Your generation sounds like mine. I was one of those kids who grew up READING the Lord of the Rings. Did you know The Beetles at one point wanted Stanley Kubrick to make a movie? (Turned it down as impossible to make at the time).The painting I used came out years before the movie did.
Blecch. Give me the Stooges, Marx Brothers, Peter Sellers, et al. every time.
I can't do creepy sh*t.