Monster Television
Recently, I saw a really creepy hour of television. You have to understand, I don’t scare easily. I tend to get a major case of the wiggums over weird stuff (like that stupid talking dog in the Son Of Sam movie. Just plain asinine.)
Anyway, I watched Doctor Who and the episode was called “Blink“. I have to tell you, it was probably one of the best hours of television I’ve seen in awhile.
And damn it all if it wasn’t creepy as hell. If you blink, the monsters will get you. And the monsters are things that have always been there.
I also think that Amelia, which was the freakiest thing I’d ever seen as a child on the tube from the awesome “Trilogy of Terror” movie written by Richard Matheson (who also wrote the upcoming “I Am Legend” which is a great book but I’m not so sure about how it’s going to translate to film.) The doll who loses his necklace that just terrorizes the hell out of Karen Black. Totally rocked my world as a kid. I also got a bit chilled over the old Twilight Zone, especially the ones about people’s behavior (The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.)
Now, it could be debated that for an hour a night, Bill O’Reilly will terrify you. I just finding it terrifying that people watch him. But that’s just me.
So, which shows, on the good old fashioned telly, wigged you out?
This one episode of The Dick Van Dyke show, when Rob and Laura discover that an old desk Rob’s uncle leaves them in his will contains a very rare photograph of Abraham Lincoln. The first time I saw the episode as a kid, when they made the big reveal and showed that side profile view of Abe, I got irrationally freaked out about being at home alone, as if I had discovered the photo myself and that instead of a photo, it was Abe himself. I’ve seen the episode a couple times since then, and the creepy feeling is just as strong.
It worked out okay the last two times it was adapted, but those versions had Vincent Price and Charlton Heston, respectively. I prefer Price’s version, but I am an admitted Price mark.
Uhh yeah, the wife and I saw that episode of Doctor Who & hell yes it was scary. I effing love that show!
LeBlanc, that show is so much fun.
And Blink was scary as hell.
ohhhhh, remember Night Gallery??? i still remember the episode about the little people in the cannisters in the kitchen. or something like that. and it very well could have been on twilight zone. but yeah, night gallery used to give me the scaries big time!
Television was rare in my childhood, as there wasn’t one in my house. So I was very impressionable, which makes me still remember a few scenes from The Treasure of Matecumbe and the nightmares that movie gave me.
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