Good point.....kids today have been spoiled by CG and that film doesn't hold up well in that department.....
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Good point.....kids today have been spoiled by CG and that film doesn't hold up well in that department.....
Gotta admit,action figures have come a ways since the seventies and eighties..Lordy, I can't rightly remember. Hard to recall when the fear gave way to a lifelong obsession/ fascination. Was it Hooper's Salem's Lot? No...I was only about four or five then, and at the time all it did was scare the crap out of me. Same deal with Amityville, and that miniseries adaption of Bradbury's Martian Chronicles (ye gads, that Mars is Heaven segment gave me nightmares). I can recall staying up late with ma and my two goonish older sisters to watch stuff like The Haunting, and creepy Sissy Spacechick as crazy Carrie. Helter Skelter--are you kidding me? The seventies were freaky scary, bub.
Come the eighties, and blessed video rentals, my terror morphed into love. Karloff as Frankenstein. Creepshow! The whole damn Friday the 13th series. We loved Jason, all us kids did. He came with accessories, like an action figure--just a big serial-killing G.I. Joe. Romero's Dead flicks. All that great Savini gore. Ahh...childhood.
....kids today have been spoiled by CG and that film doesn't hold up well in that department.....
Yes!! I recently went to Bali. And courage played late at night while I was there. I had never really watched it before. And as a 23yr old it scared me a bit!!! That was full on!!
'Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte'. Mom let us watch when we were elementary school age andI remembered it forever. Saw it again in my 40's and laughed. My first scary one on my own (young pre-teen at movie with my friends) was 'It's Alive!'. Ooohhh...that one was scary. I never did watch it again but I'm sure I'd laugh this time around as well.when that head rolled down the stairs
Yes!!! I was just going to post the same! I just saw The Pit and the Pendulum the other night and it brought back such memories. I hadn't seen it in a while. Those Corman movies and the Hammer movies were my intro to horror. Very atmospheric and over the top, Grand Guignol-type of horror. To this day they still creep me out.I can't pinpoint one movie but I can pinpoint a group of them and they were the Roger Corman Poe movies. Back in the three channel days (and only two of them good), I remember watching these after school. There must have been some regular afternoon movie on one of the channels because I remember watching these Corman movies after school. I saw some of them several times so they must have played often. My first horror movie memories are of these Corman flicks.