Chiller Theater

[janradder]

When I was a kid, this opening used to scare the crap out of me. It was the beginning to the movie show Chiller Theater that used to be on Channel 11 out of New York and played every Saturday night. Lots of times, the opening was scarier than the movie that followed. It seems like I always watched it when my parents visited their friends in Litchfield, CT. The house where they lived was an old one and kind of creeped me out. I have no idea if it actually was haunted but if it wasn't, it should have been. That place haunted my dreams for years. When we'd visit, the grown-ups would sit in the kitchen socializing and while they played cards, drank beer and smoked pot, I'd be sit in the spooky old living room watching that hand emerge from it's bloody swamp, too terrified to move or speak. God, how I loved it.

Comments

[pierogi-queen.livejournal.com]

We drank wine not beer!!!!!!

I always got creeped out by the third floor in that house - the one above the living room.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- that one was definitely the creepiest floor. I almost never went up there unless I had to. I was sure there was some horrible monster or ghost just lurking and waiting for me on the stairs.