Comments on: Horror Roundtable - Week Twenty-Nine http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/01/12/horror-roundtable-week-twenty-nine/ Better Living Through Terror Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:33:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: fústar http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/01/12/horror-roundtable-week-twenty-nine/#comment-9900 fústar Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:55:37 +0000 http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/01/12/horror-roundtable-week-twenty-nine/#comment-9900 I’d say it was a combination of factors. 1) Growing up in the 2 channel land of 1970s/80s Ireland was a blessing in some ways. The cheapness/stinginess of RTE (the national broadcaster) ensured that many of the films shown on TV were fairly ancient (presumably costing much less to show than contemporary fare). A decent percentage of these were classic horror or ‘b movie’ efforts which I always found absolutely thrilling. This was an early lesson in the appreciation of the ‘old’ and an awareness that ‘new stuff’ was not always going to be more sophisticated, entertaining, captivating etc. 2) I drifted away form the genre slightly during my early teen years but was brought back to it by my close friend Dave. He was a quiet, leather-trouser-wearing Doors fanatic who I got to know during art class. His drawings were always extremely gothic, moody, evocative and disturbing and I pegged him as a horror fan straight away. A few short conversations later and we were bosom pals - routinely visiting the local video shop to rent all things h-h-horror related: the good, the bad, the awful… Happy days. I’d say it was a combination of factors.

1) Growing up in the 2 channel land of 1970s/80s Ireland was a blessing in some ways. The cheapness/stinginess of RTE (the national broadcaster) ensured that many of the films shown on TV were fairly ancient (presumably costing much less to show than contemporary fare). A decent percentage of these were classic horror or ‘b movie’ efforts which I always found absolutely thrilling. This was an early lesson in the appreciation of the ‘old’ and an awareness that ‘new stuff’ was not always going to be more sophisticated, entertaining, captivating etc.

2) I drifted away form the genre slightly during my early teen years but was brought back to it by my close friend Dave. He was a quiet, leather-trouser-wearing Doors fanatic who I got to know during art class. His drawings were always extremely gothic, moody, evocative and disturbing and I pegged him as a horror fan straight away. A few short conversations later and we were bosom pals - routinely visiting the local video shop to rent all things h-h-horror related: the good, the bad, the awful…

Happy days.

]]> By: John http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/01/12/horror-roundtable-week-twenty-nine/#comment-9917 John Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:12:07 +0000 http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/01/12/horror-roundtable-week-twenty-nine/#comment-9917 My dad, all the way. Every time a Hammer film came on late at night, he'd trill with his Scottish accent: "Oh! That's a good one!" with a casual, intoxicating enthusiasm. And so I'd watch all the Draculas, Vampire Lovers, The Lost Continent... Strangely, our opinions came to differ on horror flicks, and one of my favourites, the 1963 version of The Haunting, he'd always found to be a stinker. Ah well. My dad, all the way. Every time a Hammer film came on late at night, he’d trill with his Scottish accent: “Oh! That’s a good one!” with a casual, intoxicating enthusiasm. And so I’d watch all the Draculas, Vampire Lovers, The Lost Continent… Strangely, our opinions came to differ on horror flicks, and one of my favourites, the 1963 version of The Haunting, he’d always found to be a stinker. Ah well.

]]> By: Stacie http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/01/12/horror-roundtable-week-twenty-nine/#comment-9922 Stacie Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:33:41 +0000 http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/01/12/horror-roundtable-week-twenty-nine/#comment-9922 I wish I had a heavy metal babysitter named Karen. Or ANY heavy metal babysitters, for that matter. I wish I had a heavy metal babysitter named Karen.

Or ANY heavy metal babysitters, for that matter.

]]> By: Steve http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/01/12/horror-roundtable-week-twenty-nine/#comment-9953 Steve Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:36:09 +0000 http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/01/12/horror-roundtable-week-twenty-nine/#comment-9953 Stacie, if you grew up in The Rose City, you had a heavy metal babysitter. Nagy recorded a podcast devoted to his heavy metal babysitter at the address below. http://www.dougnagy.com/archives/2006/11/03/nagical-radio-21/ Thanks for the comments, fústar and John. It's amazing how specific most everyone can be. I have a hard time remembering what I ate for lunch, but I can still recall walking home with my cousin and copies of Slithis and the Hills Have Eyes 2 tucked under our arms. Stacie, if you grew up in The Rose City, you had a heavy metal babysitter. Nagy recorded a podcast devoted to his heavy metal babysitter at the address below.

http://www.dougnagy.com/archives/2006/11/03/nagical-radio-21/

Thanks for the comments, fústar and John. It’s amazing how specific most everyone can be. I have a hard time remembering what I ate for lunch, but I can still recall walking home with my cousin and copies of Slithis and the Hills Have Eyes 2 tucked under our arms.

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But, they both had a great fondness for genre films & not only weened me on a terrific old show called THE FRIGHT NIGHT LATE SHOW that aired on our local channel 7 every Friday night at 11:30, but also took my two older sisters & I to the drive in almost every weekend during the summer months. With genre fare making up probably about 80% of what we went to see.
Actually, my very earliest memory of sitting down & watching a film in it’s entirety from start to finish, is of a telecast of Bava’s BLACK SUNDAY on that beloved late show back when I was about five.
My first clear drive in memory?
They’re from about the same time period when we all went to see a triple feature of THE RAVEN, THE TERROR & BLACK SABBATH. Which was fantastic, aside from the fact that I fell asleep about midway through the Bava film.

And, not only did they introduce me to a steady diet of horror/monster movies as a wee lad, but they also bought me all the Aurora monster model kits ( with my MOM being the one who’d assemble them & then lovingly, expertly paint them for me … ) as well as many issues of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND.
They were the best!

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