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This is not likely for several reasons…Azrael said:I have seen FAR more horror movies than you
- I've got many years on you, and I started spending time in the dark in '48. The horror genre wasn't particularly in vogue at that time, but the Karloff (which is how he was billed in the end credits, no first name) Frankenstein and the Bela Lugosi Dracula were re-released as a double feature in '52, and I was hooked. There was a movie-house on the other side of Detroit where I lived at the time which regularly showed the old Universal scarums, and I was able to catch up with the Wolfman and the entire Mummy series (five flicks… the original with Boris Karloff, one with Tom Tyler and three with Creighton Chaney who was billing himself as Lon Jr.) In that '51-'53 time frame there was a late Wednesday night movie host who styled herself as "The White Camellia" and showed off-beat horror flicks like Weird Woman and The Black Cat.[/*:3cokcpvk]
- Starting in Fall '57, the local ABC affiliate back here in Noo Yawk regularly showed everything they could haul out of the film vaults in their Friday late night "Chiller Theater." And when that proved popular, they brought the great John Zacherle up from Philadelphia (where he'd been doing similar duty as "Roland," and he added a great deal to the revival of the genre.[/*:3cokcpvk]
- By the late '60s/earliest '70s, my young daughter had become a fan and Saturday evenings we'd watch "Creature Features" on Channel 5, followed by "Chiller Thriller" on Channel 11, then she'd take a nap 'til Channel 8 up in New Haven ran their "Monster-rama" show at 1:05 am. We were able to cover a great deal of territory on our weekend ritual, which used to make her mother crazed![/*:3cokcpvk]
- Finally, in the late '70s I started reviewing movies for radio and TV, to the tune of over 250 flicks a year! And when the greatest bogeyman'll-getcha flick ever made came along just in time for Halloween '78, and shortly thereafter Jamie Lee Curtis was established as the heiress apparent to the great Fay Wray as Screen Scream Queen (try saying that real fast!), the new horror flick cycle was upon us… and I saw everyone one of them! I had to, as my two radio stations were rock 'n' roll-based, and the target demographic was similar! I saw some decent ones, and a whole slew of genuinely dreadful ones. I got so good at identifying the conventions that I could nail whatever surprise was in store by the second reel at the latest. After a while, I started reviewing the audiences on opening Friday nights instead of the flick, because they were a better arbiter of the quality of the flick than I was, and I'd rate it based on what minute-mark they'd stop yakking with one another and start flipping lit cigarettes at the screen. (On a more personal note, my very first such review in which I characterized the audience as a "typical bunch of brain-dead Mastic-Shirley bubbleheads," generated considerable 'phone response from the radio listeners, mostly outraged parents from the Mastic-Shirley area who insisted that their prides and joys were honor students, and how dare Waldo say such a thing! One solitary dissenting caller probably saved my on-air career when she called and sincerely wanted to start a fan club for me! Through a series of coincidences and ironies, it was the same woman with whom I have been for a number of years.)[/*:3cokcpvk]