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Post by DoTheMath on Jun 12, 2019 2:03:25 GMT
Hari Seldon , backroadjunkie , beren44 Oh, no I've seen The Birds. I haven't liked birds since one pooped on my head when I was a kid; I've been afraid of birds since seeing The Birds; but now that I know they can take over my body...terror. 😉 The Birds din't scare me as much as Hitchcock did............  The man was THE master of his genre and just seeing him on TV gave me chills because it meant he was either coming out with something, or just came out with something, that was gonna freak me the "firetruck" out. |
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Post by backroadjunkie on Jun 12, 2019 13:31:42 GMT
Hari Seldon , backroadjunkie , beren44 Oh, no I've seen The Birds. I haven't liked birds since one pooped on my head when I was a kid; I've been afraid of birds since seeing The Birds; but now that I know they can take over my body...terror. 😉 The Birds din't scare me as much as Hitchcock did............ The man was THE master of his genre and just seeing him on TV gave me chills because it meant he was either coming out with something, or just came out with something, that was gonna freak me the "firetruck" out. That was what was so laughable about the Hays code. (Or whatever it was for television. I seem to remember some sort of Big Brother "association" that agreed to "decency" standards.
You could do Hitchcock, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Night Gallery... (Did I forget anything?) Not to mention the "horror" flicks on afternoon TV. (Hey, when I was a kid, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was still scary stuff.)
In the Western's at least one person gets shot every show. (The restored Westerns I've been watching occasionally have been really well done.)
But you couldn't show a man and a woman in the same bed, even if they were married. (See George Carlin's Seven Words You Can't Say On Television...)
smh...
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Post by Hari Seldon on Jun 12, 2019 16:17:25 GMT
polgara backroadjunkie Hari Seldon beren44 The Birds din't scare me as much as Hitchcock did............ The man was THE master of his genre and just seeing him on TV gave me chills because it meant he was either coming out with something, or just came out with something, that was gonna freak me the "firetruck" out. That was what was so laughable about the Hays code. (Or whatever it was for television. I seem to remember some sort of Big Brother "association" that agreed to "decency" standards.
You could do Hitchcock, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Night Gallery... (Did I forget anything?) Not to mention the "horror" flicks on afternoon TV. (Hey, when I was a kid, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was still scary stuff.)
In the Western's at least one person gets shot every show. (The restored Westerns I've been watching occasionally have been really well done.)
But you couldn't show a man and a woman in the same bed, even if they were married. (See George Carlin's Seven Words You Can't Say On Television...)
smh...
I didn't mean to derail the thread with my reference to The Birds, but since the damage is done... The point about the code is valid, though I will say the scary stuff didn't have the gore you see today. Westerns included, when someone was mortally wounded they still lost less blood than you'd get if you shot someone who was already dead, and that's if you saw the wound at all (at least half would fall over forward so the wound was under them). Also, in the old black and white productions the fake blood used often wasn't even red. In the shower scene of Hitchcock's Psycho, the 'blood' was chocolate syrup. And yes, porn was still being produced during the code era.
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Post by beren44 on Jun 12, 2019 17:53:11 GMT
yes... you forgot Tweetie Bird and Dr. Hyde.  |
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Post by Hari Seldon on Jun 14, 2019 14:33:07 GMT
I'll just use this thread. There's a sneak peek up on youtube. Don't worry, it doesn't reveal much and may even be the beginning of the episode. Definitely in the first few minutes.
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