The Girl From Haifa is never pushy, and her calm watchfulness is something you miss were you ever regularly in her company. Still, the Girl From Haifa, a secular modern girl, has suffered the strong Israeli sun on some Friday or Saturday after all public transit has stopped in observance of religious law.

George Romero in 1989, talking about knowing when something is horrifying: "I always laugh when I go to the Carnegie Delicatessen in New York," Mr. Romero said, "and see comedians sitting around stern-faced and saying: 'That's funny.' And it's that kind of understanding, knowing when something is spooky and when something is going to make somebody jump.”