The film meant a lot to Reiner: like the characters on screen, he was 12 in 1959, the year it was set.

But comfort is nonetheless what this film, in spite of the spooky music and the scary title, means to provide.

For Koolhoven, the film meant his third hit movie within two years.

The film means to show what happens when ordinary life, always less innocent than it seems, finally goes haywire.

I hope he knew how much his films meant to some of us.

The film is set in 1965 and means to link Lucille's quest for freedom with the civil rights movement.

The film, in its far kinkier fashion, means to do the same.

The film means to be a clever cat-and-mouse game.

Their short film 'The Music Box' for example meant little to me.

Just because they made silly films about aliens and things didn't actually mean, did it, that it couldn't ever happen?