![]() ![]() ![]() So much of the novel made it to the screen, plotwise that is (the murder cannibalism sex stuff not so much). That ending is slightly less silly in the novel, but it's still a bit silly. I was also shocked by the ending, which is. I was shocked to see it had been written by Matheson. ![]() It was interesting to see how faithfully my brain had retained the scary bits. ![]() It still freaked me out, though I don't know how scary it would seem to someone without that same experience. today).Īnyway, hooray, eventually, for the internet, and for a vague memory of Roddy McDowall - when I decided to seek it out as an adult those things helped me find it. To complicate matters, it wasn't the only Saturday Afternoon horror movie that my inattentive father let us accidentally encounter and for a while I thought the scary cat/body in the wall/dazed naked lady stuff had come from one of the many Vincent Price movies that I also happened to see at this time (which actually makes sense because a lot of those movies were based on Poe and the things that I remembered were straight up Poe elements -but I'd only make that connection. Certain imagery was burned into my too-young brain, but I had no idea what movie I had seen. Or rather, I have a weird history with the movie based on this book, The Legend of Hell House, which for some unknown reason was on daytime TV some time when I was around 7 or 8. I have a weird history with this book but I only just read it for the first time. ![]()
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