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post #1 of 49
4/7/04 at 2:28pm
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Messiahman got me thinking about TV horror movies from the 70's/80's.

There was so much great stuff out there, that still holds up today.
There is such an alien, otherworldly feel to them, like the world back then really was such a creepy place.

Below are some great ones, please add to the list. Also, forgive me if I accidentally put a theatrical movie there.

I saw all of them on TV (BEFORE video, if you can believe that...just repeats.)

GARGOYLES

DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK

DEVIL DOG: THE HOUND OF HELL

WHEN MICHAEL CALLS

BAD RONALD

DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW

THE DEVIL'S RAIN

KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS

HORROR AT 37,000 FEET

THE UFO INCIDENT

SURVIVAL RUN
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post #2 of 49
4/7/04 at 2:36pm
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HORROR AT 37,000 FEET
Oh wow. That brings back some memories. This had the doll with the ectoplasm coming out the eyes didn't it? Was Buddy Ebson in it?

Do you recall a tv movie about a giant sea turtle. It has a Moby Dick type of ending where a guy gets pulled down to the depths after tangling his leg in a harpoon cord.

Another title I can't remember is this deal about these women who change into giant sized black widow spiders. I remember a scene where a guy discovers its basement lair completely filled with webbed up people. Scared the hell out of me.
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post #3 of 49
4/7/04 at 2:37pm
When I was a kid Dark Night of the Scarecrow and Gargoyles where as good as it got.
I sorely miss those days, back in the 80's I use to watch a midnight horror double-feature show called "Saturday Night Shocker". I saw some of the coolest, wackiest, and scariest mid-nite flicks on that program.
I'm sure you guys recall those weird pseudo-documentaries like "The Legend of Boggy Creek", and "The Devil's Triangle".
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post #4 of 49
4/7/04 at 2:43pm
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Originally posted by Gus Bjork

Do you recall a tv movie about a giant sea turtle. It has a Moby Dick type of ending where a guy gets pulled down to the depths after tangling his leg in a harpoon cord.
Sure do! that one was The Bermuda Depths.


Another great one!
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post #5 of 49
4/7/04 at 2:46pm
Well, to be fair, DEVIL'S RAIN and KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS were theatrical releases.

Here's a few more to add, and yes, I saw `em all on tv back in the day, myself.

KILLDOZER - Exactly like it sounds. Construction workers during WWII do battle with possessed equipment. Yeehaw!

BLACK NOON - a horror/western featuring a travelling preacher and an evil cult and starring Roy Thinnes and Ray Milland!

THE DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME - Betty Davis, Patricia Arquette and one hell of a disturbing ending.

SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME - Friggin' John Carpenter, man!

CROWHAVEN FARM - Has one of the most terrifying climaxes you'll ever see.

THE BERMUDA DEPTHS - wanna know what's REALLY going on in the Bermuda Triangle? It's a giant sea turtle! Yes, you read that right.

and of course TRILOGY OF TERROR, featuring the many incarnations of Karen Black.
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post #6 of 49
4/7/04 at 2:48pm
Wow, in the time it took me to finish my post, someone had already mentioned Bermuda Depths. I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of that for YEARS. Incidentally, the girl who controls the turtle is Connie Sellecca in her first role.
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post #7 of 49
4/7/04 at 2:48pm
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Originally posted by thedudeabides
Sure do! that one was The Bermuda Depths.


Another great one!
Ah yes. Thank you.
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post #8 of 49
4/7/04 at 2:48pm
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Quote:
Originally posted by Messiahman
and of course TRILOGY OF TERROR, featuring the many incarnations of Karen Black.
A wonky eyed Karen Black is always good for a few scares.
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post #9 of 49
4/7/04 at 2:49pm
The Legend of Lizzie Borden

Dan Curtis' Trilogy of T

Where Have all the People Gone?

A Cold Night's Death (aka The Chill Factor)

The Norliss Tapes

The Night Stalker/The Night Strangler

Moon of the Wolf

Gargoyles

Carpenter's Someone's Watching Me

Scream of the Wolf

Dark Night of the Scarecrow

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

the 1970s adaptions of MR James' Ghost Stories for Xmas (BBC plays)

The House that Would Not Die

plus loads of other Dan Curtis stuff...

PLUS others I'm sure I'm forgetting


not so much great TV horror in the 90s... only ones that spring to mind would be Ghostwatch and Alien Abduction: Incident at Lake Country.
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post #10 of 49
4/7/04 at 2:52pm
The Legend of Lizzie Borden was great stuff. Elizabeth Montgomery at her best. Exceptional atmosphere to this one.

