The ONLY part of this movie that really wierds me out is the scene where the little boy is stuck inside the sleeping bag and he is trying to jump away, but the bear swats him against the rock and it explodes. I guess the reason that this scene gets to me is that it was a little boy, not a teen or a grown man, but to this day i cannot watch that scene in the movie.
shareI agree, it's one of the harshest scenes I have seen and I was about 10 when I first saw this.
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I feel awful admitting this, but I die laughing every time I see that scene, just because of the ridiculousness of it. I never saw it as a child, however, and I'm sure the impact would have been different if I had.
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that scene is hilarious.
shareI saw the film when I was 10 and also remember laughing my socks off at it. Think I horrified my dad when I did it though.
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holy cow, i thought i was the only one.
i saw the movie with 2 friends and a girl [i was like 14] with our moms behind is in the next row and when the sleeping bag went POOF we about puked from laughing so hard and when i turned around to see if our moms were laughing too they were just looking at us like we just grew a 3rd eye.
good times.
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I laughed myself sick throughout most of this film - and I saw it in the theater back in the day, when I was 24!
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My friends and I saw this when it was released in 79 and were scared crapless.(we were 10)
The scene with the kid in the sleeping bag bothered me because it looked ridiculous but it was also a horrible way to die. I felt bad for the kid (remember I was 10)because he died in such an undignified manner.
This comedian did a routine a few years back about dying in a ridiculous manner,
like walking in front of a highrise and having a poodle fall on you from 50 stories up. You'd always be remembered as the "Poodle Guy"
It freaked me out back when I was about 15 at the theater. I just saw it today and it's so campy that it was laughable. Funny how your perspective changes as you get older. How he tried to hop away in his mummy bag, classic!
shareSame here; 1979, 10 years old. It's funny, after 35 years I still remember so much of it so vividly. It was entertaining and scary and as I recall we had a great audience for it. There was some laughter at certain points but I don't recall any during the sleeping bag scene. I distinctly remember people laughing when the creature rips open the roof of the cabin and suddenly appears to be 2 to 3 times taller. To this day I've never watched it a second time because the creature was so damn creepy, but after all this time I'm sure it's not so scary anymore. lol
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I saw this in the theatre with my cousin when it came out. We were both about 13, and I remember that we both thought that that scene was hilarious. It's actually the only scene the I really remember from the film.
shareI saw it at the theater when I was 18 and laughed myself silly. It's on cable right now (can't sleep) and I just saw that scene and laughed again. The sound effects help induce the giggles too. The kid (I know, he's just a kid) screamed like his sister and when the "bear" hit him it sounded either like a really harsh slap or a stick breaking. I wish MST3K had tackled this movie.
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The kid got up in that bright yellow sleeping bag and looked like a big banana running away.
shareThe problem with this movie is that it is a PG when it clearly needs to be an R. And, because you couldn't show much gore, you had to come up with whatever method you could to show someone getting killed, but with no blood. I can see where it's "funny," but the filmmakers were left with little choice.
shareApparently the mutant bear had a thing against goose feathers. If only the kid had used a sleeping bag made of Hollofil...
........the idiotic cock-eyed flum-dummery!
Apparently the mutant bear had a thing against goose feathers. If only the kid had used a sleeping bag made of Hollofil...
I vividly remember watching the trailer for "Prophecy" in a theater back in 1979, probably while waiting to see "Alien" as the main feature (so, the theater was mostly full), and when that scene of the kid in the sleeping bag appeared...and then the creature attacked and the kid got thrown against the rock, everybody (and I mean EVERYBODY) in the theater laughed hysterically when all the feathers were flying around. I mean, think about it, the entire scenario is surely something you'd only see in a COMEDY. What could Frankenheimer have been thinking?!
shareI vividly remember watching the trailer for "Prophecy" in a theater back in 1979, probably while waiting to see "Alien" as the main feature (so, the theater was mostly full), and when that scene of the kid in the sleeping bag appeared...and then the creature attacked and the kid got thrown against the rock, everybody (and I mean EVERYBODY) in the theater laughed hysterically when all the feathers were flying around. I mean, think about it, the entire scenario is surely something you'd only see in a COMEDY. What could Frankenheimer have been thinking?!
that scene is hilarious! I didn't see the movie until about 94 I was about 13 or 14
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I remember that kid from endless shows I watched back then, Little House, Lost Saucer, Mulligan's Stew, Emergency, Love Boat, all things I had watched, so I thought he was a 'star'.
The funny thing about that sleeping bag hit and I was in my mid-teens when I saw this movie, was there were no body parts, not even a hint of crimson, from that strike, so even then, we were like, what happened to the kid's body? It was nothing but feathers.
I too remember the sleeping bag scene and pretty much only the sleeping bag scene from when I saw this back as a kid in 79. Strange how that scene is so implanted into all our psyches.
Yes, that is also hard for me to watch, too. it would be a terrible way to die. I was 17 when I watched it.
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