Friday Night Horror: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark…
OMG I cannot even believe this is up on Youtube!! This movie scared the living hell out of me as a kid, terrified for years I tell you. I was like 5 when I saw this…miracle I sleep at night to this day, lol…and Jim Hutton was also Ellery Queen…wish they would put Ellery Queen out on DVD…..but I digress..probably putting off watching the movie, HA!
I have not seen this in 33 years and I vividly remember the napkin scene, the shower scene, the flash going off when she is being dragged…man they pretty much scared the crxp out of us kids in the 70s, I think this was on Ch 7 at 4:30pm after school….no wonder we were tough little frakkers, we bounded back after kerbanger incidents, ( I mean they were lethal weapons those kerbangers I loved mine).. toxic plastic bubble blow up stuff on a stick, red m & m’s…ahh those were the days…we had so much crxp in us any Chinese lead paint didnlt stand a chance….
Courtesy of SciFiPilots, see here for complete movie on playlist:
Ranking with Dan Curtis’ Trilogy of Terror as one of the spookiest made-for-TV horror films of the 1970’s, this atmospheric monster chiller stars Kim Darby and Jim Hutton as a comfortable, reasonably happy young couple who inherit the archetypal “Old Dark House” from the wife Sally’s deceased aunt. While renovating the creepy mansion, they enter a previously-sealed room, which features a securely bricked-up fireplace. Despite the insistence of a local contractor (My Three Sons’ William Demarest) that they leave the room undisturbed, Sally’s husband manages to open the flue, releasing a horde of shriveled mini-monsters imprisoned there for decades. The little demons immediately fixate their malevolent attention on Sally in an effort to claim her soul, a mission which can only be averted by the love of her husband — which, in light of his self-centered careerism, means poor Sally’s pretty much on her own…
Moderate in the Middle 