Terror Tuesday : Indiana Jones

Everybody knows this one. The face melting scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark. This movie came out the same year I was born. My older brother used to watch it; along with the rest of the Indiana Jones movies; every weekend, for as long as I can remember. But there were always parts when he would make me leave the room. This one time, I guess I was about 6 or 7, he fell asleep. Leaving me alone with the movie. Not remembering to leave the room at the right moment, I was innocently exposed to the horrors of the face melting scene. My brother was rudely awakened by my horrified scream.

 Raiders of the Lost Ark - Opening of the Ark Ceremony

Needless to say, I had nightmares for more nights than I would like to remember; and my brother got grounded for two weeks. My brother's idea of revenge for getting him in trouble was to traumatize me further with the heart removal scene from Temple of Doom. Wanting to earn back my brothers good graces, I never said a word to my mother. But my nightmares were fueled for years by the combinations of these two images on repeat in my subconscious.

Temple of Doom - Heart Removal Scene

Terror Tuesday : Large Marge

Used to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid. From the movie Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Large Marge (Alice Nunn) is a truck driver who kindly picks Pee-Wee (Paul Reubens) up after he was abandoned by the fugitive Mickey Morelli (Judd Omen), and takes him to a diner where he can get transport. It was then that Pee-Wee discovers that Large Marge is a ghost who was killed in a trucking accident on that route.

Terror Tuesday : Creepshow 2 - The Raft

Growing up on a lake, where we spend almost everyday in the water, you can understand why this would have had a lasting effect on me.

The lake from the Raft is a real place.

Granite Basin Lake.

Iron Springs Rd. and N. Granite Basin Rd. Prescott, Az. 86305

Plot Summary:

Four college students, Deke (Paul Satterfield), Laverne (Jeremy Green), Randy (Daniel Beer), and Rachel (Page Hannah), go swimming in a desolate lake far from civilization. After they make their way to a wooden raft, they are terrorized by a floating black blob resembling an oil slick that grabs a hold of Rachel and consumes her. The students panic. Deke plans to swim to shore so he can bring back help. But before he can, the blob seeps through the raft's cracks and pulls Deke through the raft, killing him. Randy and Laverne evade the creature until it gives up trying to grab them from under the raft. Randy and Laverne are afraid to fall asleep in fear that the creature will attack. They manage to sleep and Randy is the first to wake up, relieved to find that he and Laverne made it through the night. He begins caressing Laverne's sleeping body and fondling her breasts. She awakes screaming in agony as the creature has seeped through the cracks and has a hold of her face, much to Randy's horror. As the oil-like blob pulls her off the raft and begins consuming her, Randy jumps off to swim to shore. He ultimately makes it, barely escaping the creature, and yells "I beat you!" However, the creature rises up from the water like a wave and engulfs Randy. It returns to the lake, with no evidence of the four students even visiting the lake other than their car. The camera reveals a "No Swimming" sign barely visible from behind some growth.

Terror Tuesday : Tales from the Crypt - Creep Course

When I first watched this episode of Tales from the Crypt in 1993 it scared me so bad. Before you start making fun of me, keep in mind I was barely 12 years old. The idea that you could be mummified alive was a completely new type of nightmare for me. Especially when a, come back to life, mummy is the one doing it. This episode also stands out to me after all these years because it was the fist time I saw Anthony Michael Hall all buffed out. Previously I had only know him from Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. All of which he plays a scrawny nerd type character.

Episode summary:
Stella Bishop (Nina Siemaszko) is a full blown geek taking a course on Egyptian mythology led by the pompous Professor Finley (Jeffrey Jones), who also happens to be a collector of Egyptian antiquity and one undead, horny mummy (Ivan E. Roth)! Little does Stella know that she's intended to be the target (sacrifice) for his undead living collectible and is soon wooed by the charismatic Reggie(Anthony Michael Hall), who has his own sinister plans. If Reggie fails one more exam he cannot play on the football team. He has no hope in learning so he and Stella go to the professor's house to make a copy of the exam. At the professor's home they learn firsthand about making mummies. In the end, who will be the one to survive this Creep Course?

Here is the full episode. Watch and join my nightmare.

Terror Tuesday : Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Still in my list of top movies, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is full of some of my favorite animated moments. And one of the most terrifying. Judge Doom. I could have done without this nightmare fuel as a child.

Terror Tuesday : Watership Down

The Watership Down has been traumatizing children since 1978. I was only 5 years old when my mom popped this VHS in for me. What was she thinking? It was the first movie I ever watched that really terrified me. I had nightmares for days.