Remember this fondly from my childhood and it stayed with me all these years! I watched it again and couldn't believe how much I remembered of it.
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Anyone else remember this from their childhood? Were you scarred a bit by it?
I first saw this in my early teens....still gives me chills to this day....
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The movie has a plot hole?!?
EVERY FRIGGIN' MOVIE HAS A FRIGGIN' PLOT HOLE!!!!!
Right?
I had forgotten so much but when I saw that silo scene again, I started getting freaked out, remembered how scared I was when I saw it back when.
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YES! I didn't think I'd seen it before, but I just watched it on Youtube and from the opening scenes it felt so familiar...and then when the silo scene started, I remembered watching it when I was a little girl. It came out when I was 10 so it must have been one of the first scary movies I ever saw. WOW. Still holds up, all things considered.
shareI sure did, for a T.V. movie it really gave me the creeps. It's the first film I saw Lane Smith in( Horace Hocker). Lane Smith was a great T.V. actor, may he R.I.P.. I recommend this movie to anyone, what a great cast😀.
-Kris L. CocKayne-😎
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I saw it when I was somewhere between 10-12, and it scared me! It was on during Halloween season if I recall correctly. "Bubba didn't do it" always made me sad for Bubba.
shareCaught it on the original air date when I was 11. I wrote a review for it several years ago and saw it with some second cousins and family members. I did not let them know how much it freaked me out at the time. We watched it in the country on a farm I was unfamiliar with and being the setting I was in and not knowing the country only intensified my fear. I hardly slept a wink during the night after seeing it.
But now really appreciate the memory of seeing it first hand the way I did. Certainly one movie that had a huge impact with me and enjoying horror movies as I do.
Saw a couple of weeks ago Larry Drake passed away and immediately thought of Dark Night of the Scarecrow as opposed to L.A. Law which he was known for.
So Rest in Peace Mr. Drake, your performance made the movie all the more memorable.
Was one every October. Each year I would scan the TV guide to find it so I would not miss it. Eventually it stopped playing and I forgot about it for a while. Then I remembered and happily it was on Amazon. Mine now.
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I saw this as a child and all I really remember about it was how sad it made me. I don't remember it as a horror movie. This movie has never left my head. Now that I know the name of it I am going to re watch it.
shareI was about 12 when I first saw it on TV, and it scared the bejesus out of me. I had it for years on an old VHS tape and I kept an old clunky VCR through the ensuing decades for the express purpose of being able to watch this movie every October. It has everything I want in a Halloween flick: creepy atmosphere, realistic, well-played characters, a memorably eerie soundtrack and several scenes that give me chills no matter how many times I have seen them. Very happy that it is now on DVD; this movie deserves to be more recognized than it is.
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