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Mike Blakesley
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posted 03-21-2014 06:05 PM

I remember seeing "The Birds" on TV as a kid and it was pretty scary, but not to the point of making me afraid of birds or anything. I never really saw any horror movies in the theatre when I was a kid.

I was 20 when "Jaws" came out. I happened to be in Billings for a conference for my day job. A co-worker and I went and saw "Jaws" in a Billings theater. It rattled me enough that I missed the exit leading to our hotel and I wound up going down the "wrong way" of an on-ramp (there was zero traffic and I didn't want to drive 10 miles to the next exit), got spotted by a cop and got chewed out, but didn't get a ticket.

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Geoff Jones
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posted 03-21-2014 06:34 PM

That reminds me. Next year is the 40th anniversary of JAWS (and I guess the big six-oh for Mike!).

Universal, please re-release JAWS next year.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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posted 03-21-2014 07:40 PM

The Day The Earth Stood Still for sure. I was probably about 5 or 6 then. It's creepiness was certainly heightened by the Bernard Herrmann score. The space man and robot both scared the bejesus out of me.

Mark

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Don Furr
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posted 03-21-2014 07:41 PM

No doubt in my mind. It was Hammer's "X-The Unknown" 1956. I was 9 years old. I'll never forget that one.

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Steve Matz
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posted 03-21-2014 09:07 PM

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Mike Blakesley wrote: I was 20 when "Jaws" came out. I happened to be in Billings for a conference for my day job. A co-worker and I went and saw "Jaws" in a Billings theater. It rattled me enough that I missed the exit leading to our hotel and I wound up going down the "wrong way" of an on-ramp (there was zero traffic and I didn't want to drive 10 miles to the next exit), got spotted by a cop and got chewed out, but didn't get a ticket.

Mike; That would of been The Fox Theater 1975. I was the COP! (just kidding ). I would bet you jumped at the same 2 scenes that the whole Audience did through 4 showings of that Movie that I watched.(1) The Scene where Dryfuss goes underwater to check out Ben Gardner's Fishing Boat and Ben's head comes out of the haul with one of his eyeballs out of the socket.(2) When
Brodie is tossing Chum out of the Stern of Quint's Boat and the Shark jumps out of the Water.(This is the JAW'S that should have been shot in 3D.If it scared people in the audience in 2D; some
would probably had a heart attack in 3D.It was kind of neat after the 3rd time I watched it to know when that audience was gonna get the crap scared out of them.I would start Laughing and people thought I was a Nut Case. [beer]

Brodie's Famous Line after the Chumming incident: "WERE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT" [thumbsup]

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 03-22-2014 12:19 AM

Oops I was off...we didn't play Jaws here until '76 so I keep thinking it came out that year. I was 18 when I saw it at the Fox Theatre...didn't turn 19 until November so I'm 57 now. The "big six oh" is close enough, thanks, don't make it any closer! [Big Grin]

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Steve Matz
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posted 03-22-2014 01:04 AM

Claude S. Ayakawa wrote:

quote: Claude S. Ayakawa
At my age, I remember being frightened when I saw UNIVERSAL's THE WOLF MAN in the mid forties on the big screen in a theatre.

Not that I want to be any older than I am now but I envy you Claude that you got to see the Universal Monsters on a Theater Screen.I don't think Universal released any of their Horror Films to Network TV until around 1957. The first I remember seeing was Frankenstein meets the Wolfman and A&C meet Frankenstein that same year.I still to this day have never seen any of the 30's 40's Monster Films any Larger than my Film Library Screen; which
is 12 feet. They look pretty impressive at that Width but I would like to see them on a full size Theater Screen.I can't remember any of our theaters ever showing those films through out the 1950's yet they would show Serials from the 40's and Three Stooges 2 Reelers from the 30's and 40's(Curley Episodes)

I'm sure I would have been Scared at 9 if I had seen "Son of Frankenstein" in a Theater. It was pretty scary even on TV with those Big Elaborate Sets.

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Pravin Ratnam
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posted 03-23-2014 10:42 PM

I got to see a lot of movies that were before my time in the theater since my family moved to India when I was young. And there are no age checks over there. So I got to watch The Omen, Jaws, and other 70s horror stuff before I hit 10. The biggest fun scary type movie I saw was Alien. My mom saw Jaws in the US when I was younger and I remember her expression when she came back and I thought to myself that I needed to watch this movie as soon as I get the chance and that chance came 3 or so years later in India.

