Television ads for this movie scared me waterless as a child
I remember vividly seeing tv ads for Homicidal, that appeared several times a day for a couple of weeks when the picture was first released. I was only seven or eight at the time, but I still remember how terrifying it was to see the old lady slowly coming down the stairs in her wheelchair lift, with Patricia Breslin looking scared. It was like nothing I had ever seen, because my parents wouldn't allow me to watch any scary tv shows or movies. All I knew was that something really bad was happening, or about to, in that clip that was shown, which was of course accompanied by a dramatic voice booming on about how frightening this picture was.
Even now, when watching that movie, I still get some of that eerie feeling as that scene unreels. I think it has to do with both the darkness hiding the old lady, and the utter silence with which the chair slowly descends. The audience knows that Helga can't talk, but there's still something unnerving about that silent descent from the darkness.
Does anyone else remember being scared by the tv ads when they were kids? Or the movie itself?
And when he crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him