Horror II
My Mom, she LOVED horror films. Well to be fair, she loved movies. I grew up with a very strong appreciation for Sunday Morning Movie Marathons on the local KCPQ 13 out of Tacoma, back wen they were "The North-West's OWWWWWWWN Movie Channel" (singing their "Take a-nuh-ther look at Channel Thirteen, Kay-See-Pee-Cuuuuue *ding, ding" slogan is impossible to avoid when reminiscing). Starting at 8am and running till either 2pm or 4pm (depending on the length of the movies) they would do a little Movie Marathon every Sunday. Maybe it would be a bunch of Shirley Temple movies, or a bunch of Godzilla flicks, or OOH! Sometimes they'd show all the 1970's Spider-Man movies back-to-back-to-back! Mickey Rooney's "Andy Hardy" films, Abbott & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, John Wayne, The Marx Brothers, on and on and on and we would watch and watch and watch!
All the local stations used to fill their days with old movies, now that I think about it... channel 11 had their daily Noon-Time Matinee (where I first saw such classics as "Santa Clause Conquers The Martians"), channel 12 did their Prime-Time Double Feature every night... even the local ABC affiliate had an afternoon movie wedged between the soap operas and the local news!
Because my Mom loved scary movies, I was all too aware of the fact that Horror crossed over in to the realm of Sci-Fi all too often. I can't remember the name of the late-night horror theater show, but they would readily pair "Forbidden Planet" with "The Omen". Or "Westworld" with "Tales From The Crypt". Even in the TV guide, I remember that the two hours set aside for this programming was labeled as "Horror/Sci-Fi". Even the local video stores couldn't give each genre it's own shelf, leaving "Star Trek" right next to "The Strangler".
I hated that.
I hated picking up a movie like "Mad Max" and not knowing if it was going to be awesome sci-fi or gut-wrenching horror. And I hated how Damon Irons used to try and force me in to watching the latest blood-n-gore flicks with him.
So when did I finally cave in?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...
As I started typing this paragraph, I *thought* it was the movie "Creep Show", but NO! It was the movie "Maximum Overdrive"! I *needed* to see that movie because i was a comic book geek an the main "villain" was a truck that had the head of The Green Goblin on it for some reason. I watched that film out of devotion to comic books and then found that I really, REALLY liked the horror/sci-fi crossover aspect of it all. From there I tried Creep Show which introduced me to George Romero, which introduced me to Tom Savini, which lead to Friday The 13th, which opened the flood gates to all of Horror.
FOUND IT! There's my Origin Story :)
All the local stations used to fill their days with old movies, now that I think about it... channel 11 had their daily Noon-Time Matinee (where I first saw such classics as "Santa Clause Conquers The Martians"), channel 12 did their Prime-Time Double Feature every night... even the local ABC affiliate had an afternoon movie wedged between the soap operas and the local news!
Because my Mom loved scary movies, I was all too aware of the fact that Horror crossed over in to the realm of Sci-Fi all too often. I can't remember the name of the late-night horror theater show, but they would readily pair "Forbidden Planet" with "The Omen". Or "Westworld" with "Tales From The Crypt". Even in the TV guide, I remember that the two hours set aside for this programming was labeled as "Horror/Sci-Fi". Even the local video stores couldn't give each genre it's own shelf, leaving "Star Trek" right next to "The Strangler".
I hated that.
I hated picking up a movie like "Mad Max" and not knowing if it was going to be awesome sci-fi or gut-wrenching horror. And I hated how Damon Irons used to try and force me in to watching the latest blood-n-gore flicks with him.
So when did I finally cave in?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...
As I started typing this paragraph, I *thought* it was the movie "Creep Show", but NO! It was the movie "Maximum Overdrive"! I *needed* to see that movie because i was a comic book geek an the main "villain" was a truck that had the head of The Green Goblin on it for some reason. I watched that film out of devotion to comic books and then found that I really, REALLY liked the horror/sci-fi crossover aspect of it all. From there I tried Creep Show which introduced me to George Romero, which introduced me to Tom Savini, which lead to Friday The 13th, which opened the flood gates to all of Horror.
FOUND IT! There's my Origin Story :)