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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2000 3:14 am Post subject:

Hey all, I'm curious to hear what you think has been some of the better moments for horror on television. What are some of your favorite series? TV Movies or miniseries? -Casey Submitted By: Casey

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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2000 7:38 pm Post subject:

how about Trilogy of Terror? i believe that was made for television by dark shadows' dan curtis. featurd that classic story involving the zuni doll. i think they made a part 2? tobe hooper's salem's lot was also 1 of the best miniseries of all time. that kid at the window still freaks me out. Submitted By: DiscoKing

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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2000 5:13 am Post subject:

Hey DiscoKing, Yes, great examples. Another good one - Don't Go To Sleep. Creepy tale about a little girl who dies in a car fire, because her siblings tied her shoes together and she couldn't escape. Pretty soon her sister starts seeing her again and her family starts dying very mysteriously. Starred Dennis Weaver and Valerie Harper. Submitted By: Casey

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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2000 11:24 pm Post subject:

Hi! Does anyone else remember "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"? It was a 1970's TV movie starring Kim Darby & Jim Hutton as a couple whose new dream house is infested with creepy little goblin-type creatures. This one inspired plenty of nightmares when I was a kid! RomanyX Submitted By: romanyx

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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2000 6:45 am Post subject:

Hey RomanyX, Actually, I just tracked down a copy of the film and should be getting it shortly. I'll definitely pass along my thoughts. Isn't it amazing how some of these made-for-tv flicks are sometimes better than a lot of the actual movies out there? Which brings to mind - Salem's Lot. That kid at the window, just scratching his nails... Still creeps me out. Got me good when I was a lot younger. Of course it helps that I go to bed and my bed is facing my window and it is really windy outside. -Casey Submitted By: Casey

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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2000 3:34 am Post subject:

My choices for scariest moments of television horror: 1) The last moments of "The Cheaters" on Thriller, in which a man wearing cursed eyeglasses looks into a mirror. 2) The Night Gallery episode "The Waiting Room," in which a gunfighter stops at a saloon in which everyone is someone he knows has died. The build up of creepiness through the whole episode is well handled. 3) "The Night Strangler," the second Kolchak movie. It seemed to hold together better than the original "Night Stalker". 4) Karen Black and the killer doll in "Trilogy of Terror." 5) The ending of "Lindeman's Catch" and "The Caterpillar," both Night Gallery. 6) "The Joker" an Avengers episode in which Emma Peel is lured to an old dark house filled with roses and an old German love song keeps playing over and over. REally creepy. Submitted By: mike s

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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2000 1:41 am Post subject:

Casey, My first TV Horror memory was seeing "Killers in Space" on WPIX Channel 11 in New York. I was four years old and VERY AFRAID of the strange bug-eyed dudes. Saw the first half-hour. In those days before the now-famous six-fingered "Strangler from the Swamp" intro, "Chiller" had no host -- all there was then was "Chiller" in dripping letters (similar to the green logo at ChillerTheatre.com) with accompanying "Boom-BUMP - Boom-BUMP!" music. Very short intro, viewed in glorious black&white. My family was visiting my grandparents across town that night in '68, and they lived in a HUGE old mediterranean with ceiling rafters in the TV room. The TV was an old B&W Magnivox console that sat in the corner. A VERY SCARY PLACE to moi. It was that kind of house with huge staircases, lots of rooms, a creepy third floor noone went to with an attic that sported a huge 4-foot fan (where I could be chopped up in, naturally) ... rooms that had glass doorknobs and chipped plaster, old pushbutton light switches, a big old scary Grandfather Clock that chimed VERY LOUD throughout the house, a creepy second staircase that scaled four stories, and last and worst, a huge basement that had, you guessed it, a wine storage room. I think my sis and I were to spend the night, but after viewing part of "Chiller" for the first time and looking at that Grandfather Clock parked halfway up those big stairs reading "9 O'Clock" in their foyer as my folks were leaving, there was NOW WAY I was stayin' THERE!!! This place has been the source of quite a few nightmares over the years ... and oddly enough, I CHERISH 'EM!!! After much reading online, I've discovered that one John Zacherly hosted WPIX's "Chiller Theatre" for one season in '63-64. When I saw "Killers", Zach was long gone ... so in between Zach and "Mr.6" the stranglin' hand, they had the "Chiller" sign. Fave TV Horror moments? 1) "Creature Features", WNEW Channel 5. Don't remember its host "The Creep", but they had for years a "bloody face pos-to-neg" intro with VERY scary booming Mancini-esque music. I have yet to figure out who did this AWESOME score. First saw 1931's "Frankenstein" on 5 one Halloween with me pop. "The Man with the X-Ray Eyes". "The Monster That Challenged the World". "House on Haunted Hill". 2) "Chiller Theatre", WPIX Channel 11. Had the famous "Six-Fingered Strangler from the Swamp" intro throughout the '70s ... lottsa bad '50s Drive-In flix ... "Teenage Frankenstein". "How to Make a Monster". "Black Sabbath". "The Screaming Skull". (Brilliantly lampooned on MST3K!) "Frankenstein's Daughter". (One time previewed by Cap'n Joe McCarthy at the tail-end of a Miss America pageant: "You have just seen all the beautiful young women vying for Miss America ... next you shall see a real beauty ... "Frankenstein's Daughter" ... you'll see her next at 10pm, right here on "Chiller Theatre"!" (One of the times "Chiller" was bumped from its 8pm timeslot.) 3) "Rosemary's Baby". That chilling "laaa-da-daaa" theme music. Ruth Gordon. The neighbor's adult daughter who committed suicide by jumping out her apartment window and bouncing off that VW Beetle. "Don't be afraid, Rosemary ..." 4) "The Exorcist". The opening scenes in Iraq. The discovery of the statuette. The clock in Von Sidow's study stopping suddenly at the same time the statuette is unearthed. The fighting dogs ... then Reagan. Her bouncing supine in the bed. Talking backwards. (Why on earth was that recently added bit with Blair walking backwards down the stairs edited out in the original proof?!? That's one the most effective moments!!!) 5) "Night of the Living Dead". I discovered this rather late in the game while WABC Channel 7 still showed it. This was in '79 or so, and I understand it was first aired in '74. IT WAS GREAT but a dumbballs friend of mine not only gave the whole movie away that afternoon on a Scout outting, but EMBELLISHED it as well, for instance saying the female corpse discovered at the top of the stairs at the film's beginning re-animates and is slugged in the back of the neck and PRYED OPEN by Dwayne Jones later in the picture. But those opening sequences with that George C. Scott lookalike is one of the most frightening scenes in horror flicks. 6) "Ghost Story" with Sebastian Cabot, WNBC Channel 4 New York. I remember very little of those, save a show about twin sisters in which one is dead and the survivor sees her ghost at her grave. 7) "The Blob" (1958). Noone could escape from this thing ... the doctor's demise and the mechanic's ending scared the poop out o' me sis and I for YEARS. "The Stepford Wives". Had a chance to be a child extra in the schoolbus scene where Katherine Ross sees her kids off to school. The production crew filmed bits around me hometown and I knew the kid who lived in the white house they used. The director came to our elementary schools looking for kids! Very nice British gent by the name of Bryon Forbes. Of course, I didn't take the bait -- too shy. D'Oh!!! 9) Lots of other shows ... "Halloween". "Psycho". "Tales from the Crypt". "Silent Night, Bloody Night" (about ax murderers with Mary Woronov, Patrick O'Neil and John Carradine). "The Twilight Zone". "Night Gallery". "The Beast in the Cellar". "One Step Beyond". "Thriller". "Dark Shadows" (Barnabas' "house" in the movie version was filmed at The Lockwood Mansion here in Norwalk, CT). "Lost in Space", et al. 10) Finally, watching "The Mummy's Hand" with my father one night courtesy "Creature Features" as punishment for boasting I watched all these horror movies! This was at a time before I began watching in ernest; I was totally freaked out by horror flicks for a long time. But, I DID read "Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery" and "Haunted Houseful" back then with a friend of mine. See, we were into this horror thing BIG as kids!!! Well? SATISFIED?!? Hey, it was a hoot to hog the bandwidth here. Cheers to you all out there! Submitted By: Mac P

