Saw it in 1962


This was the first movie that I went to see by myself. I was 11 at the time and I had gone to see Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers, Twenty Million Miles to Earth and House on Haunted Hill with my brother at the local theater. One afternoon I told my mother I was going to visit a friend but headed over to the theater, paid the thirty five cents admission and twenty five cents for candy (boy was I rich) and in I went. The movie scared the hell out of me and by the third dream like segment I was covering my eyes under the 3D glasses. I still have the glasses although some rodent ate the red plastic sheet lens out of them (it probably had a psychedelic experience like Dr. Barnes). At supper time that evening my uncle who hung around the bar near the theater quite innocently asked me if I liked the movie. My mother never caught on. An excellent experience for a young boy I must say. One of many to follow.
The theater was unusually full and the reaction was quite loud whenever we put on the glasses. Lots of oh's and yucks. I recently saw this again and you know what, still a little scary. I guess the boy never completely grew up.

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I saw it when I was 18 at the neighborhood theater (they had neighborhood theaters!) I remember the mask/ dream?/ vision sequences as some of the most vivid picturizations of myth and nightmare. The rest of the film not so much.

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I saw it first-run in December of 1961, I think it was. I was only 9 years old, so it was great fun (I had previously seen William Castle's 13 GHOSTS in Illusion-O).

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"paid the thirty five cents admission and twenty five cents for candy (boy was I rich) and in I went"

Hahaha, love that quote. How good was the 3-D in this movie?

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I was only an unborn fetus in 1962. I never heard of this film until it was broadcast on local TV stations around the U.S. in Fall 1982. That TV broadcast was hosted by late magician Harry Blackstone Jr.

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