winner from Sweet Adelines International, "Harmony Tonight" features a barbershop group - .'V'-- 'V. of more than 120 women from across the state. The group will perform "Red, Red Robin." "Why Haven't I Heard From You," Tonight" and many more songs, Shows begin at 8 p.m. and will take place in the Cottonwood High School Auditorium, 5717 S. 1300 East. Tickets are $10 to $15 and may be purchased by calling or 572-821- 6 773-956- BYU sponsors tuba test PROVO Playing off an Oktoberfest theme, "Octubafest" celebrates music from the musical family based on the brass instrument. The evening of tuba music provides the audience with a look at the variety and expanse of music in the tuba family. Different concerts will demonstrate the many sides of the tuba at 7:30 p.m. from Thursday through Oct. 31 in the Madsen Recital Hall in the Harris Fine Arts Center at BYU, Admission is free. Ml') P ft 1 Home concert Tuesday Vance Gilbert will be ALPINE appear a house concert on Tuesday. Vance, a former jazz singer, has been described as having "the voice of an angel, the wit of a devil, and the guitar playing ability of a god." He got his break by touring with Shawn Colvin, and he has become a major force in the singersongwriter CllRISriZZElXOThe Attacked again: Actress Janet 756-682- Spooky symphony to play - Spine-tinglin- g stories and haunting music are all part of the Utah Symphony's Halloween concert, "Tales of Terror," at 7 p.m. Monday at Abravanel Hall, Count Dracula will narrate the evening with spooky stories and facts about Halloween. Along with the Utah Symphony and Associate Conductor Bruce Hangen, Dracula will present a musical program, including excerpts from the movie "Psycho," March to the Scaffold from Berlioz' Symphonic Fantastique, Danse Macabre, the overture to "Phantom of the Opera" and the theme from The Addams Family." " The concert begins with the Symphony's annual Halloween costume contest. The lobby opens at 5 p.m. for contest registration and costume judging. All children who attend will bone-chillin- AssocialedPress she Hollywood's stab (pardon the pun) at scary movies gives audiences safe fun movement. Vance will perform at 7 p.m. at the home of Mark and Karin England, 742 Flannery Lane, Alpine. For direcCost is $6. tions, call SALT LAKE CITY the star of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," is surrounded by "Halloween Horror Nights II" characters after received an Eyegore Award for contributions to the world of horror during an Oct. 16 presentation at Universal Studios Hollywood. Leigh, g Saint-Saen- local movie theaters, we watch movies and TV shows that give us a good thrill. In fact, the horror genre has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity lately, with the box office success of such scary films as "Scream" (and its sequel, "Scream II"), "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Halloween Critics have been writing the genre off as dead (pardon the pun) the last few years, and with the dismal offerings Hollywood was coming By ERIC D. SNIDER Herald Correspondent UTAH VALLEY Admit it: As much as you enjoy a good scare every now and then, you're really a chicken at heart, We love roller coasters because of the exhilaration of falling and being tossed around. We go to haunted houses because it's fun to pretend monsters and goblins are after us. We watch horror movies in order to make ourselves jump a little. And yet, despite all that, we don't like actually fearing for our safety. We wouldn't go on a roller coaster that we thought might actually fall apart; we wouldn't go to a house we thought was really haunted. And the reason we like those movies so much is that no matter what kind of mayhem occurs onscreen, we know, in the back of our mind, that it's not real and that even if it is real, it's not happening to us. It's that love of fear and hatred of real fear that explains the popularity of Halloween and all its accompanying creepiness. Halloween scares are fun, harmless scares. They get our blood racing and MAI the umpteenth "Friday up with the 13th" sequel and other mindless for example splatter-fests- , you could see their point. But horror is back with a vengeance, and not just on the big Universal J Siudiot Terror online: Universal Studios Online and Netscape Netcenter are sponsoring a web site devoted to the spooks and scares of Halloween. The site, will be up through Oct. 31. www.hal-loween98.co- our heart pounding, but ultimately cause no more damage than that. When the kids start crying over frightening images at the local haunted house, we all know the game's over and we just it's time to stop. Terror is OK don't want anyone to actually be afraid. History of horror screen. R.L. Stein's "Goosebumps" series of short novels for teen-ager- s has been stunningly successful, as have TV shows like the hip "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and, to a lesser and "Millennium," degree, both of which deal with 6cary themes frequently, but not always. The annual Halloween episodes of The Simpsons" always score some of the show's highest ratings, and "It's the So in the safety of our homes and See HOLLYWOOD, C8 See BRIEFING, C8 Snider's lucky seven movies for Halloween "Psycho" (I960, not rated) While many "scary" 1. movies of the past seem tame by today's standards of fear, "Psycho" holds up remarkably well. For the first-tim- e viewer, there are sudden and surpris- ing murders, unbearable tension and apprehension, and of course that famous shower scene (which also demonstrates one of the best uses of appropriate soundtrack music in all of film history that scene wouldn't be half as scary without those violins shrieking at you). For people who have seen it before, there's the fun of picking it .. Call Sharon Choklston, Iterates editor, with your catontot tern .. and other art or , ts& f ntj - - ertertzlynsnt '"i c- -t - . 4 jw 4 IfWtirlfcirjMH ' MfOM jiitKVlH apart and realizing how much deeper it is than most horror movies (all those mirrors, the dual nature of man, etc., etc.). 2. "Poltergeist" (1982, PG) A family is disturbed to learn their house has ghosts, a fact underlined by the spirits' kidnapping of the young daughter. Trees come to life, pits open up, people get zapped into TVs, and a piece of steak appears to be full of all in a movie maggots that is a superbly scary ghost story and has a good sense of humor, too. The PG rating means it's plenty 6cary, but not too full of blood and guts. iwri.' . . . 3. "Manos: The Hands of Fate" (1966, not rated) " "Manos" has the distinction of being extremely creepy and paralyzingly boring at the same time; every-thinthat could be bad about a movie is bad about this one. But with three mocking it, "Manos" is not only tolerable, it's downright hilarious. A great way to spend a Halloween evening. 4. "Murder by Death" (1976, PG) Neil Simon wrote this farcical parody of detective films, in which an author invites the world's greatest detectives to his home and then has them solve a murder Don't get the original version of this movie, made by a Texas fertilizer magnate on a budget. Instead, get the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" treatment (it's readily available on video). In an episode from the popular Sci-F- i Channel TV show, Joel and his two robot friends watch "Manos" in its entirety ... and make fun of it s the whole way. Of the bad movies the "MST 3000" gang has endured, they and say this is the worst that's really 6aying something. g smart-aleck- 150-plu- "Si r--- should you dare see them s mystery. Alec Guinness, ' Truman Capote, Peter Falk and Peter Sellers are just part of the cast; Sellers and Falk, in particular, are hysterical as the Charlie Chan and Sam respectively. all-st- Spade-type- A group of grownups would find this movie perfect for a party around Halloween time. 5. "The Vanishing" (1988, not rated) French director George Sluizer made this thriller that is an anomaly in its genre: There's no blood. A man's girlfriend disappears at a rest stop, and he becomes obsessed with finding out light-hearte- d See SNIDER, C8 |