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As studio horror has gotten slicker and funnier, closer to an amusement park ride than anything truly unnerving, it’s probably better to judge these films for their date-like qualities.

These city slickers will learn to respect the local myths.

In one number, Swinton, who goes glossy-eyed to show the cracks in her high-fashion veneer, poses in a transparent rain slicker while bleating raw, yowling noises that blend with the despairing strings.

For Brown’s Petaluma shop, there are no sales of bait or commercial gear — “no more boots, no more rain slickers, all that business is gone and there’s nothing to replace it.”

The slicker, untacked balls used in Major League Baseball — unlike the pre-tacked balls Yamamoto used in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league — affected his typically devastating splitter command.