Brian Wilson is tearing his hair out in his mansion on the hills of Laurel Canyon. He’s gone to the effort of filling his living room with sand, plonking his grand piano in the middle of it, and ...

Often, the memory that lingers in one’s mind of a horror film is a frightening image: the spraying blood from a slasher’s hacked-up victim; the ominous apparition in an elegant ghost picture; the ...