BTW, you can find a few of these movies for sale here:

http://www.revengeismydestiny.com/MadeforTV.html

I've gotten a few, and they're decent quality.
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post #11 of 49
4/7/04 at 3:27pm
The first movie that came to my mind when I saw the title of this thread - and I'm glasd to see that Messiahman already mentioned it.

Killdozer - I swear, I must have watched that one everytime it aired. I loved it. I have always wondered what I would think of it if I got to see it again.
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post #12 of 49
4/7/04 at 3:31pm
Well, you can pick up a fair-quality VHS copy of it for fifteen bucks from that link I provided. I'm considering that one next, myself, seeing that most of these movies will never see the light of day on DVD.
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post #13 of 49
4/7/04 at 3:35pm
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Originally posted by Messiahman
Well, you can pick up a fair-quality VHS copy of it for fifteen bucks from that link I provided. I'm considering that one next, myself, seeing that most of these movies will never see the light of day on DVD.
Looks lke you can get all those films on DVD-R too. I'll have to check out all the films they offer.

Have you ordered from there before?
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post #14 of 49
4/7/04 at 3:36pm
Burnt Offerings
Scariest. Television. Movie. Ever.
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post #15 of 49
4/7/04 at 3:41pm
Burnt Offerings was a theatrical movie, Bob. And I just bought it recently on DVD and...honestly, I wasn't terribly impressed. I mean, Oliver Reed whimpering because he sees the evil chauffeur? I dunno, man. It had some pretty nice atmosphere, though.
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post #16 of 49
4/7/04 at 3:43pm
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Have you ordered from there before?
Yeah, I picked up a few things from them about a year ago and had no problems.
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post #17 of 49
4/7/04 at 4:23pm
Burnt Offerings
Best. Theatrical. Film. Shown. On. Television. Ever.
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post #18 of 49
4/7/04 at 4:26pm
Good save. Bravo!
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post #19 of 49
4/7/04 at 4:53pm
This is really dated, but I remember watching "I saw what you did" as child. I haven't seen it in years. Have any of you seen it? If memory serves me, Joan Crawford had a bit part in it...

Tiff
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post #20 of 49
4/7/04 at 4:57pm
Michael Nouri of "Flashdance" fame as Dracula in a modern day (re: Late '70s) setting....

I believe it was an NBC Mystery Movie type dealie and they had showed it on "Svenghoolie" a few years back here...anyone have any more info?
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post #21 of 49
4/7/04 at 5:05pm
:I believe it was an NBC Mystery Movie type dealie and they had showed it on "Svenghoolie" a few years back here...anyone have any more info?

It was part of a short-lived television series entitled CLIFFHANGERS, which featured three twenty minute segments that ended on cliffhangers every week. The other two segements were "Stop Susan Williams," which followed Susan Anton as a reporter who constantly got into trouble and "The Secret Empire," about a cowboy discovering a secret, futuristic underground city. I watched the series every week as a second grader.

The show aired for one season, but the various segments were edited together into a couple of tv movies. The Drac ones in tv movie form were called "Dracula 79" and "The World of Dracula."

Nouri's Drac was a college professor teaching night classes in SoCal, where he comes under the scrutiny of Van Helsing's grandson, Kurt.

I've been trying to track these down for many moons...to no avail. Back in the early days of the SciFi channel, they were aired several times, but I missed them.
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post #22 of 49
4/7/04 at 5:12pm
Thanks, I was trying to remember it....
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post #23 of 49
4/7/04 at 5:14pm
No problem. One of these days, I'm gonna find the damned thing.
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post #24 of 49
4/7/04 at 5:20pm
Does anyone remember a TV movie called "Tales of the Unexpected"?

I know there was a British TV series based on Roald Dahl's "Tales of the Unexpected." But I'm thinking there was a US made for TV movie of the same name, and maybe a TV series that followed it.
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post #25 of 49
4/7/04 at 5:25pm
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Does anyone remember a TV movie called "Tales of the Unexpected"?
I believe this is it right here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125648/
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post #26 of 49
4/7/04 at 5:29pm
Gotta go with "Gargoyles", "Trilogy of Terror", & "Salem's Lot". Those three all scared the crap outta me when I was a kid. -Clark
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post #27 of 49
4/7/04 at 5:33pm
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Originally posted by Messiahman
I believe this is it right here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125648/
I bet that's it, thanks.

