Category: Halloween

Robot Monster is another film that I discovered from the Golden Turkey Award books. It has a lot going for it to make it bad fun.  The monster is a guy in a gorilla suit with a fake scuba diving helmet for a head.  The opening credits lists the N. A. Fischer Chemical Products as… Continue reading Why Scuba Diving Apes Scare Me

Plan 9 From Outer Space is the grandaddy of all bad movies.  It is the film that has worn the title Worst Movie Ever Made for the longest.  One review of the movie said that it might not be the worst movie ever, but it is the most entertaining bad movie you’ll ever see.  I… Continue reading Why Chiropractors Scare Me

In 1980, the movie The Creeping Terror was featured in a book, The Golden Turkey Awards.  The book shared information about a variety of movies that are considered the worst ever made. In addition to being an extremely bad movie, this one is also very fun to watch.  It involves a creature in a spaceship… Continue reading Why the Carpet Monster Scares Me

One day in 2009, I was channel surfing and I saw a showing was coming on called A Haunting in Connecticut.  I had recently seen ads for a movie called The Haunting in Connecticut that I didn’t think had been released yet.  The similarity of the names confused me, and I watched just to see the show on… Continue reading Why Connecticut Funeral Homes Scare Me

My family and I started watching classic blaxploitation movies from the 1970’s on Turner Classic Movies several years ago. There is a sub-genre of these films that are horror films too.  Blackula and Scream Blacula, Scream are probably the most famous of these films.  One of the lesser known of these films is called Sugar Hill.

We watched Pee-wee’s Playhouse when it first came out in 1986.  My wife and I were fans of Pee-wee Herman and were interested in seeing how they would do a children’s show.  One of the show’s characters was someone they called The King of Cartoons.  The King of Cartoons dressed like you would expect a king to… Continue reading Why The King of Cartoons Scares Me

When I was growing up, the location television station that showed movies every afternoon would set aside Saturday afternoon for Tarzan movies starring Johnny Weissmuller. There weren’t enough Tarzan movies to show them all year, so they showed Shirley Temple movies and Lone Ranger television episodes instead of Tarzan.  But Tarzan movies were definitely my… Continue reading Why Jungle Natives Scare Me

The Exorcist was released in 1973.  I was 11 at the time and way too young to see it.  I knew what I knew about it because of pop culture references like the Mad Magazine parody and the Saturday Night Live sketch they did when Richard Pryor hosted in 1975.  In 1979, it was re-released… Continue reading Why Linda Blair Scares Me

The horror film The Howling is considered one of the better horror films of the 1980’s.  When it first came out, I went to see it on the first weekend it was showing.  My wife and I weren’t married yet and we went to see this on a date.  Just outside of the theater while we were… Continue reading Why Slim Pickens Scares Me

In 1964, Olivia de Havilland made a movie called Lady in a Cage.  It’s considered a “psychological thriller”.  Her character has a broken hip and in order to get up and down the stairs in her mansion, she has a small elevator installed.  While she is home alone, the power goes out at the house, trapping… Continue reading Why Olivia de Havilland Scares Me