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I've seen Battleground before.... ?

posted 18 years ago by Clan_Stewart
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I grew up in the 70's, ie. born in '72 and I disctinctly remember watching TV one nigt (I'm assuming 1976-1978) and seeing a man being chased around an apartment by plastic Army men. It really scared me as a little kid because I had toys and wondered would they come alive and try to get me?

Years later, I became a Stephen King fan and read Battleground and my jaw hit the floor, as it was the story I had seen years before on TV. Watching the new version on N&D just made me think of it again.

Has anyone heard of another version of this story being made back in the 70's? I recently read on the boards here about Trilogy of Terror, but those were Zulu warriors/warrior? I vividly remember it being Army men that were chasing this guy around in the show I had seen.

Any ideas?

[–] 666Night999 18 years ago

I don't know for sure, but maybe it was a Twilight Zone type series.

There is no night as deep as this
Inevitable mind's abyss
Where I now dwell with foes alone

[–] dannydinosaur 18 years ago

You might be thinking of the 1981 anthology series Darkroom than ran on ABC hosted by the late James Coburn.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0081849/

In one episode entitled "Siege Of 31 August" a Vietnam vet is attacked by his son's toy soldier set. The episode was written by Peter S. Fischer, executive producer of Columbo and Murder, She Wrote.

Link for episode synopsis here:

http://tinyurl.com/y34fy8

[–] glenmusher 13 years ago

There is a sequence in the low budget 1982 Alien-like horror movie 'xtro' where a GI joe doll is willed into life by a vengeful kid who has enhanced extraterrestrial powers, he uses it to get revenge on an old crone neighbour of his who has killed his pet snake.

Everything will be OK in the end, if it aint OK,it aint the end.

[–] fuzzykids 8 years ago

I think this is it. I had the exact feeling as the op over Battleground. Creeped me out as a kid too.

[–] the-mcewens 17 years ago

It was done on the Rod Serling TV series after Twilight Zone called Night Gallery. I don't know the year.

[–] stw-12 16 years ago

Trilogy of Terror had the Zuni Fetish Doll and if you look at the set of Battleground, there is an exact replica of the doll on a shelf. I am one of the .001% that may have picked up on the homage.

[–] suiycfui 16 years ago

Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.

[–] DisturbedPixie 15 years ago

lol. Seriously, we got the trivia section to tell us that.

If you are Anti-American: Admit you are doing it just to be cool. Does it feel good to hate?

[–] svinto 16 years ago

hahaha that´s a really good observation, I also tend to notice those small but funny things.

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[–] thatsmydesire 15 years ago

Did your toys come alive and whisper in your ears that they PLANNED to come & get you at some unknown time in the future--so you'd always be dreading them?

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[–] superman1 14 years ago

This message has been shot by a toy armyman

[–] superman1 14 years ago

This message has been destroyed by a missile from a toy helicopter

[–] superman1 14 years ago

This message has been disintegrated by the cannon

[–] eldritchjames 12 years ago

1983's xtro for sure... I spose it's a little late from the date you're talking about, but I know that's what I thought when I saw the scene from the movie where the soldier chased the old lady through her apartment.