I first saw this movie late at night on AMC (they made a mistake and accidentally showed a decent movie), October 2003. I wish I remembered the exact day, but perhaps I'm being too sentimental. I'd love to hear how the rest of you first came across this great film.
shareWe were getting ready to leave Germany and we were staying in temp quarters. It was like a hotel and I had my own room that was divided with a partition in the middle. My parents were in the next room, asleep and it came on. Well I watched it and even though I was just a kid I realized I was watching something extremly amazing. It scared the hell out of me. I remember waking up in the morning at the bottom of my parents bed. I did not watch the movie again until just last night. Once again it scared me. Not like it did when I was a kid, just the kid of weird that send shivers down your spine. I forgot allot of the movie, but I didnt forget the terror that I felt while trying to figure out if Fats was real or not.
shareI was 17 as well went to the Bud Lake Theater in Harrison MI with My parents and Best Friend. Funny thinking back on it I never took my Mom and Dad as Horror Film fans and I don't remember how I talked them into taking me to see this film, maybe it was the Johnny Carson Interview. But I can remember being scared and every time I see a Ventriloquist act on TV I think of this Scary film.
Its nice to see it is being Recalled 30 years later on the Day time Soap "As the World Turns" they have a story of a Creepy Ventriloquist Messing with one of the Kids on that soap.
A movie theater in West Palm Beach (I couldn't tell you what theater, though--maybe the Palm Beach Mall or the one that used to be on the corner of Palm Beach Lakes and Okeechobee at that time . . . which I can't even remember the name of), with my folks, when it was released in 1978.
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Last Halloween on Fearfest, even though they showed it at 10:00 Am. I had to tape it, but it was a great movie. Hopkins should have gotten an Oscar nod for this movie,it's one of his best performances.
shareSaturday night on DVD. Loved it.
sharefirst saw it on t.v, owned it on video and now own it on dvd.Hopkin's best performance so far and also the best directed by Attenborough.
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Tonight in Belgrade KINOTEKA ( it's a cinema here where they play old movies ).
shareSame as I. I was up late night on Friday when this came on. I thought this seemed interesting, so I watched it and loved it. I was surprised to find out it had inspired Jimmy Neutron where an episode references this very movie. I thought that was really cool.
shareSaw it at the Pix Theater is Ontario, Oregon when it was released in 1978. I know I saw it with my Dad, might have had a friend with me. I was 12. Great movie, very underrated...and yeah, Fats did scare the crap out of me!
shareI saw it on youtube one day and watched it, thinking it was a fantasy movie. It turned out to be this. I was actually very pleasantly surprised :).
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