There was some anthology show I think. It had one of those "man loses hand/arm and gets a transplant which happens to have come from a killer criminal" - but it involved a baseball pitcher getting the "bad" hand. I'm thinking it was from this series.
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post #28 of 49
4/7/04 at 6:25pm
I remember all these movies mentioned with great fondness.


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Originally posted by Cosmoline
I recall one segment of a multi-part TV show set in the 19th century where a man is lowered into a deep pit that has odd voices coming from the bottom. As he reaches the bottom, a photo of him at home cracks. He is raised back up a gibbering loonatic. I can't recall what series this was part of, but it's always stayed with me.
Oh yeah, the name of this one was Encounter with the Unknown and I definately recall it scaring the absolute hell out of me when I was a little kid. It was kind of a documentary style show like Legend of Boggy Creek and was narrated by Rod Serling. The weird sounds comming up out of that ungodly hole in the earth made my hair stand on ends. A trilogy of stories the other two concerned the old urban myth of a dead girl on the side of the road trying to get home to her parents and a cuse being put on some brothers and the freaky ways they all die. Good, creepy stuff.
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post #29 of 49
4/8/04 at 12:42am
anyone remember a tv movie where a camper was possessed


it had these two girls in it and I fell deeply in love with them


I would pretend our jungle gym was the possessed camper and I imaging the girls were with me
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post #30 of 49
4/8/04 at 12:53am
I've got several:

the original "Night Gallery" pilot with Roddy MacDowell and the graveyard painting scared the everloving shit out of me as kid.

Another one, I think it was called "The Spell" about a picked-on teenage girl who discovers she's a witch and starts wrecking havoc "Carrie"-style. I'll never forget the scene where she sets her nasty aunt on fire by just looking at her. That was some hardcore shit as a kid.

Lastly, a really obscure one called "The Eyes of Charles Sand" which has one of the eeriest first acts in television history. A guy discovers upon his father's death that he has inherited a "second sight" that allows him to see corpses walking around from time to time. Eventually, the movie devolves into a standard "madwoman gone beserk" ending, but the opening is disturbing as hell and the stuff of nightmares.
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post #31 of 49
4/8/04 at 4:12am
There was a show from the early 70's called CIRCLE OF FEAR that consistently scared the shit out of me. The research I've done suggests that it was related to the GHOST STORY series. I remember 3 episodes specifically: 1.) a man kills his cheating wife and her lover then buries them, after which he sits to watch tv. He sees them on the tv digging their way out of the ground, tries turning the channel and even unplugging the tv but still sees them. Then we see the shadow of the door opening and......
2.) Don't remember much, but the faces of murdered people show up on the back of a moth.
3.) Werewolves, vampires, etc. terrorize a movie studio, until they're dispatched by burning the film.

The first 2 just plain traumatized me as a kid.


EOD

Trilogy of Terror messed me up pretty bad too. Karen Black's smile at the end sends cold chills to this day.
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post #32 of 49
4/8/04 at 4:23am
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Originally posted by EOD
... Don't remember much, but the faces of murdered people show up on the back of a moth.

whoa ... that sounds awesome ... was it as good as it sounds ???
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post #33 of 49
4/8/04 at 8:09am
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Messiahman, thanks for that link, I'm going to check the site out now.



For everyone interested:

http://www.videoscreams.com is a company I swear by.

They have a lot of the same movies that are on the other site.

So between the two sites, you can't go wrong at all.

I've been on a kick lately, getting a lot of these movies on DVD-R and then making my own covers for the disc boxes.

These movies kept me awake as a child, and I love them for it.


If you guys want these movies, check out these two sites and enjoy!
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post #34 of 49
4/8/04 at 8:12am
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It's from 1981, but one of my favorites is

The Intruder Within

Drillers on an Oil Rig haul up some sort of prehistoric eggs, and these things hatch and some beasties start to pick off the crew.

When the janitor gets it, watch out...that had me running from the room as a 6 year old!
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post #35 of 49
4/8/04 at 12:41pm
Give me humor, give me freaky monsters, give me Kolchak.
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post #36 of 49
4/8/04 at 12:47pm
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Originally posted by Gruber
Give me humor, give me freaky monsters, give me Kolchak.
I second that!
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post #37 of 49
4/8/04 at 12:48pm
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The Intruder Within
Ah, yes. This also has that immortal line from Sam Bottoms:

"It's never easy, you know. Watching somebody......slip beneath the surface forever."

