36 Years Old Today
This movie was released in theaters on Friday, May 9, 1980, which was exactly 36 years ago today. I was 12 at the time and almost through with 6th grade (and elementary school), and I have no memory of it coming out or being in theaters that year, though I do remember very well it coming on our local TV station on the night of Friday, October 29, 1982 at 11:30 p.m., just over two years later. I was 14 and in 9th grade then, and I had seen commercials promoting it and showing scenes from it all that week, and really wanted to see it and planned to stay up late that night and do so. I did, and by the second half of it my ribs were really hurting from it being so scary. I thought it was the scariest thing I had ever seen or read, and to this day it has remained the scariest complete movie I have ever seen. And it is still the third scariest thing I have ever seen or read, after the Stephen King short story The Boogeyman and the first 1/3rd of the original When A Stranger Calls. It also began my interest and like of the Friday the 13th film series, which has continued to this day, and the first four movies I really liked and got on my favorite movies of all time list, where they remain today. I had them all on VHS later in the eighties and early/mid nineties and watched them frequently, and in late 2010, shortly after I got my apartment and TV and DVD player, I brought a four movie pack of them all on DVD from Wal-Mart, which I have since watched a few times, and I am seriously considering watching this movie tonight for its anniversary.
"I happen to be a vegetarian". Lex, from Jurrasic Park