That night, maybe a couple of nights, chairs had to be pushed next to our parents' bed for me to sleep on. Later on, Mother and I had a thing going for the Twilight Zone and I would be on the floor next to her in her chair, pressed together and both of us occasionally screaming and jumping.
The Shining a couple of times, but The Exorcist only in pieces years after it was in theaters, nothing more of that genre that I think of. Heard about Chainsaw Massacre but wouldn't think of seeing that. Oh, Silence of the Lambs once.
The non-violent parts of The Shining and Twilight Zone were chilling - where NICHOLSON as an "author" was typing and typing away at his book, a yard high stack of typed pages, and it's revealed all it all was was "All work and no play..." . And the Zone where a farm type old woman alone on a vast prairie was harassed by tiny astronauts and it's revealed in closeup of the space ship, "United States of America."
Years afterward, when I learned who James WHITMORE and James ARNESS were, I never made the connection they were in Them.
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