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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1487213" data-attributes="member: 8447">Two films come to mind.First was the old Vincent Price film The Last Man on Earth.  I didn't watch it the first time, I only heard it -- this was in pre-cable days and the picture was out from KTVU that night.  Since most of the film was in voice overs, I got the full impact of the film, much like an old radio program.  It was terrifying!  When I actually saw the film years later, it was a disappointment -- the images I had created in my own mind were far more terrifying than the lumbering vampire-zombies actually in the film.But let me speak of Alien.  When I die, a friend still owes me 10 years on my life!  He calls me up out of the blue and says, "Hey Wombat, come on!  I'm going to see Alien!"  "What is that?"  "Never mind; you'll like it!"So, yes, I went off to the film, on the big screen, first time with absolutely no warning.  My thought process was like this.  A) the film is called Alien, so it is sci fi.  B)  Star Wars was the most recent sci fi film I had seen  ERGO this must be Star Wars-esque.  No tv, didn't read entertainment sections, and while waiting in line, due to talking to my friend, I did not see the posters.To top it off, John Hurt was (and remains) one of my favourite actors.I saw him die TWICE in the same film!Needless to say, I only go to films now if I know at least something about them...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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