When I was about seven or so, our family went over to another families house for a get together. The kids piled into the TV room and somehow, IT ( the Tim Curry one) was chosen to put on. Now, no adults knew what was happening and maybe in retrospect that makes it scarier. I don’t remember one specific scene other than the teeth of the clown.
The feeling that the movie pulled out of me lasted for I feel like years. Immediately after getting home later that day, I started taping my bedroom closet doors shut ( so in my child’s brain I could see if the tape was broken in the morning), stuffed things with under my bed so nothing could hide under and I used to put my toothbrush in the bathroom sink cabinet handles each night so that nothing could get out of the sink. This, I feel, continued for years. Also, I never told anyone about my fears. Why I’m not sure.
Needless to say, I feel like I was terrified and my imagination of what could happen scared me even more.
I’m not sure that it turned me into a horror fan but definitely made me aware of the idea of scary movies & that lasting feeling. It would be years upon years later when I would seek out a horror movie of my choosing.
James, after 40 years I now get your insatiable desire for all that horrors you.
When I was eight I happened by chance upon 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' (1973) --a made-for-tv movie horror flik featuring menacing goblin-like creatures (described by some as little teddy bears with coneheads) that hid away under the fireplace when they weren't terrorizing the inhabitants of the house, cutting them and dragging them to their deaths. Only bright lights could stave them off. One scene has the desperate heroine catch being dragged to her certain doom, but she is trying desperately to grab hold of the flash camera on the way...That one stayed with me. Guillermo del Toro too I hear, as he made a remake.
When I was about seven or so, our family went over to another families house for a get together. The kids piled into the TV room and somehow, IT ( the Tim Curry one) was chosen to put on. Now, no adults knew what was happening and maybe in retrospect that makes it scarier. I don’t remember one specific scene other than the teeth of the clown.
The feeling that the movie pulled out of me lasted for I feel like years. Immediately after getting home later that day, I started taping my bedroom closet doors shut ( so in my child’s brain I could see if the tape was broken in the morning), stuffed things with under my bed so nothing could hide under and I used to put my toothbrush in the bathroom sink cabinet handles each night so that nothing could get out of the sink. This, I feel, continued for years. Also, I never told anyone about my fears. Why I’m not sure.
Needless to say, I feel like I was terrified and my imagination of what could happen scared me even more.
I’m not sure that it turned me into a horror fan but definitely made me aware of the idea of scary movies & that lasting feeling. It would be years upon years later when I would seek out a horror movie of my choosing.
James, after 40 years I now get your insatiable desire for all that horrors you.
When I was eight I happened by chance upon 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' (1973) --a made-for-tv movie horror flik featuring menacing goblin-like creatures (described by some as little teddy bears with coneheads) that hid away under the fireplace when they weren't terrorizing the inhabitants of the house, cutting them and dragging them to their deaths. Only bright lights could stave them off. One scene has the desperate heroine catch being dragged to her certain doom, but she is trying desperately to grab hold of the flash camera on the way...That one stayed with me. Guillermo del Toro too I hear, as he made a remake.