Cinecast Mailbag (9/22)
Hey Sam and Adam,Great to hear from you, John. Your email has helped make me feel a little less insecure about the upcoming Horror Marathon because I've actually seen all three of those movies! I love "The Shining," which is still creepy and terrifying; and I loved "American Werewolf" in my younger days.
Great show! I listen every week at work here in Sioux Falls, SD. Here are a few must see horror flicks for your horror marathon.
• An American Werewolf in London
• The Shining
• Salem's Lot
Although Salem's Lot is a made for TV movie, it is a good horror flick. Looking forward to this marathon. Cheers! --John Ashlock
However... "Salem's Lot" will absolutely not be part of this marathon. Not just because I've seen it, but also because I'm not 100% certain I could sit through it without flashing back to the grade school version of myself, paralyzed with the knowledge that any minute one of my friends will ascend to my window with yellow eyes and plead with me to let him in! I'm telling you, this movie is single-handedly responsible for the fact that I haven't seen a lot of horror movies. I related this story in a previous episode of Cinecast, can't recall which one... I'm still hesitant to sleep with my curtains open because of "Salem's Lot!"
Adam
2 Comments:
I highly recommend confronting your childhood fears. For a long time, the movie "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" would scare the pee out of me. Wailing banshees and Sean Connery singing were apparently too much for an emotionally fragile 2nd grader.
As an adult, I rewatched this film and came to the conclusion that I was one really stupid little kid.
I, too, was terrified in my youth by Darby O'Gill and The Little People. But I haven't watched it since I was a kid.
I did watch another Disney movie that scared me as a kid a few years ago Something Wicked This Way Comes. It wasn't as bad as when I was 7, but the spiders still bothered me.
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