What was your favorite LATE NIGHT 70'S and 80's MADE FOR TV horror/sci-fi movie?

[Jayman]

Anyone remember The Dark Secret of Harvest Home?

Stared Bette Davis. Man, when she cut that guys eyes out with those big scissors!

Scary stuff back then!

[BettrFastrStrongr]

I love 70's TV horror. The movies are great but there was this one episode of Night Gallery I was watching with my grandmother that scared the shizznat out of me. All i remember is the final shot of an old lady sitting in her rocking chair covered with vines. Had nightmares for weeks. I've never revisited the series so I have no other details but this thread reminded me of that.

[Jayman]

I was addicted to Night Gallery as a kid! I wasn't allowed to stay up and watch (but I did anyways ) and I do remember that episode vaguely. Something about how they were trying to evict that old lady and her plants were protecting her?

The one that used to scare me was a short episode of a guy that gave this girl a weird broach that was this tiny rat like creature. When she spurns his advances he does something to activate the broach and it begins to grow as she walks home and it bites her in the throat killing her then scurries off into the dark ally! Scary stuff!

 

Then there was the Night Gallery TV movie with Roddy McDowell! (thumbs u

[sagii]

Have not seen that one Jayman. But i recall one called "Out of Dark"? or "Out of the Dark"? Think it involved a clown masked stalker? Was that made for TV?

[Jayman]

They were all made for TV. Another N Gallery fav was the antique shop that gets a painted over mirror. The cruel shop owner who mistreats her employees has a worker scrape off the paint and uncovers a doorway to a prehistoric land. He tricks the shop owner into walking in the mirror and then begins to paint the portal closed. The last part is painted shut as she comes screaming to get out and is trapped forever. The cruel shop owner was played by Zha Zha Gabor.

[Chicago Boy]

I loved Lucan. Anyone remember that one. Powers of Matthew Star???

[CAHokie]

Ebay owes the OP of this thread a thank you. Every time you guys remind me of one of these movies, I head right over and buy it.

[webeloobie]

To this day all I have to say to my 35 year old kid brother is "Teddy did it!" and he laughs, but with a tinge of fear. I'd made him watch all the Tales From The Darkside shows and the "Ursa Minor" episode made him throw out his teddy bear.

[fastballspecial]

To this day all I have to say to my 35 year old kid brother is "Teddy did it!" and he laughs, but with a tinge of fear. I'd made him watch all the Tales From The Darkside shows and the "Ursa Minor" episode made him throw out his teddy bear.

 

I remember all thoses epsiodes. Hell I was scared watching the show in the afternoon. What a creepy intro that show had.

 

[fastballspecial]

Dead heat tie:

 

1)Trilogy of Terror

 

2)Dark Night of the Scarecrow

 

(TV making at it's best!)

 

I don't remember Trilogy of Terror I will have to look that one up.

 

I do however remember Dark Night of the Scarecrow still to this day. The trembling face behind the scarecrow when he was cornered I still remember to this day.

 

[Jayman]

To this day all I have to say to my 35 year old kid brother is "Teddy did it!" and he laughs, but with a tinge of fear. I'd made him watch all the Tales From The Darkside shows and the "Ursa Minor" episode made him throw out his teddy bear.

 

I remember all thoses epsiodes. Hell I was scared watching the show in the afternoon. What a creepy intro that show had.

 

My favorite is the episode where the ghost of a gambler comes back to bet that his bookie will die at a certain day and time. The bookie wins the bet but only by turning back the clock ( by just a few minutes) on the ghost. It ends with the bookie saying " This is great, I'm gonna die laughing!"

[webeloobie]

To this day all I have to say to my 35 year old kid brother is "Teddy did it!" and he laughs, but with a tinge of fear. I'd made him watch all the Tales From The Darkside shows and the "Ursa Minor" episode made him throw out his teddy bear.

 

I remember all thoses epsiodes. Hell I was scared watching the show in the afternoon. What a creepy intro that show had.

 

My favorite is the episode where the ghost of a gambler comes back to bet that his bookie will die at a certain day and time. The bookie wins the bet but only by turning back the clock ( by just a few minutes) on the ghost. It ends with the bookie saying " This is great, I'm gonna die laughing!"

 

That was an awesome episode. And the intro really was incredibly eerie.

[NewEnglandGothic]

To this day all I have to say to my 35 year old kid brother is "Teddy did it!" and he laughs, but with a tinge of fear. I'd made him watch all the Tales From The Darkside shows and the "Ursa Minor" episode made him throw out his teddy bear.

 

I remember all thoses epsiodes. Hell I was scared watching the show in the afternoon. What a creepy intro that show had.

 

My favorite is the episode where the ghost of a gambler comes back to bet that his bookie will die at a certain day and time. The bookie wins the bet but only by turning back the clock ( by just a few minutes) on the ghost. It ends with the bookie saying " This is great, I'm gonna die laughing!"

 

That was an awesome episode. And the intro really was incredibly eerie.

There was two episodes from that show that seriously frightened me as a kid:

Inside The Closet

&

Seasons of Belief

[sagii]

Dead heat tie:

 

1)Trilogy of Terror

 

2)Dark Night of the Scarecrow

 

(TV making at it's best!)

 

I don't remember Trilogy of Terror I will have to look that one up.

 

I do however remember Dark Night of the Scarecrow still to this day. The trembling face behind the scarecrow when he was cornered I still remember to this day.

Yes, and the scene where the men are celebrating their acquittal, and that breeze blows through the town, hinting Bubba is back for revenge, and the final scene in the pumpkin patch....just LOVE that movie!

[Bio-Rupp]

DKOTScarecrow needs a pic posted in honor of it's late night awesomeness

 

[sagii]

DKOTScarecrow needs a pic posted in honor of it's late night awesomeness

 

[chrisco37]

Anyone remember this one?

 

Sssssss

 

or one of my all-time favorites (although I don't remember it being on at night, usually a Saturday afternoon):

 

Frogs

 

 

Not sure if these were made for TV or actually released in theatres, but I always saw them on TV.

[Dr. Balls]

Dead heat tie:

 

1)Trilogy of Terror

 

2)Dark Night of the Scarecrow

 

(TV making at it's best!)

 

 

Thanks to everyone who remembered the name of that one!

[Bio-Rupp]

Forgot about Killdozer !

 

 

Loved it too

 

[TupennyConan]

DKOTScarecrow needs a pic posted in honor of it's late night awesomeness

 

 

California.