Elizabeth Montgomery playing Lizzie Borden comes to mind, as well.
I remember watching that TV movie while I was babysitting. She was really excellent in the role.
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Kathy A - Aug 12, 2009 6:46:35 am PDT #3601 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 12, 2009 6:52:21 am PDT #3602 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think Eraserhead, while not technically a horror movie, was the one that freaked me out the most. It was days afterwards before I got a good night's sleep.
Fred Pete - Aug 12, 2009 6:58:33 am PDT #3603 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
70s TV used to get away with some crazy shit.
George Peppard also played Dr. Sam Sheppard in a TV mini-series around '75 or so. Gave me a sleepless night or two.
And while I didn't see movies, I'd like to mention that I read both Jaws and Helter Skelter around that time. Jaws gave me a moment or two, nothing major, but I've never gotten up the courage or whatever to see the movie. Helter Skelter gave me nightmares all winter.
Kathy A - Aug 12, 2009 7:00:29 am PDT #3604 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My mom wouldn't let me see Helter Skelter when it was first broadcast on tv, but I did read the book about that time (5-6th grade, IIRC), and the photos in the book of the crime scenes really did stick with me. I think that was the first true-crime book I read.
Glamcookie - Aug 12, 2009 7:04:10 am PDT #3605 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I watched old horror films with my dad from about the age of 2 on and I loved them. I had a Dracula doll ("Jack Leeler!").
At about 6 or 7, I was watching TV (unsupervised) and started watching Sssssssss (I think that was what it was called - about a doctor who was injecting people with something that slowly turned them into snakes). Lifelong fear of snakes started right there. I had snake nightmares for years after and always worried about someone throwing a snake in when I was showering. :::shudder:::
Saw Poltergeist at around 11 or 12 and was all freaked out. I remember ET came out after and I was scared to see it as I thought it would be like Poltergeist.
Rediscovered love of horror in early teens with Nightmare on Elm Street. Had a huge love for that movie. Now, as an adult, I love a good suspenseful scare, but hate gore. So I don't see too many horror films.
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Sean K - Aug 12, 2009 7:06:19 am PDT #3606 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
LOVE horror movies.
I think I was about twelve when I caught Carpenter's remake of The Thing on cable. It was gory, freaky and seriously effed up. But I could deal with all of that, because it's a movie, and the good guy wins at the end, right? Right?
What do you mean Kurt Russell and David Keith just sit in the flaming wreckage and freeze to death, and we don't know for sure if one of them has been infected, to be found and woken up by whoever comes to investigate?
Yeah, that movie messed me up for a while, and started a life-long love of scary, effed up movies.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 12, 2009 7:51:47 am PDT #3607 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Jack Leeler!"
LOVE!
For freaky childhood trauma, nothing quite beats the trip on the S.S. Wonkatina in Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka movie.
I think I was about twelve when I caught Carpenter's remake of The Thing on cable. It was gory, freaky and seriously effed up. But I could deal with all of that, because it's a movie, and the good guy wins at the end, right? Right?
The freakiest thing on seeing this now is realizing the last incarnation of the thing is Wilfred Brimley.
Kathy A - Aug 12, 2009 8:01:05 am PDT #3608 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
For freaky childhood trauma, nothing quite beats the trip on the S.S. Wonkatina in Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka movie.
Someone was on acid while they were planning the visuals for that sequence...
Jessica - Aug 12, 2009 8:17:33 am PDT #3609 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DH and I are considering taking Dylan to see Ponyo. He's never seen a movie in a theatre before, so we'd go to an early weekend show where there would be lots of other kids.
Other Buffista parents - is 2-and-a-bit (26 months) too young to sit through a movie in a theatre? My Neighbor Totoro is his favorite DVD in the universe, so we're pretty sure he'd like this one (and both DH and I want to see it because it's Myazaki).
flea - Aug 12, 2009 8:26:04 am PDT #3610 of 30000
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Will he sit through a whole movie at home? If so, I think you are good. You might consider going a bit late if your theater has really long previews. Casper would watch a whole film at home by 2 and we took her to Curse of the Were-Rabbit at about 26 months. She was fine. Sat in my lap, a little talkative ("Where's the BIG rabbit?") but it was a matinee full of kids.
Dillo was much slower to develop the attention span to sit through a whole movie. We saw Wall-E with him twice in the theater at just-two, but he fell asleep at about the 30 minute mark both times. I saw Up with him on my lap this summer (35 months) and it was kind of a mistake, even at that old - he was wiggly and broke the 3-D glasses and I wished we hadn't brought him.
So, as in all things, Your Kid May Vary.