The Blind Dead
05-07-2007, 09:29 AM
Not much scares me in films these days. After years of abusing my nervous system with the horror genre I think I have become immune to being frightened on screen.
But when I was younger the films that scared me the most were vampire films. I remember pleading with my parents at a young age to let me watch one of Christopher Lee’s Dracula films (can’t remember which one specifically), and then pleading with them to turn it off before I’d seen enough to give me nightmares for weeks. I remember staring transfixed in horror as one of the Glick boys, emerged from the fog, scraping his fingernails on Mark’s window in Salem’s Lot begging to be let in.
And for these reasons I’ll always have respect for the silver screen vampire.
Ukraine, 1944 and a group of soldiers separated from their platoon and fighting for their lives escape into a forest. They come across what looks like an abandoned shelter deep in the forest, tired, cold and hungry they decide to hole up for the night. But something isn’t quite right, the stove is still hot, the doors and windows were blocked from outside, so how did the occupants of the wooden shack get out. The answer. They didn’t. Later in the night they are attacked...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000805.html)
But when I was younger the films that scared me the most were vampire films. I remember pleading with my parents at a young age to let me watch one of Christopher Lee’s Dracula films (can’t remember which one specifically), and then pleading with them to turn it off before I’d seen enough to give me nightmares for weeks. I remember staring transfixed in horror as one of the Glick boys, emerged from the fog, scraping his fingernails on Mark’s window in Salem’s Lot begging to be let in.
And for these reasons I’ll always have respect for the silver screen vampire.
Ukraine, 1944 and a group of soldiers separated from their platoon and fighting for their lives escape into a forest. They come across what looks like an abandoned shelter deep in the forest, tired, cold and hungry they decide to hole up for the night. But something isn’t quite right, the stove is still hot, the doors and windows were blocked from outside, so how did the occupants of the wooden shack get out. The answer. They didn’t. Later in the night they are attacked...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000805.html)