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Demystified Again
There are those things that terrified you when you were a child and that still give you chills when you think about them, all these years later. For me, these terrifying things are mostly half-remembered images from TV or the movies, usually of 1970s vintage. All you have to do is say THE CAR and I can immediately access all the excitement and terror that my first encounter with horror movies provided me. I was literally addicted to being scared as a kid and though I grew out of it, it's a bit disheartening to discover all these years later that the scary, terrifying things aren't really scary or terrifying at all, they're just lame.
The internet, in particular You Tube, has been responsible for gradually neutralizing the effect of these nightmares. Case in point: The Steve Austin vs. Sasquatch episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man (see below). For some reason, this was so scary to me as a kid I could barely watch it. How old was I? I don't know, does it matter? After reading some of the clip's comments, I'm happy to report that apparently I'm not alone. Maybe I need to go back and watch it in context somehow. All I can tell from watching the clips available online is that Sasquatch was an android and may or may not have been in league with some aliens. I certainly never realized how complex and sophisticated this show was.
Posted by karges on October 9, 2009 ---> Comments (0)