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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2000 1:55 am Post subject:

Oooops! There's more ... 1) "Horror Hotel" with Christopher Lee. Creature Features agin. My sis and I were alone that night ... that bit with witches living on one side of the street, church-goers on the other was compelling. Lottie ... Jethro Keene ... "Burn Witch, BURN!!!" The blonde finding that sparrow with a wooden stake through its heart ... BETTER than Blair Witch! 2) "'Salem's Lot". VERY effective made for TV yarn. The nosferatu challenging the heros in the kitchen. Right, that scene with the dead boy floating outside his brother's room, scratching on the pane to be let in ... don't do it ... 3) Hammer Films on WCBS Channel 2. Watched some of these with my dad. He was into it! Obviously saw the Universal flicks at the bijou in his youth. "Curse of Frankenstein", "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave", "It", "Frankenstein Must be Destroyed" ... all those films were shown in MINT condition. I wonder if CBS had film quality standards, as far as wear and tear. 4) All the really dumb films ... "Dracula vs. Frankenstein" ("Chiller") ... "The Creeping Terror" ("Thriller Theatre" on WOR Channel 9.) "Horror of Party Beach" ... "It's the voodoos, I tells ya!" Another gem filmed here in CT. "The Castle of Dr.Frightenstein", a daytime children's serial spoof. VERY dumb. "Plan 9" yadda, yadda ... Cheers! Submitted By: Mac P

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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2000 7:41 pm Post subject:

"The Shining"- the mini-series was very unsettling, although it had a very long shadow to try to get out from under. I liked that it went for a more psychological scare, rather than the disturbing visual images that seem to fill the movie. "Fear"- for being a little TV-movie (and starring Ally Sheedy) it was still pretty good at scaring me. I've always had an interest in psychic stuff, and seeing it used effectively in a horror film was nice to see. Of course there were several episodes of the various horror series- "Tales from the Darkside" seemed to scare me the most often (perhaps because I was terrified of the opening scene). The toy bear, the little albino creature, and the girl on the train that kept going through tunnels are three of the most frightening shows I've ever seen. In another thread I mentioned the short films that were used as 'filler', so I won't mention them again other than to say they also kept me awake nights. Submitted By: Erik Stutzman

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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2000 10:41 pm Post subject:

I remember seeing a made-for-TV movie in the mid-70's starring Stephanie Powers called, I think, PAPER MAN. It was about a bunch of college students who use falsified computer records to create a persona that would allow them to do things like cheat credit card companies under the guise of someone who doesn't exist and therefore couldn't be tracked down. But then, one by one, the students begin to be killed off. And all indications are that the killer is their fictitious creation. I remember that it was very atmospheric and suspenseful. I don't know who made the movie, though. Submitted By: Layback76

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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2000 3:04 am Post subject:

For me it was Salem's Lot and The Shining.That kid in the window scene left me sleeping on the floor for a month.And who can forget the unforggetable "Heeeeere's Johnny".Now those are true horror classics.As for T.V. series I have to say Werewolf.Sure,it was short,but I loved it from beginning to end. Submitted By: Lex

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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2000 12:07 am Post subject:

Anyone remember that made for TV flick from '73 called "Sssssssssss ..."? A bit strange! Weird stuff happening under the big top ... a nutjob is creating his own freaks. Featured a woman who played the 3rd youngest girl from "The Sound of Music" movie and Dirk Benedict (?) from "Battlestar Galactica". Submitted By: Mac P

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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2000 12:35 am Post subject:

yeah,SSSSSSSSS was a weird flick,but one thing...it was a theatrical flick. Submitted By: kolchak

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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2000 2:26 pm Post subject:

I saw SSSSSSSSSS in a double Feature with "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf", remember that one? Yeeeesh. Submitted By: Shroud

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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2000 3:39 am Post subject:

You know,i always wanted to see that one as a kid,but it always seemed to miss my local theater.Is it as bad as alot of folks say?(BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF,i mean) Submitted By: kolchak

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