The Blind Dead
05-14-2007, 12:28 PM
There are several horror movies that I remember watching as a very young child that made indelible, lasting impacts on my psyche. Through my adult life I've made a very intense attempt to figure out what they all were, and to watch them again in the hopes of being scared just as shitless as I was when I was five years old.
I've found them all but I've also discovered I've toughened up a bit in the last twenty-four years. Only a couple of them scare me any more. The Birds, The Omen, Prom Night, Friday the 13th and Maniac were all fairly easy to determine (and in case you were wondering The Birds and Maniac are the ones that still have jibblifying power), and but there were two 70's-era gems that I couldn't find until just recently: Audrey Rose and The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Audrey Rose is the inferior of the two but I find it weirdly comforting and I watch it as often as I can.
The film opens with a happy young family, the Templetons, riding their bikes through Central Park in New York City. Laughing and carousing and wearing tight shorts, they seem the picture of contentment. Although the viewer is aware of his presence before they are, eventually the parents, Janice and Bill (Marsha Mason and John Beck) realize that a strange bewhiskered fellow (Anthony Hopkins) is following them around. After long, they realize that he is most...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000815.html)
I've found them all but I've also discovered I've toughened up a bit in the last twenty-four years. Only a couple of them scare me any more. The Birds, The Omen, Prom Night, Friday the 13th and Maniac were all fairly easy to determine (and in case you were wondering The Birds and Maniac are the ones that still have jibblifying power), and but there were two 70's-era gems that I couldn't find until just recently: Audrey Rose and The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Audrey Rose is the inferior of the two but I find it weirdly comforting and I watch it as often as I can.
The film opens with a happy young family, the Templetons, riding their bikes through Central Park in New York City. Laughing and carousing and wearing tight shorts, they seem the picture of contentment. Although the viewer is aware of his presence before they are, eventually the parents, Janice and Bill (Marsha Mason and John Beck) realize that a strange bewhiskered fellow (Anthony Hopkins) is following them around. After long, they realize that he is most...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000815.html)