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Oh Joy Of Joy's - Tabonga Is Back!!!

posted 17 years ago by jim1666
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Hello to all you Tabonga lovers out there. Thought I would share a story with you about 'From Hell It Came'. I had this on video years ago (taped on terrestial TV until the video broke). My middle son - Jonathan - who is now 21 and has Down's Syndrome absolutely loved it. I tried to get it a couple of years ago but couldn't, so imagine my surprise when I got a text from my oldest son to say that he had just got it on DVD via the internet. He's 24, and like my youngest who is 19 we all remember silly old 'dad' being Tabonga with the lights out and chasing the boys round the house. I called Jonathan to tell him his brother had just got it....the silence (for about 15 seconds) was as funny as it gets. You could almost hear his mind churning!!! The coversation went a bit like this... "Dad...where's David...is he there...text him and tell him to phone me now..."

So this Saturday night is going to be a return to what I reckon is 13 years ago - I hope the film is as bad as I remember it was the first hundred times we watched it!

All the best to the rest of you...Jim

[–] Boaz357 16 years ago

Great story!

This was the first horror film I remember watching.5 years old in 72' and scared witless.

Its bad but its worth the memories.

[–] 16 years ago

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[–] milliedil 15 years ago

A very, very fond early childhood memory was seeing this on t.v. around 1964. It became the rage of the neighborhood for all the kids to play Tobanga, as well as Flesh Eaters. It helped that we were surrounded by about ten acres of woodlands, so we were all able to become DIFFERENT types of tree monsters. Oaks and Maples always trumped the Pines and the Birches. Inevitably, we combined the two plots and devised ways in which the flesh eater became a tree eater and vanquished all. Ah, nostalgia!

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