Posted on 08/13/2010 4:41:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Do you by any chance remember the old TV show “Thriller” with Boris Karloff as the host? IIRC, they did one about a guy picking up the girl and driving her to her parent’s house and when he got there the parents told him she had been killed two years earlier. It’s been spoofed a zillion times, but I saw a serious portrayal of that story when I was a kid, and I’m sure it was on Thriller. I still remember Boris Karloff saying, “Take her home. Take her ALL the way home.”
Zulu scared me. I was 5 or 6. Nightmares of neverending tribesmen storming our house and pouring into my bedroom window.
Obama voters!!!
LOL, I thought I was the only other nutty kid that watched that. I RAN home so I wouldn't miss too much of it.
I give it another year. It’s coming.
Yes in 1970 they made a two hour movie of the soap opera. I used to watch the TV series and thought it was great. It was not that scary to me.
But when I saw the movie in about 1973 after the series ended I was scared to death. It was much more graphic, bloody and non stop gore. I was happy when the movie ended and the lights came on. I think I will see if Netflix has it.
“Poltergiest, the first one”
When my daughter was about four, she had very long, blonde hair and loved to turn the channel on to static, touch the t.v., and say “there heeeere!” Only the adults jumped in the room.
As a kid it was Wizard of Oz....all those monkeys and the talking trees!
As a teenager it was When a Stranger Calls cause I use to babysit alot. (the calls are coming from inside the house! Get out of the house!)
Cool, think I will go check it out now for old times sake! Somehow a big hairy ape lurking in the woods seemed more realistic than vampires and Frankensteins at that age. I am still a little on edge when camping out in the woods at night!
Same here. It seems silly now. Very primitive special effects by today's standards. But the the director played up the simple elements, the pacing, the mood, even the silence, so that in my "internal" theater I experienced bone-chilling throat-gripping fear.
Sure, I remember “Thriller”! And I think I remember that episode. I think there was one similar on’’The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”; the “Thriller” one was scarier.
BTW, has Inspector Girard found you yet?
The Giant Claw...I can’t say why it scared me, when my friends who watched it with me, were laughting during the movie. For three days afterward, I wouldn’t go into the yard after dark, because it might sitting on the roof waiting to eat me.
Starring Chris Matthews?
I also followed Dark Shadows, I’d sneak out at night with a raincoat tied around my neck and carried a cane. I wanted to be like Barnabus and bite my neighbors sister on the neck. I was 10
my folks said I had nightmares aout Rin-Tin_Tin.
But the movie “RODAN” scared the beejebbers outta me.
Wizard of Oz and Planet of the Apes....apparently I didn’t like monkeys/apes
Yep. My brother and I watched that during a thunderstorm. Even though we'd seen the movie before, we grabbed a couple of baseball bats just in case...
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