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Date Posted: 18:21:34 11/15/07 Thu
Author: Alan
Subject: Re: When did you first see Universal Horror films?
In reply to: Rick 's message, "Re: When did you first see Universal Horror films?" on 14:21:52 11/15/07 Thu

Hi Rick,

OMG, just thinking of 70's television! In the early 70's CBS used to show a late movie on Friday night that included such fare as Hammer's "Dracula Has Risen From the Grave" and Amicus' "The House That Dripped Blood". My dad insisted on staying up with me to 'monitor' these disturbing films, but he would be asleep within the first ten minutes, leaving me to savor these mini-classics alone.

And the TV shows; "Night Gallery", "Ghost Story" (a.k.a."Circle of Fear"), "The Night Stalker"...and the TV movies like "Moon of the Wolf", "Gargoyles", and some movie about a haunted airplane, starring a post-"Beverly Hillbillies" Buddy Ebsen.

Truth be told, I sneaked into "The Exorcist" in 1973, when I was around nine. Frankly, it scared me more than any Universal film had, and I consider it a bellwether film in this sense...the American Horror Film was never the same.
"The Exorcist" totally changed the rules, and 'Gothic Horror', which had survived since the 1930's, was no more.

The period between "The Exorcist" and "Star Wars" is a little fuzzy, but I recall "Star Wars" well; I had just turned 13 that summer, and it premiered at one of Dallas' best theaters, the NorthPark I and II. But the day my parents and I went, there was no air conditioning! I remember literally dripping sweat into my cup of lemonade as the two of them griped and moaned through the entire screening. Hard to believe they had both survived the Great Depression and World War Two!

Growing up in Dallas, we had a show called 'Slam Bang Theater' that gave us a daily dose of 3 Stooges at 7a.m. every weekday. Every Sunday night channel 11 (another UHF station at the time) would broadcast 'Young Adult Theater', which often featured the "Abbott & Costello Meet..." series,
so that was my introduction to those films. I saw "A&C Meet Frankenstein" long before I did "The Mad Ghoul" or "The Invisible Woman".

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