Ugh!
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post #38 of 49
4/8/04 at 9:09pm
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark is being remade, isn't it -- by James Wong and Glen Morgan (X-Files, Millennium, Final Destination, etc.)? Anyways, I kinda hope so, since mebbe the original will come out on DVD, and I can see it since I originally did, which was on some late-night local station, and it scared me so bad, I couldn't get to sleep...
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post #39 of 49
4/9/04 at 1:36am
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Originally posted by Boys #22: elmie
whoa ... that sounds awesome ... was it as good as it sounds ???
Well, I can only see it through the eyes of the 6 or 7 year old I was, but it scared the living shit out of me. I'm surprised that no one else remembers it. The IMDB lists a series by the name of CIRCLE OF FEAR in the correct time frame and it was apparently an offshoot of the GHOST STORY series from about the same time.

The Legend of Boggy Creek= me shitting my pants

and last but not least, IN SEARCH OF used to really terrify me, especially the ghost episodes.


EOD

PS anyone else remember CIRCLE OF FEAR?
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post #40 of 49
4/9/04 at 2:22am
This is why I love this site so much. I haven't thought of The Legend of Lizzie Bordon or The Legend of Boggy Creek in years. I can't believe how evil Samantha Stevens was. She was so hot, and yet so evil.

They should make a sequel to both of these a la Freddy Vs. Jason. They could call it [B]The Legend of Lizzie Bordon Vs. The Legend of Boggy Creek[B]. I'd go see that.
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post #41 of 49
4/9/04 at 2:38am
It wasn't made in the 70's (1982), but I caught this terrific TV movie called Desire, The Vampire, aka I, Desire with David Naughton (from An American Werewolf in London) and Brad Dourif as a vampire hunter. Interestingly enough it was directed by John Llewelyn Moxey who also directed City of the Dead/Horror Hotel with Christopher Lee! It has that same seedy, gritty atmosphere that you find in alot of 70's stuff. Its about a female vampire who poses as a prostitute in the city who lures un-righteous men in and sucks them dry. Great movie with excellent music.

Anybody else ever see this?
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post #42 of 49
4/9/04 at 7:49am
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I love all those 70's documentaries like In Search Of, Mysterious Monsters, and all those UFO docus.

Watching them as a kid really bugged me out, because I'd get all the books from the library and know what those shows/movies were talking about.

It was like the 70's were filled with unexplained events and happenings.

To a kid, the world was a scary place, in a good way...before school shootings, terrorists and war replaced monsters as the world's dangers.

It was a magical time, where monsters were lurking around every corner, and UFOs buzzed the skies nightly.

Those programs hold a special place in my heart, and when I watch them...
I'm instantly transported back to those times, feeling like a little kid again, without a care in the world...enjoying those shows and wondering what was lurking in the shadows.
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post #43 of 49
4/9/04 at 12:17pm
I remember Gargoyles as well. One of my favorites.

Does anyone remember Picture Mommy Dead with Pamelyn Ferdin (sp?) of the original "Toolbox Murders" fame?
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post #44 of 49
4/9/04 at 12:26pm
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Quote:
Originally posted by mahduk
I remember Gargoyles as well. One of my favorites.

Does anyone remember Picture Mommy Dead with Pamelyn Ferdin (sp?) of the original "Toolbox Murders" fame?

Pamelyn Ferdin was in The Mephisto Waltz and The Beguiled, but she wasn't in Picture Mommy Dead, I believe.
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post #45 of 49
4/9/04 at 12:28pm
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I remember seeing The Beasts Are on the Streets . The forerunner to the great movie The Wild Beasts.

Another animals gone crazy movie.
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post #46 of 49
4/9/04 at 8:03pm
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Another animals gone crazy movie.
Ah, the 70's were the golden age of "Animals Gone Crazy" movies.

The Day of the Animals
Prophecy
Nightwing
The Pack
Grizzly

Ah, memories.
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post #47 of 49
4/9/04 at 11:57pm
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Originally posted by Ratty
Ah, the 70's were the golden age of "Animals Gone Crazy" movies.

The Day of the Animals
Prophecy
Nightwing
The Pack
Grizzly

Ah, memories.
Night of the Lepus
Frogs
Squirm

I know. Theatrical. But fun and often shown on t.v.
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post #48 of 49
4/10/04 at 12:03am
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Originally posted by thedudeabides
Pamelyn Ferdin was in The Mephisto Waltz and The Beguiled, but she wasn't in Picture Mommy Dead, I believe.
I checked IMDB and it turns out I was probably thinking Daughter of the Mind. Thanks for the heads-up.
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post #49 of 49
4/10/04 at 1:52am
The 70's were all about Killer Bees baby.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078350/
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