Our parents took us all to see “Invaders From Mars” at the Bay Theater in downtown Panama City around 1953. I had the same reaction as you. I thought it was the greatest movie ever made.
I saw it again, maybe 30 years later. I was really disappointed. I had built it up too high and remembered some of the scenes a little off. A couple of years later, I saw it again and realized it actually was a pretty good movie. I had just built it up to an impossible level in my mind.
All these years I thought I was the only one............thanks!
No kidding! My parents took me along to see it in the theater at night because of the AC. I was only five at the time and it scared the dickens out of me. The sand pit scene with the cops and the kid discovering the mark on the backs of the necks of those taken. Didn't know which grown-ups to trust, but when I first heard quicksand spoken I knew what it meant, space monsters down there. Never saw it again, but in my late sixties I can still recall the effect it had on me..
” Invaders from Mars scared the heck out of my little brother and I for years.”
Me too!
Me too!