From the Dark

If it's a fun, neglected Halloween Eve creeper you're craving, allow me to recommend this one. A concept or three short of classic, but unlike almost every other horror film I saw this year, it remembers to be fun. Also scary. Simple, not stupid.

Beautifully shot and lit, and nicely acted. A couple breaks down in the wilds of Ireland, and confronts an ancient bog thing quelled only by light. That's it. But the characters are companionable, the Final Girl restrained and resourceful without being superhuman, and there are at least two images--the first quite touching as well as frightening--that crawl right up into the lower rungs of the pantheon. Especially that last, gorgeous paean to Nosferatu...