tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post7843790516090977503..comments2024-03-29T04:19:43.461-05:00Comments on F This Movie!: My First Scare: SALEM'S LOTPatrick Bromleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-33642046744185211182021-05-22T02:25:45.368-05:002021-05-22T02:25:45.368-05:00My favorite of King's books. Lots to like in ...My favorite of King's books. Lots to like in here. Author conceived it as "Thornton Wilder's Our Town meets Bram Stoker's Dracula" -- and, though everyone focuses on the vampire monster visuals, I think there's just as much depth + viscera in the quiet town malaise, the corrupt officials, the domestic abuse, the much-mocked hunchback caretaker, the promiscuous housewives and schoolgirls. The book, in particular, explicitly links these two themes together -- Barlow seeks out the town because of its old incestuous depravity, the town responds to him because of same. Though I wouldn't call the 2004 remake "superior" in any way, it does a decent job of emphasizing this via Ben Mears' monologue.stillkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062264781790925510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-90285456616061005062020-03-25T19:27:50.346-05:002020-03-25T19:27:50.346-05:00Pet semetary scared the heck out of mePet semetary scared the heck out of meAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753845730520498238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-7634057418252417832020-02-27T22:41:03.521-06:002020-02-27T22:41:03.521-06:00When I was about 12 years old I watched Salem'...When I was about 12 years old I watched Salem's Lot alone in my room one night. Afterwards I turned the TV off, clicked on my bedside radio, turned the volume down low, and laid down in my bed. My bedroom door was open, and there was a night light on in the bathroom down the hall that illuminated my doorway. I was laying on my left side facing the wall, and listening to the song on the radio; it was Eddie Murphy singing "My girl likes to party all the time". I was keyed up thinking about that movie and I had a feeling of being watched. I turned on to my back facing the entrance to my room and there was a shadowy figure standing there. It looked like a person in a red cloak. I focused on the hood and I could see what appeared to be a female with a waxy face, the eyes big and focused on me, it smiling a huge fake smile. There was just me and my mom in the house, and my mom was asleep in her room at the end of the hall. I knew this wasn't her, but I spoke out and said to it in a shaky voice "really funny mom". It didn't say anything, just stared at me then it turned to its left and started to walk quickly around my bed to me. I sat up as it reached out towards me and screamed for my mom at the top of my lungs. it was still smiling that creepy grin as it stepped backwards, jumped in the air, and dissipated into thousands of tiny red dots; then it was gone. I was hysterically screaming and crying when my mom came running into the room. She tried to tell me it was just a dream, but I knew I had never fallen asleep. I ended up sleeping in my my moms room on the floor that night. I was looking over my shoulder at night for the next 10 years, and on more than one occasion I came flying out of my bed to attack some shadowy form that I perceived when waking in the night. To this day I swear that I wasn't asleep or dreaming. I've heard of similar phenomenon: " The old Hag dream" ( where night-mare originates) "Shadow People" "Mothman". I'm not sure if what I experienced was real or not, but it definitely scared me and changed me forever after watching that movie.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07156953344005578279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-65716568234067941872018-10-21T12:26:31.275-05:002018-10-21T12:26:31.275-05:00THIS MOVIE! That scene from your first picture (th...THIS MOVIE! That scene from your first picture (the boy in the window) still haunts my nightmares!!!!Courtney Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046398591263571576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-12266888938483055682018-10-18T17:56:01.843-05:002018-10-18T17:56:01.843-05:00Born 10 years after yourself, (1982) I had the sam...Born 10 years after yourself, (1982) I had the same visceral experience with another Stephen King TV movie that came out 10 years after salem's lot.<br /><br />IT.Chris Keeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00715192347615289917noreply@blogger.com