Alas, the first time I saw The Exorcist was on VHS when I was 16. THen I saw it in the theater during a rerelease. I wish I saw that earlier. I remember watching the trailers for that as a lil kid and wanting to watch that movie. But since I was 7 or 8, my cousins and I would recreate what the movie scenes were based on details given to us by our older relatives who saw it. So even though I saw the movie much later, it seemed like I already visualized every one of the classic horror scenes multiple times prior to that.

Nightmare on Elm Street was when I was in High school and that was a great trip to watch at the time before the franchise became a campy mess.

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Jim Cassedy
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posted 03-24-2014 12:37 AM

In the theater, the movie that scared me the most was "The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad".
I must have been about 8yrs old when I saw it with my cousin in one of those HUGE
old movie palaces in Brooklyn, NY. This was the first time I'd seen a movie outside
the small neighborhood theater in my home town in Long Island. The creatures in the
movie (especially the Cyclops) and the cavernous darkness of the old theater really
scared the crap outta me. I also remember being really scared by two movies I saw
on TV as a kid: 1) The original "Invaders From Mars"; and 2)the orignal GODZILLA,
which gave me nightmares for weeks. Many years later, I had a good laugh when,
for the first time, I saw a picture of 25 year old Harou Nakajima (the guy in
the Godzilla suit) and realized I'd been scared sh_tless by a sort of geeky
looking skinny kid my grandmother could have probably won a fight with.
It still makes me laugh. . .

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Monte L Fullmer
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posted 03-24-2014 03:01 AM

For some of us that grew up in the Cold War Era: I was 7 yrs old and went to a sat matinee show with friends of mine. Now, this was one of the first experiences that I attended a theatre (I laugh at it now..).

That afternoon showing was an obscure film called, "The Lost Missile" 1958. A 70 min B/W film that had all the crazy stories of massive destruction from a missile gone wild-like it came from the USSR.

Danged movie gave me nightmares for a couple of days.

Yet, there was another one that I can kick myself for being scared to watch, esp. the giant squid attacking the Nautilus of James Verne: Yes, it was "20K Leagues Under the Sea".

My dad wanted to see that movie so bad and he took me, a 5yr old I was, to it. That squid attack scene terrified me to no end and I cried and cried. Only good thing about this film that I remember was how vivid and crystal clear the image was on the screen..and little did I know of IB Technicolor and Stereophonic Sound, for I remember that the action sound came from the wall speakers surrounding the auditorium

Dad had to take me out and take me home. He did go back the next day to watch it again, but without me this time.

Little did I know that 22 some odd years later, I would be Chief Projectionist at this theatre that I attended to see both films above.

-Monte

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Richard Fowler
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posted 03-24-2014 10:25 AM

Rodan, the Flying Monster (Toho Studios)….as a seven year old at the Fun-Lan drive in in Tampa, Florida….plenty of Nightmares.

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Joe Elliott
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posted 03-24-2014 11:43 AM

Maybe it was because I grew up in a "haunted" house, that I was never really scared by horror movies. I say it as "haunted" because i was too young to investigate for myself. I am a skeptic, but regardless, there was a lot of strange stuff that happened in our house.

The only movie that really seemed to get me, wasn't until I was a teenager. It was poltergeist 3. The mirror scenes were, at times, subtle enough that it made me think twice about looking in the mirror for a couple of weeks after that.

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Paul Mayer
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posted 03-25-2014 10:25 PM

Several films on TV in the mid '60s scared me (I was 9 or 10YOA): "Invasion USA", with its scene of a nuke bombing of Boulder Dam and subsequent flood scene definitely got to me. "Fail Safe" - I remember not being able to fall asleep that night due to the sound of a helicopter continuously orbiting over our trailer. "The Man from Planet X", "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" and of course "Godzilla King of the Monsters" all scared me the first time I saw them. But in the LA area at the time the station that ran those (either KTLA channel 5 or KHJ channel 9) used to run them once a day for a week each with two showings on Saturdays - so I got to watch some of them several times and got used to them.

In high school I got to run the two classics mentioned above - "The Innocents" and "The Haunting" - both in B&W 16mm 'scope. Maybe not really scary by the time I first saw them, but they both had some good scares in them. Great stuff!;

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Steve Matz
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posted 03-26-2014 12:08 AM

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen
The Day The Earth Stood Still for sure. I was probably about 5 or 6 then. It's creepiness was certainly heightened by the Bernard Herrmann score. The space man and robot both scared the bejesus out of me.

I'm almost positive "The Day The Earth Stood Still" was the first film that premiered on NBC's "Saturday Night At The Movies"
in 1961. GORT was pretty scary even on a Television Screen. You knew when that visor shield opened up that someone/something was History... [Eek!]

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