Thanks lanceppv,
That's a creepy image and site.
And, YES, that scared the hell out of
me when I was a kid. (I'm speaking
specifically when Dirk is in that weird
in-between metamorphosis..)SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Damn right it did! I was only an elementary school kid at the time, and I'll never forget the hybrid snake man in the carnival freak show. Scarred me for life.
sharei was 9 the first time i saw , it did scare the hell out of me
share"you are not alone! http://www.kindertrauma.com/?p=150";
One thing though, it was not a "made for TV" movie. I saw it at the drive-in when it came out.
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I remember seeing the movie case at our old Blockbuster, the title caught my interest so I turned it over and scanned the back of it. The image of the half man half snake gave me a little bit of a shiver and I had no intention of seeing it ever. Though, I was like 11 or so at the time, and since then I've come to love all kinds of horror based films. I'll look out for it on television.
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Scared the living hell out of me. I was 4 yrs old in '73.
shareI was too young to see it in the theaters when released (in '73, I was about 2 years old), but I did see it on TV.
Scariest part was the half snake-half man freak in the circus. I think there were two versions? One had what appeared to be brown snake scales on his face as he slowly looked up at the camera. Another was when a character snuck in to the Circus when it was closed and found the snake-man in his pen. This snake-mane was light green, kind of pasty, and had his legs fused together in kind of a snake's tail. His arms were just paddles with no hands and he was flapping them against his sides while making this "mmmff mmmff" sound. Apparently he couldn't open his mouth and speak. Yes, that was very Freaky!
It's been a very long time since I've seen this one, so my memories of it are somewhat vague. I also remember Dirk Benedict and his slow transformation into a snake. It was a long time before I connected him to his later characters like "Starbuck" on "Battlestar Galactica" and "Face" on "The A-Team"!
Yes!!!!
shareOMG! This very part of the movie scared the crap out of me and my sisters when we were kids!!! I was just talking about this movie on the horror board,still love it to this day.
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Yep. This one messed with my head when I was a kid. I'm trying to remember all of them...
Movies that seriously *beep* with my head as a young child living in Dallas, Tx. Some were genuinely scary, some just had very strange single scenes enough so to make me get up, turn the tv off, and go get under my covers and hide for dear life. (I wasn't supposed to be up at midnight and I would sneak downstairs, and be watching ktvt's nightmare or ktxa's double shock theater later on... Eventually I would get my @ss beat because there would be an inevitable scream that was too loud and woke my mom and step dad up or I would become so scared I'd cry until I woke them up hiding in the bed and of course received another @ss beating. lol. On a lighter note, there was also always ktvt's sunday afternoon kung fu theater I used to love but I'm drifting off topic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IclJC6LLcBU
Ktvt Nightmare:
The Oblong Box
Burn Witch Burn
Witchcraft
Squirm
Phase IV
Sssssss
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJTS4NJPcU4
Ktxa Double Shock Theater:
Twisted Brain(aka Horror High) It's the 70's movie with the cleets and the paper cutter. If you've seen it you know what's up.
The Devil's Rain
Satanic stuff with people melting or something. Been a long @ss time since I've seen this lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6ppjpSocZU
The dreaded sign-off and wash to white noise... It was a ritual and it meant some crying and nightmares. lol.
HBO HELL
The Island
The Keep
The Shining
Halloween
Phantasm
Jaws
Random TV Hell
Night Gallery (For some reason Night Gallery scared the hell out of me. lol.)
Magic- TV movie with a freaky ventriloquist dummy
CINEMAX HELL
Beyond the Door(Opening scene left an indelible mark which led me to be fascinated with ritual)
Tourist Trap
Motherlode(Creepy Miner Flick)
The Car
The Sentinel
The Evil
The Omen
The Fury
Evilspeak
Alice Sweet Alice
Demons
The Entity
The Howling
Scanners
The Sender
Motel Hell
The Cassandra Crossing
The Andromeda Strain
The Fog
The Hearse
The Nesting
Demon Seed
Cat People
Christine
Night of the Comet
Lifeforce
Alien
I also as a child used to get off the bus and head straight to the tv to watch this anime series called Star Blazers. lol. Anyone else a latchkey kid that had similar tastes living in or around Dallas, Tx. in the late 70's early 80's?
Holla!
Oh, and to the OP! Dig your Kindertrauma site, Lance! Sounds like many kids were warped and turned into sex perverts, fetishists, and people in general with peculiar tastes for anything involving a scare, a chase, nude scenes with an ominous score, or perhaps just an eerie smile that seems oddly out of place.
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lol .. Tourist Trap scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a kid. I found a cheap copy of it about a year ago and loved watching it again. This movie (Sssssss) scared me half to death, also. Just now rewatching it on netflix.
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For sure, Tracey!
Those old horror flicks like Sss and Tourist Trapdid a better job of simulating real life bad dream vibes... I have only seen a few decent scary movies recently... Yellow Brick Road, Insidious, Session 9, The Caller, The Pact, and The Awakening are a few... ;)
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Thanks for the recommendations! I have Session 9, The Awakening, and Yellow Brick Road on my instant queue. I loved The Caller - still have it on my instant to rewatch lol. I also enjoyed Insidious. I'll look for The Pact. Thanks again!
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Lance how are you on all the same board that i'm visiting reliving my childhood fears. How did you come to view these gems? Tv horror anthology shows at midnight too? LOL!
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OMG!! Scared me so much!
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For sure!!! it not only scared me but I had terrible dreams for months after watching it in which I was metamorphosing into a variety of creepy insects and reptiles, Apolosgirl! Glad I'm not the only one who saw this and got freaked out by it!
Out of curiosity, do you remember any other films you saw from childhood that freaked you out like this one?
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Absolutely!!
Piranha
Orca
Kingdom of the Spiders
Bug...especially this one
Empire of the Ants
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