I was sitting in an Indian restaurant reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" when a waitress I know pretty well approached me and remarked with some energy at my book. Her English is not 100% perfect, but the black and red of the cover caught her eye and she recognized the word "Evil".
She explained to me with some animation that when she was growing up in Kathmandu the very first movie she and her family ever saw was Evil Dead! She was very excited and told me "All night long the children were screaming and screaming!"
She explained to me with some animation that when she was growing up in Kathmandu the very first movie she and her family ever saw was Evil Dead! She was very excited and told me "All night long the children were screaming and screaming!"
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Thu, April 15, 2004 - 5:54 PMAhhh... warm memories...
I remember the first horror film I was exposed to as a kid. My mom liked horror films, and the first time The Poltergeist(sp) was on TV is tried watching it. Let's just say it wasn't unitl high school that I'd go near a horror film again -- that was N O T the horror film for a kid to start out on. I gotta reckon that EDI/II, and probably AOD would have been about as bad for me.
A strong imagination can be an awkward thing -- at any age. -
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Thu, April 15, 2004 - 6:04 PMIronically, Poltergeist was my first horror movie too. I must have had the flu the day I saw it because I had a horrible nightmare that night that a ghost was in the living room tossing the furniture around and knocked my sister's head off with the tv. Then I woke up and had to run to the bathroom to hurl.
Ah, the innocence of youth.
But seriously, I think my ban on pork stems from the crawly porkchop... and the guy ripping his face to shreds doesn't bring me any warm fuzzies either.
Give me a funny (Evil Dead) or ironic horror movie any day. -
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Thu, April 15, 2004 - 6:26 PMI'm baaaacccckkkk.... Oh, sorry...
I still haven't seen that/those film/s (Poltergeist). I'm not opposed to it/them, or in any way still in fear of it, I just haven't seen any of the material since I was a kid. I got The Exorcist(sp?) about 2 years ago -- that was pretty good. Interesting, having previously read the book, and watching all the extras on the DVD -- I knew about some of the spooky poop that went on with the making of the film before.
It's not the only flick as I recall -- there's some other where (I saw the-making-of footage, but don't remember which flick it was) the mom/daughter drive this gray mini-station-wagon to a drive through zoo and all these gray monkeys (probably the wrong species, but just go with me, OK) attack the car. To actually get these suckers to attach the car, the film makers first tried tieing all these banannas to the car, which the monkeys just calmly removed; when they tied one of their own to the roof of the car -- then they went nutz. Anyone know which film it is I'm talking about? -
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Tue, April 20, 2004 - 1:28 AMwww.theomen.com/
What a creepy creepy film - and almost no blood or gore.
The first horror film I ever saw was the Excorcist... what an introduction for a 6 yo Catholic schoolboy...
GaryQ
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Fri, April 16, 2004 - 10:28 AMMy-my, I'll have to go back and look at that.
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