pugh@topaz.ARPA (08/01/85)
From: "pugh jon%e.mfenet"@LLL-MFE.ARPA > In this flick, excavation for a subway uncovers this strange blue spaceship, > which contains a few dead grasshopper aliens.... I remember watching this as a kid and loving it. It scared me good, but it was called Five Million Years to Earth, as I recall. Needless to say, the aliens aren't dead and things get pretty weird for all involved. I'm not surprised it was by HP Lovecraft. On a similar note, anyone remember a story that appeared in an HPL collection (maybe by someone else) about a grown up reading about a friend's mutilation murder and remembering their imagined monster (a nasty critter with no face) that lived in a dark section of sidewalk. That was the exact place his friend wa killed. He had stopped to look back. Still gives me a shiver when I'm walking in the dark. And does anyone else have a small fear induced by TV/books/movies? I get the heebie geebies whenever I'm in a dark heavily vegetated garden. I'm afraid Miss Green Fingers from Night Gallery is going to sprout up and get me. Good thing I don't believe it, but you try and tell my fear glands that. And it didn't save the fellow in the last paragraph. Jon Pugh (Too scared to go out, and too scared to stay home) Ps. An idea! I'm interested in collecting one liners. Things to be afraid of. Like: Those little guys in the basement fireplace that want to drag you down there. (Don't be Afraid of The Dark) Dolls with sharp teeth and a necklace that "you dare not remove". (Trilogy of Terror) Mail to me, I'll post a collection. pugh%e@lll-mfe.arpa
demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) (08/02/85)
> > And does anyone else have a small fear induced by TV/books/movies? I get the > heebie geebies whenever I'm in a dark heavily vegetated garden. I'm afraid > Miss Green Fingers from Night Gallery is going to sprout up and get me. Good > thing I don't believe it, but you try and tell my fear glands that. And it > didn't save the fellow in the last paragraph. > > Jon Pugh The one movie/TV induced fear that I can honestly say scared the hell out of me came from "Night Gallery." the storyline involved a grotesque little doll that belonged to a little girl. I can barely remember the story, but it dealt with the parents trying to get rid of the doll, and it would show up in strange places after the attempt. I think the thing about it that freaked me out most, was that you (the viewer) never actually saw the doll move. It would just appear in certain places, with that twisted little face staring at you. Very effective. Very Serling. Anyone remember a little more about it? -- --- Rob DeMillo Madison Academic Computer Center ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo "...That's enough, that's enough! Television's takin' its toll. Turn it off, turn it off! Give me the remote control! I've been nice! I've been good! Please don't do this to me! I've been nice, turn it off, I don't wanna hav'ta see... ...'The Brady Bunch!'"