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Forty years ago this week, two movies were released that once again proved that the hybrid of horror and comedy works tremendously well.

The rock-and-roll greaser adventure movie, released 40 years ago this week, remains a fascinating anomaly and a one-of-a-kind jukebox oddity.

“The Thin Man” captured everything soon to be forbidden by the Hays Code in an exemplary crime comedy anchored by one of the screen’s most charismatic couples and their dog.

Fifty years after its release, this adaptation of the Henry James novella ranks a notch below Peter Bogdanovich’s previous four films, though it’s not as far removed in quality from his magical initial run as its reputation suggests.

In 1994, Disney embarked on its first home-video sequel, inadvertently kick-starting an era where the studio began to cannibalize itself for content.

With his adaptation of Graham Greene’s ‘Ministry of Fear,’ Fritz Lang showed it was just as important to fight Nazis on the home front as it was on the front lines.

In the quarter-century since its release, it’s become abundantly clear that a particular alchemy was at work when writer/director Stephen Sommers crafted his take on the Universal monster.

Twenty years later, the supernatural rom-com remains an antidote to the godawful films that attempted to capitalize on Jennifer Garner’s action hero appeal.

Thirty years on, Shu Lea Cheang’s debut feature cum experimental sci-fi political critique comments pitch-perfectly on issues that plague our contemporary world.

Reese Witherspoon portrays Tracy Flick as something teenage girls in film are so rarely allowed to be: unrepentantly ruthless in their ambition.

In 1994, both films took a stab at resurrecting a Freddy Krueger-type character. What they ended up doing instead was argue in favor of the horror genre itself.