Hi Lorna,
Well I have to admit to not really remembering the COTC films...I think I only saw the first 2 but I think there might be 5 or 6....maybe something to add to my "lovefilm" queue....
I do remember that was I saw was pretty scary....

I didn't even know that many had been made ........ just remember seeing one about a small town where the kids killed off all the adults in the middle of a corn field as some kind of sacrifice- Remember lots of blood and axes and slashings etc.

It scared me at the time ....... but just a couple of years later The Hammer House of Horrors didn't frighten me as much ...... apart from the only one I really remember where during a children's birthday party all the house pipes popped and burst out of the walls and started spraying blood around instead of water.

sorry - forgot to say Hi before reminiscing about blood and guts

ooooohh ooooohh..I remember that film aswell...Funny how some "horror" films are more scary than others....I guess it is all about how believeable the story is....the true ones are really scary....

funny yes - but not funny ha ha. I think it might have something to do with believing at an impressionable age - or thinking about yourself in that particular situation.

I know I was very wary about pipes and toilets and similar for a bit after watching that one. I must have watched nearly all of the Hammer House stuff though - Saturday nights when i was forced into babysitting my younger sisters ......... don't really know why that particular one has always stayed in my memory more than others. It can't just be age otherwise i'd remember all of them .

Me too. I remember that film really well. There have been quite a few re-runs on tv here lately of those films and they are laughable now. That one with the blood pouring out of the pipes and down the walls was so scary though, I had nightmares for days afterwards.

Karen

This reminds me of when I lived in Ohio. On Halloween a whole bunch of us went to a haunted forest. We waited in a line for our turn. We thought it can't be that bad because loads of little kids went in before us. Once we were in though we were all scared to death. People dressed as zombies jumped out on us from everywhere and we where chased by men in masks and chainsaws (I am presuming they had no blades in them but the noise was enough to frighten you to death if you had seen chainsaw masacre. We then had to walk through a pitch black tunnel and you just knew something was waiting for you at the other end. Scared the crap out of us. I am sure they made it all scarier for us because when we came out all the little kids were laughing at us.

Sam