Name one aspect you love about The Burbs

Individual moments like Ray and Art walking toward the house in broad daylight with the gothic horror music playing. Cracks me up.

Not to mention YO RUMSFIELD!!

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When I rewatched this in 2003, I had always dreamed about having a nice, beautiful house to where I can go out in my driveway, pick up my paper, and say good morning to my neighbors.

In 2013, my dreams came true!

I love the opening shot. Zooming in from space all the way to the neighborhood. The music is awesome throughout. The brownie scene always makes me laugh.

The tone. Despite how serious the situation is there's like this childlike wonder about it. Obviously it's a comedy, but they are quite literally acting like children with over-imaginative minds (there are several points where it's explicitly trying to show them as childlike, like Rumsfield remarking that "they're daring each other to ring the doorbell," Rumsfield and Art sulking when Ray can't come out, Rumsfield eating animal crackers on his watch, the "red rover red rover" thing) -- it's reminding me of my own childhood experiences, actually, of getting each other scared and excited over nothing, of spying on neighbors and sneaking around their yards.

And I get kinda into it, like I wish I could join them. Be a child again for a few days. But it almosy feels enough to watch these grown-ass men do it.

I think that's why I've watched this film several times a year since I discovered it around 2010.

The -atmosphere-, it's a scary comedy.

It could have easily been more of a vigilante-comedy or something more straightforward, but you get some sort of Addams Family-vibe and what's perhaps even more amusing is that the movie doesn't have any supernatural monster, creature, etc...

When I was a kid, and Walter and Art knocked on the door, and the goose house number went from 669 to 666, I never understood the 666 thing, but I do know. That, and when Rumsfeld steps in dog$hit