Or we can just have a colossal anxiety attack that ruins an entire night of sleep, destabilizes any rational perspective, and primes the upcoming week for failure.
Did it do the powder thing?
Oh I was just rambling: without cable your chance of seeing these made-for-TV one-offs in rerun were a lot lower. My whole world was three networks, one local, PBS, and the evangelical station.
It was utter dynamite in theaters. Weād never seen creatures so *convincing*. And it didnāt hurt that everything else was top shelf: casting, pacing, production, musicā¦
SOUTH PARK (1999), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) and JACKASS (2002) were the trifecta for my youth. Packed audiences at roiling boil, collectively experiencing something special and out-of-bounds.
The Scandal/HTGAWM overlap era was about as bizzonkers as network TV got. We were glued DOWN.
Itās a lock and you were right about the era. There are so many made for TV specials and curios that entered the public consciousness but donāt really hold the prestige or mindshare of theatrical movies. I didnāt grow up with cable so I wasnāt exposed to a lot of them.
Ahh! Ahh! Got it! NIGHT GALLERY (1969) This has to be it. Check the plot summary. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_G...
Oh my goodness Iām racking my brains but no. Itās not in this anthology or its sequel, per wiki. Mayyyybe Diary of a Madman? Iām just googling blindly. Horror isnāt my strongest suit. Summoning @sdrebit.bsky.social for a boon
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After some youtube spelunking: your boy Clive Robertson followed up that masterwork with an interactive scifi videogame (later re-cut into a DVD) and it appears to bite every single scifi property from the Stargate typeface to the Lexx ship design. Also he did an episode of VIP, which tracks.
YouTube video by ParallaxStudio