It’s starting to feel like Halloween at the movies — VIDEO
Scares come in several varieties as “Goosebumps,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Crimson Peak” and Austrian sensation “Goodnight Mommy” open.
Here’s a look at this week’s new releases:
GOOSEBUMPS: Jack Black portrays author R.L. Stine, whose monstrous characters are released into a suburban neighborhood, in this comedy. At multiple locations. (103 min.) PG; scary and intense creature action and images, and for some rude humor.
CRIMSON PEAK: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston star in writer-director Guillermo del Toro’s haunted-house tale. At multiple locations. (119 min.) R; bloody violence, some sexual content and brief strong language.
GOODNIGHT MOMMY: Twin boys (Elias and Lukas Schwarz) start to believe the woman (Susana Wuest) who returned, her face in bandages, from plastic surgery is not really their mother in this Austrian horror tale. In German with English subtitles. At Village Square. (99 min.) R; disturbing violent content and some nudity.
BRIDGE OF SPIES: A Brooklyn insurance lawyer (Tom Hanks) negotiates the exchange of Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) for downed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell) in Steven Spielberg’s Cold War drama. At multiple locations. (132 min.) PG-13; some violence and brief strong language.
WOODLAWN: A high school football team comes together amid racial tensions in early 1970s Alabama in this faith-based story. At multiple locations. (123 min.) PG; thematic elements including some racial tension/violence.
COMING HOME: A woman (Gong Li) has an amnesia-inducing accident just as her husband (Chen Daoming) is arrested and sent to a labor camp and, when he’s finally released, doesn’t remember him. In Mandarin with English subtitles. At Suncoast. (111 min.) PG-13; some thematic material.
ONCE I WAS A BEEHIVE: When her widowed mother remarries, a teenager (Paris Warner) is sent to stay with her Mormon step-aunt, who takes her to a church camp in this comedy. At Santa Fe Station. (119 min.) PG; mild thematic elements and brief peril.
