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Charles Addams’s “The Addams Family” is a true celebration of the ghastly and grim.

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"The Addams Family" is a reminder that beauty can be found in the ghastly and grim

October officially marks the beginning of Scary Season. With this in mind, the Pepper Bough is celebrating with a daily dose of creepy moments sure to make your hairs stand on end. Come celebrate with us . . . if you dare.

“The Addams Family” never fails to remind us that death is a comfort.

Charles Addams’ comically ghoulish characters are ideal emcees for a movie delighting in electrocution, poisoning, BDSM, torture, stabbing, decapitation, and a host of other dark arts. However, what makes Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1991 movie—and its comic source—special is the hopeful naïveté of Gomez, Morticia, and their family of misfits. They embrace their world with wide-eyed hope and glee, especially the worst it has to offer.

It is often easy to look past the morbid and disturbing because it is upsetting, but films like “The Addams Family” assure us there is beauty to be found there, too. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and with each ghastly episode in this film, it doesn’t take much to see just how beautiful the macabre can be.

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