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When did you first see this? Where were you? What did you think?

posted 8 years ago by shango7200
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ME:
years before I had seen this there was a lunch time discussion about horror movies on the playground at grade school.
One girl (that I was not fond of--she had a mean attitude) chimed in like "Oh yeah?! Well did you ever see Night of the Living Dead?" (with a snotty tone in her voice) . At the time (4th grade 1973) I hadn't ! And I had seen PLENTY of horror movies (Tales from the Crypt, Asylum, Vault of Horror, Frogs) at that young age (thankfully I had semi-liberal parents).
FAST FORWARD:
1976-ish.
Late night TV. Channel 7 in the NYC area . I was upstairs watching TV. My parents were having a cocktail party with the adult neighbors downstairs.
11:30 PM (I guess the still-then-new and outrageous Saturday Night Live was not on Or was a repeat?)
So I watched NOTLD for the first time............
All I can say is THANK GOD there were adults right downstairs making conversation in the background ! If I was home alone I would have FREAKED out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL.

My question is this; does anyone remember seeing this on TV BEFORE 1976 ? I don;t. Just wondering......

Would love to hear your story..............

"In every dimension , there's another YOU!"

[–] jcnyclv (1633) 4 months ago

I remember it before 1976. I must have been about 9 or 10 so it was in '71 or '72. It came on very late on a Saturday night and I was home alone. I missed the first 20 - 30 minutes and started watching when they were listening to the radio reporting on the attacks. I was so terrified, I thought it was actually happening! Then, of course, I realized it was a movie (thanks to TV Guide) and calmed down. It scared the hell out of me! The scene with the daughter stabbing the mother stayed with me for a long, long time.

Since then I've seen this movie at least ten more times. It's one of my favorites, and it's one of the only ones that has actually made an impact on me.