Scarred - Tom Sullivan
Tom Sullivan is probably best-known as the mastermind behind the visual effects and animation in Evil Dead 1 and 2, respectively. He also created of one of the most memorable horror props of the modern age; The Book of the Dead. Of all the entries in this series, his is the one I could most relate to.
I loved getting scared as a kid. I remember seeing the Vincent Price classic, House on Horror Hill, with my brother Mike and older sister Kathy after we had talked a babysitter into letting us see it. When the skeleton slides out of a closet we jumped through the roof and called it a night.
The big scare was my first viewing of Robert Wise’s The Haunting.
I was about 11 and Mike was and still is year younger. I had seen ads on TV for the movie and it had Russ Tamblyn in it so it was already on my cool list.
There was a Life magazine article about The Haunting that I reread 6 times. So when it finally showed up on TV one winter night I was primed for it.
It started at 8 pm and by the first hour we were terrified and riveted to the TV screen.
During a commercial break my Mom told Mike and I to get into our Pajamas. We both jumped up and ran out the family room through the dining room and up the narrow and steep back stairways that had the sticky door.
I was terrified already and we lived in a big scary house as it was. Using my older intellect I decided to grab my PJ’s and run back downstairs and change there. Mike had run to his room in the far front of the house. Not so far now that I’m an adult but in kid size Mike was on his own.
I trot down the back stairs and Mike hears me and starts to panic. He was undressing and was half in his Pajamas when he hears me deserting him on the second floor. As I hit the bottom of the stairs I slammed the dining room door and started to change in the dark.
Mike completely freaked and tripping on his PJ’s and clothes he made in way down the stairs in a complete freak out. He bashed into the door and couldn’t open it. And then the ghosts closed in.
We both loved the film and Mike eventually forgave me for shutting the door.
December 5th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
LOL I can so relate to this, except in my case it was The Exorcist. I first saw it when I was 8 and my sister was 6. We ran screaming out of the room the second Linda Blair’s eyes rolled back in her head…
January 20th, 2008 at 3:05 am
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