Scary movies
Bill McKenzie
about the movies that were soooo scary back when Psycho was out. The
movies weren't as graphic then but I heard that Alfred Hitchcock thought
the imagination was much more powerful than showing the actual scenes.
So what are your favs? The Birds was one of mine. There was also one
about a blind woman that was stalked by some guy but she was saved in
the end. It was something about the Dark??? Does anyone know what I'm
talking about???????
Nancy
drew
Bill McKenzie <bill...@mediaone.net> wrote:
> I was watching a show on E! about Anthony Perkins and it made me think
> about the movies that were soooo scary back when Psycho was out.
Hi Nancy...on my way to the channel with the Sharks game, I passed E! and
noticed him too...
Well I am not sure if you just meant from the 70's or not but when I was
a little guy I caught Phantasm, the Fog, The Shining and of course the
Exorcist.
These movies are not really 70's movies(save for the Exorcist) and are a
bit campy(espeically the Fog), but that is what came to mind....
Now that I can look back on them they are silly movies but at the time
they had my little imagination doing flips; lol and my older sisters
would always get mad after I watched these movies b/c I would always
come flying down the hall and into their rooms in the flippin' middle o'
the night scared as shit! They'd scream: "HEY, GET OUT OF HERE!" lol
Oh hey, I got another one, it is not really a movie but.... Actually I
have three...okay check that, I have three other ones.
I used to watch Rougues Gallery(if you are unfamiliar, it is a show much
like the Twilight Zone...short story format) as a little one-I used to
love scary shows and movies and I'd always freak out over them.
Lol After taking in Rouges Gallery as a kid, I once found myself being
the last one to bed. My sisters would always pull a number on me by
simultaneously run upstairs to bed saying last one to bed has to check
all the doors, turn off the tv and turn off all the lights. lol
I then would find myself all alone, a little guy, and this is when the
freaking out would commence!
Lol First I would I would just sit perched on our round bambo....well I
don't know what to classify it as, I guess it was just one of those
things from the 70's that you can't put a finger on to categorize it,
suffice it to say, you used this thing to sit on. My dad got it in Africa
or or the Philipines while serving in the USAF... and we still have
it....somewhere. lol
I was petrified with fear at this point and the only thing moving were my
caramel/brown darting eyes, which were as wide as saucers at this point.
When I mustered up enough courage to finally move, I readied myself to
perform the unenviable task of turning off the family Zenith, lights and
checking and securing all the doors.
I especially hated checking the sliding-glass doors. Checking the massive
sliding backyard doors, I would first creep cautiously up to the white
curtains and slowly peer past them out into the cold blackness of the
backyard hoping there were not any boogie dudes back there.
I was kinda nervous for our Maltese being back there alone but I wasn't
about to go back there! The pooch was on his own. lol
After checking the backyard it was now time to get upstairs.
The trick was to be up the flight of stairs of 35 steps without tripping,
or the boogie dudes will catch up to me, into my bedroom, lock the door,
and get under the covers before the Zenith went off and the last flicker
of light from the livingroom lightstand ceased to exist and thus in my
little freaked out mind, ending my protection(as a little guy, I absurdly
believed light warded off boogie dudes...) from these "Boogie Dudes." heh
:-)
I don't know how my little feet did it, but in a trail of smoking forest-
green carpet, like a tiny blurred ball of flurry, I got myself upstairs,
into my cozy little room, locked the bedroom door, hit the bedroom light,
got under the covers, and hid, all in one sweeping motion, and all the
while I remember that I would unconsciously make a sort of curly-shempish
utterance while flying up the steps of our 2 story: Yiay-yiayh-yiyah.
I seemingly accomplished all this before our family Zenith flickered off
and the downstairs nightstand lightswitch terminated...there must have
been an olympic event I could have entered. lollol
I watched so much scary junk, that I was a jittery little kid, you could
always catch me looking over my shoulder for that boogie dude or ghoul
after Rouges Gallery. :D
I am not going to take up any more of anyone's time or bandwith as it
were by boring you any further with my babbling other than to mention
that the other two shows I watched as a crazy kid were Creature Features
on a local tv staion here in the bay area and of course the other show
was Twilight Zone.
The host of Creature Features was so the "MAN," his name was Bob Wilkins-
he totally rocked. I was so pissed off when they took that show off the
air.
I could tell you about one short episode from Twilight Zone that
literally made me go bathroom on myself. lol
It was about this little doll that if you picked it up, would stalk you
and try to kill you if you did not pay attention to it or play with it-
Oh man I pee'd my pants it was SO freaky! lol
Great thread btw- I've had enough Prez posts. :-)
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> I used to watch Rougues Gallery(if you are unfamiliar, it is a show much
> like the Twilight Zone...short story format) as a little one-I used to
> love scary shows and movies and I'd always freak out over them.
And the movie referred to in the previous post is Wait Until Dark (I
believe).
Buddy
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everyone remember the first time they saw the ending of "Carrie"?? Who
left the theater with dry pants? Not this kid!!
Bill McKenzie
required in life to terrorize their younger siblings. Also I used to sneak
into my parents bed in the middle of the night when I got spooked.
Thanks to Buddy...that IS the movie I remember.
And Tritt---Carrie was way up there on my list too.....
Nancy
Bill McKenzie wrote:
> I was watching a show on E! about Anthony Perkins and it made me think
DavisK
Bill McKenzie <bill...@mediaone.net> wrote:
> I was watching a show on E! about Anthony Perkins and it made me think
> about the movies that were soooo scary back when Psycho was out. The
> movies weren't as graphic then but I heard that Alfred Hitchcock
thought
> the imagination was much more powerful than showing the actual scenes.
> So what are your favs? The Birds was one of mine. There was also one
> about a blind woman that was stalked by some guy but she was saved in
> the end. It was something about the Dark??? Does anyone know what I'm
> talking about???????
> Nancy
>
>
I think that last movie you are referring to is 'Afraid of The Dark'.
I'm not a big Hitchcock fan (nothing wrong with him - I just haven't
gotten into most of his films). I think Audrey Hepburn was in that and
played the blind woman, but I could be wrong.
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hughkeller
I thinks it's "Wait Until Dark". I remember seeing the play when I was
around 12 years old. My drama teacher from school was in the play, and I
didn't understand most of it at the time.
Hugh
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