Posted on 08/13/2010 4:41:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono
I loved watching “Chiller Theatre” circa 1970. I remember one where British spinster sisters had some unspeakable freak(a brother?)stashed in the basement. It really freaked
me out.
I was in high school when “Dark Shadows” was on in the late 60’s, at 3 in the afternoon, weekdays. My friends and I would watch it and laugh at the poor production values, ie., the doors would shake when people knocked on them, you could often hear the prompter if someone went up on their lines, you could hear scenery being moved around, etc. Great fun!!
Well, that’s it. You all can just rock me to sleep tonight !
X the Unknown is a classic. But then anything with Dean Jagger is A-ok with me!
I also love “Magnetic Monster” and “Curse of the Demon” was pretty scary.
I was wondering when someone was going to mention that one. Although I was far from a child when I first saw it, I can remember the feeling I had while trying to imagine what it must have been like to be so isolated in the dead of winter living in that huge vacant hotel in the middle of nowhere. Yup agree with you totally, that was by far one of the scariest movies of all times.
Nasty little bugger, don’t you think...?
The original Black Christmas.
That's interesting!
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Jaws
and Trilogy of Terror
Westworld frightened me, too. Yul Brynner was terrifying.
The whole flying monkeys thing was very scary.
I have a hazy memory of being at a Drive-in with my parents when I was maybe 4 or 5 yrs old. I know one of the features had "Boggy Creek" in the title because I kept saying "boogie creek" until my father yelled at me. They made me and my sister lay down and go to sleep during scary or sexy movies but I would always peek over the front seat. Now here's where you can help me. At some point in the movie did the beast reach up through a toilet while a girl was "sitting" there? I remember that scene clearly but I don't know what movie I saw it in. Was that "The Legend of Boggy Creek"?
The flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz
Still don’t like monkeys (or wizards)
The Blob slightly more, as I remember closing my windows in the middle of summer, hoping to keep it from oozing in.
Hill House was more terrifying at the time because it was more "high tech", and believable from a psychic phenomenon perspective. LOL, when I saw it years later, I couldn't believe how hokey it was!
Most definitely.
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